One of the world’s biggest celebrations of nonfiction cinema returns to Amsterdam as the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) kicks off its 39th edition on November 12. 

Running through November 22, this year’s festival will showcase several Sundance Institute–supported films, including award winners from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, like Nuisance Bear, which earned the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, and Birds of War, winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact.

IDFA will also screen projects developed through our artist programs, including  Documentary Film Program–supported Hazara Town and Regarding Memory and Neglect, along with Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava, supported by the Artist Accelerator program. And there’s a little Sundance Film Festival history in the mix, too. Audiences can revisit Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey, which premiered at the 2001 Festival, and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, which screened at the 1992 Festival.

Check out the full list of Sundance Institute–supported titles screening at IDFA below, and add them to your schedule. For more about the programs and initiatives supporting these filmmakers and their work, click here.