Stories to Keep You Awake
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Born Into You
Duration: 0:05:59
Director: Emma Evelein
Choreography: Emma Evelein
Country, Year: Netherlands, 2025
Social Media: IG @emmaevelein
Synopsis
The essence of belonging and human connection. In an industrial world, two contrasting, newly born beings meet and form a deep, spiritual bond.
The Dead Tango
Duration: 0:16:00
Director: Jan Seraphim
Country, Year: Poland, 2025
Synopsis
Stefan is an embalmer consumed by loneliness. He spends his days working with the dead, feeling closer to them than to the living. The only thing that brings him comfort is music. It seems there’s no way out of his hopeless existence — until one evening, he accidentally brings a corpse back to life using a mysterious vinyl record.
The Oath
Duration: 0:23:46
Director: Alla Kovgan
Choreography: Annie-B Parson
Country, Year: United States, 2025
Social Media: IG @bigdancetheater
Synopsis
Both communal and monstrous, the human urge to move in a large mass in unison – to bond, to battle, to promise, to intimidate, to gather, to dance; this is THE OATH.
In Person Only
Duration: 0:14:39
Director: Tereza Vejvodová
Choreography: Martin Talaga
Country, Year: Czech Republic, 2025
Social Media: IG @inpersononly_film, IG @tereza.vejvodova, IG @wearepunkfilm, IG @shortsfitdistribution, IG @jancina_cz
Synopsis
Premiere in Spain. A lone programmer must leave behind his digital armor and experience a real connection that cannot be programmed. An unexpected glitch forces him to confront his repressed anxieties and prove that in the age of automation, human contact is irreplaceable.
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Axeri Dantza, el rito de un pueblo
Duration: 0:57:43
Director: Aitor Arruti
Country, Year: Spain, 2026
Synopsis
The documentary tells the recent history of the Axeri dantza, a traditional dance from Andoain and Aduna (Basque Country), going beyond a simple chronological account. It examines the path from the revival of the dance in 1975 and the first participation of women in 2000 to the present day, focusing on the changes that take place within the ritual, and the emotional consequences in the community that practices it. The documentary brings together past, present, and future through archival footage, recordings from recent years, and testimonies from participants. It presents the Axeri dantza as a living ritual, capable of creating and renewing the local community, where transmission, vulnerability, and dialogue play a fundamental role.
Dancing Cities – Barcelona
Duration: 0:25:00
Director: Joselina Sánchez
Choreography: Joselina Sánchez
Country, Year: Argentina, Spain, 2025
Social Media: IG @joselinasanchez, IG @ciudadesdanzantes
Synopsis
Experience Barcelona not only with your eyes but with your body: to feel its rhythms, its changes, its memories through the art of movement. The stories are not written, they are danced. Journey, history, and dance create an audiovisual experience that invites us to feel that cities, too, can dance.
Entre mareas y pasos
Duration: 0:26:43
Director: Sofía Fernández Lavín
Choreography: Francisco Giménez Ruiz
Country, Year: Spain, 2025
Social Media: IG @sofiflav
Synopsis
The story of Francisco, a ballet dancer born in Almería who pursues his career with the National Dance Company of North Macedonia. The uprooting and reality of young people and artists who have to emigrate in search of a future.
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ORAISON (After the Ashes)
Duration: 1:29:00
Director: Laetitia Demessence
Country, Year: Quebec, Canada, 2025
Social Media: IG @ldmssnc, IG @oraisonlefilm, IG @la.distributrice.de.films
Synopsis
Premiere in Europe. Leonor joins a contemporary dance company to unravel the mystery of Oraison, a mythical piece performed by her mother thirty years ago, in the hope of understanding what shattered her. She discovers a ritual in which every gesture summons up the ghosts of the past and reopens the wounds of a lineage.
Firestarter
Duration: 1:36:00
Directors: Wayne Blair, Nel Minchin
Choreography: Bangarra Dance Theatre
Country, Year: Australia, 2020
Synopsis
By making considerable sacrifices, the three brothers (Stephen, David and Russell Page) who founded the Indigenous Australian contemporary dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre have been able to update the troupe over the years to transform it into a world-renowned institution. In this tribute film exploring the loss and reconquest of Indigenous Australian culture, the central question is about the power of art as a messenger of social change and healing.
LGBTIQ+
coreoshorts
Arqueología del deseo lésbico
Duration: 0:14:25
Director: Camille Zéhenne
Choreography: Camille Zéhenne
Country, Year: Canada, Spain, 2025
Social Media: IG @camille_zehenne, IG @la.distributrice.de.films
Synopsis
Premiere in Catalonia. Inspired by the experimental LGBTQIA+ cinema of the 70s, this film questions the blossoming of lesbian desire through an aesthetic and dreamlike approach, from the sensuality of a statue to the repressed eroticism of the women between them.
They
Duration: 0:18:12
Director: Kosta Karakashyan
Choreography: Kosta Karakashyan
Country, Year: Bulgaria, 2026
Social Media: IG @theyshortfilm
Synopsis
A charismatic young professor begins to struggle at his new job at Sofia University after an awkward encounter with the older chairman of the department threatens to expose a mutual secret.
Muses
Duration: 0:07:54
Director: Simon Vermeulen
Choreography: Simon Vermeulen
Country, Year: Canada, 2025
Synopsis
A dancer struggles to break free from the hold of his choreographer now attracted to another. This silent film explores the complex dynamics of inspiration, power, and replacement within the LGBTQ+ dance community through body language and music.
Dancing On My Own
Duration: 0:04:00
Director: Thais Català
Choreography: Tula Vida
Country, Year: Spain, 2026
Social Media: IG @erikalust, IG @thaiscatala
Synopsis
An erotic, mirror-soaked fantasy about pole dance and the pleasure of being seduced by what you see in yourself.
ElleX / ElleY
Duration: 0:11:32
Director: Valeria Galluccio
Choreography: Valeria Galluccio
Country, Year: Canada, 2025
Social Media: FB @valeria.galluccio, IG @valeria__galluccio
Synopsis
ElleX, an androgynous being, moves through a suspended world beneath a shower of comets. As the ground tilts, her body releases glowing pearls, which transform into ElleY, her clone. Together, they engage in an intense sensory exchange, sharing energy and pleasure until they reveal their essence of light and vital energy.
