As part of IDFA’s twentieth anniversary celebrations, the festival has organised a special Best of IDFA programme at several documentary festivals, including Yunfest in China and Adelaide Filmfestival in Australia. A selection of some of the most successful films that have screened at IDFA in past years will also be shown at Docaviv. These documentaries include Belovy (Russia, 1993) by Victor Kossakovsky, Capturing the Friedmans (USA, 2003) by Andrew Jarecki, Gimme Shelter (USA, 1969) by Albert and David Maysles, O Amor Natural (The Netherlands, 1996) by Heddy Honigmann, and Tanjuska and the 7 Devils (Finland, 1993) by Pirjo Honkasalo.

Ally Derks will be giving a masterclass at Docaviv on March 19, in which she will discuss her view of documentary cinema worldwide. Docaviv is an annual documentary festival which is heightening the awareness and popularity of the non-fiction film in Israel. For more information on DocAviv, which runs through March 20, visit the Festival's website: www.docaviv.co.il.