2023 at a glance

AWARDS 2023
Honorary
Award 2023-2024
DOUGLAS ROSENBERG
Best International
Short Dance Film
to announce
Audience
Award
to announce
Portrait of a
Generation Award
THIRD ACT
Belgium, 2019
Director: Lotte Stoops, Mieke Struyve
Choreography:Peeping Tom
Outstanding Achievement
in Dance Film
ROMANCE
Germany, 2023
Director: Samantha Shay
Choreography: Samantha Shay and the cast
Best dance sequence in a Film or Series
LA RUTA
Spain, 2022
Choreography: Josefina Gorostiza (S1 ep6)
Alex Rubio
Created by: Borja Soler y Roberto Martín Maiztegui
Production: Caballo Films
Distribution: Atresmedia Televisión, ATRESplayer PREMIUM
Cinema Specials

Mother Melancholia
Mother Melancholia
Choreography: Samantha Shay and the ensemble
Country / Year: Islandia, Germany, 2022
Duration: 0:29:33
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Mother Melancholia by Samantha Shay is a multi-layered portrait of four women and a eulogy for the planet set to, and inspired by Sóley’s album of the same title, a self-proclaimed soundtrack for the end of the world as we know it. Co-commissioned by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, the dance film approaches patriarchal politics and ecofeminism through an unguarded, unsettlingly beautiful meditation on the difficulty, and immediacy of being fully present in the world. Filmed in the surreal and eroding Icelandic landscape, Mother Melancholia is a quiet, yet urgent conduit between the internal world of the human experience, and the planet we inhabit.

Romance
Romance
Choreography: Samantha Shay and the ensemble
Country / Year: Germany, 2023
Duration: 0:38:47
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Set in an auditorium on a Saturday morning, women are learning to be romantic.
Based on Miranda July’s short story It was Romance, Romance creates an illuminating meeting point between the works of July and Pina Bausch. Resulting from filmmaker Samantha Shay’s Fulbright Scholarship at Tanztheater Wuppertal, and in collaboration with one of the company’s youngest and first transgender dancer, Romance also centers around how Naomi Brito’s transition was inspired by her encounter with the roles of women, as she observed them, in the repertory of Pina Bausch.
Shot on 16mm film in Pina Bausch’s iconic and aging Lichtburg rehearsal studio, this piece walks the line between fiction and reality, dance and documentary, in the same way Bausch’s deeply cathartic, and often autobiographical work did. Romance is a fertile intergenerational dialogue between past, present and future, and, through a fresh and powerful encounter, assures that the power of an aging legacy is never ending.

Raw
Raw
Country / Year: Canada, 2023
Duration: 0:15:00
Transitioning from a theatrical setting to a neutral space, a Cirque du Soleil artist will perform a minimalist and raw act. No makeup, no costume. Filmed in a cinematic style with a touch of surrealism and a narrative undertone. In collaboration with festival Le FIFA Montréal.

La somme de nos rêves
La somme de nos rêves
Country / Year: Canada, 2021
Duration: 1:15:00
Deep in a mythical forest, people are sleeping. They dream of strange places where their bodies live by floating in a real or imaginary world. Produced in collaboration with the École nationale de cirque, La somme de nos rêves offers an intimate and unique immersion in the world of circus. In collaboration with festival Le FIFA Montréal.

Kite Zo A / Leave the bones
Kite Zo A / Leave the bones
Country / Year: Canada, Haiti, 2022
Duration: 1:08:00
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones) is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to modern, made in collaboration with poets, dancers, musicians, fishermen, daredevil rollerblades, and Vodou priests, set to poetry by Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel. In collaboration with festival Le FIFA Montreal.

Creature
Creature
Choreography: Akram Khan
Country / Year: United Kingdom, 2023
Duration: 1:27:00
Based on the acclaimed English National Ballet production, choreographed by Akram Khan and directed by Academy Award-winning director Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy, The Warrior), Creature is a genre-busting collaboration that fuses film and contemporary dance.
In a dilapidated former Arctic research station, Creature (Jeffrey Cirio) is unknowingly enlisted by a military brigade into an experimental programme. Creature meets and falls in love with Marie (Erina Takahashi), a cleaner who shows him kindness and compassion; together they dream of escape.
This vivid cinematic experience is a beautiful, tragic tale of an outsider’s search for belonging, the insatiable desires of the powerful, and the enduring hope found in human connection and compassion.

Third Act
Third Act
Choreography: Peeping Tom
Country / Year: Belgiun, 2019
Duration: 1:20:00
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A film about aging. Leo is 80 years old and tours the world with the internationally renowned dance-theater company Peeping Tom. On stage he’s condamned to an elderly home crowded by local extra’s in their ‘third age’. But in real life, his wife waits for him….in an elderly home in Belgium. What do you do in the third and last act of your life? And what do the seniors in other countries and cultures do when the curtain is about to fall?

