AWARDS 2022
Honorary
Award
Katrina Mc Pherson
Best International
Short Dance Film
Anima Animae Animam
ES, 2021
Director: Julieta Gasroc, José (Putxa) Puchades Martínez
Choreography: Elena Lalucat, Jonathan Guisado, Pino Steiner, Ramón Ródenas, David Maqueda, Bruno Valls, Julieta Gasroc, José Puchades (Putxa), Dora Cantero
Special mention
Go Around
JP, 2021
Director: Zoo-Zoo
Choreography: Zoo-Zoo
Special mention
Prendre le nord (Due north)
Canada, 2022
Director: Chantal Caron
Choreography: Chantal Caron
Audience
Award
Bailar la locura (Dancing the madness)
ES, 2021
Director: Marta Espar, Maiol Virgili
Choreography: Claudia Gómez, Amaiur Luluaga, Montse Álvarez
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Film
Coppelia
NL, DE, BE 2021
Director: Jeff Tudor, Steven De Beul, Ben Tesseur
Choreography: Ted Brandsen
Portrait of a Generation Award
Uprooted
EUA, 2021
Director: Khadifa Wong
Choreography:Zak Nemorin
Best Dance Opening Title Sequence in a Film or Series
WINNER
After Yang
Choreography: Celia Rowlson-Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRGU2J8BfvA
nominees
After Yang
Choreography: Celia Rowlson-Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRGU2J8BfvA
Pachinko
Choreography: Louise Hradsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GgKXR_J-ww
Severance
Design: Oliver Latta (Director/Creative Director/Art Director/Editor/Animator/3D Artist) &
Teddy Blanks (Typographer/Typography Animation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS3m0OG-Ug
Peacemaker
Choreography: Charissa-Lee Barton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrr3UNALww
Beastars
Design: Michiya Katō (Cyclone Graphics), Dwarf Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo9dJB_icw
FILMIN SPECIALS starting oct24
Choreoscope Kids
The secret theatre
The secret theatre
Choreography: Christopher Hampson, Peter Darrell
Country / Year: Escocia, RU, 2020
Length: 0:57:11
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In a deserted city, a young boy stumbles into a theatre. He wanders through the auditorium, where rows of velvet chairs, draping curtains and chandeliers seem to lie in lonely wait for audiences to return. The theatre may be empty, but the show will go on…
Starring characters from our most popular festive ballets, the worlds of the Snow Queen and the Sugar Plum Fairy collide when the theatre bursts into life. In this spectacular, hour-long film, you’ll be treated to an extraordinary show filled with acrobats, snowflakes, clowns, princes and – of course – beautiful ballerinas.
The Secret Theatre features the choreography of Scottish Ballet founder Peter Darrell and CEO/Artistic Director Christopher Hampson, co-directed for the screen by Jess & Morgs. With set and costumes designed by Lez Brotherston; music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky recorded live by the Scottish Ballet Orchestra; new additional composition by Frank Moon; and performances from the full Scottish Ballet Company; this Christmas special is an unforgettable adventure for the whole family.
Alice in wonderland
Alice in wonderland
Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
Country / Year: RU, 2017
Length: 2:06:23
Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in Christopher Wheeldon’s exuberant ballet, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s much-loved book. Royal Ballet Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon magically captured the twists and turns of Lewis Carroll’s classic story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, in his 2011 ballet. Bob Crowley’s vivid sets and costumes take us down the rabbit hole into a colourful world full of curious creatures and captivating characters. Joby Talbot’s original score is full of sweeping melodies and contemporary sounds. Lauren Cuthbertson stars as the inquisitive Alice, with Federico Bonelli as the charming Knave of Hearts, Steven McRae as the tap-dancing Mad Hatter and Laura Morera as the formidable Queen of Hearts. This exuberant and engaging ballet is spectacular entertainment for the whole family.
Discofoot
Discofoot
Choreography: Petter Jacobsson, Thomas Caley
Country / Year: FRA, SWE, 2019
Length: 0:29:00
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In Discofoot football’s rules are twisted and thrashed by dance. Let the choreography of the ball take you on a ride that passes the unknown and spectacular possibilities of this dead serious performance of a football match… The performance/match uses the rules and organization of professional football as its choreography. In combination with certain set choreographic elements, the performers use this base, to battle it out in excessive and decadent improvisation. The main and dividing rule is that you may not run. Your only way to advance on the pitch is to dance. But not just any dance… Your teams’ skills are judged and given scores by a panel of judges. The goal is not only to make a goal, but lies equally in the finesse in which you made it.
