jury also presents a Special Jury Award) The IDFA Award for Best First Appearance for best debut film. Prize: €10,000 (The jury also presents a Special Jury Award) The IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary for best student documentary from film academies around the world. Prize: €5,000 (The jury also presents a Special Jury Award) The Beeld en Geluid IDFA Award for Dutch Documentary for best Dutch documentary. Prize: €7,500 (The jury also presents a Special Jury Award) Alongside the competition programs, five awards are awarded during IDFA: VPRO IDFA Audience Award for best film as voted by the audience. Prize: €5,000 Amsterdam Human Rights Award for the documentary that best depicts the theme of human rights. Prize: €25,000 Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds Documentary Scholarship, a €50,000 grant for a documentary talent, allowing the recipient to make a documentary about a subject of their choice. Filmfonds DocLab Interactive Grant, a cash prize for the development of interactive projects within the Netherlands. Karen de Bok Talent Award for the winner of the IDFAcademy & NPO-fonds workshop. It is the successor of the Media Fund Award Documentary. The NPO Fund awards the winner €25,000 to further develop the project in collaboration with a producer and a broadcast. Program sections In addition to the competitions, IDFA presents several non-competitive film programs: Regular programs Masters In this program section, the festival presents the latest documentaries by renowned documentary auteurs. Best of Fests In Best of Fests, the festival presents films that have made an impact on the international festival circuit this year. Panorama In this section, the festival presents films from all over the world, which are thought-provoking in their form and choice of theme. Paradocs The films in this section showcase what is going on beyond the frame of traditional documentary filmmaking, on the borders between film and art, truth and fiction, and narrative and design. Music Documentary Screenings of many films from this program are accompanied by live performances connected to the films. Specials In addition to the regular programs, each year the festival presents programs like Queer Day, featuring new documentaries about LGBTQ-related topics; Focus programs which zoom in on aspects like sound design, editing , and cinematography or a topical theme; a themed program by DocLab, featuring live events and an interactive exhibition; and a retrospective of a filmmaker who also chooses a personal documentary Top 10. Award winners IDFA Award