On the basis of the conviction that creative documentaries enrich life, IDFA’s mission is, on the one hand, to generate more attention and a bigger audience for creative documentaries and, on the other, to stimulate the financing, production and distribution of these documentaries. Over the past 28 years, IDFA has developed into the largest, most important international documentary film festival in the world with, in 2015, a record number of 271,826 visitors. One of IDFA’s unique characteristics is that it combines a public festival that attracts a large, enthusiastic, international audience and a gathering of well over 3,000 international professionals who conduct business in Amsterdam. Alongside screening (and discussing) the cinematic arts, IDFA wishes to record an era using documentaries and discussions. IDFA is a festival – an event – and also wishes to be accessible, to touch a(n) (major) audience and provide an experience to its visitors. From that perspective, IDFA is a temporary community of people from a variety of backgrounds who all share an interest in what goes on in the (documentary) world and wish to discuss this with others. This application primarily focuses on the 2016 festival’s audience programme and the presence of European documentaries at IDFA. Since the beginning of IDFA (launched in 1988) the festival functions as one of the most important stages for the European documentary. Every year, IDFA selects approximately 300 international documentaries of which around 180 (182 in 2015) are (partially) produced in Europe and are subdivided into the festival’s audience programme. With the support of Media IDFA could maintain or increase the number of European documentaries and make them accessible to an even wider audience.