Live Dance: Inseparables
Live Dance: Inseparables
Saturday, October 21, 21h. Cinema Maldà.
Official Selection screening. 10min
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Sophia Tweed Ahmad is an experimental dancer and singer, a queer child of Pakistani and Norwegian diasporas. Her improvisation-based choreography delves into raw reverberations within the body through prayer. Her choreography has been showcased by Ten Tiny Dances, Performance Works NW, New Expressive Works, NunArt Guinardó, AREA Espai de Dansa i Creació, and STRIPART Festival.
Inseparables:
A dance prayer
rooted in ritualization
memories archived in my blood
an ancestral catharsis
rebirth and agitation of old stories
channeling the corporeal voice
imagine, your last sip of tea
the warm water flowing down your throat
in your deepest dreams
a memory of origin.
In collaboration with STRIPART Festival.

Twerking Live: Jack Gómez
Twerking Live: Jack Gómez
Sunday, October 22, 20h. Candy Darling.
Twerking Queen screening. 1h
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Jack Gómez is an international dancer and choreographer, a leading figure with significant influence on the global TWERK culture, thanks to his extensive professional experience (over 10 years) as a dancer, teacher, and judge in urban dance events, workshops, and international TWERK championships in 19 countries around the world.
Official Selection
INCLUSIVE DANCE (in collaboration with the Inclús Festival) – Oct 21, 5 p.m.

En mi piel (In my skin)
En mi piel (In my skin)
Choreography: Flamenco Inclusivo
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:14:22
Far from homogenizing parameters, flamenco uses the subversive power of art to enhance the diverse bodies on stage. Disability is no longer a limit, but a creative starting point.

Holding Moses
Holding Moses
Choreography: Randi Rader
Country / Year: USA, 2022
Duration: 0:16:50
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A Broadway performer becomes a mother, braiding rhythm and grief and time and joy on her path to connect with her profoundly disabled son.

Open call
Open call
Choreography: Laura Masci
Country / Year: France, 2023
Duration: 0:08:28
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Sacha is going to a dance open call. Nothing is happening as planned, he gets there late, ends up behind everyone and can’t see anything.

Forming
Forming
Choreography: Scottish Ballet: Marge Hendrick, Joanne Harrow, Denise Noone
Country / Year: United Kingdom, 2022
Duration: 0:05:19
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Featuring two dancers from Scottish Ballet’s Elevate® – a programme of dance classes for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) – alongside a professional Scottish Ballet dancer – Marge Hendrick. It examines the experience of living with a neurological condition and what people don’t see; the minute struggles and frustration inherent when the body will not obey the mind.

Look the part
Look the part
Choreography: Renata Commisso
Country / Year: Australia, 2022
Duration: 0:06:31
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Sam is a disabled cleaner working in a large theatre who has a passion to be a dancer, but she’s afraid to step into the light. When Peaches (her magical inner-diva-cum-drag queen) materialises at night, Sam’s creativity takes flight. She rips up a daring dance-number, to the rhythm of The Cat Empire’s beats. Look The Part, is the story of talent defying expectation, and magic transforming reality.

Sininen (Azul)
Sininen (Azul)
Choreography: Vappu Virkkula
Country / Year: Finland, 2023
Duration: 0:09:50
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Sininen (The Blue) is a fantasy fairytale about a bird-like figure in the embrace of the forest. The central character of the film has developed over the years, as Vappu has been searching for his powerful character through dance and movement. The film depicts gentle forces and magical skills, independence and the self-directed ability to create life, meaning and encounters around oneself. Each of us has something unique to offer going forward.
Official Selection
WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT…

A Drifting Up
A Drifting Up
Choreography: Jacob Lee
Country / Year: United Kingdom, 2022
Duration: 0:09:58
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It takes 6 weeks to come off anti-depressants. I tried to dance my way through it.

Neon Phantom (Fantasma Neon)
Neon Phantom (Fantasma Neon)
Choreography: Soraya Bastos
Country / Year: Brazil, 2022
Duration: 0:20:00
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A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.

Urban Genesis
Urban Genesis
Country / Year: France, Vietnam, 2023
Duration: 0:18:01
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Phuong is released from prison and returns to her hometown. She reunites with Khang, her childhood love. Khang now runs a brick factory, but everything has changed as modernity disrupts the world of their memories. Urban Genesis is a journey into the last brick factory on An Hiep Island in the heart of the Mekong Delta.

Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film
Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film
Choreography: Vanessa Sanchez
Country / Year: USA, 2022
Duration: 0:13:14
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Exploration of the history of labor in the US–Mexico borderlands through Tap Dance, Mexican Zapateado, Son Jarocho, Afro Caribbean movement, and live music. A look at the (ongoing) years of systemic exploitation of labor while highlighting the power and joy of collective resistance.
Based on farmworker interviews in California, this excerpt honors the sacred hands that feed us and was filmed on a farm with support from Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (ALAS), a non-profit advocacy organization for farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, CA.
Official Selection
WOMEN AND GODDESSES

The divine flower
The divine flower
Choreography: Thu Hang Pham
Country / Year: Netherlands, 2022
Duration: 0:27:44
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Exploration of how the current generation of young women can break free from (learned) patterns of guilt and shame surrounding their body image and sexuality and learn of to put their own physical pleasure and self-image first.

Femme
Femme
Choreography: Aline Sánchez
Country / Year: Denmark, 2016
Duration: 0:05:43
Backstage, a dancer rehearses the lines of a character who, just like herself, struggles with the discipline that ballet demands. What does it mean to be beautiful and feminine? As she prepares herself for her performance, she encounters the power and sensuality of her visceral body in her search for freedom.

