AWARDS 2021
Honorary
Award
Wim Vandekeybus
Best International
Short Dance Film
They Dance With Their Heads
Canada, 2021
Director, Choreography: Thomas Corriveau
Special Mention
Before We Collide
UK, 2021
Director, Choreography: Guy Gooch, Gregor Petrikovic
Special Mention
Erêkauã
Brasil, 2021
Director: Paulo Accioly
Choreography: Ernane Ferreira
Audience
Award
Abbiosis
Spain, 2021
Director, Choreography: Lucía García
Outstanding Achievement
in Dance Film
Romeo Y Julieta: Beyond Words
RU, 2019
Director: Michael Nunn, William Trevitt
Choreography: Sir Kenneth MacMillan
Portrait of a
Generation Award
Malditos
Spain, Italy, 2020
Director: Elena Goatelli, Angel Esteban
Choreography: Compañía Malditos: Alberto Velasco | Ana Talenti | Carmen Del Conte | Guillermo Barrientos | José Luis Ferrer | Karmen Garay | Manuel Filgueira | Nacho Mateos | Nuria López | Rubén Frías | Txabi Pérez | Sara Párbole
Best Dance Sequence in a Series or Feature Film
WINNER
Giri/Haji
(S1, Ep8)
UK, 2019
Director: Julian Farino
Choreography: Liam Steel
NOMINEES
Joker
Climax
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
Mac Finds His Pride (S13, Ep 10)
Giri/Haji
NOMINADOS
Joker
USA, 2019
Director: Todd Phillips
Choreography: Michael Arnold
Climax
France, 2018
Director: Gaspar Noé,
Choreography: Nina McNeely
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
USA, 2020,
Director: Charlie Kaufman,
Choreography: Peter Walker
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
Mac Finds His Pride (T13, Ep 10)
USA, 2018,
Director: Todd Biermann,
Choreography: Alison Faulk, Leo Moctezuma
Giri/Haji
(T1, Ep8)
RU, 2019
Director: Julian Farino
Choreography: Liam Steel
FILMS
Malditos
Filmoteca
Premiere in Catalonia
Portrait of a Generation Award Choreoscope 2021″
Malditos
Director: Elena Goatelli, Angel Esteban
Choreography: Compañía Malditos: Alberto Velasco | Ana Talenti | Carmen Del Conte | Guillermo Barrientos | José Luis Ferrer | Karmen Garay | Manuel Filgueira | Nacho Mateos | Nuria López | Rubén Frías | Txabi Pérez | Sara Párbole
Country, Year: Spain, Italy, 2020
Length: 1:17:00
A group of actors and dancers in Madrid are cast in a show conceived as a dance marathon, once one of the most controversial forms of live entertainment. Every night, they fight on stage an unscripted competition and a surreal game: in more than eighty dance performances during three years, the group had to come to terms with nerve-wrecking and absurd situations, physical battles and psychological debacles. The film directors asked them to record themselves off stage to investigate how their lives were affected by this performance. This process has lasted till their very last show.
Moving Stories
Filmoteca
Premiere in Spain
Moving Stories
Director: A film by Rob Fruchtman, Cornelia Ravenal, Mikael Södersten y Wendy Sax
Choreography: Battery Dance Company
Country, Year: USA, 2018
Length: 1:25:00
Six dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance company travel to India, Romania, South Korea and Iraq, working with young people who have experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation and harsh trauma as refugees. The film captures the struggle, frustration, determination, and transformation of both students and teachers.
Romeo and Juliet
Cinema Maldà
Premiere in Spain
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Film Award Choreoscope 2021
Romeo and Juliet: BEYOND WORDS
Director: Michael Nunn, William Trevitt
Choreography: Sir Kenneth MacMillan
Country, Year: UK, 2019
Length: 1:31:00
The story everyone knows, told in a language everyone understands, shown in a way never seen before. Reimagined as a narrative feature and shot on location in Budapest, this film by International Emmy Award-winning directors Michael Nunn and William Trevitt brings the Shakespeare classic, and Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s celebrated choreography to the big screen.
Queen & Béjart
Cinema Maldà
Premiere in cinemas in Spain
Queen & Béjart: Ballet For Life
Director: Lynne Wake
Choreography: Maurice Béjart
Country, Year: UK, 2018
Length: 0:59:00
“Ballet for Life” was a unique collaboration between three huge cultural brands: Queen, Versace and the visionary choreographer Maurice Béjart. At its heart is the loss of two legendary performers, Freddie Mercury and dancer Jorge Donn, both of whom died of AIDS in the early 1990s.
