LiveLive data report · IDFA 12–22 Nov 2026
IDFA 2026 in numbers
Every public screening of IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, counted: days, hours, sections, venues, countries, and which shows are sold out. The figures update by themselves while tickets sell.
Checked 8 November 2026, 22:18
Key findings
IDFA 2026 lists 990 public screenings of 232 programme items over 11 days, in 21 venues in Amsterdam: 157 films, and talks, shorts programmes, day events and DocLab works.
On 8 November 2026, 22:18, 212 of IDFA 2026’s 990 public screenings (21%) were sold out.
50 IDFA 2026 programme items are marked as world premieres; IDFA marks 103 of the 157 films listed as fully subtitled in English.
The busiest day of IDFA 2026 is Saturday 21 November, with 121 screenings; Pathé Tuschinski alone hosts 25% of all screenings.
The 157 IDFA 2026 films listed so far come from 67 countries of production, led by France, the United States and the Netherlands.
The median IDFA 2026 film runs 90 minutes; the longest runs 355 minutes.
Screenings per day
#Each column is one festival day. The red part is what is sold out now; the rest still has tickets or opens later.
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| Screenings | Sold out | |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 12 November | 6 | 6 |
| Friday 13 November | 96 | 26 |
| Saturday 14 November | 101 | 25 |
| Sunday 15 November | 100 | 31 |
| Monday 16 November | 96 | 24 |
| Tuesday 17 November | 92 | 16 |
| Wednesday 18 November | 101 | 16 |
| Thursday 19 November | 79 | 8 |
| Friday 20 November | 116 | 15 |
| Saturday 21 November | 121 | 26 |
| Sunday 22 November | 82 | 19 |
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
When the films start
#Screenings starting in each hour of each day, Amsterdam time. The stronger the red, the busier the hour.
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
Sections, by screenings
#IDFA’s own programme sections. A film can sit in more than one. The red share is sold out.
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| Titles | Screenings | Sold out | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best of Fests | 54 | 266 | 56 |
| Signed | 32 | 145 | 32 |
| Luminous | 21 | 108 | 14 |
| IDFA DocLab Program & Competition | 15 | 95 | 47 |
| Frontlight | 16 | 78 | 7 |
| International Competition | 13 | 76 | 9 |
| Envision Competition | 13 | 73 | 0 |
| Paradocs | 12 | 59 | 8 |
| Dead Angle: Common Ground | 18 | 56 | 8 |
| IDFA Competition for Short Documentary | 10 | 50 | 8 |
| IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction | 3 | 46 | 29 |
| Top 10 | 9 | 18 | 6 |
| Spotlight on William Greaves | 6 | 15 | 6 |
| IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling | 3 | 14 | 2 |
| Retrospective: Tatiana Huezo | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| IDFA DocLab Spotlight | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Special Screenings | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| IDFA Junior | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
Venues, by screenings
#Where IDFA plays. Pathé Tuschinski on the Reguliersbreestraat has the most screenings and the festival box office.
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| Titles | Screenings | Sold out | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathé Tuschinski | 156 | 250 | 54 |
| Pathé City | 106 | 135 | 36 |
| Cinema The Pulse | 71 | 86 | 6 |
| Eye | 65 | 77 | 9 |
| Pathé Amsterdam-Noord | 28 | 58 | 30 |
| Het Ketelhuis | 47 | 51 | 1 |
| Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond | 9 | 48 | 22 |
| Kriterion | 44 | 44 | 4 |
| Rialto Silo | 43 | 44 | 6 |
| Rialto De Pijp | 39 | 40 | 5 |
| @droog | 2 | 29 | 19 |
| Cinema De Vlugt | 28 | 28 | 2 |
| Het Documentaire Paviljoen | 25 | 26 | 5 |
| De Balie | 22 | 24 | 4 |
| Podium Mozaïek | 18 | 18 | 2 |
| Koninklijk Theater Carré | 10 | 10 | 1 |
| Casa Rosso | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| ENTR VR Museum | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Rialto VU Griffioen | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| ARTIS Planetarium | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Nationale Opera & Ballet | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
Where the films come from
#Titles per country of production; a co-production counts for each of its countries. The top 15 of 67.
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| Titles | Screenings | |
|---|---|---|
| France | 41 | 190 |
| United States | 28 | 105 |
| Netherlands | 21 | 130 |
| Spain | 14 | 57 |
| Germany | 12 | 60 |
| Belgium | 9 | 45 |
| Canada | 9 | 44 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 47 |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 38 |
| Brazil | 6 | 24 |
| Denmark | 6 | 25 |
| Italy | 5 | 26 |
| Mexico | 5 | 17 |
| Poland | 5 | 23 |
| Argentina | 4 | 16 |
| China | 4 | 22 |
| Czech Republic | 4 | 20 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 23 |
| Qatar | 4 | 18 |
| Ukraine | 4 | 22 |
| India | 3 | 12 |
| Iran | 3 | 15 |
| Lebanon | 3 | 16 |
| Norway | 3 | 16 |
| Palestine | 3 | 15 |
| Senegal | 3 | 14 |
| Sweden | 3 | 13 |
| Algeria | 2 | 11 |
| Austria | 2 | 10 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 10 |
| Chile | 2 | 10 |
| Colombia | 2 | 7 |
| Georgia | 2 | 11 |
| Iceland | 2 | 10 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 11 |
| Japan | 2 | 7 |
| Jordan | 2 | 11 |
| Lithuania | 2 | 10 |
| Portugal | 2 | 10 |
| South Korea | 2 | 10 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 22 |
| Australia | 1 | 6 |
| Cuba | 1 | 6 |
| Finland | 1 | 2 |
| Greece | 1 | 5 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 3 |
| Honduras | 1 | 5 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 5 |
| Iraq | 1 | 6 |
| Ireland | 1 | 5 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 5 |
| Mali | 1 | 5 |
| Montenegro | 1 | 5 |
| Morocco | 1 | 6 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 5 |
| Panama | 1 | 5 |
| Philippines | 1 | 5 |
| Réunion | 1 | 5 |
| Romania | 1 | 5 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 6 |
| Serbia | 1 | 5 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 5 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 5 |
| Syria | 1 | 5 |
| Turkey | 1 | 5 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 5 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 4 |
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
Premieres
#Each square is one title of the programme, coloured by its premiere status.