Anima Animae Animam
Anima Animae Animam
Choreography: Elena Lalucat, Jonathan Guisado, Pino Steiner, Ramón Ródenas, David Maqueda, Bruno Valls, Julieta Gasroc, José Puchades (Putxa), Dora Cantero
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 0:28:00
A tribute to the people who dedicated their lives to sharing their soul with beings who never had it.To the people who gave their voices to objects that had so much to say. To tell old forgotten stories. To the puppeteers, who due to their profession, were not allowed to be buried in cemeteries, as they were considered soulless.
Filmin Exclusives
Vara a blessing
Vara a blessing
Choreography: Geeta Chandran, Ryan Heffington
Country / Year: BS, 2013
Length: 1:36:00
Tribeca Festival: Best Film (online). In the lush countryside of a rural Indian village, a timeless story of forbidden love unfolds where vivid dreamworlds of Hindu gods, classical Indian dance, and haunting music create a sensual and unforgettable world.
Lila is learning to dance from her mother, Devadasi, a Bharatanatyam dancer. Although she doesn’t demonstrate much discipline, her devotion to Krishna gives her dancing spellbinding depth. She falls in love with low class Shyam, who dreams of becoming a sculptor. Shyam asks Lila to model for him as he sculpts a goddess, and the two become very close. When their relationship is discovered by he village chief Subha, Lila makes a decision that alters the course of everyone’s lives.
Lila está aprendiendo a bailar con su madre, Devadasi, bailarina de Bharatanatyam. Aunque no demuestra mucha disciplina, su devoción por Krishna le da a su baile una profundidad fascinante. Se enamora de Shyam, un chico de casta baja, que sueña con convertirse en escultor. Shyam le pide a Lila que modele para él mientras él esculpe una diosa. Cuando el jefe de la aldea, Subha, descubre su relación, Lila toma una decisión que alterará el curso de la vida de todos.
Uprooted
Uprooted
Choreography: Choreography adicional: Zak Nemorin
Country / Year: EUA, 2021
Length: 1:34:00
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UPROOTED’ is a feature-length documentary celebrating the history, lineage, and future progressions of jazz dance. Exploring and commenting on political and social influences, the film is an honest conversation about jazz dance addressing topics such as appropriation, racism, socialism, and sexism. With special appearances by Debbie Allen, George Faison, Chita Rivera, Camille, A. Brown and Thomas F. DeFrantz. ‘UPROOTED’ also showcases the works of the Nicholas Brothers, Pepsi Bethel, Jack Cole, Katherine Dunham Bob Fosse and Gene Kelly shining a light on what all people have in common, rhythm and a basic human need to get down.
Betroffenheit
Betroffenheit
Choreography: Crystal Pite
Country / Year: RU, 2017
Length: 1:46:14
A riveting, tender-hearted exploration of loss, isolation and survival in the aftermath of a life-altering tragedy. This dance-theatre hybrid has been awarded “best dance show of the 21st century” by The Guardian, the Dance Critics’ top pick of 2016, and the 2017 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. Jonathon Young was also deservedly awarded Outstanding Performance in Modern Dance at the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards.
Five astonishing performers create the mindscape of Young’s tormented central character as he moves from despair towards the hope of recovery. Written by Young and choreographed by Crystal Pite, the result is a genre-defying piece of dance theatre that has stunned critics and audiences worldwide.
Aún
Aún
Choreography: Antonio Ruz
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 0:41:16
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The Antonio Ruz Company celebrates its 10th anniversary with its first dance film at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
AÚN is a celebratory meeting in which more than 20 performers who have collaborated with Ruz in the last ten years revisit some of the works from the Company’s history to generate a new original piece, providing new approaches to existing projects.
The different rooms of this emblematic building are activated by choreographic sequences, creating a dialogue between movement, camera and architecture. An intervention to ponder upon the past, present and future of the Company and, at the same time, pay tribute to the city of Madrid, which has been pivotal in its renowned history.
Human.Nature
Habiter le seuil
(Spain premiere)
Habiter le seuil
Choreography: Marine Chesnais
Country / Year: Francia, 2021
Length: 0:29:03
Contemporary dancer and choreographer Marine Chesnais situates her otherworldly performances underwater with no breathing apparatus. In preparation for a new work, she travels to Réunion Island to dive with migrating humpback whales. The experience forever changes her perspective on life and nature.
Mermaids
Mermaids
Choreography: Dereck Cayla, Victor Callens
Country / Year: Francia, Chile, Países Bajos, 2021
Length: 0:15:00
On a trip to the Chilean Patagonia, two friends head into the wide-open natural spaces, diving deep into the self. During this voyage a voice of Selknam is heard, revived from time immemorial. ‘Sirènes’ (Mermaids) is telling the story of two bodies seeking breath in a melting world.
Opará
Opará
Choreography: Sílvia Góes y Orun Santana
Country / Year: Brasil, 2022
Length: 0:14:42
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A mother lost in her pain, seeks to overcome the loss of her son and embarks on a transcendental journey to unleash all her pain. Her tears flow with the waters of the Opará River (São Francisco River), to the mouth, where the river meets the sea and where she finds love again.
