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festival · Amsterdam, Netherlands

IDFA

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

City photo: Andrés Barrios · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

2 ways in for your film, listed below.

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Funding

IDFA Bertha Fund

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Markets and pitching

Co-pro market · IDFA

IDFA Forum

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Filmmakers it helped

From our Paths research, with sources.

Payal Kapadia

India

IDFA Bertha Fund, for A Night of Knowing Nothing

Shaunak Sen

India

IDFA Bertha Fund, for All That Breathes, 2019

Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

India

IDFA Bertha Fund, for Writing With Fire, 2017

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