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| Titles | Screenings | Sold out | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Premiere | 77 | 376 | 81 |
| World Premiere | 50 | 290 | 45 |
| International Premiere | 11 | 56 | 4 |
| European Premiere | 4 | 21 | 7 |
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
How long the films are
#Titles by running time, in minutes. The median is 90 minutes.
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
When the films were made
#Titles by decade of production: the retrospectives reach back to 1968.
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
Most-screened films
#The films with the most sessions, and how many of them are sold out. Talks, tastings, exhibitions and the Best of IDFA slots are left out.
- 1=A Modern Roma Fairytale3/7
- 1=Ragazzi al fiume0/7
- 3=Alter Ego0/6
- 3=An Incomplete Day in the History of Georgia 10.06.930/6
- 3=Bahía Honda0/6
- 3=Bardi2/6
- 3=Between Revolutions0/6
- 3=Crack in the Head, Crack in the Sky0/6
- 3=Down the River1/6
- 3=Drop! Cover! Hold On!0/6
- 3=Every Death Diminishes Me0/6
- 3=For the Moon1/6
…and 20 more films with 6 sessions.
Source: IDFA programme via Evenitto
2026 against 2025
#IDFA’s own counts for 2025 and its announcement for 2026, beside what the 2026 ticket shop lists now.
| 2025 (IDFA) | 2026 (IDFA) | 2026 listed | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titles | 238 | 253 | 232 |
| Countries | > 76 | 80 | 67 |
| Screenings | > 1,000 | – | 990 |
| Venues | > 20 | – | 21 |
IDFA counts films and interactive projects. The listed column counts every programme item with public screenings in IDFA’s ticket shop, talks, shorts programmes and day events included, and the countries of the films whose data IDFA publishes.
Source: IDFA facts and figures 2025, IDFA’s 2026 selection announcement, IDFA programme via Evenitto
IDFA through the years
#Visits as IDFA reported them. From 2022 IDFA’s totals include year-round screenings, and for 2024 and 2025 visits it expected later in the year. Years without a point have no published total; for 2021 the reports give only film visits (over 100,000), and 2020 was held online and in cinemas.
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| Visits | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 200,000 | nhnieuws.nl |
| 2015 | over 270,000 | documentary.org |
| 2018 | over 280,000 | idfa.nl |
| 2019 | over 300,000 | idfa.nl |
| 2020 | 136,000 (online and in cinemas) | idfa.nl |
| 2022 | over 230,000 | idfa.nl |
| 2023 | about 245,000 | idfa.nl |
| 2024 | projection 255,000 | idfa.nl |
| 2025 | projection 255,000 | idfa.nl |
Source: IDFA festival reports and annual reports, IDA and NH Nieuws; each year’s source is in the table
Recent winners of the IDFA Award for Best Film
- 2025A Fox Under a Pink MoonMehrdad Oskouei
- 2024TrainsMaciej J. Drygas
- 20231489Shoghakat Vardanyan
- 2022Apolonia, ApoloniaLea Glob
- 2021Mr. LandsbergisSergei Loznitsa
In context
The Netherlands sold over 28m cinema tickets in 2025, and arthouse cinemas about 3.9m, their best year in ten. IDFA counted about 165,000 audience and school visits at its 2025 edition: about 4% of a whole year of arthouse visits, in eleven days.
Methodology and data
The report counts IDFA’s own ticketing programme in Amsterdam. Best of IDFA in Groningen and Nijmegen, sold by those cinemas, is left out; Evenitto’s IDFA 2026 guide adds those and screenings from other venues’ agendas, and counts items differently, so its counts differ.
The figures come from IDFA’s public ticketing programme, which Evenitto’s crawler reads every hour. One screening is one bookable session. A work with many short slots a day (VR booths, tastings, exhibitions) counts once per day, and that day counts as sold out only when every slot is.
Sold out is the status IDFA’s ticket shop shows for a session at the last check. Screenings that IDFA cancels or withdraws are left out.
Titles, countries, running times and premieres are IDFA’s own data for each film. Historical visits come from IDFA’s festival reports and annual reports; every figure links to its source.
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Use this data
The data on this page is free to reuse under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Credit Evenitto and link to this page. CC BY 4.0
Evenitto (2026). IDFA 2026 in numbers [Live data report]. 8 November 2026. https://evenitto.com/nl/en/blog/idfa-2026-in-numbersQuestions
How many films are at IDFA 2026?
IDFA announced 253 titles from 80 countries. Evenitto counts 232 programme items with public screenings in the ticket shop, 157 of them films, in 990 sessions.
How many IDFA 2026 screenings are sold out?
212 of 990 public screenings (21%) are sold out at the latest check, 8 November 2026, 22:18.
Which IDFA 2026 venue has the most screenings?
Pathé Tuschinski, with 250 of the 990 public screenings (25%), followed by Pathé City and Cinema The Pulse. The festival runs in 21 venues in Amsterdam from 12 to 22 November 2026.
Can I use these numbers?
Yes. Download the CSV, quote any figure and credit Evenitto with a link to this page (CC BY 4.0).
Plan your festival
Every screening day by day, with times, venues and what is sold out: