Best of DAFilms 2018

A documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad.

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

Avi Mograbi and Chen Alon meet African asylum-seekers in an Israeli detention centre in the Negev desert. The film seeks to investigate the status of the refugees in Israel using ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ techniques...

On 21 August 1968 Prague awoke to find itself occupied by Soviet forces. Director Jan Němec took it upon himself to walk the streets documenting the invasion...

On 22 March 1968 President Antonín Novotný gave in to the pressure of the reformist communists headed by Alexander Dubček and resigned. It is necessary to elect a new head of state who has set out on the path of „socialism with a human face“...

Ahmad is a Syrian child who doesn’t want to remember that he is Syrian. Half traumatized, half trying to escape his reality, he prefers to be silent and asleep. In his silence and refusal to talk, he takes us on a journey where individual and collective Syrian memories collapse.

A cinematic treatise on diverse forms of affection, love, partnership, and how an individual goes about expressing these feelings in the face of tradition and social conventions...

26-year-old Taelor navigates drug abuse, guns, madness & inherent violence of the rich, white Houstonian ghettos in Trump's America.

The worst paid jobs in the Czech Republic first-hand: a very personal testimony about people working invisible jobs under shocking conditions.