International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
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Location	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded	1988
Language	International
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The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam.

The festival was initially held at the Leidseplein area in the centre of Amsterdam. The festival has since spread to a number of other locations. Cinemas and other institutes that have hosted the festival are: de Balie, Pathé City Theater, Filmmuseum Cinerama, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Paradiso, the Ketelhuis, the Hotel Americain, Tuschinski Cinema, Pathé De Munt multiplex, Theatercompagnie and Arti et Amicitiae.

The objective of the IDFA is to promote creative documentaries and to present them to as wide an audience as possible. It started as a small festival and has grown to an eleven-day festival, screening more than 200 documentaries and attracting nearly 120,000 visitors.

Apart from its international film program, the variety of genres and the many European and world premieres featured each year, the festival also hosts debates, forums and workshops.

Contents 1 Prizes 2 Award winners 2.1 VPRO Joris Ivens Award 2.2 Volkskrant Audience Award 2.3 Special Jury Prize 2.4 Silver Wolf Award 2.5 Silver Cub Award 2.6 First Appearance Award 2.7 Movies that Matter Human Rights Award 2.8 Moviesquad DOC U! Award 2.9 IDFA Student Award 2.10 Zapper Award (1994 -1996) 3 External links

[edit] Prizes

Prizes at IDFA are awarded in different categories:

• The Joris Ivens Award for best documentary over 60 minutes in length.
• The Special Jury Prize winner equals "Special Mention" or "Runner-up Prize" on some other festivals.
• The Silver Wolf Award for best documentary under 60 minutes in length.
• The Silver Cub Award for films in a selection of 16 documentaries less than 30 minutes in length.
• The First Appearance Award for best debut film.
• The Audience Award for best film as voted by audience
• The Movies that Matter - Human Rights Award for best film dealing with human rights issues. Prior to 2006 this award was called the Amnesty International Award.
• The DOC U! Award for best youth documentary selected by a special youth jury.
• The IDFA Student Award, introduced in 2007.

[edit] Award winners

[edit] VPRO Joris Ivens Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1988	Birthplace Unknown	Karin Junger	Netherlands
1988	Ksjsiner	Ruben Gevorksjanz	Soviet Union
1989	Skierskala	Ivars Seleckis	Soviet Union
1990	Christo in Paris	D. Maysles	United States
1991	Dreams and Silence	Omar Al-Quattan	Belgium
1992	La Memoria del Agua	Hector Faver	Spain
1993	Belovy	Victor Kossakovsky	Russia
1994	Solo, de wet van de Favela	Jos de Putter	Netherlands
1995	Délits Flagrants	Raymond Depardon	France
1996	Atman	Pirjo Honkasalo	Finland /  Germany
1997	Auf der Kippe	Andrei Schwartz	Germany
1998	Fotoamator / Photographer	Dariusz Jablonski	Poland
1999	André Hazes - Zij gelooft in mij	John Appel	Netherlands
2000	De zee die denkt	Gert de Graaff	Netherlands
2001	Family	Phie Ambo & Sami Saif	Denmark
2002	Stevie	Steve James	United States
2003	Checkpoint	Yoav Shamir	Israel
2004	Stand van de maan	Leonard Retel Helmrich	Netherlands
2005	My Grandmother's House	Adán Aliaga	Spain
2006	The Monastery – Mr. Vig & the Nun	Pernille Rose Grønkjær	Denmark
2007	Stranded	Gonzalo Arijon	France

[edit] Volkskrant Audience Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1988	The Last Judgement	Herz Frank	Soviet Union
1989	Skierskala	Ivars Seleckis	Soviet Union
1990	In Memory of the Day Passed By	Šarūnas Bartas	Lithuania
1991	Djembéfola	Laurent Chevallier	France
1992	Black Harvest	Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly	Australia
1993	Belovy	V. Kossakovsky	Russia
1994	Choice and Destiny	Tsipi Reibenbach	Israel
1995	Anne Frank Remembered	Jon Blair	England
1996	Blue Eyed	B. Verhaag	Germany
1997	Vision Man	W. Long	Sweden
1998	Twee Vaders	Ko van Reenen	Netherlands
1999	Crazy	Heddy Honigmann	Netherlands
2000	Desi	Maria Ramos	Netherlands
2001	Offspring, B	B. Stevens	Canada
2002	Bowling for Columbine	Michael Moore	United States
2003	My Flesh and Blood	Jonathan Karsh	United States
2004	The Yes Men	Dan Ollman & Sarah Price & Chris Smith	United States
2005	Sisters in Law	Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi	England
2006	We Are Together / Thina simunye	Paul Taylor	United Kingdom
2007	To See If I'm Smiling	Tamar Yarom	Israel

