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IDFA Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia To Step Down In 2025


Orwa Nyrabia will step down as Artistic Director of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam this summer after seven editions in role

“I will gradually, and happily, return soon to the other side, that of those sending their ideas, films, and funding applications and waiting anxiously, and critically, for answers,” he said. Marry de Gaay Fortman, Chair of IDFA’s Supervisory Board, thanked Nyrabia for his contribution over the last seven years. “His influence in the artistic field lifted IDFA and has driven the festival as well as the organization to places we never knew they existed,” she said.

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