Best of DAFilms 2021

A young woman discovers her grandmother's mountain village, which she fled during the Greek Civil War. There, she faces ruins and oblivion. The summer brings her back to the village, along with a feeling of imminent change.

The film explores the paradox of exemplary behaviour of murderers currently serving life sentences in Lukiškės Prison in Vilnius and hoping to return to the society.

The film is about the relationship of a filmmaker with the corner of his house. A new building has changed the life of the neighborhood and has also interrupted the vision he had of the Provincia hill and the Andes mountain range.

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another meditates upon the endless tactility of museological and ecological conservation, inviting reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, and embodiments of various materials, disciplines, and institutions.

This director decides to create a film about and with the people around him: his Pakistani neighbor, a homeless person from Slovakia, and his Colombian housekeeper.

The film portrays peripheral spaces between urbanity and suburbia just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Working at the assembly line, bringing up children alone, dreaming of happiness... But Valentina wants more, whatever the price.

When Lord von Ketten sets off to battle, staying away for eleven long years, his newly married wife carves out a life for herself—reading, singing, dancing, swimming, and riding in the forest.

Roshell (51) and Liliana (43) run together Casa Roshell. As an utopic spot, this place is a hideout for those men that live repressed in their desires of feminization and transvestism.

In this film about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha in exile in Sintra, Portugal, the question arises: How are the traveler and the exile different? How shall we think of memories created in exile?

White on White is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film FREM (2019), whose main character was an artificial neural network.

The Kiosk is a video diary filmed by Alexandra, a young artist who has come to help her mother who runs a newsstand in a chic Paris neighbourhood.

Comrades in Arms shows, in a very personal way, the experience of young men who choose to leave being the life of a civilian to become part of the navy at the Escola de Fuzileiros/Marine School of the Portuguese Navy.

The epic search of a romantic hero turns out to be a painful discovery of unfulfilled love, unhealed wounds and missed opportunities among three family generations.

Extinction is an eclectic patchwork of materials (fiction and nonfiction) drawing the viewer to the collective imaginary of the Soviet Union.