[edit] Special Jury Prize

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1988	Hotel Terminus: the Life and Times of Klaus Barbie	Marcel Ophüls	France /  United States
1988	'The Power of Solovki	Marina Goldovskaya	Soviet Union
1989	Skierskala	Ivars Seleckis	Soviet Union
1990	The Collector	E. Strömdahl	Sweden
1991	Djembéfola	Laurent Chevallier	France
1992	Black Harvest	Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly	Australia
1993	Mit Verlust ist zu Rechnen	Ulrich Seidl	Austria
1994	Choice and Destiny	Tsipi Reibenbach	Israel
1995	Picasso Would Have Made a Glorious Waiter	Jonathan Schell	United States
1996	The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera	Adam Simon	England
1997	Little Dieter Needs to Fly	Werner Herzog	Germany
1998	Pavel and Lyalya / a Jerusalem Romance r	Victor Kossakovsky	Russia
1999	A Cry from the Grave	Leslie Woodhead	England
2000	Keep the River on Your Right: a Modern Cannibal Tale	Laurie Gwen & David Shapiro	United States
2001	Elsewhere	Nikolaus Geyrhalter	Austria
2002	On Hitler's Highway	Lech Kowalski	France
2003	The Corporation	Mark Achbar	Canada
2004	Liberia: an Uncivil War	Jonathan Stack & James Brabazon	United States
2005	Our Daily Bread	Nikolaus Geyrhalter	Austria
2006	Tender’s Heat. Wild Wild beach	Alexander Rastorguev	Russia
2007	Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go	Kim Longinotto	United Kingdom

[edit] Silver Wolf Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1995	6 Open, 21 Closed	Amit Goren	Israel
1996	Mr. Behrmann - Leben Traum Tod	Andreas Voigt	Germany
1997	Gigi, Monica...& Bianca	Yasmina Abdellaoui & Benoït Dervaux	Belgium
1998	Hephzibah	Curtis Levy	Australia
1999	Les Enfants du Borinage - Lettre à Henri Storck	Patric Jean	Belgium
2000	Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin	Fabrizio Lazzaretti & Alberto Vendemmiati	Afghanistan /  Italy
2001	Haj-Abba's Wives	Mohsen Abdolvahab	Iran
2002	Interesting Times - the Secret of my Success	Jinchuan Duan	Chile
2003	2003 Surplus - Terrorized into Being Consumers	Erik Gandini	Sweden
2004	Georgi and the Butterflies	Andrey Paounov	Bulgaria
2005	Before Flying Back to the Earth	Arūnas Matelis	Lithuania
2006	Enemies of Happiness	Eva Mulvad	Denmark
2007	To See If I'm Smiling	Tamar Yarom	Israel

[edit] Silver Cub Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2005	Butterfly Man	Samantha Rebillet	Australia
2006	My Eyes	Erlend E. Mo	Denmark
2007	The Tailor	Oscar Pérez	Spain

[edit] First Appearance Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1997	Anthem, an American Road Story	Shainee Gabel & Kristin Hahn	United States
1998	Les Amoureux de Dieu / Howling for God	Dan Alexe	Belgium
1999	Zwischen 2 Welten	Bettina Haasen	Germany
2000	Hybrid	Monteith McCollum	United States
2001	Suka	Igor Voloshin	Russia
2002	Barbeiros	M. Junkkonen	Finland
2003	My Flesh and Blood	Jonathan Karsh	United States
2003	The very best day	Pavel Medvedev	Russia
2004	Podul Peste Tisa	Ileana Stanculescu	Romania
2005	The Angelmakers	Astrid Bussink	Netherlands /  Scotland
2006	We Are Together / Thina simunye	Paul Taylor	United Kingdom
2007	End of the Rainbow	Robert Nugent	France /  Australia

[edit] Movies that Matter Human Rights Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2002	The Day I will Never Forget	Kim Longinotto	United Kingdom
2002	The Trials of Henry Kissinger	Eugene Jarecki	United States /  United Kingdom /  Chile
2003	Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer	Nick Bloomsfield & Joan Churchill	United Kingdom
2004	The 3 rooms of Melancholia	Pirjo Honkasalo	Finland
2005	China Blue	Micha X Peled	United States
2006	New Year Baby	Socheata Poeuv	United States
2007	Jerusalem is Proud to Present	Nitzan Gilady	Israel

[edit] Moviesquad DOC U! Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2005	Shadya, Roy	Roy Westler	Israel
2006	A Lesson of Belorussian	Miroslaw Dembinski	Poland
2007	Planet B-Boy	Benson Lee	United States

[edit] IDFA Student Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2007	Paradise – Three Journeys in This World	Elina Hirvonen	Finland

[edit] Zapper Award (1994 -1996)

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1994	Death of a Nation - the Timor Conspiracy	David Munro	England
1995	My Vote is My Secret Chroniques Sud Africaines 1994	Julie Henderson & Thulani Mokoena & Donne Rundle	France
1996	Grenzeloze Liefde - Made in Japan	Puck de Leeuw	Netherlands

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Docs That Inspire Coverage of IDFA 2006
• Official YouTube channel of the IDFA (contains all the movie trailers)