Best of DAFilms 2024

Sensory exploration of the forest and the tensions that inhabits it. A world of, gain and loss, growing and vanishing in cycles of life and death.

Léna is a midwife, and I am her patient. While she replaces my IUD, I document our appointment.

The surreal flickering of the Aral desert transforms into the waves of the former Aral Sea. The sand becomes water. An old man becomes a fisherman again.

Under the burning sun, a solitary bull awaits tireless, whilst a man jumps deep into the darkest waters of his persona, in their common attempt to defeat death.

The thoughts, ideas and dreams of protagonists in ten countries spanning five continents are revealed through conversation, activity and contemplation.

Shot in Grand Teton National Park, this immersive film essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler and Emma Davie and philosopher David Abram to encounter the spaces where humans and animals meet...

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

Anyox depicts the lives of the two sole residents of an abandoned company town while unfolding a complex labour history and revealing the vestiges of environmental degradation.

Ida, the grandniece of Simona Kossak, a famous Polish Białowieża Forest protector, is following her remarkable life and uncovers family secrets.

A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity. The story of Paul the Apostle’s life, ideology and influence.

In summer, a group of friends rent a house in southern France.

Forgotten photographs of Auschwitz help us understand how visual information is analysed, and how this is influenced by memory and contemoprary thought.

A film-poem of an ecology of signs tracing a colonial history repeating itself: celebration and power relations, objects and fetishes, roots and branches.

Three circular panoramas follow on from each other in three interiors. With each rotation of the camera, a limitless intimate world is born, dies, resurrects.

Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, Notes from Eremocene questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. A message in a bottle adrift in a sea of data.

181, offers an unusual vision of the inhabitants of Palestine-Israel, a common vision of an Israeli and a Palestinian.

Director Marko Grba Singh spends time in the abandoned apartment of his childhood in Belgrade.

A portrait of an eccentric New York family. The announcement of a polyamorous wedding threatens to sever what's left of a family bond.

With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text.

What seemed like an innocent home movie, has proven to be a revealing document from South Africa's apartheid past.

Alice Diop returns to the council estate where she grew up, la Rose-des-Vents, to paint a portrait of the inhabitants of her old building.

Story of Firdaus, a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the surrounding barren desert landscapes.

An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda.

This portrait of Dawson City, Canada is an audiovisual collage on the search for the sun and gold, history, and the everyday realities of its inhabitants...

An intimate film devoid of tabloid clichés that examines the bed of two lovers who can no longer run away from the inevitable truth.

A young anthropologist, Zdenka, moves with her husband and three sons to Svalbard, Norway, to study how life is changing in polar regions.

"In The Girl Chewing Gum a commanding voice over appears to direct the action in a busy London street.