Best of DAFilms 2022

Van der Keuken sketches a portrait of Amsterdam and its inhabitants. He goes on a world tour in his own city and meets people from every corner of the world.

From 1984 to 2019, Lynne Sachs shot film of her father, a bon vivant and pioneering businessman. This documentary is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings.

Young Kidlat is a jeepney driver in the Philippines who wants to emigrate to America to become an astronaut.

The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family ́s break-up but also trying to understand.

Shot on 16mm in national military parks, swamps, forests and the suburban sprawl across the former battlefields, the film follows General Grant’s path liberating the southern United States.

When estranged siblings Luisa and Gabino visit their parents, the presence of Luisa’s affable actor boyfriend, Paco gives rise to awkward scenarios.

A young man wanders through the ruins of what may or may not be his childhood home, where each crumbling doorway opens up onto the past....

Everyday hustle and bustle of contemporary Bratislava, an exemplary post-socialist city whose inhabitants cope with the constant grind of urban construction, collapsing traffic and rising housing prices, in addition to their own woes.

After her rawly authentic portrait of René (2008), Helena Třeštíková comes up with another testimony about the life of an incorrigible delinquent and a shrewd .

A "fictional documentary" concerning female genital mutilation or excision, the film tells the story of a young Malian mother faced with the critical decision whether or not to excise her daughter.

An intimate portrait of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, during the period of her seclusion at the Alvorada Palace to face the impeachment trial.

Theatrical reproduction of the famous trial with dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena.

Two adult women - a mother and her daughter - take part in a family therapy to improve their painful relationship.

In the last days of the summer of 2019, young filmmaker Vadim returns to his hometown to say goodbye to his first love Anya.