A Secret Joy
Cinema Maldà
A Secret Joy
Director: Jérôme Cassou
Choreography: Nadia Vadori-Gauthier
Country, Year: Francia, 2019
Length: 1:10:00
In 2015, under the shock of the Charlie Hebdo attack, the choreographer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier decided to dance every day for one minute, to film herself and to share her videos on social networks. Her dances are based on current events (attacks, strikes, demonstrations, elections…) or on the micro-events of our daily life. Thus, for almost 6 years, the project Une minute de danse par jour is a gesture of poetic resistance that relentlessly distills an infinitesimal sweetness in the harshness of the world, in the most varied contexts and whatever the circumstances.
Dancing with Birds
Cinema Maldà
Premiere in cinemas in Spain
Dancing with Birds
Director: Huw Cordey Narrado por Stephen Fry
Choreography: Los pájaros
Country, Year: EUA, 2019
Length: 0:52:00
Settling deep into tropical forests, Dancing with the Birds follows the curiosities of rarely seen birds-of-paradise as they search for a mate in spectacular fashion. Narrated by Emmy Award winner Stephen Fry, this charming and playful documentary offers an enchanting view of nature at its most wondrous.
Disco
Filmin
Disco
Director: Jorunn Myklebust Syversen
Choreography: Øyvind Gulli, Mikael Rønne
Country, Year: Norway, 1999
Length: 1:35:00
19-year-old Mirjam is the stepdaughter of the charismatic pastor of an evangelical movement called The Freedom. As a world champion in disco freestyle dancing and leader of the youth group in the congregation, Mirjam is the pride of the church. Whilst defending her world title, she collapses on stage. This makes her start to question her faith. Her family’s solution is for her to be a better believer.
Tales of Beatrix Potter
Filmin
Tales of Beatrix Potter
Director: Jonathan Haswell
Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Country, Year: RU, 2007
Length: 1:12:00
Beatrix Potter wrote over 30 short illustrated children’s tales about the misadventures of anthropomorphic animal characters. The books were translated into many languages and are still popular all over the world. This ballet version begins with a Mouse Waltz, includes seven of the tales, and ends with a fantastic finale. An ideal film for children, adults, ballet-lovers – and anyone who wants to see one of the most charming films in years.
WIM VANDEKEYBUS HONORARY AWARD
Here After
Filmoteca
Premiere in cinemas in Spain
Here After
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, 1999
Length: 1:04:00
This short film, inspired by two stories by Argentinian author Julio Cortázar, was originally part of the show In Spite of Wishing and Wanting (1999). The Last Words tells the story of a screaming salesman who sells his last words to a tyrant.
The last words
Filmoteca
Premiere in cinemas in Spain
The last words
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, 1999
Length: 0:20:00
This short film, inspired by two stories by Argentinian author Julio Cortázar, was originally part of the show In Spite of Wishing and Wanting (1999). The Last Words tells the story of a screaming salesman who sells his last words to a tyrant.
Galloping Mind
Filmoteca
Premiere in Spain
Galloping Mind
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, 2015
Length: 2:00:00
TTwin babies are separated at birth. The girl grows up in a middle class environment, her brother in a street gang. Twelve years later, their paths cross again and they discover their common destiny, imposed upon them by the adults. It is the beginning of an exciting journey to the discovery of their roots and their independence, but neither of them is able to escape the past…
WIM: the documentary
Filmin
WIM: el documental
Director: Lut Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, The Netherlands, 2016
Length: 1:52:00
A journey through the energetic, poetic and complex universe of the lauded choreographer and director Wim Vandekeybus. A spirited portrait of an impressive career.
Blush
Filmin
Blush
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year:Bélgica, 2005
Length: 0:52:45
Carried by the music of David Eugene Edwards /Woven Hand and with texts by the Flemish author Peter Verhelst, Blush is a dazzling voyage swinging between the heavenly landscapes of Corsica and a sordid Brussels’ underground. Blush is an exploration of the savage subconscious, of mythical forests, of the imaginary, of conflicting instincts, where the body has reasons unknown to the mind.
Roseland
Filmin
Roseland
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, 1990
Length: 0:46:08
Dance video based on Vandekeybus’ first three choreographies: What the Body Does Not Remember (1987), Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles (1989) and The Weight of a Hand (1990). A dynamic screen experience, placing these three choreographic works in the remarkable setting of a dilapidated, abandoned Brussels cinema. The dancing is powered by the driving music of Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch.
La Mentira
Filmin
La Mentira
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, 1999
Length: 0:49:44
A dance video with and about Carlo Verano, a German performer whom Wim Vandekeybus met unexpectedly while walking around with his camera in Hamburg. Carlo Verano’s image and stories were the seeds for the performance Immer das Selbe gelogen, on which La Mentira is based. Super-8 images of the 89-year old Carlo Verano alternate with energetic dance sequences, shot in the rough desert landscapes of southern Spain, in deSingel theatre in Antwerp (BE) and the Movyclub in Brussels (BE).
