Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Form Short Film: ENTRE 2 EAUX (IN BTWIN 2 WATERS)
Best Long Form Short Film: BREAKING THE SURFACE
Best Choreography: THE MIGRANT BODY
Best Ballet Film: WORK IT OUT
Best Poetry Film: THE LINES IN BETWEEN
Best Story: THE SEED OF TIME
Best Cinematography: KEEP MOVING
Best Direction: SISTER
Best Performances: GLOAMING
Best Editing: TONARI
Best Sound & Music: S A L O P I C A
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
BREAKING THE SURFACE, 26min., USA
Directed by John Evans, Ani Javian
Breaking the Surface is a dance film about climate change, specifically, about the rise of sea level and the issues that are caused by that rise, currently and projected into the future. The film focuses on communities in New Jersey and the region that are being, and will be, most affected by the changes.
https://johnmoderndanceevans.wixsite.com/jevansdanceandfilm/video
https://www.facebook.com/jmdevans
https://instagram.com/jmdevans?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
KEEP MOVING, 17min., USA
Directed by Colin Harabedian
a journey through grief
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
ENTRE 2 EAUX (IN BTWIN 2 WATERS), 5min., France
Directed by Caroline RAGUSA, Sylvain BES
Chiara is standing there, alone with herself, until she meets Nero, her double and her opposite at the same time. This story is a deep immersion at the root of our origins, an ode to life.
https://www.carolineragusa.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/Caro2eaux
https://www.instagram.com/caro2eaux/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
S A L O P I C A, 8min., Canada
Directed by Serenella Sol, Callum McCormack
Amidst the vibrant colours and rhythmic beats of Venezuela, a young woman uncovers her passion for dance. But as she struggles to conform to society’s rigid beauty standards, she embarks on a disorienting and tumultuous journey of self-discovery, leaving her country, culture and innocence in a violent and abrupt awakening.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE SEED OF TIME, 5min., USA
Directed by Paula Nunez, Tiger Tao
A lapse of time has a before and after of the time in question. Everything has its beginning and end, nature’s order of time for all types of beings. But in truth, all life is impermanent, ever changing in constant motion, making the idea of now an illusion. But what of those things that do not move, the lifeless, the inanimate? The dancers will translate “the illusion of now” into reality, by breaking the routine with their dance, to be implanted in the spectator’s memory.
http://www.tampacityballet.org/
https://facebook.com/tampacityballet
https://instagram.com/tampacityballet
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SISTER, 12min,. USA
Directed by Quinn Wharton
A dance film exploring the perils of fitting in. We follow a young woman entering into a ritual experience to join the group she aspires to be a part of. Struggling with the experience she finds it difficult to know if she’s doing the right thing or merely conforming.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE LINES IN BETWEEN, 11min,. USA
Directed by Georgia Usborne
Struggling with writer’s block, a woman moves through surreal worlds to discover the ebbs and flows of creativity.
https://www.paulrabinowitz.com/the-lines-in-between
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
TONARI, 17min,. Japan
Directed by Ben Tarquin
When her mirrored reflection comes to life, a dancer caught between Tokyo and San Francisco must embark on an epic chase to find herself. TONARI is a cross-cultural, cross-generational story that explores race and mixed identity through narrative, dance, and jazz music.
http://wearetonari.com/https://www.instagram.com/wearetonari/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE MIGRANT BODY, 12min., USA
Directed by Paula Gil Higa, Cal Hopwood
This film examines human migration through the creative lens of PH Dance’s Artistic Director, Paula Higa. Deriving from her personal experience as a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States, Higa researched various motives for individual displacement. People migrate for many reasons, from new life experiences to security, from demography to human rights, and from socio-economic grounds to climate change. Thus, this performance focuses on the meaning of self-discovery by uncovering physical geography, the gap between past and present, and the sense of not having a home. Dancemaker Paula Higa proposes a reflection on who is not a migrant in this world.
http://www.paulahiga.com/
https://www.facebook.com/PaulaHigaDance
https://www.instagram.com/phdanceers/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
GLOAMING, 10min., Sweden
Directed by Alana da Silva
A winter dance duet between two souls moving in and out of each other’s worlds.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
WORK IT OUT, 9min., Hong Kong
Directed by Marie Yi-Qing Bouvéron
Resilience through Imagination: An ode to Hong Kong. A journey in between a disheartened and a virtual world.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
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