Fund supported documentaries at IDFA 2025
The 38th edition of IDFA will take place from the 13th to the 23th of November. The largest documentary festival in the world will feature 25 projects that have received grants from the Netherlands Film Fund. See the full list of documentaries below.
International Competition
- The Shipwrecked - Diego Gutiérrez (Cobos Films)
IDFA Competition for Short Documentary
- Dreams for a Better Past - Albert Kuhn (Idle Eye, DianaToucedo Films)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction
- Feedback VR, un musical antifuturista - Claudix Vanesix (Collective AMiXR)
- Lesbian Simulator - Iris van der Meule (Studio Biarritz, Cassette for timescapes, Art & Essai)
- Nothing to See Here - Celine Daemen (Studio Nergens)
- The Oracle: Ritual for the Future (for humans and non-humans) - Victorine van Alphen (Studio Brave New Human)
- We Are Dead Animals - Tote Tiere Maarten (Valk Productions, Menetekel Film)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
- Deep Soup - Luna Maurer, Roel Wouters (Studio Biarritz)
- Gamer Keyboard Wall Piece #2 - Sjef van Beers
- Life Needs Internet 2010-2025 - Jeroen van Loon (Studio Jeroen van Loon)
- Tracing Colombia - Jan Rothuizen (Docmakers, Zesbaans)
IDFA DocLab Spotlight
- Feedback Fulldome, un musical antifuturista - Claudix Vanesix (Collective AMiXR, WeMakeVR)
- A Long Goodbye - Kate Voet, Victor Maes (Cassette for timescapes, Valk Productions, Tarantula)
Envision
- Love-22-Love - Jeroen Kooijmans (Submarine Productions BV)
Frontlight
- The Desert of the Real - Luuk Bouwman (seriousFilm)
Luminous
- House of Hope - Marjolein Busstra (100% Film, Philistine Films)
- Mohammed & Paul – Once Upon a Time in Tangier - Nordin Lasfar (Dieptescherpte BV)
- My Word Against Mine - Maasja Ooms (Cerutti Film)
- Outliving Shakespeare - Inna Sahakyan (Bars Media, BIND)
- Paikar - Dawood Hilmandi (BALDR Film)
Signed
- Kabul, Between Prayers - Aboozar Amini (Muyi Film, Silk Road Film Salon, Clin d'oeil films)
- Monikondee - Tolin Erwin Alexander, Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan (vriza productions)
Best of Fests
- happiness - Firat Yücel (Image Acts)
- Memory - Vladlena Sandu (MIMESIS, Revolver Amsterdam, Limitless)
- Sirens Call - Miri Ian Gossing, Lina Sieckmann (filmfaust GmbH, ZDF/ Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Elbe Stevens Films)
- Welded Together - Anastasiya Mirashnichenka (Little Big Story, Witfilm, Stenola Productions)
Image: The Shipwrecked