In Spite of wishing and wanting
Filmin
In Spite of wishing and wanting
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, 2002
Length: 0:50:45
Dance video based on the eponymous 1999 performance, shot in the atmospheric surroundings of a racetrack in Brussels (BE), the beautiful ballroom- concert hall of the Vooruit Arts Centre in Ghent (BE), the streets of Ferrara (IT) and in Singapore. In Spite of Wishing and Wanting reunites the rhythms of Talking Heads cofounder David Byrne and Wim Vandekeybus’ scenic eclecticism: humorous theatrical sequences, energetic and powerful dance and a diversity of bodies within an all-male cast. Wim Vandekeybus himself trots in as a wild horse between the ten dancers-actors, devastated by their passionate desires.
Monkey Sandwich
Filmin
Monkey Sandwich
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, 2011
Length: 1:24:00
Meet Jerry, an obsessive but frustrated director who decides to turn his back on the theatre in favour of a controversial new project. But things soon start to go wrong. As he struggles with the demands of his role as leader, he is plagued by surreal dreams conjured up by his guilty conscience.
Inasmuch as life is borrowed
Filmin
Inasmuch as life is borrowed
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Country, Year: Belgium, 2000
Length: 0:14:26
In this silent, atmospheric short film, originally part of the performance “Inasmuch as Life is borrowed…” (2000), Wim Vandekeybus questions two of the most poignant events in the life of man: birth and death.
SHORT FILMS
Short Films 1: International
Belia
Belia
Director: Eman Hussein
Choreography: Eman Hussein
Country, Year: Egypt, 2021
Length: 0:09:51
A young woman and her friends join a car repair shop as “Belia”(colloquial Egyptian for apprentices) to learn the craft from the Ustas (craft headmasters).
Abbiosis
Abbiosis
Director: Lucía García
Choreography: Lucía García
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:09:59
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.
Ali
Ali
Director: Rain Kencana
Choreography: Kadir Memis
Country, Year: Germany, Turkey, 2019
Length: 0:13:27
Two brothers leave their father behind in his adopted German domicile. They embark on a soulful journey through their own world of childhood memory in Anatolia dancing between this world and the beyond and reveal a dark secret.
DON’T, KISS .mov
DON'T, KISS .mov
Director: Carl Olsson, Fabio Liberti
Choreography: Fabio Liberti
Country, Year: Sweden, 2020
Length: 0:08:06
The scene is set, familiar and unfamiliar at once. A tension exists, unconcerned by observation. Two men engaged in a gaze magnetic enough to lock their lips and pull them to stand.
Second Seed
Second Seed
Director: Baye & Asa
Choreography: Baye & Asa
Country, Year: USA, 2019
Length: 0:15:44
A dance horror film responding to D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. Griffith’s film is a veneration of the KKK, painting the Klan as saviors of a white race in danger as American culture and politics begin to shift after the American Civil War. It highlights a fundamental White supremacist delusion that continues to plague this country: that White people are inherently superior, and that they are politically and culturally under attack.
Duende
European Premiere
Duende
Director: Manuel Ramos
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:15:53
Paula, a young university student, and her best friend train every afternoon in a gym in Seville. But the days go by, and a huge emptiness prevents him from enjoying his youth. One day, something unexpected will cross her path and will catch her forever: Flamenco.
Isolations
Isolations
Director: Talia Shea Levin
Choreography: MUDA / Maritza Navarro
Country, Year: USA, 2020
Length: 0:02:23
An outlet for chaos and the enduring need to connect. Safer apart, alone together.
Erêkauã
Erêkauã
Director: Paulo Accioly
Choreography: Ernane Ferreira
Country, Year: Brasil, 2021
Length: 0:01:00
Kauã dances in the hill, like a bird of prey.
Before We Collide
Before We Collide
Director: Guy Gooch, Gregor Petrikovic
Choreography: Guy Gooch, Gregor Petrikovic
Country, Year: UK, 2021
Length: 0:01:09
A short film shot on a Nishika N8000 analog lenticular camera consisting of over 800 photographs pieced together.
In a haunting encounter, the film captures our fragmented perception of time during the pandemic while exploring the dynamics of mutual support.
Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone
Director: Jordan Blady
Choreography: Matt Shally
Country, Year: Georgia, USA, 2020
Length: 0:06:46
Exploring the vibrant drag community in Tbilisi, Georgia, we look at the blossoming drag ball scene through the eyes of activist and performer Matt Shally.
Short Films 2: International
Nhoa
Nhoa
Director: Román Reyes
Choreography: Ainhoa Urrestilla
Country, Year: Spain, 2020
Length: 0:08:01
Nhoa has to stay locked in the building taking care of her mother. She is a nurse but dreams of being a dancer, struggeling between “what you have to do” and what your dreams send you.
