1
(P.S.)
Croatia｜2024｜15 min
Director: Aleš Suk
Synopsis
Silvan Skrivanic was the last inhabitant of a remote island in the Adriatic Sea, but even the traces of his existence are gradually disappearing – whether in the memories of others or in a landscape ravaged by a harsh climate. With the fading shadows of the human soul, it is as if life itself is disappearing from the island, leaving behind only the wind, the skeletons of animals and the inscriptions on the walls that have lost their meaning for others.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17334-p-s
2
23:23
Czech Republic｜2024｜23 min
Director: Život jedna báseň & není peříčko
Synopsis
We all perceive poetry differently. For some, a poem is a rhyming text, for others a metaphysical experience. For director Kateřina Dudová, it is an experiment with three people who are close to her, whom she places in one room for three days, leaving them to their fate with the task of writing a poem. Sometimes the recording of real events is more poetic than the poem itself.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17337-23-23
3
Black Poliuka
Belarus, Germany｜2024｜21 min
Director: Tania Licheuskya
Synopsis
One of the qualities that is most ingrained in Eastern European culture is hospitality. Welcoming the guest, setting the table and making sure they return home full and satisfied. But what if a guest has dropped in uninvited and their hunger cannot be satisfied, no matter how hard we try? Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Tania Licheuskaya has been recording the first events at the Luninets air base in Belarus, and the black soup she cooks for uninvited guests from the neighbouring country becomes a symbol of resistance.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17336-black-poliuka
4
Call Me Uncle
Tanzania｜2023｜10 min
Director: Amil Shivji
Synopsis
When Tanzanian queer musician Tofa Jaxx discovered a brochure on AIDS in 2004, he decided to contact trans activist Aunty Ali, who knew from a young age that she was different from others. In a frank, extremely personal conversation, she then confides about her coming out, her love for men, or her experiences with prostitution and HIV.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17332-call-me-uncle
5
Cosmonauts Like Chewing Gum
Bulgaria, Germany｜2024｜20 min
Director: Aline Helmcke & Veselina Dashinova
Synopsis
Growing up in West Germany in the 1980s, Aline imagined a gregarious life on the other side of the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, in communist Bulgaria, Veselina believed that everyone was happy under capitalism. In their collaborative hybrid documentary, they use their childhood fantasies to sketch a new utopia.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17324-cosmonauts-like-chewing-gum
6
Dear Shadow, My Old Friend
Netherlands, Indonesia｜2023｜13 min
Director: Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Synopsis
This film, at the intersection of visual art and documentary, reveals the shadowy past of the Dutch colonial empire through artfully edited archival footage. A dreamlike essay on the confectionery industry driven by the exploitation of Indonesian farmers, it also depicts the traditional rituals of the author's people and asks questions about modernity, the passage of time, the formation of memory and the nature of humanity.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17320-dear-shadow-my-old-friend
7
Fox Chase Boy
United States｜2024｜26 min
Director: Kaya Dillon & Gerad Argeros
Synopsis
The year 2017 was marked by the suicide of a victim of paedophile priest James Brzyski, who by some estimates molested over a hundred boys in Philadelphia in the 1970s and 1980s. One of the survivours is comedian Gerad Argeros, who appears naked, literally and symbolically, before his audience. His cathartic stand-up show is both self-therapy and collective healing. To speak is not to let evil win.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17319-fox-chase-boy
8
Fragmented
Cuba｜2024｜12 min
Director: Feguenson Hermogène
Synopsis
Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba, whose colonial past is guarded by a statue of a slave in chains. Tobacco smoke and magical ceremonies awaken the spirits of ancestors and invite them to fill the forgotten places of cultural memory of a young generation searching for their identity in a post-colonial era of political instability and religious syncretism.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17323-fragmented
9
Grey Zone
Ukraine｜2024｜13 min
Director: Bohdan Prykhodko
Synopsis
Footage of the everyday life of an ordinary Ukrainian family from the city of Svitlodarsk in the Donetsk region shows a life marred by the Russian occupation, where martial law has become the norm. The picture contrasts children's games, doing homework and having dinner in front of the TV with the panorama of the bombed-out buildings of a ghost town.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17318-grey-zone
10
Karun – The Longest River of Iran
Switzerland, Finland, Iran｜2024｜19 min
Director: Sahand Sarhaddi
Synopsis
On September 22, 1998, the Iranian poet Hamid Hajizadeh and his nine-year-old son Karun, whose name symbolically refers to Iran's longest river, were brutally murdered in their home in Kerman. The documentary film, based on the statements of the survivors, tries to sensitively reconstruct one of the many terrible, politically motivated events that took place in Iran at the end of the previous century, and draws us into the fateful day with the help of detailed shots of the objects in Hamid's study.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17327-karun-the-longest-river-of-iran
11
Main Home
Colombia｜2024｜28 min
Director: Cristian Hidalgo
Synopsis
“If a house is like our body, where is its heart located?” asks the narrator of the film, who is also one of the residents of the house in question. As we observe her and her partner going about their daily activities, the violent history of the place is revealed in hints as it comes back to life years later.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17321-main-home
12
Only if the Baby Cries...
