IDFA Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia To Step Down In 2025

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Orwa Nyrabia has announced he will step down as Artistic Director of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) this summer.

He announced the decision jointly with the organization in the run-up to the 2024 festival edition from November 14-24, making the upcoming edition the seventh and last under his leadership.

IDFA said that since taking up the post in January 2018, Nyrabia and his team had revamped the festival’s film and industry programs and launched new platforms and initiatives that have become mainstays of the festival, such as the Envision Competition, IDFA On Stage, and the Producers Connection. “I have always seen this great role as an artistic endeavor, as a responsibility much more important and critical than being merely a job.

I recognize a natural ending for it coming up; a good moment for starting a new chapter. My decision is one more way of expressing my love to IDFA and its remarkable team,” Nyrabia said in a release announcing his departure. “Change is necessary, especially when at the right moment.