Due North
Due North
Choreography: Chantal Caron
Country / Year: Canada, 2022
Length: 0:23:10
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A dance film about life, embodiment of the wild.
2022 at a glance
Cinema Specials
Coppelia
Filmoteca
Spanish Avant-premiere
With the participation of director Jeff Tudor
Coppelia
Director: Jeff Tudor, Steven De Beul, Ben Tesseur
Choreography: Ted Brandsen
Country / Year: NL, DE, BE 2021
Length: 1:20:00
With the attendance of the director Jeff Tudor and main protagonist Vito Mazzeo. Spanish Avant-premiere in collaboration with A Contracorriente Films.
When everyone in town falls under the spell of charismatic cosmetic surgeon Doctor Coppelius, feisty Swan must act to save her sweetheart Franz, before his heart is used to spark life into Coppelia – the “perfect” robot-woman the Doctor has created. A modern fairytale, told without words, Coppelia is a visually opulent adventure that blends live action ballet with charming animation. With Michaela DePrince in the leading role as Swan.
Bailar la locura
Cinema Maldà
Premiere in Catalonia
Bailar la locura
Choreography: Claudia Gómez, Amaiur Luluaga, Montse Álvarez
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 1:13:00
Three contemporary dancers win a scholarship to create a choreography to investigate the limits between normality and madness. To enrich their creation process, they contact three women diagnosed with mental disorders. They want to know what it means to receive a psychiatric diagnosis and how far the treatment can go. The six women spend a few magical days together and review emotions, doubts and experiences to take them from emotion to body, to movement. When the dancers premiere the choreography at a street dance festival in the Basque Country, they have changed their way of seeing madness and the piece includes the voices of the diagnosed girls. But what is normal? Who decides what is normal? Can you dance madness?
Xanadu
Cinema Maldà
Clásicos Maldà:
Tribute to Olivia Newton John
Xanadu
Choreography: Kenny Ortega, Jerry Trent
Country / Year: USA, 1980
Length: 1:33:00
Over the years, Xanadú deservedly became a cult film. A little because of an ironic consumption, a little because its outstanding soundtrack, and a little to see Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John together. Both justify the kitsch vision of this film. A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness. (source: IMDB)
Anticuerpos
Cinema Maldà
TV Series Special
Premiere in theaters
Anticuerpos
Choreography: Jordi Cortés, Iron Skulls, Thomas Noone, Mai Rojas, Raffaella Crapio,
Aina Lanas
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 1:30:00
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PRIX CIRCOM 2022 Regional European Public TV.
Commended Award for “Most original and creative”. Anticossos is a dance docuseries that dramatizes controversial social stories: stories against social prejudice. Each choreography is based on real witnesses of victims of discrimination: women victims of sexist violence, refugees, transgender people, people with functional diversity and victims of bullying. Those bodies that society makes invisible. Two complete chapters will be shown during the screening. Afterwards there will be a summary with previously unseen footage explaining the creative process with the director, choreographers and dancers and a Q&A.
Le Bal
Cinema Maldà
Clásicos Maldà:
Ettore Scola
Le Bal
Choreography: D’Déé
Country / Year: DZ, FR, IT, 1983
Length: 1:52:00
1983: Oscar: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (Algeria)
1983: Cesar Awards: Best Film, Director and Music
1983: David di Donatello Awards: 4 Awards, including Best Film
1984: Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear – Best Director
Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history. (source: IMDB)
Strictly Ballroom
Cinema Maldà
Clásicos Maldà:
Baz Luhrmann
Strictly Ballroom
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Choreography: John O’Connell, Paul Mercurio, Ray Mather
Country / Year: AU, 1992
Length: 1:34:00
1992: Cannes Film Festival: Youth Award
1992: Australian Film Institute: 8 Awards, Including Best Film
1993: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Movie
1992: Toronto Film Festival: Best Film (Audience Award)
1992: 3 BAFTA Awards: Best Music, Production and Costume Design
Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing “”his own steps””. Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott’s partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, “there are no new steps!”
Political Mother
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Political Mother
Choreography: Hofesh Shechter
Country / Year: RU, 2021
Length: 0:36:12
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An unplugged, unapologetic and exhilarating new short film directed, choreographed, composed and filmed by Hofesh Shechter. A fragile world of raw emotions as a group of individuals struggle against the complex structures that define their world, and ours.