Woman’s work
Woman's work
Choreography: Annemijn Hélène Rijk
Country / Year: Netherlands, 2022
Duration: 0:08:25
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Six women of different generations and backgrounds, their individual portraits, their own journey within the for them dominant system and their joint resistance. Inspired by the idea of a catwalk as a clamping metaphor for the ideal female image. While dancing, they balance mutual relationships, pressure, expectations and manipulation. The fall is inevitable, as is the drive to constantly search for how their flexible bodies can resist the static, steel beam.

Lucas
Lucas
Choreography: Kelly Key
Country / Year: Mexico, 2022
Duration: 0:17:47
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If orgasm was a dessert, what dessert would it be? Documentary poetry dedicated to pleasure and also to Lucas, the mother of the director.
Official Selection
HUMAN NATURE

《Afflatus》
《Afflatus》
Choreography: Ying Jin Yu
Country / Year: China, 2022
Duration: 0:05:40
“I’ve been to many places in the world , I’ve been on lots of stages, I’ve been dancing for people all time, however this time, It’s a dance for god.”
This is not a maze, it is me – the dancer, Ying, who is erasing self existence with the ritual of dance, communicating with god.The mysterious ritual is a journey of return, but also a beginning. The track you see on the isolated island is a battle with inner self. I burned my body with fire, and the god poured it into shape.

Leleb
Leleb
Choreography: Siko Setyanto
Country / Year: Indonesia, 2022
Duration: 0:03:20
Dedicated to those who endure. Set in the flooded villages of Java, Indonesia, our character attempts to come to terms with the despair that surrounds his home.

Tabby
Tabby
Choreography: Omar David Ballestas
Country / Year: Colombia, 2023
Duration: 0:05:15
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What do you dream about when you’re asleep? This bio-dance is a nostalgic postcard, written and stamped by longings, addressed to the tomorrow of each of us. A postcard that can never return to the present.

Beast (Bestia)
Beast (Bestia)
Choreography: Iwona Pasińska (Polish Dance Theatre)
Country / Year: Poland, 2022
Duration: 0:10:38
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Which species is the biggest predator?
Behind seven lakes, seven hills, seven forests, there is a seemingly idyllic land. And in it, as if by magic, an unexpected meeting happens not only once but three times. The first time, as if from a flying carpet, we see an animalistic figure in the thicket. The second time, we observe a frisky animal herd colliding with otherness. For the third and final meeting, the moment when a man enters the ordered world of nature. How does the relationship between animals differ from the relationship between humans and animals?

Jhonson
Jhonson
Choreography: Daniel Alfonso Triviño
Country / Year: Colombia, 2023
Duration: 0:10:46
Jhonson tells us part of his story, how he joined the guerrilla, experiences and how he lived the beginning of the peace processes within the FARC. That body, disciplined for war, is transformed into an artistic vehicle within the framework of peace.

A butterfly is knocking on the window
A butterfly is knocking on the window
Choreography: Neda Naser
Country / Year: Iran, 2022
Duration: 0:07:49
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Injuries do not always manifest themselves as visible scars.
Official Selection
MODERN FAMILIES

In Light
In Light
Choreography: The Universal White Brotherhood
Country / Year: Italy, Bulgaria, France, 2022
Duration: 0:07:36
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Alternating between archival film material and new footage, the short film grants a unique insight into the peaceful and sublime ways of the Universal White Brotherhood. Born in Bulgaria at the beginning of the 20th century, the movement professes the High Ideal passed on by its founder and spiritual guide Master Beinsa Duno: “A heart as pure as a crystal, a mind as radiant as the sun, a soul as vast as the universe, a spirit as powerful as God and one with God.”

OtroLado (OtherSide)
OtroLado (OtherSide)
Choreography: Norge Cedeño, Thais Suárez, Niosbel González
Country / Year: USA, Cuba, 2023
Duration: 0:07:36
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Three of Cuba’s most celebrated dancers leave the national company to form their own trio. Part documentary, part performance, OtroLado is a behind-the-scenes-look as they test the boundaries of contemporary dance, friendship and art.

Heel Drop
Heel Drop
Choreography: Luke Lowry
Country / Year: United Kingdom, 2023
Duration: 0:07:36
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Tap dancer Bobby grew up and thrived in London, his single mother respected in her job. But now they must grapple with moving after suffering the towering cost of living. He navigates his final farewells with friends and his home.

Little Monsters (Kleine Monster)
Little Monsters (Kleine Monster)
Choreography: Lukas Steltner, Joy Alpuerto Ritter
Country / Year: Germany, 2022
Duration: 0:23:45
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David, an expectant father and an unsuccessful actor, finds himself unexpectedly confronted with his past, after he is supposed to meet his sick father. Will he pass on negative childhood experiences to the baby that he and his girlfriend Ava are waiting for? What happens when our monsters of the past crawl up into our present, they root and continue to climb into the future?

Vibe
Vibe
Choreography: Malwina Swiston, Michal Wojciak
Country / Year: Poland, 2023
Duration: 0:12:39
Due to illness, teenage Maciek should not pursue his passion for breakdance. He is in conflict with his mother, she tries to help him.
Official Selection
INHABITED SPACES

Las Flores También Lloran
Las Flores También Lloran
Choreography: Irina Kvitkah
Country / Year: Spain, 2023
Duration: 0:05:01
Irina, a sensitive artist, on the verge of alienation is in search of her own liberation. She doesn’t back down, she walks, cries, dances trying to chase the light that will lead her to that answer. She creates something that allows her to see “beyond”, she ignores her present, she does not see the future and perceives time her way.