Som Terra
Som Terra
Director: Samuel Sanchiz
Choreography: Africa Brau García
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:04:03
Reflection on our current society and our commitment to nature, at the same time a tribute to the island of Menorca.
Navigation
Navigation
Director: Marlene Millar
Choreography: Sandy Silva
Country, Year: Canada, 2020
Length: 0:13:29
Set in the spectacular Burren region of the west coast of Ireland, Navigation explores the current humanitarian crisis of displacement and dislocation that is experienced both individually and collectively.
Irrational
Irrational
Director: Nicola Lunardelli
Choreography: Martina Beraldo, Luca Ghedini, Francesca Poglie
Country, Year: Italy, 2021
Length: 0:04:32
The irrational belongs to us without revealing itself. Elusive, like images in a mirror.
Rules of the Game
European Premiere.
Rules of the Game
Director: Jeff Kuperman, Rick Kuperman
Choreography: Jeff Kuperman & Compañía
Country, Year: Canada, 2015
Length: 0:08:17
Trust dissolves between four factory workers under the unremitting surveillance of the management.
A sight for sore eyes
A sight for sore eyes
Director: Kati Kallio
Choreography: Kati Kallio
Country, Year: Finland, 2018
Length: 0:01:59
What we see or don’t is based on our subjective skills of receiving the view.
Your coffee, please
European Premiere
Your coffee, please
Director: Irina Kononova
Choreography: Irina Kononova
Country, Year: Russia, 2021
Length: 0:03:13
Coffee runs down the arm to the disposable coffee cup like blood from the vein.
Toke
Toke
Director: NONO
Choreography: Toke Broni Strandby
Country, Year: UK, 2020
Length: 0:06:42
Identity, contemporary alienation, and acceptance. An inspiring story about triumph, Toke, is a celebration of the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.
Threesome
Threesome
Director: Nyko Piscopo
Choreography: Nyko Piscopo
Country, Year: Italy, 2020
Length: 0:03:00
This time of isolation could be a period of great growth or great struggle in a relationship. Stay together at home enjoying love could be a blessing. But for those used to meet people, to be active and free, it’s definitely way too much togetherness.
Imágenes de una realidad
Imágenes de una realidad
Director: Ana Baer, Cecilia Appleton
Choreography: Contradanza
Country, Year: Mexico, 2020
Length: 0:04:20
An intimate view at an intergenerational family living in one of the largest cities in the world: Mexico City.
Malou
Malou
Director: AAdi Wojaczek
Choreography: Romina Küper
Country, Year: Germany, 2019
Length: 0:14:27
Inspired by true events: The young outcasted dancer Malou is irresistibly fighting for her dream. After years of struggle and rejection, she suddenly receives her once in a lifetime chance – leading up to an unexpected reveal…
Main Ballet Tank
Main Ballet Tank
Director: Bernhard Schmitt
Choreography: Bernhard Schmitt
Country, Year: Singapore, 2020
Length: 0:03:34
Machines of War are reassigned for a more meaningful task than destruction: Dancing the CanCan.
A group of T54 Main Battle tanks lets the hair down and get into some serious track-shaking, cannon-spinning and turret-twerking. The movements were choreographed with French 1850’s cabaret dances in mind.
Mercedes dans
Mercedes dans
Director: Andrii Kaplia
Choreography: Bogdan
Country, Year: Ukraine, 2020
Length: 0:03:36
Once Bogdan has decided to do something, that would distinguish him from the crowd; he took a route to break free and started doing his dance routine in public places.
Short Films 3: Focus Asia
The Kingdom of Men
The Kingdom of Men
Director: Sham Kwan Yin
Choreography: Sham Kwan Yin
Country, Year: Hong Kong, 2018
Length: 0:22:32
In a nameless world with five nameless characters, the protagonist has a recurring dream about himself being eunuch admiral ZhengHe. He gradually feels like he is the descendant of ZhengHe who inherits the character of a eunuch admiral – Sacrificing freedom for a superficially ideal kingdom, ‘the kingdom of men’.
Dali
Dali
Director: Kabeer Khurana
Choreography: Roche Mascarenhas, Aastha Oza
Country, Year: India, 2020
Length: 0:09:51
The passionate and tempestuous relationship of Dalí and his wife Gala, whom he considered his muse and the true auteur of his work, even signing her name on his paintings in the 1930s.
Soon Ki
World Premiere
Soon Ki
Director: Ha Yeon Kim
Choreography: Jongwoo Kim
Country, Year: South Korea, 2020
Length: 0:15:35
1989. Soon-Ki is obsessed with ‘MyMy Cassette Player’ which was the hottest at the time. He is 17 years old who is interested in everything except studying. His father, who is already concerned about the landlord’s notification of a monthly rent increase, gets worried more because of his son who doesn’t listen.
