IDFA Unveils Lineup, Adds 'Mask' and Elizabeth Holmes' 'You Can See Everything'

The 39th Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) opens with 'The Pillar of the White Tiger,' a film set in one of the world's deadliest regions. Directed by Robert Mentoff, Dwight Jantzie and Brian Dickie, the film closely follows 'a group of recruits during 45 days of training with the Myanmar resistance movement.'

The 39th edition of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) opens with the film Column of the White Tiger, a film set in one of the deadliest places in the world.

Directed by Robert Mentoff, Dwight Jantzi and Brian Dickey, the film closely follows "a group of soldiers during 45 days of training with the Myanmar resistance movement." In a training camp deep in the jungle, filmmakers capture the daily lives of young volunteers as they prepare to fight for their freedom. This film, which is a prime example of documentary cinema, presents a moving picture of a brave generation. Related News Palme d'Or Prestige News: 'Adreh' tops indie openers, 'Naza' eyes $500,000 - India Box Office Special News India Starring Dr. 'Mask', Chris Rock 'Misty Green' and Ken 'Edreh' win Ignite Theater Preview - Special

IDFA, the world's largest documentary film festival, will be held in the Dutch capital from November 12 to 22. The festival announced its competition lineups on Tuesday, including the White Tiger Column, which is set to be featured in the international competition. The documentary is also nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature. Scroll for the full list. Watch on Deadline

Thirteen films are screened in international competition, dozens of which are world or international premieres. These documentaries are from all over the world—Burkina Faso, Morocco, Senegal, Brazil, Ukraine and other European countries, Canada and more—but interestingly, there are no films from the United States in that category.

IDFA notes, “The international competition brings together works that invite curiosity and critical thinking about our world today. These films offer complex and layered views of the present in a wide range of filmmaking topics and approaches."

Meanwhile, the Envision Competition presents “13 unique films, each stylistically compelling, as visionary filmmakers create new cinematic languages. This selection brings together titles in which the form advances the narrative. Envision titles include Bahía Honda directed by Alejandro Alonso Estrella. Drop the cover! Wait, directed by Stephanie Roland; Shishir Jha's Rivers of Memory and My Own Personal Gulag directed by Lina Gurbanova. All those films are world premieres.

IDFA announced that it is adding two highly-anticipated documentaries to its lineup: You Can See Everything, a film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos that caused a stir at its Telluride premiere, and Musk, Alex Gibney Musk's most unflattering examination of the Elsons. The recently added Sixteen Moments of My Life directed by Albert Serra features Ingrid Cowen singing live at the Théâtre Bouffe de Noir in Paris.

The Special Screenings section brings John Leerdam's May 30 restoration at the Eye Film Museum. 1969 (gritu di un pueblo), revisiting "the historic uprising in Curaçao and the colonial and racial inequalities that fueled it."

Showing only for the first time, the Luminous section presents a wide range of formalist styles and approaches, from observational to personal to experimental. In both feature films and short films, the subjects grapple with life's big questions through deeply personal, lived experiences. Among the 21 selected films, 19 titles are world or international premieres, including 9 feature films.

In Laura Bermudez and Jorge García's immersive and poetic Where the Sun is Born, a dancer leaves a town in Honduras to travel to the Afro-Caribbean Garifuna community of his youth—in search of his roots and a sense of community. IDFA Fund Bertha, supported by Hossein al-Asadi, closely follows Zaira, an elderly woman who lives in close contact with nature in the marshlands of southern Iraq, meditatively illuminating an idyllic place that is increasingly under threat.

In IDFA Space NL graduate Raluka Lupashko's "Modern Roman Legend," ten-year-old Nicoletta, granddaughter of a Roman king, grows up dreaming of living in a marble palace—while watching the women around her push the limits of the patriarchal traditions that shape her future. In Every Death Reduces Me, Sergey Bazhnov trains as a medic to join the front lines and documents his colleagues treating the wounded and dealing with the human cost of war.

The first-ever "Frontlight" section features 16 films, ranging from critical examination of truth and pressing issues of our time to portraits of artists and their work. 15 of the selected titles are world or international premieres.

Several films offer immediate responses to major current events, while others take time to examine the social realities and challenges that shape people's lives. Big boom! By Gabriel Tejdor A Bulgarian arms manufacturer in Kazanlak is full of contradictions and simmering tensions, where machine guns and missiles are destined for Ukraine while many of its employees are pro-Putin. In the film No Man's Air by Peter Delpo and Greco de Reuyter, a pilot recalls the last flight to Nicosia airport in July 1974, when the Turkish invasion of Cyprus was imminent.

Tehran, under the skin of Afshansalari enters the beauty clinics of Tehran to examine the pressures caused by the widespread culture of cosmetic surgery in Iran to achieve physical perfection in a conservative society that seeks to control the beauty of women. In Jenin and the Nakba Between Us, Seren Hosni returns to her parents' hometown in the occupied West Bank and builds a family archive and conversations with residents into a portrait of a place shaped by displacement, occupation, and memory.