Absent Presence
Absent Presence
Choreography: Giorgia Ponticello
Country / Year: Italy, 2023
Duration: 0:01:09
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Absent Presence is the surreal journey of a disconnected body in an attempt to find itself in the spaces of an empty house. A game of perceptions, between the ambiguity of reflections and distorted shadows, which leads the viewers to wonder about the relativity of what they are watching: what is real to us? What can I move and what moves me?

Cerebralmente
Cerebralmente
Choreography: Ariadna Peya Rigolfas
Country / Year: Spain, 2023
Duration: 0:06:12
Cerebralmente talks about a crisis and how to reinvent oneself, it talks about going through a difficult time. A woman faces the different parts of herself in order to move forward. These parts are in dialogue with the protagonist herself, forcing her to look at herself from different prisms.

Beyond the off screen (Au-delà du hors-champ)
Beyond the off screen (Au-delà du hors-champ)
Choreography: Laurence Wells
Country / Year: Canada, 2022
Duration: 0:09:38
A film crew is preparing to shoot a scene in a colorful studio. As the filming goes, their gestures gradually slip into dancing, revealing the beauty of the choreography of film sets.

A witty act
A witty act
Choreography: Wang Minyi
Country / Year: China, 2022
Duration: 0:02:25
A horse may have wings, and a cow may have scales. But I will run and be kicked by life.

Pendulum
Pendulum
Choreography: Anna Boekelder
Country / Year: Netherlands, 2023
Duration: 0:14:00
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Two people explore how to be there for one another by catching each other when they fall, but their ways of giving and receiving love are not compatible.

Clepsydra
Clepsydra
Choreography: Hanne Elisabeth Svenning, Erlend Auestad Danielsen
Country / Year: Norway, 2023
Duration: 0:20:54
Repetitive patterns and movements in our daily habits and routines, and the relational conditions in interaction with other people.

My first burger
My first burger
Choreography: “Nick Vlahogiannis, Aggeliki Beveratou, Konstantina Tabouratzi
Country / Year: Greece, 2023
Duration: 0:03:31
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The process of preparing a burger with dance.

Am I here
Am I here
Choreography: Peishan Chiew, Chin Huat Lim
Country / Year: Singapur, 2023
Duration: 0:23:27
Birth, separation, death & farewell in a small flat. Home, is it permanent or fluid?

Gambuh The Dance For A Long Lost Soul
Gambuh The Dance For A Long Lost Soul
Choreography: I Wayan Budiarsa
Country / Year: Indonesia, 2022
Duration: 0:11:59
A princess hears about her lover who will marry her step-sister. Heartbroken by the news, she prepares a secret plan to prove her love with the best performance of gambuh before everything is too late.
Official Selection
BUTOH – EXCLUSIVE ON FILMIN (curated by David Franklin)

Dreams of love [愛の夢(Ai-no-yume)]
Choreography: Yoshito Ohno, Takao Kawaguchi
Country / Year: Japan, 2015
Duration: 0:07:54
Butoh dancer Yoshito Ohno manipulates a puppet of his father, Kazuo Ohno, who is one of the founders of Butoh. Filmed in Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, the legendary and historical studio full of conflict between father and son through dance.

Three
Three
Choreography: Ohno Kazuo, Yoshito Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata
Country / Year: Japan, 2022
Duration: 0:17:49
William Klein photographed Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, and Yoshito Ohno in Tokyo in 1961. This ‘Dance Happening’ by Klein captured the gang of dancers walking through the town of Ginza, improvising and dancing. ‘Dance Happening’ is the only photographic piece that captured these three legendary Butoh dancers together.
As well as featuring Butoh and dance itself, THREE is also an attempt to archive Butoh, incorporating video, exhibition, performance and VR technology. Takao Kawaguchi, Dai Matsuoka, and Mikiko Kawamura each accurately copies the choreography of the three Butoh legends; Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, and Yoshito Ohno. The video was initially created for the TOKYO REAL UNDERGROUND in 2021 and later re-edited as a dance film with additional scenes.

A perfect day from Japan
A perfect day from Japan
Choreography: Shioya Tomoshi
Country / Year: Japan, 2022
Duration: 0:12:55
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“Do we forget everything after we are born?” Memories are not only in our minds as images, but they stay in the unconscious deep within our bodies. Our body remembers an ancient memories. The movements remind the Tokyo’s disappearing scenery.

Hokusai Manga Butoh
Hokusai Manga Butoh
Choreography: Tomoshi Shioya
Country / Year: Japan, 2022
Duration: 0:13:24
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Smida district, it’s an old town in Tokyo. It’s located in the center of the big city but we often see skilled craftsmen, friendly community and smiling children there that are the same as 20 years ago. The Butoh dancer depicts this atmosphere, and transforms his body into the characters in HOKUSAI MANGA.
Butoh was born in Japan around the 1960s as a reaction against western modern dance. It has a unique Asian body philosophy to seek inside dancers’ bodies.
The theme; HOKUSAI MANGA is the most famous Japanese print and well known all over the world. In this performance, we researched Japanese traditional factories and transformed the skilled worker’s movements into dance like Hokusai drew people’s life and made it an art form.
We are living in a world not only with visible scenery, but also with invisible things such as memories, history, and the future. This Butoh dance will take you on a journey through time and space to think about what is “”life””, with the music of the gaida, a folk instrument.

