The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world's biggest celebration of non-fiction cinema, kicks off its 35th edition from 9 to 20 November. The festival opens with the world premiere of Niki Padidar's visual collage All You See and feature over 300 films across several competitions, industry events, special screenings, and more. Immediate festival highlights include the guest of honor, and this year's Venice Golden Lion winner (All The Beauty and the Bloodshed), Laura Poitras, as she presents her retrospective and Top 10. Furthermore, curated focus programs “Around Masculinity” and “Playing Reality''; the former looks at the problematic social construct of masculinity, while the latter reimagines the concept of theatricality. With a festival lasting nearly two weeks across the Dutch capital, there is no shortage of options for every non-fiction fan, including the International Premiere of Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi's Personality Crisis: One Night Only, continuing the director's documentary portraits of iconic American artists, this time with New York institution David Johansen, and a special tribute to the late Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius, whose Mariupolis and Mariupolis 2 will screen alongside a slew of Ukrainian projects.

Steve Rickinson

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"Came to Bucharest after living in Amsterdam & Brooklyn, among others, Steve is the industry editor for Modern Times Review documentary magazine.

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