Fund supported documentaries at IDFA 2026

International Competition

• Morro Grande - Isabel Joffily & Rita Toledo (Coevos Filmes, Basalt Film)
• The Year of the Ghost - Louis HotHotHot (Pieter van Huystee Film)
  

Envision Competition

• Between Revolutions - Ruben Desiere (Mirage, Family Affair Films, Accattone Films)
• Lyrical Vengeance - Wendelien van Oldenborgh (Vriza Productions, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media)
  

Frontlight

• Hold Your Breath - Vincent Sparreboom (Zeppers Film & TV)
• No Man's Air - Gerco de Ruijter & Peter Delpeut (seriousFilm)
  

Luminous

• How Much Longer - Niels van Koevorden (Een van de jongens)
• A Modern Roma Fairytale - Raluca Lupaşcu (Witfilm)
  
• We Had a Plan - Suzanne Raes (Docmakers, Daluyong Studios)
  

Paradocs

• Like Any Other Mortal - María Molina Peiró (near/by film, 15L FILMS)

Signed

• The Mayor: Halsema & Amsterdam - Mijke de Jong (Witfilm)

Best of Fests

• Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest - Viv Li (Corso Film Produktion, 100% Film, ZDF/ Das kleine Fernsehspiel)
• Whispers in May - Dongnan Chen (Muyi Film, Seesaw Pictures, HER Film)

IDFA Junior

• I AM - Investigation Art Mysteries - Martijn Blekendaal & Finbarr Wilbrink (Cerutti Film)

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

• All the Downtime (Collective Experience) - Ant Hampton (Time Based Editions, Noorderzon Festival, Kana-Centre Pompidou)
• All the Downtime (Individual Experience) - Ant Hampton (Time Based Editions, Noorderzon Festival, Kanal-Centre Pompidou)
• The Love Files - Sanne De Wilde & Samir Veen
  
• Orgasmagoria - Dries Verhoeven ('n More)
  
• Palimpsest - Guillaume Roux & Johan Delétang (Studio Biarritz)
  

IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

• The Invisible Woman VR - Tamara Shogaolu (Ado Ato Pictures)
• Microbiome Restaurant: Haute Cuisine for the Rectum - POLYMORF (POLYMORF, Studio Biarritz)
  
• Microbiome Restaurant: Plural Tastings - POLYMORF (POLYMORF, Studio Biarritz)
  

IDFA DocLab Spotlight

• ESHRAQ - Ali Eslami (K.O. Productions)
• The Invisible Woman: an Immersive Opera in the Making - Tamara Shogaolu (Ado Ato Pictures)
  
• Lost Hood - Abner Preis (K.O. Productions)
  

Image: We Had a Plan