Limit(less)
Limit(less)
Choreography: Kenji Azumaru Tamura, iiwa KUKA
Country / Year: Norway, 2022
Duration: 0:16:00
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A poetic vision of intimacy between a human and a robot. The film imagines a non-dystopian future through a dance duet, in which human and robot fuse in their tasks, becoming a new type of species. The film was shot in the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum – Vemork in Rjukan.

A Crooked Path Through The Dark
A Crooked Path Through The Dark
Choreography: Atsushi Matsuda
Country / Year: Ireland, Japan, Spain, Taiwán, 2022
Duration: 0:22:52
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A Butoh dancer (Atsushi Matsuda, of the internationally-renowned group Dairakudakan) travels across Tokyo on his way to rehearsals, traversing a subconscious landscape that bridges the interior world of the self with an exterior world that extends through the city to the cosmos. In reflecting on a dancer’s creative process, A Crooked Path Through The Dark offers a phantasmagorical look at the ties that bind the individual to the world around them, the connections we form with our environment, and the role of personal experience in shaping both lives and artwork. As storms boil and earthquakes rattle, we witness the visceral and moving process of destruction and renewal needed for the creation of a new performance.
Official Selection
SCIENCE FICTION

Hybris I
Hybris I
Choreography: Louis Stiens, Shaked Heller
Country / Year: Germany, Belgium, 2022
Duration: 0:06:19
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From the simplicity of the one and the zero, the future is breed. Natural and digital organisms embrace, yet reject each other in a new parallel world. Learning from each other, what shape can human bodies take in the middle of these balancing acts?

Sologram
Sologram
Choreography: Cora Gasparotti
Country / Year: Italy, 2022
Duration: 0:01:16
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At a time when the fear of sociality and contact is the main issue of discussion, accompanied by a constant need for isolation, SOLOGRAM seeks to emphasize the possibility of technology being that glimmer of hope of a new reality, far from wars and loneliness.

The lost mission
The lost mission
Choreography: Enshuai Wang
Country / Year: China, 2022
Duration: 0:03:39
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The end of the world. The last dance.

Arrogance
Arrogance
Choreography: Tarika Wahlberg, Ayla, Emelie Enlund
Country / Year: Suecia, 2022
Duration: 0:07:43
Earth is dead. Consumed by wildfires, tsunamis, superstorms, Mother Nature finally gave up. Most people have already abandoned earth for Mars. One of the last believers, a scientist named Ayla, is determined to stay and save the planet. But her dedication falters as Misha appears and tempts her down to a different path.
Xerinola
Cinema Maldà / Short films from Catalonia and Spain 21 Oct 19h

Walls (Muros)
Walls (Muros)
Choreography: Carmen Porras
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:10:29
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Father and son. Secrets unsaid and unembraced grudges separate them. A wall that guards silences, withheld tears, glances and shy contact. The lack of communication.
In spite of it, the desire to embrace everything because they are the same story.

Loca (She’s crazy)
Loca (She's crazy)
Choreography: Catarina Coelho, Ekaterina Ershova, David Samaniego
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:04:22
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Two women enter this Tango underground venue like entering to their subconscious mind. Their love for tango drives them insane and a pursue for the same men begins. They ignore how toxic can their behaviour be and they surrender to Tango.

Jarana
Jarana
Choreography: Laia Santanach
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:05:52
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Traditions that have disappeared or are in danger of disappearing and/or possible new future traditional practices.
JARANA is a word with several meanings and of uncertain origin and, therefore, of unknown provenance.
JARANA is the action of creating noise or commotion, movement and disorder with people gathered together having fun or arguing; a messy, confused and problematic affair.

Uholdeak (LENS DANS)
Uholdeak (LENS DANS)
Director: Olatz Larunbe, Bárbara Fernández
Choreography: Clarissa Costagliola, Raquel Jara, Maider González, Marcia Vázquez, Paula Puchalt, Manon Jackelin, Olatz Larunbe
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:05:09
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When the forces of nature become present in a virulent way, very deep emotions and feelings emerge in our lives.
Water can be our source of life as well as our source of devastation and ruin.
It ravages your home and carries away your memories.

Na Ribas
Na Ribas
Choreography: Joana Rodríguez Miró
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:10:00
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Ester’s cell phone keeps ringing. Damià tries to contact her demanding an explanation even if she ran away from home unilaterally breaking off the relationship. His voice notes extend Ester’s nightmare who, still confused and scared, will begin to feel the presence of an ancestral heartbeat of a dream universe that connects her with an ancient force and through which she will begin to perceive some of the answers she needs.

The soothing sleep
The soothing sleep
Choreography: Jules Smekens, Lys Cabral
Country / Year: Spain, 2023
Duration: 0:02:25
A bird freed from a cage.

Virtud
Virtud
Choreography: Judit Clemente, Berta Diaz
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:10:32
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“Are you sure you don’t feel insecure?
We all want to achieve virtue, but we don’t always have the means necessary.”