India｜2024｜14 min
Director: Shadab Farooq
Synopsis
The hearing-disabled village of Dhadkai at the foothills of the Himalayas has been perplexing experts. It is not clear why only people with disabilities are born here. Yet locals drum and whistle to see if a newborn can hear and produce sound. This sensory-saturated observational portrait of a community amidst a majestic landscape raises the question of whether we need words to connect to the world around us.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17333-only-if-the-baby-cries
13
Place without Memory
Germany｜2024｜27 min
Director: Philip Treschan
Synopsis
During the summer holidays of 1994, an act of sexual violence took place in the Austrian alps. Nineteen years later, Philip Treschan confronts his mother with his trauma in a documentary essay. The family album is a nostalgic illusion, a gateway to an unspoken reality and a tool for an intimate conversation with the past and for piecing together the fragments of memory into a comprehensible whole.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17322-place-without-memory
14
Regarding Faustine
Belgium｜2024｜14 min
Director: Ira A. Goryainova
Synopsis
A short poetic essay depicting a young girl, Faustine, explores the relationship between the director and the protagonist and how the film camera, as a silent, omnipresent mediator, defines it. With a certain amount of self-reflection, the film understands documentary film as a medium that has a dominant power over the subjects it captures by locking their souls and likenesses forever into the cinematic image.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17328-regarding-faustine
15
Ruby Hunters
Myanmar｜2024｜20 min
Director: May Myat Noe Aye
Synopsis
Hard work, insecure earnings and a whole family in debt. These are the circumstances faced by gem prospectors in the abandoned mines of Myanmar. After mining was banned, the local population has been drawn to them, hand-picking through thousands of stones, eager to find the right one – and the better life it will bring.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17325-ruby-hunters
16
Sewing Machine
Estonia｜2024｜16 min
Director: Ülo Pikkov
Synopsis
Not far from the Estonian border is the Russian town of Pechory. When it was occupied by the Estonian army after World War I, a Danish cameraman came along with the soldiers. The director's great-grandmother appears to be in the footage. This formally playful film uses archival footage and animation to tell the moving life story of this courageous woman.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17330-sewing-machine
17
The Art of Looking
Estonia, Latvia｜2024｜16 min
Director: Andris Gauja
Synopsis
According to recent findings in astrophysics, the universe is structured as a four-dimensional web-like network. Yet similar structures are created by organisms many times smaller – known as slime mold. Can the parallel between the realms of biology and physics help us understand the mystery of our changing and intricate reality?
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17329-the-art-of-looking
18
The Empty Houses Are Ours To Do What We Want With Them
Greece｜2024｜7 min
Director: Giorgos Efthimiou
Synopsis
A cross between a reportage film and a video essay, the film follows an ordinary evening with the Pugnant Film Series, a Greek independent organisation that organises unconventional screenings for audiences who want to see the most interesting things from the world of independent, auteur and experimental film. This time, the venue for the cinephilic event is an abandoned house in the centre of Athens. Its empty spaces are transformed into cinema halls, which, through the influence of culture and a shared cinematic experience, momentarily return to life.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17326-the-empty-houses-are-ours-to-do-what-we-want-with-them
19
The Union Train
Romania｜2024｜24 min
Director: Ștefan Marcu
Synopsis
The populist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) organised a train for its supporters on the national holiday of Unification Day to visit celebrations culminating in the nationalist speeches of AUR’s President George Simion. The observational footage of passengers and participants in the grand convention brings to light the dangerous rise of the far right in Romania.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17335-the-union-train
20
The Woodland Threshold
France, Laos｜2024｜18 min
Director: Giulia Grossmann
Synopsis
Dao comes from Laos, but she has been living in France for many years. Set mostly in the Laotian jungle, the film is a dream and an idea of her return to her own essence. In the meditative rhythm of a slow human stride, we dive into a woman's memories of home, rituals and the family she had to leave behind.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17317-the-woodland-threshold
21
You River
Poland｜2024｜9 min
Director: Izabela Zubrycka
Synopsis
The main character of this black-and-white impressionistic essay is a river, and the camera adopts its perspective. It flows through the landscape, sometimes peacefully, sometimes wildly, affecting the lives of animals and people alike. For some, it is a source of inspiration and a part of folk rituals.
Viewing Link
https://dafilms.com/film/17331-you-river
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