However, not knowing his father’s concern, Soon-Ki starts practicing dancing as soon as he finds out that the first prize for the talent show of the school trip is ‘MyMy’. But the kids from the same school pick a fight with him…
The Kitchen
The Kitchen
Director: Vishwakiran Nambi
Choreography: Vishwakiran Nambi
Country, Year: India, 2021
Length: 0:10:26
4 women cooking a meal in a traditional South Indian ’80s style kitchen. A film about the traditional roles assigned to women in a patriarchal society which finds expression in the complexity of the relationship they share with the place where they prepare food for their family. Inspired by the life and memory of the Director’s mother.
God’s Daughter Dances
God's Daughter Dances
Director: Sungbin Byun
Choreography: CATALONIA PREMIERE
Country, Year: South Korea, 2020
Length: 0:24:56
A transgender female dancer, Shin-mi, gets a call from the Military Manpower Administration, to attend for the Military Service Examination. Shin-mi, with everything in readiness, takes her steps to the Military Manpower Administration.
Duel
Duel
Director: Alfonso Sales
Choreography: Kali Twins (Juan Diego Villarosa, Juan Gabriel Villarosa)
Country, Year: Philippines, 2020
Length: 0:04:18
A bounty hunter finally finds his target and attempts to capture his bounty wild west style.
BIZARRO
+18. Presented by Esther Martí.
They Dance With Their Heads
They Dance With Their Heads
Director: Thomas Corriveau
Choreography: Thomas Corriveau
Country, Year: Canada, 2020
Length: 0:08:27
The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.
Wasteplanet
Wasteplanet
Director: Susanna della Sala
Choreography: Susanna della Sala
Country, Year: Italy, 2021
Length: 0:08:01
A fairy-tale journey into the planet of waste produced by modernization, but also allegory of a spiritual journey towards awareness and acceptance of one’s self.
Out of body
Out of body
Director: Eddy Briére, Pascal Beugre-Tellier
Choreography: Pascal Beugre-Tellier
Country, Year: France, 2018
Length: 0:15:42
Jean, a young man who is buried in what we could also call an “astral body journey” that makes him loose the perception of who he is and of what surrounds him. Warning: depicted sexual violence and drug use.
No, I Don’t Want to Dance!
No, I Don't Want to Dance!
Director: Andrea Vinciguerra
Choreography: Andrea Vinciguerra
Country, Year: UK, 2019
Length: 0:02:29
Have you ever had the impression that if you play the right song while a person is, for instance, frantically moving their arms trying to get rid of a bee, it may seem like they’re dancing instead? “No, I Don’t Want to Dance” it’s a stop motion animated short film which aims to raise awareness of how deadly dangerous dance can be.
Please join us in our mission for a better and motionless world.
Bastard
Bastard
Director: Alexey Potapov
Choreography: Alexey Potapov
Country, Year: Russia, 2020
Length: 0:04:08
The visual portrait of a mentally decayed person.
Pneumo-conduction
Pneumo-conduction
Director: Genietta Varsi
Choreography: Genietta Varsi, Augusto Montero
Country, Year: Peru, 2021
Length: 0:19:59
Pneumo-Conduction navigates through 4 times and spaces where beings perform respiratory and aerial choreographies.
Their are bodies devices for the production and consumption of the soil, the sky and themselves. They move the air rhythmically, exchanging information between atmospheres and viscera.
Foefsafari
Foefsafari
Director: Thalia de Jong
Choreography: MEROL
Country, Year: The Netherlands, 2021
Length: 0:02:27
A tongue in cheek style.
Progressive Touch
Progressive Touch
Director: Michael Portnoy
Choreography: Michael Portnoy
Country, Year: Austria, 2020
Length: 0:13:01
Can you fu*k to an irregular beat? Futuristic, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to “improve” sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance as comedy. Enacted by three real life couples.
Spaces Between Us: Wayang
Spaces Between Us: Wayang
Director: Lenne Chai, ScRach MarcS
Choreography: ScRach MarcS
Country, Year: Singapore, 2021
Length: 0:01:00
Traditional Chinese Opera through the lens of street dancers.
Filmed at Goh Chor Dua Pek Gong Temple, this outdoor “wayang” stage, which was constructed in 1906, is one of the last of its kind. Chinese street opera, colloquially referred to as “Wayang”, was first introduced to Singapore by Chinese immigrants who arrived in the 19th century. Due to factors such as westernisation, banned dialects, and the ageing audience; the once popular Chinese opera performances has slowly lost its appeal to the masses.
I Don’t Want To Be Your Love
I Don't Want To Be Your Love
Director: Zach Shields
Choreography: Melissa Schade
Country, Year: USA, 2019
Length: 0:04:43
An elderly man dressed in a tuxedo pleasures himself in the front seat of a moving car driven by a beautiful, scantily clad woman. In the backseat sits a younger man, barely visible. The headlights of the automobile follow a road that cuts through a field of tall grass.