Anima Animae Animam
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Anima Animae Animam
Choreography: Elena Lalucat, Jonathan Guisado, Pino Steiner, Ramón Ródenas, David Maqueda, Bruno Valls, Julieta Gasroc, José Puchades (Putxa), Dora Cantero
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 0:29:50
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With the attendance of the directors José (Putxa) Puchades Martínez and Julieta Gasroc
A tribute those who dedicated their lives to share their souls with soulless beings. To the people who gave their lives and voices to objects that had so much to say. To tell old forgotten stories. To the puppeteers, who due to their profession, were not allowed to be buried in cemeteries, as they were considered soulless.
Frente al silencio
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Warm-up Jewish Film Festival in collaboration with Choreoscope
Frente al silencio
Director: Emilio Ruiz Barrachina
Choreography: Fuensanta “La Moneta”
Country / Year: ES, 2022
Length: 1:33:14
Fuensanta “La Moneta” is a contemporary flamenco dancer and choreographer. In her dance studio she prepares a new show with her students, however, everything changes when one of her students, Israeli and Jewish, gives her the book “La Cabellera de la Shoá” that Félix Grande wrote during his visit to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and that marked his work to the point of being his last book. She devours each poem by Félix Grande and doesn’t stop thinking about those tons of accumulated hair, about the captive gypsies and the Jewish women marching towards certain death. It is then that she turns her show around and her goal becomes to visit Auschwitz to imbue herself with silence.
HONORARY AWARD
Filmoteca de Catalunya 19oct 18h
Katrina Mc Pherson
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KATRINA Mc PHERSON
Katrina is a director and award-winning screendance artist whose creative, scholarly and educational practice is at the forefront of the international field. Having trained as a dancer and choreographer at Laban in London, an early career fascination with the collaborative possibilities of dance and the moving image led her to complete a post-graduate in Electronic Imaging (video art) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, laying the foundations of what would become a life-long, multi-faceted and influential engagement with dance on screen.
Katrina’s collaborative films, installations and on-line works have been presented at venues and festivals worldwide. Since the early 1990s, Katrina has been regularly awarded funding from public and private organisations, institutions and arts councils, including in 2002 being a recipient of the prestigious Creative Scotland Award of £25,000 to an individual artist. In 2020, she was awarded a Career Achievement award At the Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles, USA. A number of works that she has directed are held in collections including Lux Artists’ Moving Image UK, Routledge’s on-line Performance Archive and the British Council. Over a period of 15 years, Katrina was a director of arts programmes for UK television, making films for the BBC, STV and Channel Four.
Katrina has collaborated with numerous international dance artists including Sang Jijia (China/Tibet), Crystal Pite (Canada), Marc Brew (UK/US), Simon Ellis (NZ/UK), Harold Rheaume (Quebec) and Kirstie Simson (UK/US). Her approach remains at the cutting edge of concepts and technology and yet of great interest to the wider public.
Katrina is the author of Making Video Dance – a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen, the second edition of which was published by Routledge in 2018. Katrina has mentored, taught workshops and lectured across the globe. Most recently, Katrina has been adapting her teaching to the on-line environment and enjoying the new concepts and potential that this is offering in her work with artists across the world. www.katrinamcpherson.com www.makingvideodance.com
Swoop
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Swoop
Director: Katrina McPherson
Choreography: Karen Grant, Vanessa Smith
Country / Year: Scotland, 1992
Length: 0:04:03
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The moments and rhythms of highly stylised ballroom dance with the relaxed idiom of postmodern dance choreography, juxtaposing, creating a unique screendance through editing.
Moment
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Moment
Director: Katrina McPherson
Choreography: Jennifer Paterson, Anna Young
Country / Year: Scotland, 1999
Length: 0:07:09
Best Screen Choreography award at IMZ Dance Screen Festival 2000 Two women in a space.
They are dancing. Their relationship moves through different moods and states. Their characters are revealed through fragments of their action. The significance of a moment, whether solitary or between them, stretched, is revealed as time is slowed down, stretched, speeded up, repeated and stopped.
Away From Here
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Away From Here
Choreography: Frank McConnell
Country / Year: Scotland, 2011
Length: 0:13:12
Set in the dramatic West Highlands of Scotland, the film examines the fleeting relationship of people to a sense of place and belonging.
Water & Man
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Water & Man
Choreography: Rob Heaslip
Country / Year: Scotland, 2021
Length: 0:07:49
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A screendance ritual for the presence and absence of water.
Solitude
World Premiere
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Solitude
Director: Katrina McPherson, Harold Rheaume
Choreography: Harold Rheaume
Country / Year: Scotland, 2022
Length: 0:14:00
World Premiere
Individuality and community, isolation and belonging. Different spaces and places, alone and yet connected.
Vogueing Special
Candy Darling 20oct 20h
Bellydance Vogue
Bellydance Vogue
Choreography: Hadi Moussally aka Salma Zahore
Country / Year: LB, ES, 2020
Length: 0:04:54
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“My birthday was on the 3rd of April 2020 during lockdown, and for the first time, I celebrated it all by myself. But even if I was alone, I decided to celebrate it as if it’s the last one” The film was made during quarantine.
