MUMBAI: Lixin Fan‘s Last Train Home annexed the main prize at the 22nd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The festival closed on 28 November 28.

The film, that won the VPRO IDFA Award for best feature documentary, is the tale about the gruelling journey undertaken each year by migrant Chinese workers returning to their family homes in remote and impoverished rural villages.

On the other hand, Dutch director John Appel‘s The Player won the inaugural IDFA Award for best Dutch documentary.

A special jury award went to the US documentary, The Most Dangerous Man In America. The documentary is set in the early 70s and tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a young analyst in the US Department of Defence, who turned against the Vietnam War and leaked top secret 7000 page document to The New York Times by the Pentagon Papers.

Other winners included Louie Psihoyos‘ The Cove and Ross McDonnell and Carter Gunn‘s Colony that won The First Appearance Award.

Veteran US documentary maker Fred Wiseman picked up the festival‘s first Living Legend award.