Best of IDFA on Tour 2025

During The Best of IDFA on Tour 2025 you will see the best films of IDFA in one day, including vegetarian lunch!

We screen a fine selection of documentaries that premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam: from award winners to festival favorites.

Includes vegetarian lunch*

On the program are: American Pastoral, Mama Micra, Trains and The Quest

An American Pastoral

Winner IDFA Award for Best Directing

Anno 2023, a fierce, cultural and political-ideological battle rages in a conservative Pennsylvania town over a public school's curriculum. With the lion's share of the school board up for re-election, fundamentalist board candidates roam the leafy neighborhoods of Elizabethtown to campaign.
Auberi Edler | France | 2024 | 118 min | English spoken

Mamma Micra

IDFA Special Mention 2024 in the Short Film Competition

The mother of animation director Rebecca Blöcher did not want to live an ordinary life. She wanted "something more," she says in the stop-motion film Mama Micra. Her surroundings understood that poorly. In 1968, for example, a friend criticized her in a letter for going out alone and making men jealous. She advises her to dress "femininely" and take a cooking class. Blöcher's mother ignored the advice and years later, after a divorce, still moved out into the wide world.
Rebecca Blöcher | Germany | 2024 | 24 min | German spoken

Trains

Winner IDFA Award for Best Film & winner IDFA Award for Best Editing

"There is plenty of hope. An infinite amount of hope. But not for us." With this quote from Franz Kafka, Trains opens. It hangs like a dark cloud over the archival film, which paints a collective portrait of people in twentieth-century Europe, their hopes and longings, their dramas and tragedies
Maciej J. Drygas | Poland | 2024 | 81 min | No dialogue

The Guest

Winner IDFA Award for Best Cinematography.

The border area of Poland and Belarus will turn into a three-kilometer-wide exclusion zone in 2021, where refugees are inhumanly trapped. They are the focus of a political joust: Belarus supposedly guarantees free passage to the EU, but pushbacks follow in Poland, where the refugees are forcefully pushed across the border. Once back in Belarus, they are hounded back toward Poland. A gruesome stalemate in an unlivable region full of dangerous swamps.
Zvika Gregory Portnoy, Zuzanna Solakiewicz | Poland, Qatar | 2024 | 78 min | English, Polish and Arabic spoken

Tickets

• Tickets are only available for the entire program; it is not possible to purchase tickets for individual films.
• As a Friend of Theater De Leest you can see the films of IDFA on Tour for only € 39. This discount is automatically calculated in your shopping cart.
• *The ticket price includes a vegetarian lunch. This consists of a vegetarian soup with three small sandwiches topped with fenugreek cheese, brie and a vegetarian salad.

no other discounts