Black Magic
Black Magic
Choreography: Rashaad Newsome, Omari Oricci Wiles
Country / Year: US, 2021
Length: 0:25:01
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An uplifting celebration of resiliency and strength, Black Magic documents a 2019 live performance created by Rashaad Newsome that has been “expanded” and activated with the use of motion tracking software and dazzling visual effects. The film explores trans women and their contributions to the vogue fem lexicon; the five elements of vogue fem, including hands, catwalk, floor performance, spin dips, and duck-walking; and how the marginalization of the Black queer community has led to systemic oppression, violence, and instability. Yet Black queer people resist, creating space for creativity, community, and joy. Newsome refers to this resistance as Black Magic.
Build or destroy
Build or destroy
Choreography: Rashaad Newsome
Country / Year: US, 2021
Length: 0:05:54
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Amidst fiery urban wreckage, a blazing and bedazzled figure explores how Black trans femme performance offers space for creation and detonation. Rashaad Newsome crafts compositions that speak of and to Black and Queer culture and walk the tightrope between intersectionality, social practice and abstraction.
Forged in Chaos
Forged in Chaos
Choreography: Robertj Mason, Thee Ariess
Country / Year: US, 2021
Length: 0:03:08
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A docu-poem-experimental short. Rob a former ballet dancer from Juilliard NYC dance school, narrates a poem inspired by his life as he is having a conversation with Josiah, his adopted son in the LGBTQ ballroom Voguing scene.
The Language
The Language
Choreography: Jay Jay Revlon
Country / Year: UK, ES, 2022
Length: 0:09:01
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Jay Jay Revlon and Gorgeous Jayce Gucci share what it means to ‘speak the language’ in Barcelona’s burgeoning Ballroom community.
INSHADOW – LISBON SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL SPECIAL
Cinema Maldà 21oct 18h
Zero_Gravity
Zero_Gravity
Country / Year: Portugal / 2018
Length: 0:02:00
ZERO_GRAVITY is a film that defies the laws of gravity. By capturing dancers’ movements and lines with a high-speed camera we deconstructed their movement in every shot, but the raw beauty and fluidity remains.
Lugares
Lugares
Country / Year: Portugal / 2007
Length: 0:04:00
A study of urban spaces and their representation. “Lugares” is a stop-motion film made in Lisbon and Penela (Portugal) during the summer of 2007. It plays around the city’s shapes with dancers.
Step by step
(Degrau em degrau)
Step by step
Country / Year: Portugal / 2015
Length: 0:08:00
Step by Step explores the sense of vision. It exists in real places where the laws of reality are manipulated and the notion of space-time and logical sense are deconstructed. The vision of the spectator is instigated to enter the piece and be submitted to games of shapes and perspectives.
A’mar
A’mar
Country / Year: Portugal / 2013
Length: 0:04:57
A subjective portrait that expresses the struggle of two bodies who want to merge and shape the form of there existence.
Espécie de Miragem Incompleta
Espécie de Miragem Incompleta
Country / Year: Portugal / 2013
Length: 0:07:00
Suspension: act or effect of suspending; state of something that is suspended; perplexity, ecstasy; uncertainty, doubt; hesitation, pause; interrupted or incomplete sense; sustaining a musical note; pause signal; kind of incomplete mirage.
We are all on the same bus
We are all on the same bus
Country / Year: Portugal / 2019
Length: 0:02:00
We are all on the same bus, but some of us are more awake than others.
Heart of stone
Heart of stone
Country / Year: Portugal / 2017
Length: 0:04:00
Love is a dance shared by two bodies on a stage that we hope to be eternal. It enlightens hearts that have been turned into stone and is reborn, uniting souls to the intense balance of passion in a ceaseless promise of a happy ending.
Desabitar
Desabitar
Country / Year: Portugal / 2020
Length: 0:05:00
In unlocking doors to our past memories transport us through time. Desabitar invites us to follow our memories to their effect upon us. Is it possible to be truly free when part of ourselves still lives trapped in the Past?
Exótica
Exótica
Country / Year: Portugal / 2009
Length: 0:05:00
The result of a three-week artistic residence in Maputo (Mozambique) in March 2008. Besides exploring the elements of local culture and its impact on the rhythm and daily routine of the city, it can also touch topics like the movement and the inscription of the body within urban spaces.
Complex of shadow
Complex of shadow
Country / Year: Portugal / 2019
Length: 0:10:00
A forgotten space is not a dead space. It’s at the ancient monument of War Heroes in Plovdiv, that film and dance dialogue about space and its occupation.
