IDFA 2020 festival report
This edition looked different, but even in 2020, we were able to look back on a beautiful festival. IDFA 2020 attracted a total of 136,000 visits, with over 21,000 visits to cinemas in Amsterdam and the rest of the country via IDFA Extended. Our online screenings received almost 80,000 visits. Nearly 7,000 children visited our school screenings, either online in the classroom or, to a lesser extent, in theaters. Meanwhile, 3,223 accredited professionals around the world attended our festival and industry programming almost 28,000 times. Look back on IDFA 2020 here.
Awards and juries
Discover the winners in each competition and read what the juries had to say.
Guest of Honor
Read all about Gianfranco Rosi, the festival's Guest of Honor, here.
Master Talk: Gianfranco Rosi
Program guide
Flip through an online version of our print publication for guests.
IDFA on video
IDFA 2020 recap
Filmmaker Talk: Arami Ullón
Filmmaker Talk: Firouzeh Khosrovani
Filmmaker Talk: New Perspectives on African-European Relations
Filmmaker Talk: Ulrike Ottinger
Filmmaker Talk: Sandra Madi
Festival campaign
The 2020 festival campaign was developed in cooperation with creative agency We Are Pi. See the campaign here.
Festival trailer
Long reads
From the pulsating cinema of Gianfranco Rosi to the highlights of Morocco’s film scene, the below reading discusses some touchstones of our 2020 edition.
- ‘A cinematic journey into the real' by Nico Marzano
- ‘Gianfranco Rosi's Top 10: Beyond category and convention’ by Edo Dijksterhuis
- ‘A world opens up, and a world is closed off’ by Abdelkader Benali
- ‘To say nothing at all’ by Simon(e) van Saarloos
- 'The backstage of politics' by Nicolas Rapold
- 'Transcending confinement' by Ela Bittencourt
Press conference
On October 28, the IDFA 2020 press conference took place via livestream from De Balie in Amsterdam. Watch the video to learn all about the festival program, including special details of the competitions and opening film.
IDFA 2020 press conference
