Best of IDFA: De Groene Amsterdammer

In-depth analysis of the controversial life and work of filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), who worked for the Nazis. Is her aesthetic separate from the underlying message, as she herself claimed?

A Polish family offers emergency shelter to a Syrian refugee trapped between Polish and Belarusian pushback in the grim border region. Time is short and options are few. Despite language difficulties, a bond develops.

Award-winning documentary about Israel's ongoing attacks on a Palestinian village network in the West Bank, heroically documented by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists.

In her directorial debut, the filmmaker reflects on her life under the post-1979 Iranian regime. Through bought-up home videos, the lives of countless strangers seep into the story. Together, they tell one story of living in two worlds.

Italian cowboys are pulling out all the stops to run their livestock operations in a climate-friendly, ecologically responsible manner. Regulations, shareholders and especially the encroaching wolf do not make it easy for them.

Photographer Ernest Cole (1940-1990) was one of the first to make visible what apartheid meant for black South Africans like himself. As an exile in the US, he photographed unadulterated racism alongside unprecedented freedoms.

IDFA strives to strengthen the international documentary climate by focusing more than ever on documentary film as an art form. This focus includes documentary films with an original visual language or structure, films that show lesser-known cultures or are filmed from a non-Western perspective, and interactive or immersive documentaries that innovate the field.