SHORT FILMS
Cinema Maldà – Drama special 21oct 20h
Shells
Shells
Choreography: Jan Minařík
Country / Year: Czech Republic, 2022
Length: 0:09:12
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The elevator of the nursing home turn into the stage as the old dancer explores the limits of his body, memory and the passage of time. Trapped between four walls, he must face the helplessness of his own languish shell. Starring Jan Minařík, the soloist of Pina Bausch theatre and the greatest Czech dancer of the 20th century.
El ascensor de la residencia de ancianos se convierte en escenario mientras el anciano bailarín explora los límites de su cuerpo, la memoria y el paso del tiempo. Atrapado entre cuatro paredes, debe enfrentarse a la impotencia de su propio caparazón lánguido. Protagonizada por Jan Minařík, el solista de Pina Bausch y el mayor bailarín checo del siglo XX.
White, Black and True Love
White, Black and True Love
Choreography: Anja Paternoster
Country / Year: Slovenia, 2021
Length: 0:05:07
Two lines, white representing the female and black representing the male, move across the body. The lines differ in speed and color. They are faced with various trials. Through a life journey they experience a whole range of emotions. Even at their lowest they don’t surrender but persist towards a goal that is to understand the meaning of the words ‘true love’.
Never Never Land
Never Never Land
Choreography: Jang daewook, Kim youngmin, Son eunmin
Country / Year: Korea, Republic of, 2021
Length: 0:11:55
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Youngmin is preparing for a dance contest, when suddenly he starts having hearing problems.
Mystery
Mystery
Choreography: David Potskhishvili
Country / Year: Georgia, 2021
Length: 0:09:06
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Choreographic Surrealistic Short Film using as an inspiration source Mythological Themes. The film is structured on the basis of the stylized dance lexis of the Georgian Traditional Choreographic Art.
Ben
Ben
Choreography: Gabriel Beddoes
Country / Year: IT, 2019
Length: 0:08:42
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Ben opens his eyes in the humid morning. He is welcome by the lights of the city that are still lit: its traffic lights, the murky river. White as an empty sheet, Ben does not know the codes of language, much less those of the body. He tries to assimilate and imitate what he sees.
Kataklida
Kataklida
Choreography: Gian Angelos Apostolidis
Country / Year: Greece, 2022
Length: 0:05:28
IG @gianangelos_apostolidis
FB @Fuerza.Negra.D.Fuego
A group of young people come face to face with the authority that seeks to silence their freedom of expression and thus awakening their most extraordinary weapon: their art.
Contrapeso
Contrapeso
Choreography: Yeinner Chicas
Country / Year: FI, NI, 2022
Length: 0:08:43
Tw: @kalliokati
Fb, @katikallioartist
Ig: @kalliokati @yeinnerchicas
A man is guarding his house and everything he owns as an allegory of his life. Which is empty. There is a young girl who penetrates his barriere by leaving her talisman to the man by her kindness. Journey to his innerselfs starts.
No Voice
No Voice
Choreography: Kulkornpat Menard
Country / Year: Spain, 2021
Length: 0:09:00
It is a bittersweet moment. Now she lives 540 km away from her mother. It is a restless moment. Her mother is awaiting her news. It is a nostalgia moment. She remembers those vanished years…
Inquiry into Time and Perception, study #2
Inquiry into Time and Perception, study #2
Choreography: Aurélie Brunelle
Country / Year: CA, 2022
Length: 0:11:17
Intimacy, sheer physical presence, liveliness, even the smallest registers of motion of the flamenco dance artist Aurélie Brunelle, singer Álvaro Echánove, and guitarist Dominique Soulard. Transcendence and transformation, and the sustained power and complexity in the manifestation of emotions, serve to delineate the heightening interactive dialogue between the flamenco performers, their individual expressions, and stimulating the senses and the imagination of the viewer.
SHORT FILMS
Cinema Maldà – Comedy Special 23oct 18h
The Internet Remains Undefeated
The Internet Remains Undefeated
Choreography: Megan Rose Mccarthy, Amal Khalidi, Adam Bernet
Country / Year: GB, 2022
Length: 0:04:45
IG @pigwashentertainment
FB @pigwashentertainment
TW @pigwash_
The disturbance of a noisy neighbour leads to the discovery of a haunted boombox and a terrifyingly possessed dancer.
An Evening With Taglioni
An Evening With Taglioni
Choreography: Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple
Country / Year: GB, 2021
Length: 0:14:04
FB @jessandmorgs
TW @jess_and_morgs
IG @jessandmorgsfilms
Based on a true story from when legendary ballerina Marie Taglioni, the first woman to go ‘en pointe’, retired. Her pointe shoes were bought by a fan… Then cooked at a lavish dinner party and served to 35 guests.