XERINOLA
Short films from Catalonia and Spain
Memòria de les oblidades
Memòria de les oblidades
Director: Marta Arjona, Maite Blasco, Raquel Rodríguez
Choreography: Raquel Rodríguez, Raquel Méndez, Júlia Miralles, Paula Sánchez[La Im.Perfecta Cía de Dansa]
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:10:00
Based on a book by Tecla Martorell. A tribute to the women that died in the Oblates prison-convent in Tarragona due to the hard prison conditions and to the only woman shot in the city during Franco’s repression, buried in a common grave in Tarragona’s cemetery.
Tradere
Tradere
Director: Ignasi Castañé
Choreography: Laia Santanach
Country, Year: Spain, 2020
Length: 0:05:30
An investigation of the practice of those western traditions that sacrifice the body for esteem, belief and tradition and to be part of a community within a festivity. A reflection on the permanence from generation to generation of traditional group practices where the body is the main tool of exhibition.
A estrañeza do paxaro afundido
A estrañeza do paxaro afundido
Director: Sebastián Uría de Asiscla
Choreography: Sebastián Uría de Asiscla, Marta Alonso Tejada
Country, Year: Spain, 2020
Length: 0:12:22
Our tale begins like this: it is a foggy morning and a huge crow flies very close to “Trasno”.
This man, Trasno, and the bird are frightened because of this unexpected encounter. And they both respond in the same way: they shout. As if the crow tried to say something his screaming remained in the memory of Trasno. Shortly after, drowning below the surface of the water, Trasno will finally understand the meaning of this encounter…
Imaginàvem un jardí
World premiere in cinemas
Imaginàvem un jardí
Director: Leandro Cánepa, Agnes Balfegó
Choreography: Agnes Balfegó
Country, Year: Spain, 2020
Length: 0:07:38
There was a plant growing through the sink and it showed us life’s tireless need for continuing. Conceived and shot during the lockdown in Spain 2020. We would have prefered to be surrounded by nature, but there we were, in the kitchen.
Bleu Fuchsia
Bleu Fuchsia
Director: Marc Lesperut
Choreography: Daniel Chamizo
Country, Year: Spain, 2020
Length: 0:02:25
Based on excerpts from the book The Unknown Poems, the main character of this piece lives an out-of-body experience. A dark trip surrounded by shadows and fire leaving the spectator wondering the boundaries between reality and unconsciousness. By using a precise and singular choreography this piece is driven by the elegant french song from the band Odezenne.
Poem #8: A Bust A Rose A silk cloth around my neck Shadows burning the past Who are we while we sleep?
La ciudad de la ansiedad
La ciudad de la ansiedad
Director: Clara Pozas Gil
Choreography: Claudio Portalo
Country, Year: Spain, 2020
Length: 0:02:11
Being trapped in your own brain and thoughts, fighting and letting go to carry on.
Fear
European Premiere
Fear
Director: Julie Boehm
Choreography: Aina Lanas
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:04:10
Face everything and rise.
Deeper and deeper she is dragged into the cave of Fear, the seductive poisonous Queen. Maybe one day she will be able to inhale a different dawn?
El vals del tiempo
El vals del tiempo
Director: Mario Martínez Sáenz
Choreography: Alba Gog
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:08:58
An old man escapes from the nursing home and appears lost in the middle of the pasture. Near a tree, he begins to waltz to the rhythm of his memories.
Desasosiego.
Desasosiego.
Director: Aina Lanas
Choreography: Aina Lanas + bailarinas
Country, Year: Spain, 2020
Length: 0:06:25
Little me.
Little life.
Small everything and sometimes I forget
that you are leaving, that you are already gone because your voice is still with me.
And what to ask for?
If there is nothing.
What will remain if the ashes are silent?
A breath in the wind of what has been lived
and an eternal plea from the finite.
Nowhere but here
Nowhere but here
Director: Carolina Romillo Marín
Choreography: Alicia Pírez, Carolina Romillo, Jennifer Tejeda
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:02:56
An exploration of the concept of identity and binationality through movement. The struggle to fit in, be accepted and understood. A dialogue between cultures and identities that goes from opposition, adaptation and, finally, surrender to being oneself.
I am the other
I am the other
Director: Rita Stepien
Choreography: Peter James, Lucio A. Baglivo
Country, Year: Spain, 2020
Length: 0:01:11
The reflection in/of the other in front of me, what does the other return me and how does my identity move in relation to that encounter.
Burn Out
Burn Out
Director: Oscar Díaz Huerta
Choreography: Abel Hernández
Country, Year: Spain, Mexico, 2020
Length: 0:04:47
Anna and Iván are two dancers connected by the metaphysic power of human sensitivity, empathy and love. Their artistic energy connects them. They live in the universe of melancholy, they don’t really know each other but they use the dance as a powerful tool to run away from the flames.
