Supported filmmakers at IDFA 2024
With eighteen films included in IDFA’s festival program and seven projects participating at IDFA Forum, an exceptional number of filmmakers supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund and IDFA’s talent development programs will attend this year’s edition of the festival.
Below is an overview of all these people, along with their projects or films, whom you can meet at IDFA 2024.
IDFA Bertha Fund Supported Filmmakers
International Competition
- Jian Fan (director), Isabella Zang (director) & Vincent Du (producer) – She Dances by the Sea – China, Netherlands
- Misha Vallejo (director) & Mayfe Ortega (producer) – Light Memories – Ecuador
Envision Competition
- Miguel Calderón (director/producer) – Loss Adjustment – Mexico, Uruguay
Luminous
- Bassam Mortada (director) & Kesmat Elsayed (producer) – Abo Zaabal 89 – Egypt, Germany
- Polen Ly (director)– Until the Orchid Blooms – Cambodia, France
Frontlight
- Manolo Sarmiento (director) – Toroboro: The Name of the Plants – Ecuador, Brazil
Signed
- Lola Arias (director) – Reas – Argentina, Germany, Switzerland
- Nishtha Jain (director) – Farming the Revolution – India
Best of Fests
- Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza (director) & Francisco Hervé (producer)– The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine – Chile, Netherlands
- Basel Adra (director) & Yuval Abraham (director) – No Other Land – Norway, Palestine
- Darya Bassel (producer) – Songs of Slow Burning Earth – Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France
- Farah Kassem (director) & Cynthia Choucair (producer) – We Are Inside – Lebanon, Qatar, Denmark
- Farahnaz Sharifi (director) – My Stolen Planet – Iran, Germany
- Inadelso Cossa (director) – The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder – Mozambique, France, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway
- Nada Riyadh ((director/producer)) & Ayman El Amir ((director/producer)) – The Brink of Dreams – Egypt, France, Denmark, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
- Nelson Makengo (director) – Rising up at night – Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Forum Pitch
- Anna Kapustina (director/producer) & Alexander Mihalkovich (director/producer) – Transparency Booth: Echoes of the Future – Ukraine
- Asmahan Bkerat (director/producer) & Ban Maraqa (producer) – Concrete Land – Jordan
- Ibrahim Omar (director) & Aya Tallah Yusuf Ellboudy (producer) – Dry Sky – Sudan, Egypt
Producers Connection
- Aman Mann (producer) – How Love Moves – India
Rough Cut Presentations
- Dongnan Chen (director) – Whispers in May – China, Netherlands
- Lana Y. Daher (director/producer) & Jean-Laurent Csinidis (producer) - Do You Love Me - France, Lebanon
- Adelina Borets (director) & Glib Lukianets (producer) – Flowers of Ukraine – Ukraine
- Ilyas Yourish (director) – Kamay – Afghanistan, Belgium
- Paulina Villegas (producer) – Matryoshka – Costa Rica
- Aiaal Adamov (director) & Anna Gudkova (producer) – Road of Bones – Kyrgyzstan
- Bipuljit Basu (director) – Redlight to Limelight – India
- Nurlan Hasanli (director) & Irina Gelashvili (producer) – The Amateur Photographer's Family Portrait – Azerbaijan, Georgia
- Alejandro Alonso Estrella (director) – The Star – Cuba
- Akash Basumatari (director) – The Shadows of the Forest – India
- Armin Septiexan Radja Djawa (director) & Lodimeda Kini (producer) – Oma – Indonesia
- Eugene Rachkovsky (producer) – Militantropos – Ukraine
- Hamed Zolfaghari (director) – Qashqai Tribe: Once Upon a Time in Shiraz – Iran
- Ketevan Vashagashvili (director) & Anna Khazaradze (producer) – 9-Month contract – Georgia
- Leo Nelki (producer) – Spaceman in Kongo – Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Kingdom
- Milad Khosrav (producer) – Dreams of the Wild Oaks – Iran
- Rosana Matecki (director) – Casas Muertas – Venezuela, Ecuador
- Salim Abu Jabal (director) – Yusra – Palestine
- Sam Soko (producer) – Matabeleland – Zimbabwe, Botswana
IDFA Project Space Filmmakers
International Competition
- Misha Vallejo (director) - Light Memories - Ecuador
- Myrid Carten (director) - A Want in Her - Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands
- Najiba Noori (director) - Writing Hawa - France, Netherlands, Qatar, Afghanistan
Best of Fests
- Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza (director) - The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine - Chile, Netherlands
Luminous
- Bassam Mortada (director) - Abo Zaabal 89 - Egypt, Germany
Forum Pitch
- Tana Gilbert (director) & Paola Castillo (producer) - Burning Daddy - Chile
- Asmahan Bkerat (director/producer) & Ban Maraqa (producer) - Concrete Land – Jordan
Producers Connection
- Aman Mann (producer) - How Love Moves - India
Rough Cut Presentations
- Lana Y. Daher (director/producer) & Jean-Laurent Csinidis (producer) - Do You Love Me - France, Lebanon
- Guillermo F. Flórez (director) - Lord, Take me Soon - Spain
- Huibert van Wijk (director) - Child of Their Time - Netherlands
- Thomas Renckens (director) - My Dark Beautiful World - Netherlands
- Ayaal Adamov (director) & Anna Gudkova (producer) – The Road of Bones - Kyrgyzstan
- Nurlan Hasanli (director) & Irina Gelashvili (producer) - The Amateur Photographer's Family Portrait - Azerbaijan, Georgia
- Jakob Krese (director) & Ivana Naceva (producer) - The Gods Must Be Mistaken - Slovenia, Germany, Croatia
- Linda Qibaa (director) – Road Trip - France, Morocco
- Oksana Syhareva (director) - Up in the Air - Ukraine
- Andreas van de Laar (director) - Aba’ana - Netherlands
- Michelle Krevetzky (director) - Everything I Know About Alex - Netherlands
- Hannah van Tassel (director) - Adrift - Netherlands
- Yannesh Meijman (director) - Crosspoint - Netherlands
- Freek de Goeje (director) - When guns fall silent - Netherlands
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