Following the announcement of IDFA Forum 2022 winners earlier in the week, the full list of awarded films at the 35th festival have now been announced.
IDFA 2022 Awards
- Best Film: Apolonia, Apolonia (dir. Lea Glob) – Denmark, Poland, France
- Best Directing: Much Ado About Dying (dir. Simon Chambers) – Ireland, United Kingdom
- Best Editing: Journey Through Our World (Mario Steenbergen) – The Netherlands
- Best Cinematography: Paradise (Paul Guilhaume) – France, Switzerland
- Best Film (Envision): Manifesto (dir. Angie Vinchito) – Russia
- Best Directing (Envision): The Fabulous Ones (dir. Roberta Torre) – Italy
- Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Envision): My Lost Country (dir. Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez) – Costa Rica, Iraq, Chile, Egypt
- Special Mention (Envision): Notes for a Film (dir. Ignacio Agüero) – Chile, France
- DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction: In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats – United Kingdom
- Special Jury Award for Creative Technology: Plastisapiens (Miri Chekhanovich, Edith Jorisch) – Canada, Israel
- DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling: He Fucked the Girl Out of Me – USA
- Special Jury Award for Creative Technology: His Name Is My Name (Eline Jongsma, Kel O’Neill) – The Netherlands
- Best Short Documentary: Away (dir. Ruslan Fedotow) – Hungary, Belgium, Portugal
- Special Mention (Short): The Porters (dir. Sarah Vanagt) – Belgium
- Best Youth Film (14+): Home Is Somewhere Else (dir. Matthias Joulaud, Lucien Roux) – Mexico, USA
- Special Mention (Youth Documentary): Jasmin’s Two Homes (dir. Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen) – Finland
- Best First Feature: The Etilaat Roz (dir. Abbas Rezaie) – Afghanistan
- Special Mention (First Feature): Guapo’y (dir. Sofia Paoli Thorne) – Paraguay, Argentina
- Best Dutch Film: Journey Through Our World (dir. Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster) – The Netherlands
- Special Mention (Dutch Film): Inside My Heart (dir. Saskia Boddeke) – The Netherlands
- Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award: Private Footage (dir. Janaína Nagata) – Brazil
- Special Mention (IDFA ReFrame): The March on Rome (dir. Mark Cousins) – Italy
