BEST OF IDFA

Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (or IDFA), which has established a position as the world’s largest and most important documentary festival. Each year IDFA showcases approximately 300 documentaries from all around the world. The festival program focuses on creative and author-driven documentaries and urgent stories. IDFA hosts 6 competition program strands and all films in competition have to be international premieres. The AFF and the Australian International Documentary Conference, which is also celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, are pleased to present a series of the best documentaries from IDFA 2006. This selection, which was curated by IDFA’s Director Ally Derks, includes The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun, which was the winner of the Joris Ivens Award for Best Documentary at this year’s IDFA. Thin Ice, screening in AFF’s Sports programme, is also part of the IDFA selection.