Danses Perifèriques
Catalan Dance Professional Association Special presented by Ignasi Castañé and Pere Faura
Danses Perifèriques
Director: Pere Faura, Ignasi Castañé
Choreography: Olga Cobos, Francesc Bravo, Roberto Olivan, Carlos Fernández, Guillem Alonso, Nicolas Ricchini, Roser Tutusaus, Moisés ‘MOE’, Diana Girbau, Mercedes Recacha, José Maldonado, Rita Noutel, Anna Rubio, Anna Alonso
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:05:38
Next to a river, on the pier of a port, or in front of a public toilet sink. A rural waltz and some urban dances. Contaminated dances alongside solitary dances. A triptych in motion to reflect the eternal dilemma between the countryside and the city, and to make visible some peripheral dances that dance against centralism.
Jo no em jubilo
Catalan Dance Professional Association Special presented by Ignasi Castañé and Pere Faura
Jo no em jubilo
Director: Pere Faura, Ignasi Castañé
Choreography: Carmen Muñoz, Olga Cobos, Mercedes Recacha, Roser Tutusaus
Country, Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:05:49
Four dancers from very different backgrounds, styles and ages talk about growing up and the profession of aging by dancing. And how they imagine themselves becoming pensioners of the movement. Then we see them dancing in a timeless dance.
JURY
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT DANCE FILM AWARD
Andy Wood
Andy Wood is a videographer who makes dance-films, public projections and documentaries. His work has been screened at international film festivals, in galleries, shopping malls and prisons, on public buildings and television.
He trained as a fine artist, was an established musician and producer for many years and currently run an independent media company that delivers creative and documentary video projects for the arts and charity sector. He programs dance film screenings of international artists’ work and facilitates screendance workshops, both in the UK and abroad.
He is currently a programmer for Leeds International Film Festival and runs the screendance competition for Short Film City. He teaches at Northern Film School, Leeds Beckett University and regularly sit on international screendance festival panels.
He was on the Board of Moves: Movement On Screen Festival, was on the Yorkshire panel of Artists Taking the Lead (Arts Council England) and made the launch film for ‘imove’ Yorkshire’s cultural program for London 2012. He recently made a documentary on the Ukraine-Russian border for the Halo Trust (2019) and DOP’d a dance-film in a tunnel under Temple Newsome House (2020).
Andy has a large rescue Lurcher that he goes running with and enjoys ashtanga yoga and stone-stacking in the woods outside his home.
Laida Aldaz
She has worked with Mark Tompkins & Meg Stuart in “Lab ABC”, Ali & Hedi Thabet in “Nous sommes pareils…”, R14 in “Tsunami”, David Zambrano in “The Rabbit Project”, Julyen Hamilton in “T43”, Roberto Olivan in “De Farra” and others. She is currently dancing in the piece of de Ali & Hedi Thabet called “’UWRUBBA”.
She has taught at Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus, Cie Thor/Thierry Smits, Alias Summer Intensive Canada, Conservatorio de Danza de Murcia, Kalamata Dance Festival, Festival Danzad Danzad Malditos, RITS, DCJ and many others.
Her curiosity leads her to co-create, direct and produce works and projects in different artistic fields such as “Soñando Despiertos”, “Shopping List”, “DVP”, “BS&I”, “Derrière Elle”, “Kirolak” among others, that are performed internationally and have received several awards. In 2020 she has made the short film “The Room”.
She is the artistic director and founder of El Trastero Creativo, association with which carries out several artistic projects and Zinetika Festival., a multidiscliplinary and international festival where relationships between dance and new technologies are explored and that takes place every year in Pamplona, San Sebastian and Bilbao.
Ágota Harmati
Ágota Harmati works in the field of media arts, dance and performance.
She directs the dance film festival Moovy in Filmforum in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and ‘Festival de Videodanza de Palma’ in the Miró Foundation in Spain. She curated numerous international dance film programs and was artistic director of festivals for dance and performance in Berlin, among others.
Studied art history, German and Romance languages in Madrid and at the University of Cologne. Then an MBA in Cologne, specializing in cultural management, as well as curating at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Before that she worked as a radio writer (guionista y periodista) for radio and TV.
BEST DANCE SEQUENCE IN A SERIES OR FEATURE FILM AWARD
Gitta Wigro
She is a co-curator of Kinesthesia, and a programmer for the Screendance Competition at Leeds International Film Festival. She has worked as guest programmer, speaker and jury member for, among others, American Dance Festival (USA), La Danza in 1 Minuto (Italy), BFI FLARE (UK), Big Dance Shorts (UK), and Light Moves (Ireland).
