This year's IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) will take place from November 17 through 28, 2021. As was the case for the two previous editions, the event will be supported by UniFrance, which will provide a physical presence for the first time this year with a range of initiatives aimed at accompanying most effectively the French films selected and the participating French professionals (including sales agents, producers, actors, and directors, and so forth).
A networking space, the UniFrance Café—conveniently located in the Groene Paleis, right next to the Forum where all of the festival's industry events will be held—will be made available to UniFrance members from November 20 through 24. This space will host meetings between professionals and interviews organized by the press attaché appointed by UniFrance to handle the films and TV productions included in the festival lineup. Requests for use of the space must be made in advance.
Breakfast networking events will be held in the UniFrance Café every morning from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. UniFrance, the SCAM, and the Région Grand Est will also host a cocktail reception (the (French Docs Drink) on Sunday, November 21, in partnership with the European Regional Development Fund, FIPADOC, and l’Œil d’or. Furthermore, a number of support schemes will be presented, aimed at production companies of film and TV productions who are members of UniFrance. Details of UniFrance's presence at the event will be communicated by the IDFA and in specialized media outlets.
N.B: We would like to inform you that our cocktail party initially scheduled for Sunday November 21 unfortunately had to be canceled due to recent anti-COVID 19 measures announced by the Dutch government. The UniFrance team will however be present at the IDFA, and the UniFrance Café will remain open from November 21 to 23, at the Groene Paleis, to host interviews with French films teams as well as professional meetings, in compliance with the health measures in force. For any further information, please contact johanna.vonhessen@unifrance.org
All the French films presented at the 34th IDFA
International Competition
- A Thousand Fires by Saeed Taji Farouky
- Vedette by Patrice Chagnard, Claudine Bories
- Taamaden by Seydou Cissé
- Day After by Kamar Ahmad Simon (minority-French coproduction)
Best of Fests
- Trenches by Loup Bureau
- Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen (minority-French coproduction)
- The Velvet Queen by Marie Amiguet
- Bigger Than Us by Flore Vasseur
- As I Want by Samaher Alqadi (minority-French coproduction)
- I Am So Sorry by Zhao Liang
- We by Alice Diop
- A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia
- Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege by Abdallah Al-Khatib
- H6 by Ye Ye
- Contraindre by Antoine Fontaine and Galdric Fleury
- Histoires d'entrejambes by Myleine Guiard-Schmid
- Les Enfants terribles by Ahmet Cupur
- Que Dieu te protège by Cléo Cohen
- Zinder by Aïcha Macky
- The Last Shelter, by Ousmane Samassekou
- The Gig Is Up by Shannon Walsh (minority-French coproduction)
- I’m so Sorry by Zhao Liang (minority-French coproduction)
- Looking for Horses by Stefan Pavlovic (minority-French coproduction)
- Notre mémoire nous appartient by Rami Farah (minority-French coproduction)
- Raising a School Scooter by Frida Barkfors and Lasse Barkfors (minority-French coproduction)
Masters
- Return to Reims [fragments] by Jean-Gabriel Périot
- The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation by Avi Mograbi
- Atlantide by Yuri Ancarani (minority-French coproduction)
- Mariner of the Mountains by Karim Aïnouz (minority-French coproduction)
- La Nature by Artavadz Pelechian
DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
- #Aminormal by Mika Orr
DocLab Spotlight
- Camille et Ulysse by Diana Toucedo
- Missing Pictures Episode 2 : Tsai-Ming-liang, the Seven-Story Building by Clément Deneux
- Goliath: Playing with Reality by Barry Gene Murphy and May Abdalla (minority-French coproduction)
Envision Competition
- Eskape by Adeline Neary Hay
Focus: The Future Tense
Focus: unConscious Bias
- La France est notre patrie by Rithy Panh
- Quand le vent se soulève by Erika Etangsalé
- Sur le fil du Zénith by Natyvel Pontalier
- Return to Reims [fragments] by Jean-Gabriel Périot
- Paroles de Nègres by Sylvaine Dampierre
Frontlight
- A Marble Travelogue by Sean Wang (minority-French coproduction)
Paradocs
- Just a Movement by Vincent Meessen (minority-French coproduction)
- Le Ventre de la montagne by Stephen Loye
Top 10
Luminous
- The Last Chapter by Gianluca Matarrese
- Ultraviolette et le gang des cracheuses de sang by Robin Hunzinger
Short Films - International Competition
- Wolf Whispers by Chloé Belloc
- Gangnam Beauty by Yan Tomaszewski
- Random Patrol by Yohan Guignard
Short Films - Luminous
Short Films - Paradocs
Short Films - Best of Fests
All the French works-in-progress presented at IDFA
DocLab Summit
- Fight Back VR by Céline Trincart (France) / Marie Blondiaux – Red Corner
Producers Connection
- Last Call by Erige Sehiri (Tunisia, France) / Estelle Robin-You – Les Films du Balibari
- New Life by Alexander Kuznetsov (France) / Rebecca Houzel – Petit à Petit Production
Forum Pitch
- In Your Shadow by Thabi Mooi, Tom Fassaert (Netherlands, France) / Serge Lalou - Les Films d’Ici
- Land of Women by Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir (Egypt, France) / Marc Irmer – Dolce Vita Films
- Orlando: My Political Biography by Paul B. Preciado (France) / Yaël Fogiel – Les Films du Poisson
- Son of the Mullah by Nahid Persson (Sweden, France) / Valérie Montmartin – Little Big Story
- Who Killed Thomas Sankara? by Mads Brügger (France, Denmark) / Jérémy Zelnik, Tancrède Ramonet – Temps Noir
- Farming the Revolution, by Nishtha Jain (Denmark, France) / Valérie Montmartin – Little Big Story
DocLab Forum Pitch
- Emperor by Marion Burger (France) / Oriane Hurard – Atlas V
- Continuum VR by Tomas Espinosa (Colombia, France) / Andres Burbano
Rough Cuts
- The Flag by Joseph Paris (France) / Audrey Ferrarese – Drôle de Trame
- Genie Film by Florence Pezon (France) / Damien Monnier – L'image d'après
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