Lidia & Marco
Lidia & Marco
Choreography: Alessia Yoko-Fontana
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:15:15
Between dance and poetry we follow the love story of two charachters, Lidia and Marco, from its first day until the very last one.

La piedra (The stone)
La piedra (The stone)
Choreography: elenco
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:11:45
The story of the “Castle of Penyafort”, a historical place located in the Penedés region, Catalonia. The stone is the only vestige that has lived the history of the castle and now it tells it to us. Currently, the castle is a cultural center where through art the different eras lived are told.

Ë METË
Ë METË
Choreography: Carlota Malo Vázquez, Èlia Brugat
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:02:18
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Two girls find themselves locked in a dark and melancholic place dreaming about going outside and feeling free. However, they don’t know until what extent the oniric can transform reality and intertwine with it.

La Brecha (The Gap)
La Brecha (The Gap)
Choreography: Malvin Montero
Country / Year: Spain, 2023
Duration: 0:10:13
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Malvin Montero, a Dominican choreographer and dancer, recounts part of his racialization in the Spanish State, which was especially violent 30 years after the racist murder of Lucrecia Pérez.

Z
Z
Choreography: Lucía Luna, Rosa Marsillí
Country / Year: Spain, 2023
Duration: 0:06:34
What happens when you see life through a 16x7cm window?
Exposing your privacy, dividing your self-esteem in the likes you receive, overdosing on information with this item that has become so indispensable for living. Z is the dance of a generation deeply marked by technology and social media.

Por hoy
Por hoy
Choreography: Martin Muela, Genesis Andrade
Country / Year: Spain, 2023
Duration: 0:05:28
The emotional attachment that can occur at the end of a relationship when the two people are already hurting each other but it is difficult for them to breakup.

Aprendiendo a vivir
Aprendiendo a vivir
Choreography: Álvaro Madrigal
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:12:06
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Oriol has a clear goal in mind. Only by listening to his inner self, he will be able to find true happiness. He will have to open his eyes and muster the courage to learn how to live.

Overthinking
Overthinking
Choreography: Mario Gonzalez
Country / Year: Spain, 2019
Duration: 0:05:14
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Overthinkg is a dance video based in social pressure and the speed of our day and everything that happens inside ourself.

WOMAN (Mujer)
WOMAN (Mujer)
Choreography: Mariano Cruceta Serrano
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:11:25
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A contemporary perspective that develops from the poetic relationship established between art and love, implicit in the continuous movement of the vital cycle that is represented through the expression of femininity, dance, music, and the words of three fundamental figures of Spanish lyric poetry: Lorca, Antonio Machado and Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Truth is in the details
Truth is in the details
Choreography: Raphael Miro Holzer
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:05:44
One of Mies Van Der Rohe’s legendary architectural masterpieces invites you to dive into a journey of empathy between humans, nature and human nature. It questions the perception of truth and regardless of whether the body is static or in motion, we watch but don’t see.

“Gades, entre paso y paso
Choreography: Antonio Gades
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:04:58
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A vital journey through the work of the spanish dance master Antonio Gades, together with some of the great figures who inspired his particular creative world.

Sharqi
Sharqi
Choreography: Joan Bernat Pineda
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:04:12
Between two interwoven praises: ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘Te Deum’, the dance is captured by the camera as a result of a collective work of ten creators that gives shape to Sharqi. It indisputably reflects and brings back the Mediterranean tradition and its contemporaneity by reviewing the ‘dabke’ dance: a repetitive structure and speed as ornamentation.

El segundo baile (The second dance)
El segundo baile (The second dance)
Choreography: Lisa Bouchacourt
Country / Year: Spain, 2023
Duration: 0:26:57
Lisa, a young French dancer in Barcelona, has lost her passion for dance and is falling into a deep crisis. Through Lisa’s story, the short film reflects, with a subtle and poetic language, on identity and emptiness, getting lost and moving forward.

Dansa Abissal
Dansa Abissal
Choreography: Clio Van Kerm
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:04:51
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A hug as a starting point, as a proof of affection. At the same time, the beginning of a goodbye, of the two protagonists parting ways.
Twerking Queen
Candy Darling 22Oct 8pm

Swinguerra
Swinguerra
Choreography: Diego Matarazzo, Clara Santos, Edlys Rodrigues, Henrique Sena (MC Fininho)
Country / Year: Brasil, 2019
Duration: 0:22:50
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Swinguerra takes its title from swingueira, a popular dance movement in the Northeast of Brazil, but with a slight spelling twist that makes the word end in guerra, meaning war. Wagner & de Burca’s work delves into expressions of popular culture in contemporary Brazil, and their complex relationship to race, gender, identity, conflict, and desire. The artists work collaboratively with the performers, deciding all aspects of the final work collectively. Their extensive research process takes them into the heart of communities that are often considered “marginal,” where they observe the intense discipline involved in collective dance competitions. Swinguerra focuses on three distinct dance styles from the periphery of Recife, swingueira, brega funk and passinho da maloca, represented by the dance groups Cia. Extremo, Grupo La Máfia, and Bonde do Passinho/As do Passinho S.A.