Breath
Breath
Choreography: Maria-Luiza Dimulescu
Country / Year: RO, 2021
Length: 0:07:48
A critical and ironic foray, in rhythm of dance, into the destructive universe of the human being. On a hot day, five young people get stuck with their car in the middle of a golden field. Suddenly, the trunk opens and the story begins.
Fist (Stompen)
Fist (Stompen)
Choreography: Erik Bos
Country / Year: NL, 2022
Length: 0:13:00
IG @eenvijfvijf
FB @eenvijfvijf
FB @BlackframeAmsterdam
Patrick is angry and he wants to break everything around him. When attending a forced anger-management course he meets other enraged people from different backgrounds. An experimental therapist tries to force their brutal energy out through dance. Can Patrick find a way to direct his violent energy towards something that is valuable for him, or even worthwhile for others?
Work it Class!
Work it Class!
Choreography: Roser Bundó, Artur Villalba
Country / Year: ES, 2022
Length: 0:08:00
FB @poldiggler
IG @pol_diggler
During a fancy New Year’s Eve party, two dancers will try to mock the upper class audience by changing the song of their performance.
Go Around
Go Around
Choreography: Zoo-Zoo
Country / Year: Japan, 2021
Length: 0:02:00
TW @ZooZoojaywalker
FB @ZZZooZoo
IG @zoozoojaywalker
Digitization has progressed rapidly in the last few years. It is now indispensable for human beings, and thanks to that, we are living a rich life. However, I feel like I’m losing something without realizing it…
Structure: Making Bolero
Structure: Making Bolero
Choreography: Seoljin Kim
Country / Year: KOR, 2020
Length: 0:23:14
IG @KNCDC
FB @KNCDC
The Office meets Ravel’s Bolero: the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company uses the sounds of everyday life and music in which ordinary noises expand into the rhythms of ‘Bolero’.
Xerinola
Cinema Maldà / Short films from Catalonia and Spain 22oct 20h
Mudär
Mudär
Choreography: Paula Serrano
Country / Year: ES, 2020
Length: 0:02:38
IG @paulaserrano___
IG @joanplanelles
The dancer based her inspiration on the experience of the disease to develop the creative process, she suffers from atopic dermatitis and wants to reflect in her work the inner struggle that reveals what her skin is silent, questioning beauty from the aesthetic perception constituted by emotional stability and how it is affected by said fragility.
Save The Future
Save The Future
Choreography: Carla Cervantes, Sandra Égido
Country / Year: ES, 2022
Length: 0:04:25
iG @barbarafedez
IG @carlacervantes &
IG @sandra.egido
IG @lookatthingsdifferent
This fashion film underlines the need for change in order to survive as people. We live in an era of consumerism where clothes are not bought responsibly. What would happen if clothes treated us as we treat them?
Mi Tierra Entera
(Europe premiere)
Mi Tierra Entera
Choreography: Francisco Gabriel, Stanislava Pincekova
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 0:09:30
IG @alexandra.mngh
IG @elena.dupisanie
A short documentary that features a choreographed dance by Francisco Gabriel and Stanislava Pincekova through which they portray Francisco’s personal experience of emigrating from Venezuela.
Unlabelled
Unlabelled
Choreography: Denis Terrones
Country / Year: ES, 2022
Length: 0:03:56
IG @timelessshade.studio
IG @denispoler
A short documentary about a man who breaks the norms with his passion, his art and his work. Where men are not always welcome, he has imposed himself in this discipline despite the societal pressure he has faced.
A Body Is
A Body Is
Choreography: Marco Flores
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 0:03:58
IG @la_costa_produce
IG @jaimedezca
IG @ciamarcoflores
Antonio José Martínez Palacios was going to be the biggest Spanish musician of the 20th Century. Unfortunately, he was incarcerated and executed without a trial at the age of 33, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Time (L)over
Time (L)over
Choreography: Álvaro Pinell
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 0:04:51
Two lovers inside a cuckoo clock, they can only meet when it strikes twelve o’clock, but one decision will change everything.
En Tos’laos
En Tos'laos
Choreography: Raymond Naval
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 0:01:55
IG @adrianerre
It’s hard to hide from yourself when it turns out you’re everywhere.
Blue Monday
Blue Monday
Choreography: Héctor Plaza Hernando, Agnés Sale-Martín
Country / Year: ES, 2019
Length: 0:05:40
IG @andymargetson
FB @andrew.margetson.1
The story of a relationship – mutual support, aggression, shifting power and resolution all play their part in a compellingly original piece of dance.
Anatomy Of A Dancer Vol.III – Shlomi
Anatomy Of A Dancer Vol.Iii - Shlomi
Country / Year: ES, 2021
Length: 0:02:31
Contrast of Shlomi Shlomo Miara’s movement comparing two different sets where he can be very physical and soft at the same time.
