Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything quickly sold out its IDFA screenings, festival artistic director Isabel Arrate Fernandez told Deadline. She’s hoping the enthusiasm can do more than fill seats for one film: bring new audiences to other theatrical documentaries, too. Source Source
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam opens its 39th edition on November 13, 2026, and runs through November 22. Arrate Fernandez described interest in the film as “huge” in Deadline’s report. That follows a substantial U.S. run: Variety reported on November 12 that the documentary had surpassed $80 million domestically, becoming A24’s third-biggest domestic release. Source Source
Variety puts You Can See Everything at just under three hours, while Alex Gibney’s Musk, also screening at IDFA, exceeds four hours. These are not documentaries you squeeze in before a quick errand. Source
There’s a publicity bill attached to this success story, though. Arrate Fernandez calls You Can See Everything and Musk “exceptions,” pointing to their U.S. production budgets and the publicity and marketing resources behind them. “Still, it does show that documentaries in the cinema can thrive,” she told Variety. Source
She told Variety: “For independent documentary to thrive and continue developing, it’s necessary to think outside of that fixed framework and a formatted way of releasing a documentary.” Source
Arrate Fernandez hopes the success encourages a different understanding of what documentaries—and the collective experience of watching them in a cinema—can offer. In her assessment, Fielder is bringing a new audience into cinemas for You Can See Everything. She asked Variety: “What else would this audience see?” Source
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