The online retrospective of Sergei Loznitsa, Special Guest of Visions du Réel 2026, has launched on DAFilms! 📽
🟢 𝕊𝕖𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕚 𝕃𝕠𝕫𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕤𝕒: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕟 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 ℂ𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕒 🟢
A retrospective of the director who turns his gaze toward the fractures of post-Soviet spaces, excavating the political unconscious through the precise act of montage.
Slide to discover which films are included in the program & where they're available!
@visionsdureel@atomsvoidfilms
#sergeiloznitsa #dafilms #streaming
Film of the Week: A Fidai Film by Kamal Aljafari (2023) 🍉
@kamalaljafarifilm@europeanfilmacademy
This Saturday, the European Film Awards will once again turn attention to contemporary cinema. Among this year’s nominees for the Documentary Award is the Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari with his most recent film, With Hasan in Gaza (2025).
His previous A Fidai Film (2023) exemplifies the political, formal, and ethical urgency that defines Aljafari’s filmmaking. It deals with the trauma of erasure and appropriation of Palestinian archival footage by the IDF. In 1982 the forces raided the Palestinian Research Center’s archives and plundered its collection, including still and moving images. Kamal Aljafari recontextualises the retrieved footage, and points the oppressors’ instruments of control back at them as he manipulates the once misused archival footage in an anti-colonialist statement.
A Fidai Film is streaming worldwide on DAFilms. 🟢
#afidaifilm #kamalaljafari #documentary #streaming #europeanfilmawards
Sergei Loznitsa: The Man with a Camera 📹
An online retrospective of Sergei Loznitsa, streaming worldwide on @dafilms_com 🟢
Working across documentary and fiction, Loznitsa assembles images—archival and contemporary—into rigorous structures. Films such as STATE FUNERAL (2019) and THE EVENT (2015) revisit the spectacle of power and the construction of collective memory; MAIDAN (2014) and THE INVASION (2024) confront the present, observing Ukraine at moments when history is violently unfolding. The ongoing Russian war against Ukraine is not simply a subject here, it is the condition under which these images are produced and seen. For Loznitsa, this war is also personal.
As he stated in his 2024 State of Cinema address for @sabzian.be , we are increasingly pushed into “a uniformed and conformist intellectual environment, in which everything is black-and-white.” Against this, his cinema proposes something slower and more demanding: a space for ambiguity, for contradiction, and for critical thought. It does not offer moral shortcuts, but insists on looking at how events unfold, how narratives are formed, and how easily they harden into dogma.
#sergeiloznitsa #dafilms #documentary #streaming
get ready for Cannes with DAFilms 🌴
This selection traces connections between the 2026 Cannes lineup and DAFilms, revisiting earlier documentary works by directors showing their new films in Cannes this year.
Lots of films previously unavailable on DAFilms included! Streaming worldwide.
#cannesfilmfestival #dafilms #documentary #streaming
LEAVING SOON: 3 early films by Alice Diop. Streaming worldwide on DAFilms until May 12, 23:59 CET. ⏰️
● Clichy pour l'exemple (2006)
● La Tour du monde (2006)
● Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise (2007)
#AliceDiop #documentary #streaming #worldwide
NEW ON 𝔻𝔸𝔽ILMS • APRIL HIGHLIGHTS 🔥
not sure what to watch? here's some highlights of new additions to our catalogue from the past month!
🟢 enjoy!
#dafilms #documentary #streaming #newrelease
✨ STREAMING ✨
New collaboration with DAFilms
The ‘DA’ is for Doc Alliance. The ‘Films’ is for films. Seven European documentary film festivals make up Doc Alliance and power the VOD portal DAFilms. Besides year-round documentary programming, DAFilms regularly teams up with festival curators to cut out the middleman and distribute creative documentaries direct from the source.
@dafilms_com
✨FOCUS
SERGEI LOZNITSA: The Man with a Camera
Special Guest 2026 @visiondureel
🎬 STATE FUNERAL
(@atomsvoidfilms )
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CRITIQUE on www.filmexplorer.ch
#kino #cinema #movies #filmexplorer #arthousefilm #cinephile #documentary #dafilms #visionsdureel #docalliance
Film of the Week: KNIT'S ISLAND (2023) by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse & Quentin L'Helgouac'h 👾
@ekiembarbier_@guilhemcausse__@quentinlhelgoualch@lesfilmsinvisibles
Somewhere on the Internet, there is a space of 250 square kilometers in which individuals gather in community to simulate a survivalist fiction. Under the guise of avatars, a film crew enters this place and makes contact with players. Who are these inhabitants? Are they actually playing?
Streaming worldwide except for North America, Belgium, Japan & Taiwan.
@squareeyesfilm_@film.expanded
#knitsisland #dafilms #documentary #videogame #dayz
LEAVING SOON ⏳️ BARBARA HAMMER: RADICAL VISIBILITY 🌈
The groundbreaking films of Barbara Hammer, the icon of queer cinema, will be available on DAFilms until May 8 (I know, we'll miss them too).
Don't miss your chance to (re)watch them.
In the program:
DYKETACTICS (1974)
SUPERDYKE MEETS MADAME X (1976)
NO NO NOOKY T.V. (1987)
NITRATE KISSES (1992)
LESBIAN WHALE (2015)
A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES (2019, made with @lynnesachs1 )
+ LOVE, BARBARA (2022 by @brydieoconnor )
Streaming worldwide. Link in bio.
@barbarahammerestate@electronicartsintermix
#barbarahammer #dafilms #streaming #nitratekisses
ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS (2020, Sanaz Sohrabi) is our Film of the Week. 🟢
Examining the photographic archives of British Petroleum, Sohrabi offers one piece of a puzzle of the colonial history and present of Iran. The film focuses on the British control over Iranian oil that lasted 50 years, and the control of imagery that came with it.
Streaming worldwide on DAFilms. 🎬
The film is a part of our curated program IRANIAN INNER LANDSCAPES. 🇮🇷
#documentary #streaming #oneimagetwoacts #colonialism #i̇ran
NEW ON DAFILMS: March highlights 🔥🐑
packed with recent documentaries, mostly available worldwide! 🌐
🟢 enjoy!
#dafilms #documentary #streaming #newrelease