GHU
GHU
Choreography: Sirah Badiola, Ikerne Mendieta
Country / Year: ES, 2022
Length: 0:07:30
IG @imanolga
Between you and me there is something that we do not see, that brings us closer and yet divide us. It is movement that transcends our control, and is connected to everything, beyond the reach of our senses. This work is a small journey from the perspective of the living body that dances attracting and being attracted by invisible, unpredictable and unavoidable forces.
Schizo&Phrenia
Schizo&Phrenia
Country / Year: ES, 2019
Length: 0:08:31
Schizo&Phrenia is based in the 16th century on the Spanish island of Mallorca. It is the tale of a woman stranded on the island, who can’t differentiate between her reality and her imaginary world.
My muse is moving
My muse is moving
Choreography: Tom Weksler & Roser Tutusaus (Wonderground Company)
Country / Year: ES, 2022
Length: 0:03:56
IG @saraloms
IG @wonderground_company
Dialogue between an Artist and his Muse, a woman whose consciousness awakens when she falls asleep on a tree and her body comes to life through movement.
Dancing corpse of stolen phrases
Dancing corpse of stolen phrases
Choreography: Aymeric Forner
Country / Year: ES, 2022
Length: 0:07:53
This project was born to give a new life to those phrases that we can hear while we go in the metro, while we are sitting on a bench in Montjuïc, while we are walking through Barceloneta, or when we have a coffee in Gràcia. Playing with the exquisite corpse technique and using the language of dance to represent these beings in motion, this experimental short film is created with several statements that will resonate in our heads.
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Clare Schweitzer
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Clare Schweitzer (she/they) graduated in 2012 from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in Dance and Mathematics cum laude with high honors. In 2014, Clare moved to London and completed an M.A in contemporary dance, focusing her dissertation research on screendance festivals and the cultural production of screendance through its presentation. Clare has performed as a dancer around the SF Bay Area and her films have screened at festivals worldwide. She has also presented research at events such as the Light Moves Festival of Screendance and the Screendance State of the Art Symposium. She currently works as a Programming Associate with Dance Film SF (which presents the annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival) and as a videographer/editor for Rapt Productions and is a co-host on the podcast Frameform, a podcast that discusses the intersections of dance and film.
Andreas Hannes
Andreas Hannes (GR,1987) es coreógrafo, productor y comisario residente en Ámsterdam. Tras completar sus estudios de percusión clásica en la Universidad de Macedonia en Tesalónica (Grecia), se trasladó a los Países Bajos para seguir su pasión por el cine. Trabajó como director y productor independiente de cortometrajes y co-fundó Small House Productions, una plataforma de proyectos internacionales e interdisciplinarios (2011-2015).
En 2018, Andreas se graduó de SNDO (School for New Dance Development) con la actuación ‘The City’, que ganó el Moving Forward Trajectory 2018 y el Young Art Support Amsterdam 2019, y le permitió crear la secuela ‘Tremble’. En 2020 ganó el BNG DansPrijs y creó Warping Soul, con el que fue seleccionado por Aerowaves como uno de los veinte creadores promesa europeos para 2022. Es artista residente en ICK Dans Amsterdam, donde creó Reverberated Emissions (2021) y actualmente está colaborando con el festival Julidans en Amsterdam para una trayectoria de desarrollo y producción de dos años.
Andreas está afiliado a Cinedans FEST desde 2011 y actúa como programador artístico, curador y productor del festival desde 2019. www.andreashannes.com
Thomas Corriveau
Thomas Corriveau made his first films in the 1980s and pursued a career as a visual artist, working in the fields of drawing, painting, printmaking and animation. His works are part of various private and public collections and he has exhibited regularly in Canada and abroad. He is a professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts at Université du Québec in Montréal. Since ten years, he is fully involved as an independent animation filmmaker. Thomas won with his short dance film They Dance With Their Heads the Award for Best International Short Dance Film in Choreoscope 2021. www.thomascorriveau.com
Pedro Sena Nunes
Award for Best Dance Opening Title Sequence in a film or series 2022
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”.
Caroline Pope
Award winning choreographer and movement director Caroline Pope works with actors, singers and dancers, she has experience in film, TV, commercials, fashion shoots, performance art, theatre and opera. Caroline started her dance career with a ballet company in France before returning to London to co-found Extemporary Dance Theatre. She then danced with many other groundbreaking contemporary companies including Michael Clark, Lloyd Newson – DV8 and Second Stride. She received the ACGB The Theatre Performer’s Award which took her to New York where she danced with Martha Clarke and Dana Reitz amongst many others. Her recent film and television works include ‘The Princess Switched’ sequels Two and Three with Vanessa Hudgens, ‘The Hustle’ with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, Foundation (series, AppleTV), Doctor Who (S12, BBC). https://www.carolinepope.com/
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