Best of DAFilms 2017

David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s Do Donkeys Act, filmed over 5 years, subtly subverts the notion of the ‘dumb beast’ as it captures donkeys communicating emotionally with each other in the midst of healing from human cruelty and neglect...

In 2001 a mass grave was discovered in a suburb of Belgrade. Soon there were more to come. Depth Two investigates the hidden story behind this horrid discovery and takes us back to 1999 and the NATO bombings in Serbia...

A pseudo-ethnographic portrait of a community in Georgia, centered around a small-town television station.

Secondo Me follows three cloakroom attendants at three European opera houses: Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan, and Odessa Opera House...

To the question “What is a woman?” posed by a television station, a few women filmmakers have responded, including Agnès Varda...

Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism and resistance in the state of Illinois...

In 2013, apartments in central Beijing reached the price of 60,000 RMB ($10,000) per square meter. That is four times more than during the Beijing Olympics of 2008, leading the Chinese capital to overtake Tokyo, London and New York as the city with the highest rent in the world...

The starting point for this unusual film is an American film production by Bertolt Brecht, inspired by an article in Life magazine. Shortly after arriving in the United States in 1941, the famous writer and playwright was fascinated by a report on the daily lives of a family of ‘model’ farmers who had been invited to live in a ‘model’ home open to the public 12 hours a day...

Young Romany Žaneta lives in a prefab housing block with her partner David, their daughter, and Žaneta’s younger sister. Her mother died years ago and her destitute father is unlikely to find another job after ten years without work...

It is all very uncomplicated. Anna Feodorovna Belova lives in a small village. She is twice a widow and now lives together with her brother Michail Feodorovich. Sometimes two other brothers, Vasily and Sergei Feodorovich come to visit them...

A multi-genre collage consisting of variations on educational films, interviews with famous people (film theorist David Bordwell, director Christopher Nolan), and free-association poetry, Cinema Futures makes humorous use of a subversive and almost conspiratorial commentary...