IDFA Forum project selection 2024

An immersive multiplayer experience about how you feel in your skin.

Every public apology has the power to reshape lives, not just for the wrongdoer and the victim, but for society as a whole, as the past itself is redrawn. Through the ritual of saying sorry, 'The Apologist' explores how apologies redefine history and what happens to us as witnesses to the act of atonement.

Tonnarotti, men of the sea, tuna catchers. This is what they call them. This is their story, of their Tonnara, as red as sunrise and sunset, as blood, as Mattanza.

A powerful First Nations video installation which challenges audiences to confront the dark shadows of the nuclear testing story, by collapsing time and understanding history in a new and prophetic light.

The trans-disciplinary project Battlefield of Dreams is a documentary, music theatre performance and debate all in one and deals with the existential question: to reproduce or not to reproduce (ourselves)?

The Beauty of Errors is a portrait of a relationship between three generations where their small homes are the epicenter of everything.

Two elderly brothers—one a psychologist, the other a lifelong psychiatric patient—set out to unravel the mystery of their father’s disappearance. Their son and cousin, filmmaker Tom Fassaert (‘A Family Affair’), joins them on a tragicomic road trip, untangling the roots of their inseparable bond.

The belief in life after death and the assumption that consciousness depends solely on the brain share a common trait: neither has been scientifically proven.

Camila and her family reconstruct their father's image through old photographs and legal archives, navigating memories of his troubled past marked by violence and cheating.

When my grandmother Chunyu fell into a coma, I returned to my impoverished hometown, sparking a journey of self-discovery among the unfamiliar family and the realities of village life.