Physical Culture
Physical Culture
Choreography: Connor Schumacher
Country / Year: Netherlands, 2022
Duration: 0:07:37
Your body is your own private culture. Everything you have ever experienced is stored inside the body. You are an archive, a conduit of experience and change. Embracing that change with empathy is what makes us human.
Physical Culture is an experimental choreographed short film that frames rave as a vital human practice in the information age — it invites us to explore aware physical movement, to explore who we are when we dance and why we do it, placing some universal existential questions into refreshingly queer, playful packaging. It’s rave, it’s queer, it’s for everybody.

Tank Fairy
Tank Fairy
Choreography: Akuma Diva Xtravaganza 徐百川
Country / Year: Taiwán, 2021
Duration: 0:09:31
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In Taiwan, “song wa si de” are workers who routinely supply gas tanks to street vendors and old residential buildings. The magical Tank Fairy delivers her tanks unlike any other – with sass, stilettos and a healthy helping of glitter. Her arrival upends the life of Jojo, a lonely ten-year-old who dreams of dancing and drag. Outcast by classmates and misunderstood by his stern, single mom, Jojo is inspired to live out loud by his fierce, propane-toting fairy godmother.

Catboy
Catboy
Choreography: Panterino, Javier Des Leon
Country / Year: Spain, 2022
Duration: 0:13:16
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Marc, after receiving several racist and sissyphobic comments from a gay dating app, receives a message from his transexual friend Cacao inviting him to a Ballroom.

La pequeña Muerte
La pequeña Muerte
Choreography: Wesley Ensminger
Country / Year: Mexico, 2023
Duration: 0:06:48
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Two lovers share an afternoon of passion as an ancient deity from their dreams performs an orgiastic dance that mirrors their ecstasy. Told through magical realism and Mexican mythology, the film represents a homecoming for filmmaker Pedro Lavín who, with La Pequeña Muerte, returns to his roots to tell a story that is uniquely queer, and singularly Mexican.

Hope
Hope
Choreography: Alan Ramírez
Country / Year: Mexico, 2021
Duration: 0:05:12
A sonnet by the writer Ramón Bolívar, where the sensuality of homoerotic encounters is explored. Through a series of literary images, the poem suggests a story, but never shows it, rather it places greater emphasis on tactile sensations and the avid drives sustained in the mystery of the erotic encounter.
LA XARXA TV+
La Xarxa Oct 14 and week from Oct 16 to 22

Abbiosis
Abbiosis
Director: Lucía García
Choreography: Lucía García
Country / Year: Spain, 2021
Duration: 0:09:59
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Null or virtually non-existent relationship (that occurs) between two different species. Coexistence between two parallel dimensions that, due to their innate characteristics, cannot be perceived.

The Sum of All Parts
The Sum of All Parts
Choreography: Lukas Timulak
Country / Year: Netherlands, 2017
Duration: 0:03:55
A dance performance has inherent physical limitations, which choreographer Lukas Timulak and designer Peter Bilak try to overcome in their playful short dance film for five dancers, where they create a tiny dance performance specifically for the screens, creating a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts with the use of geometry and geometric patterns.

Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Choreography: Pia Andell
Country / Year: Finland, 2021
Duration: 0:17:14
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A short dance film reconstructs a night in the 80’s when Pia, the protagonist, was 17 and the rules of the world were somewhat different.

Anywhere is a Dancefloor
Anywhere is a Dancefloor
Choreography: Jason Andrew Guest
Country / Year: United Kingdom, 2021
Duration: 0:07:54
A new collaboration between choreographer Jason Guest and drag artist & cultural producer Fatt Butcher. Through celebrating the creativity, resilience, and fierce spirit of Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ nightlife community this new work is an invitation to the city to create their own dancefloors anywhere and everywhere!

Nother feat. Moon Leap – US
Nother feat. Moon Leap - US
Choreography: Marco Santi
Country / Year: Italy, 2022
Duration: 0:05:11
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A chef teaches his young colleague how to dance to prepare him for a very special date.

Childhood/Adulthood
Choreography: Szymon Pacholec, Jagoda Turlik, Julia Domagalska
Country / Year: Poland, 2022
Duration: 0:06:30
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Bathed in colors, cheerful and carefree Childhood, despite having fun, has its end. We “get out” of it in different ways. Its turning point is “Adulthood” which brings its inevitable change. Regardless of the “scenery” in which we live and the “costume” we wear as adults, Childhood is part of us and we can always refer to this land of joy. Together.
CUBA Special: DVDanza Habana – Guest Festival
Filmoteca de Catalunya 20Oct 5pm

The power upon us
The power upon us
Country / Year: Cuba, Spain, 2021
Duration: 0:13:41
The Power Upon Us is an experimental dance video about the power of the moon and the conjunctions it establishes with the sun and each of the planets in the solar system. Energy and magnetism are conveyed through contemporary dance and the spiritual and physical representation of each celestial body. Filmed in Havana, Cuba, using expired 16mm Orwo film in black and white.

Origami
Origami
Country / Year: Cuba, 2020
Duration: 0:07:28
Time, space, and the body are susceptible to the flexibility imposed by the editing phenomenon in cinema. These elements function as text in which fables dwell, imprinted by history. Texts suggested as material informed by immediate sensory reality. The use of mathematics and geometry in visuality is a component in choreography that brings the artistic result closer to the concept of ORIGAMI.

