Each year, early summer on the French Riviera is dedicated to FIDMarseille. From July 9 to 15, the renowned French documentary film festival will hold its 30th anniversary edition. The festival offers a diverse mix of documentaries experimenting with form as well as with the very documentary genre. Before this year’s juries reveal the new winners, watch the best films from the past edition.

Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary and experimental filmmaker who created his works over the course of the 20th century, thus following the development in the field of cinema; from his beginnings in the early 20th century at the end of the silent era, when he was influenced by the all-European boom of the avant-garde, to his inclination to political and leftist topics in the 1930s, to his deportation from the Netherlands for his criticism of Dutch colonialism. Ivens’ work laid the foundations for engaged film as well as the docu-fiction genre which captures real events through fiction film. DAFilms.com presents four films by Joris Ivens from the revolutionary 1960s. Watch the works by one of the leading European documentary filmmakers!

This week, we present a special collection of documentaries to cool you off: films from the Antarctic, full of skiing, sled dogs and ice floes. Don’t go out to the tropical heat and rather watch films with temperatures below freezing point. Also, have an ice-cold drink!

Do you already have plans for your summer trips? Here are a few tips to inspire you! We have prepared a selection of films to keep you on the move. While the new arrivals in our catalog include the funeral road movie Calabria and the travelogue collage Opera about Poland, you should definitely not miss the film classics that will guide you through the world of which often only nostalgic memories remain. These include Chris Marker’s Sunless and the iconic 66 Scenes from America by Danish director Jørgen Leth. You just won’t grab a hamburger with Andy Warhol anywhere else.

Join us on a walk down the promenade at Cannes IFF! We have prepared an online selection of films premiered at the biggest and most prestigious festival in the world. While its 72nd edition is rolling in the South of France, watch films whose quality has stood the test of time.

We present the Austrian festival Crossing Europe and its program. Held in Linz, Upper Austria, the city festival traditionally screens films from across Europe in sections dedicated to fiction, documentary and local films. It also presents the YAAAS! Youth Program section focused on young viewers who select the films and host Q&As with the filmmakers.

Please accept our invitation to Nyon, Switzerland which has hosted the 50th anniversary edition of Visions du Réel. In our traditional Festival Focus, we present an anniversary selection of the best films in the program. The festival asked its former directors, Luciano Barisone, Jean Perret, Erika de Hadeln and Moritz de Hadeln, to give us their personal film tips from the past editions. Watch our online selection made by the most qualified of the qualified – directors of the Nyon festival!

Films like All Good Countrymen by Vojtěch Jasný, Daisies by Věra Chytilová and Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet by Oldřich Lipský; Jaroslav Kučera worked on all of them with directors of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Watch his films from the golden age of Czechoslovak cinema!

We present films from One World Romania. Couldn‘t make it to Bucharest but want to see films from the program? No problem! Until April 14, you can watch an exclusive selection of festival films online. Here they are!