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Leading documentary festival IDFA has added more than 100 films to the program of its 37th edition, which runs from Nov. 14 to 24 in Amsterdam, as it unveiled the first titles for the Signed, Best of Fests and Paradocs selections, as well as the Short Documentary and the Youth Documentary sections.

The Signed section includes Radu Jude’s found-footage documentary “Eight Postcards from Utopia,” showing the commercials from Romania’s transition to a capitalist democracy, and impressionist desktop film “Sleep #2,” capturing live stream recordings of Andy Warhol’s grave. Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” examines questions of repatriation of African artefacts from Europe.

Several renowned directors push the boundaries of music film in this year’s program. Andrei Ujică revisits 1965 in “Twst – Things We Said Today,” offering a poetic look at the Beatles as they captivate New York while the Watts riots erupt in Los Angeles. Kevin Macdonald’s “One to One: John & Yoko...

Ukrainian-Russian filmmaker and anti-Putin activist Vitaly Mansky will be returning to IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) with his short film The Iron, a portrait of Europe in wartime, which screens in the festival’s competition for short documentary.

Mansky’s documentary portait of former leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev. Heaven previously played in competition at IDFA in 2020.

Also in the short documentary section, Theo Panagopoulos’s archive-based doc Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing celebrates Palestine’s floral splendour from the 1930s, showing the complex relationship between the land and its inhabitants.

The same section will feature Pat Heywood’s mixed media project,...

The world’s biggest documentary film festival is starting to roll out its competition lineup for the 2024 event.

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), set to run from November 14-24, unveiled the full slate for the Short Documentary section today, featuring 12 world premieres among the 16 titles in competition. Among them is Iron, a new 40-minute film from Ukrainian-born, Latvia-based director Vitaly Mansky. [Scroll for the complete list of competition films and other titles announced today].

According to Mansky’s website, Iron “consists of several novels about humans and military equipment in cities where military equipment resembles monuments on pedestals, where it is exhibited in fairs and special events, where it adorns festive parades and rusts in scrap yards.”

Other highlights from the Short Documentary competition include “personal stories on grief, such as the mixed media exploration into losing someone close to you, Tough Love by Pat Heywood, and stop-motion animation Mama Micra by Rebecca Blöcher that examines how far...

Returning for its seventh edition this year, the 2024 Rockaway Film Festival kicks off next weekend, taking place August 17-25 and featuring a rich lineup of cinematic and artistic events. Highlights include Zia Anger’s My First Film, featuring a Q&a with star Odessa Young and post-screening DJ set by Andrew Vanwyngarden of Mgmt; the East Coast premiere of Ed Lachman’s new restoration of Report From Hollywood, his account on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Things, featuring a Q&a with Lachman and Sean Price Williams; a 50th anniversary screening of Wenders’ Alice in the Cities; a rare screening of Agnes Martin’s Gabriel with a live score; and much more. Ahead of the festival, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the trailer.

“Every year, our program emerges intuitively,” said co-founders Courtney Muller and Sam Fleischner, “we choose films in consideration of the setting in which we’ll show them,...