IDFA announces final titles for 2020 edition

With less than a month from the 33rd edition of #IDFA, the festival has announced opening film, as well as the Feature-Length, First Appearance, Mid-Length, and DocLab competitions; the non-competitive DocLab Spotlight section; and the Creative Use of Archive competition.

IDFA 2020 will open with the world premiere of Nothing but the Sun (dir. Arami Ullón) before diving into over 250 titles from around the world.

IDFA 2020 will take place 16 November – 6 December in hybrid form. Find more information on the below programs – HERE

Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

Gorbachev. Heaven (dir. Vitaly Mansky) – Latvia, Czech Republic
The Grocer’s Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World… (dir. Claire Simon) – France, Belgium
Inside the Red Brick Wall (dir. Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers) – Hong Kong
Morning Star (dir. Nantenaina Lova) – Madagascar, Reunion
Nemesis (dir. Thomas Imbach) – Switzerland
The New Gospel (dir. Milo Rau) – Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Nothing but the Sun (dir. Arami Ullón) – Switzerland, Paraguay
Odoriko (dir. Yoichiro Okutani) – Japan, United States, France
Radiograph of a Family (dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani) – Norway, Iran, Switzerland
Le temps perdu (dir. Maria Alvarez) – Argentina
War and Peace (dir. Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti) – Italy, Switzerland
White Cube (dir. Renzo Martens) – Netherlands, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Competition for First Appearance

5 Houses (dir. Bruno Gularte Barreto) – Brazil, Germany
Divinations (dir. Leandro Picarella) – Italy, France
Everything Will Not be Fine (dir. Adrian Pirvu, Helena Maksyom) – Romania, Ukraine
The Fifth Story (dir. Ahmed Abd) – Qatar, Iraq
The First Woman (dir. Miguel Eek) – Spain
The Last Hillbilly (dir. Diane Sara Bouzgarrou, Thomas Jenkoe) – France, Qatar
Nan (dir. Peng Zuqiang) – China, United States
The Postcard (dir. Asmae El Moudir) – Morocco
Showgirls of Pakistan (dir. Saad Khan) – Pakistan, United States
The Sky is Red (dir. Francina Carbonell) – Chile
This Rain Will Never Stop (dir. Alina Gorlova) – Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar
A Way Home (dir. Karima Saidi) – Belgium, Morocco, France, Qatar

Competition for Mid-Length Documentary

Anny (dir. Helena Třeštíková) – Czech Republic
Before the Dying of the Light (dir. Ali Essafi) – Morocco
The Blue House (dir. Hamedine Kane) – Belgium, Senegal, Cameroon
A Boy (dir. Vitaly Akimov) – Russia
Diving Horses (dir. Camille Grosperrin) – France
Green Bank Pastoral (dir. Federico Urdaneta) – United Kingdom
Holy Bread (dir. Rahim Zabihi) – Iran
Mothers (dir. Myriam Bakir) – Morocco, France
Rebel Objects (dir. Carolina Arias Ortiz) – Costa Rica, Colombia
Silent Voice (dir. Reka Valerik) – France, Belgium
Ultimina (dir. Jacopo Quadri) – Italy
The Wheel (dir. Nomin Lkhagvasuren) – Mongolia

DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

24h Sunset/Sunrise v2 – Belgium, Netherlands
Azibuye — The Occupation (dir. Dylan Valley) – South Africa
[The Black Man in the Cosmos] (dir. Kitoko Diva) – France, United Kingdom
Bridge to Sovietopia (dir. Marie Alice Wolfszahn) – Austria, Germany, Ukraine
Facework (dir. Kyle McDonald) – United States
Forensic Landscapes (dir. Pablo Martinez-Zarate, Anne Huffschmid) – Mexico, Germany
Later Date (dir. Lauren Lee McCarthy) – United States
Orbit Diapason (dir. Tabita Rezaire) – France, South Africa
Sylvia (dir. Ziv Schneider) – United States
Under the Skin (dir. João Inada) – Brazil, Luxembourg, China, Germany

DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

7 Sounds (dir. Sam Green) – United States
Camp Century (dir. Anrick Bregman, Nicole Paglia) – United Kingdom, Denmark, United States
Corona Voicemails (dir. David OReilly) – United States
Echoes of Silence (dir. Tamara Shogaolu) – Netherlands
Eclipse (dir. Ali Eslami) – Netherlands
Symbiosis (dir. Marcel van Brakel) – Netherlands
Visitors (dir. David Rosenberg, Glen Neath) – United Kingdom
Virtualis (dir. Matt Romein, Lydia Jessup) – United States
Where There’s Smoke (dir. Lance Weiler) – United States

DocLab Spotlight

Agence (dir. Pietro Gagliano) – Canada
All Kinds of Limbo, XR Broadcast (dir. Toby Coffey) – United Kingdom
The Book of Distance (dir. Randall Okita) – Canada
Corpus Misty (dir. Aubrey Heichemer) – Germany
Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR (dir. Ainslee Robson) – United States, Ethiopia
The Leaked Recipes Cookbook (dir. Demetria Glace) – France
Life Cycle Series [AR] (dir. David OReilly) – United States
Missing Pictures: Birds of Prey (dir. Clément Deneux) – France
Motto (dir. Vincent Morisset) – Canada
In Order of Disappearance (dir. Bart van de Woestijne) – Netherlands

Competition for Creative Use of Archive

24h Sunset/Sunrise v2 – Belgium, Netherlands
Before the Dying of the Light (dir. Ali Essafi) – Morocco
Dormant (dir. Natalia Labaké) – Argentina
The Foundation Pit (dir. Andrey Gryazev) – Russia
Irradiated (dir. Rithy Panh) – Cambodia, France
MLK/FBI (dir. Sam Pollard) – United States
Paris Calligrammes (dir. Ulrike Ottinger) – Germany, France
Radiograph of a Family (dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani) – Norway, Iran, Switzerland
The Sky is Red (dir. Francina Carbonell) – Chile
There Will Be No More Night (dir. Éléonore Weber) – France