Currently, Gitta is the course leader for the on the Screendance MA at London Contemporary Dance School (maternity cover 2020-2021). Since the inception of the course, she has also led a module on presenting screendance work and in that role facilitates the student-led dance film festival Frame Rush.
Her work in dance film started at The Place, where Gitta was part of Videoworks, The Place’s resource for dance film makers, from 2000 to 2007. Videoworks comprised a video library, production facilities and the annual Dance on Screen film festival, and Gitta took over its management in 2004.
She curated the annual Video Dance project for Anticorpi XL (Italy) from 2006-2014, and was co-curator of the 2010 edition of Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen (UK).
She worked for Arts Council England, the national funding body for the arts, as a relationship manager, managing project and organisational grants, with a remit for dance and digital media, from 2008-2012.
For eight years, Gitta was co-director of Independent Dance, an artist-led organisation providing a responsive, stimulating space for artists in their ongoing development as professionals.
Gitta is part of the team of volunteers maintaining the International Screendance Calendar, and maintains free online news feeds for dance film makers at Video Dance (Facebook) and @dance_film (Twitter).
David Matamoros
A regular at prestigious international festivals, he’s just produced “Brief History of the Green Planet” (Teddy Award Berlinale 2019 / Acid Cannes) and “El Hoyo (The Platform)”, winner of Midnight Madness in Toronto 2019 and Sitges, that’s become a huge success in Netfllix and worldwide phenomenon during the pandemic. But his film credits include other titles such as “Evolution”, “Tasting Menu”, “Grimsey” or “Vulcania”.
In 2019 he embarks to co-direct “Isaac” with Ángeles Hernández, his first fiction feature film, selected now in prestigious festivals. Right now he is filming the animated movie “Hanna and the Monsters” while preparing “Astronauta”, his second feature, now solo, to be shot in early 2022, and “The Lighthouse”.
He’s also a mentor in programs such as Script East or Cartoon, and a professor in Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Blanquerna and ECAM. He’s written a book about film distribution, “Film Distribution: First Steps”.
Celia Rowlson-Hall
Celia’s debut feature, MA, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2015, garnering numerous awards, including the Breakthrough Audience award at AFI Film Festival and the Independent Visions Award at Sarasota Film Festival. That same year, Filmmaker Magazine named Celia one of their ‘25 New Faces to watch’.
Celia began her career as a professional dancer and quickly moved into choreographing for film and television. Early collaborators include directors Gaspar Noé and Lena Dunham on GIRLS, and more recently she choreographed Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux (Neon), Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits (Oscilliscope), John Mulaney’s Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix), as well as Kogonada’s upcoming After Yang (A24), Sarah Adina Smith’s Birds of Paradise (Amazon), and Ziwe Fumudoh’s Untitled series (A24/Showtime). She has also choreographed music videos for Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Bleachers, and MGMT, among many others.
Bringing her experience of choreography and performance to the screen, Celia has written and directed numerous short films and videos, which have earned her several awards including an Emmy nomination, as well as screened at festivals such as Sundance, Venice, SXSW, SFIFF, Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, and art fairs such as the Armory Show, Performa, and the New Museum. In the fall of 2016, Celia (alongside her partner Mia Lidofsky) choreographed and directed the viral “Pantsuit Power” video for Hillary Clinton, which was viewed over 4 million times in less than two weeks.
Celia co-executive produced and directed several episodes of the TV series Strangers for Facebook Watch. Her latest short film, Swamp Lake, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival as part of the omnibus feature, Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia.
2021 AT A GLANCE
FILMOTECA DE CATALUNYA
| Tuesday 14 September | Wednesday 15 September | Thursday 16 September | Friday 17 September |
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| 17.00 Moving Cities: Barcelona Documentary film: MOVING STORIES | 17.00 SHORT FILMS 2: International | 17.00 SHORT FILMS 3: Focus Asia |
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| 20.00 Opening Docu-fiction: MALDITOS | 19.30 SHORT FILMS 1: International | 20.00 Honorary Award Wim Vandekeybus: Here After The Last Words | 20.00 Honorary Award Wim Vandekeybus: Feature Film Galloping Mind |
CINEMA MALDÀ
| Saturday 18 September | Sunday 19 September |
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| 16.00 Documentary film A Secret Joy | 16.00 Documentary film Dancing with Birds |
| 18.00 Feature Film Romeo and Juliet | 18.00 Session XERINOLA Short films from Catalonia and Spain |
| 21.00 Session BIZARRO Presented by Esther Martí | 21.00 Documentary Film Queen/Bejart: Ballet for life |
FILMIN
| September 20 - October 10 | |
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| Exclusives | Feature Film : Disco For children: Tales of Beatrix Potter |
| Retrospective Wim Vandekeybus | Wim: the documentary film Blush La Mentira Roseland Monkey Sandwich Inasmuch as life is borrowed In Spite of wishing and wanting |
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