Hope
Hope
Country / Year: Spain, 2023
Duration: 0:05:44
Sailing through space, I traverse it. My thoughts dwell in a language of hope. I dance my way through each step between darkness and light. Longings, dreams, fears, doubts… Yet hope will always remain, that ray of light that keeps us alive. Inspired by the theme of Hope from Omar Sosa’s CD Calma, and firmly believing that improvisation is the foundation of expression, be it in music or dance, Hope emerges. Simply feeling, following your own inner voice, trusting.

Mute
Mute
Country / Year: Cuba, 2021
Duration: 0:03:59
The knife as an embodiment of fear. Fear as a means of miscommunication. Miscommunication as a way to avoid exposing ourselves to others, to prevent decapitating with thoughts different from our own counterpart.

Ruinas
Ruinas
Country / Year: Cuba, EEUU, 2020
Duration: 0:10:22
Darkness, sensuality, and infinity weave a surreal web in this feminist thriller set in the desert of Andalusia.

El Mapa Vacío
El Mapa Vacío
Country / Year: Ecuador, 2020
Duration: 0:15:00
A human life is an architecture, a territory; like any space, it has designs, maps, objects, signs, and paths that create our reality. We like to think that our emotional paths and ways of thinking – the furniture, walls, and objects that shape the space we are – withstand the ravages of time, but it is not so. Like an old house, some walls crumble, new spaces replace them, everything changes, and rearranges.
FILMIN SPECIALS
starting October 23

The story won’t die
The story won't die
Choreography: Medhat Aldaabal, Bboy Shadow
Country / Year: Germany, USA, 2022
Duration: 1:23:00
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A young generation of talented Syrian artists use their work to protest and confront the consequences of the largest and longest deportation since World War II. Directed by the award-winning director David Henry Gerson, this documentary shows you how art can be used to rise up in revolution and endure in exile with this panel of inspiring artists. It is an uplifting and humanizing look at what it means to be a refugee in today’s world, and offers inspiring and hopeful vantages on a creative response to the chaos of war. In collaboration with festival Le FIFA Montréal.

Starstruck
Starstruck
Choreography: Scottish Ballet
Country / Year: Escocia, 2021
Duration: 0:59:00
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One of the first choreographers to bring the ‘American style’ to Europe, the legendary Gene Kelly was invited to create an original work for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1960. His jazzy, joyful Pas de Dieux was highly acclaimed at the time as ‘a breath of fresh air’ but has been rarely performed since. It has now been given a new set of wings for its UK stage debut and world premiere on screen.
In collaboration with Kelly’s widow, Patricia Ward Kelly, Scottish Ballet’s CEO/Artistic Director Christopher Hampson and designer Lez Brotherston (The Snow Queen, The Secret Theatre) have lovingly revived the original ballet and added a delightful new twist.

I don’t wanna dance
I don't wanna dance
Choreography: Shadee Naomi
Country / Year: Netherlands, 2021
Duration: 01:29:00
An aspiring teenage dancer finds himself torn between his increasingly destructive mother and his own happiness. The film is based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Yfendo van Praag.

Forgotten Memories
Forgotten Memories
Choreography: Jiří Kylián
Country / Year: France, 2011
Duration: 01:16:00
Jiří Kylián is a living legend. He is the creator of more than a hundred works, several of which form part of the repertories of some of the greatest dance centres in the world. Due to the choreographer’s extreme reluctance to engage in a documentary, this film is exceptional. For the first time one can have a real close look at Kylián’s life, his way of thinking and at his most significant creations. The film was shot in Den Haag, Prague, Monte-Carlo and Paris.
“Dancers and choreographers are very fragile…very breakable and – we are an endangered species. Because we have decided that we will declare our body as a work of art. And it takes a lot of courage to actually open up and show yourself naked. With all the faults, with all the mistakes, with all the deficiencies that we have.” Jiří Kylián

Dance crazy in Hollywood
Dance crazy in Hollywood
Choreography: Hermès Pan
Country / Year: EUA, 2005
Duration: 0:55:00
Hermès Pan began choreographing Hollywood musicals in 1933, when his long-standing collaboration with Fred Astaire began. For over three decades he was the man who made the stars dance – Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse, Shirley MacLaine and many others. Assimilating elements from the multitude of cultures that co-existed around him, Pan created a style of dance that was truly American.
Pan introduces a dance extravaganza which takes viewers back to the days when the musical was all the rage, with extracts from My Gal Sal, with Rita Hayworth and Hermès Pan himself; Royal Wedding, with Fred Astaire; Kiss Me Kate, with Bob Fosse, Ann Miller and Carol Haney; Sombrero, with Cyd Charisse; Pal Joey, with Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak; Silk Stockings, with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse; Excuse My Dust, with Sally Forrest; Three Little Words, with Fred Astaire and Vera Allen; and the scene from Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, when she makes her entry into Rome.
This is the last programme made with Pan before his death in 1990 and is a fascinating combination of irresistible archive film of the best of Hollywood’s dancers, and the unique viewpoint of one of cinema’s greatest choreographers.
JURY
best international short dance film
Philip Szporer
Marites Carino
Julieta Gascón (Gasroc) y Jose Puchades (Putxa)
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