Jaroslav Kučera: Cameraman of the Czechoslovak New Wave

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!

Festival Focus: One World Romania

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!

Tváre Českého leva

Tváře Českého lva

KineDok Launches a New Season

Creative documentaries at unconventional venues? That’s KineDok. On March 25, it will launch its 5th edition in seven European countries; plus online for the first time! Before you head for one of the screenings of this year’s films, watch those shown by KineDok in the past years online!

Festival Focus: IFCF Febiofest

While Febiofest IFCF only starts in a month, we present our common curated program now already. In collaboration with the festival, we have selected films that were shown in the past year on the big screen in Bratislava. Watch them online and tune in to Febiofest!

With Kisses from Your Love: Film Correspondences

Dear Documentary Film Lover,

we’re sending you our best wishes and a selection of epistolary films and correspondence documentaries.

Trieste Film Festival Presents Its Films Online

Join us on a trip to Italy: we have teamed up with Trieste Film Festival to bring you a new curated program. The festival celebrates a double anniversary this year: 30 years since its founding and 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. From the very beginning, Trieste’s main goal was to present films from Central and Eastern Europe to western audiences and to build bridges in newly united Europe. Watch documentaries that were screened at the festival and later toured festivals across the world!

Jan Palach: pochodeň č. 1

Ruth Beckermann: The Search for Personal, Collective and Political Identity

Ruth Beckermann, Austrian director with Jewish roots, has been making film essays and documentaries for over forty years. Her films were screened at numerous festivals to international audiences. Beckermann’s work revolves around memory, personal and collective identity, often including the element of a journey. The director employs diverse formal approaches ranging from personal essay through found footage to hybrid docu-fiction to explore Jewish history and culture, antisemitism, the period of Nazism as well as the current migration issue.

Best of DAFilms 2018

The time before Christmas invites us to slow down, reflect, take stock. Like each year, we bring you a selection of the best and most watched films premiered this year online at DAFilms.com.

2x12 = Best of DAFilms 2018

For international selection please click here.

Wang Bing: The Landscape of Chinese Everydayness

Director Wang Bing is a contemporary film star; his films were screened at most world festivals such as Cannes FF, Berlinale, Venice FF, Toronto IFF, FIDMarseille and Doclisboa. Towards the end of 2018, we present a selection of his films online and invite you to meet the master of Chinese cinema whose films capture everyday life in Asia in diverse environments – in a refugee camp, a remote place in the mountains or a factory.

Doclisboa Focus: Sailing the Euphrates

We bring you yet another festival delight; this time from Portugal! Together with Doclisboa, a member of our Doc Alliance, we present one of this year’s sections online.

DOK Leipzig: Succumb to Animated Documentaries!

The German festival DOK Leipzig is one of Europe’s biggest documentary festivals. Its speciality is a focus on animated documentaries which are presented as a distinctive form of expression. In collaboration with the festival, we have prepared a traditional collection of films from the animated program from the past edition; across sections!

Short Joy: Pick the Winner!

Short Joy is the traditional competition section of Ji.hlava IDFF which presents the best short documentaries from around the world. This year, all of the competition films are shown in world premiere online at DAFilms. Who is in the jury? You!

Retrospective of Jonas Mekas

We present an extensive retrospective of Jonas Mekas, 95-year-old director straddled between Europe and the US, documentary and the avant-garde. Discover the work of the Lithuanian-American director, poet and visual artist often called the godfather of American avant-garde cinema and founder of the diary genre in documentary film.
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