Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Dance Film: amalgaMOTION
Best Direction: A PLACE FOR US
Best Sound & Music: AN AWAKENING
Best Cinematography: Nesia
Best Choreography: LAKE OF DREAMS
Best Story: MAD MADE
Best Editing: TOUCHING THE UNGRIEVED GRIEF
Best Performances: THE FIVE STAGES
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
AN AWAKENING, 5min., USA
Directed by Charles A M.
“An Awakening” engages a full spectrum of senses to explore how generational trauma manifests itself in the body, on an effective level deeper than dialogue could ever express.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
A PLACE FOR US, 6min,. USA
Directed by Leigh-Ann Esty, Ellie Gravitte
6 female cast members from Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” play with a gender flip of the iconic prologue.
https://www.instagram.com/leighesty
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Nesia, 15min., Canada
Directed by Mikel Guillen
An avant-garde film about trauma and how a little girl connects through dance with her surviving Hungarian grandmother who was a Auschwitz survivor.
http://mikelguillen.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mikelguillenfilm/
https://www.instagram.com/mikelgb/?hl=en
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
amalgaMOTION, 5min., Canada
Directed by Adam Daniel Mezei, Crystal Finn-Dunn
A visually stunning celebration of diverse dance styles fusing into harmony. Captivating choreography, mesmerizing synergy. Prepare for a spectacular journey where cultures unite through dance.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
LAKE OF DREAMS, 4min,. Germany
Directed by Axel Werner
„Like water, desire always finds its way“
A young man suffers from the fixed idea of his dream woman. He tears himself away from his demons and heads towards his vision with the boundless power of desire.
https://lake-of-dreams.art/
https://facebook.com/axel.w.music
https://instagram.com/axel.w.music
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
MAN MADE, 5min., Singapore
Directed by Jaron Boey, Ryan Foong
Love can be nurturing. But it can also be destructive. When love is built on convenience and exploitation, we find ourselves being crippled by our self-serving habits. In this stalemate between our obsession with plastics and our love for Mother Nature, which will prevail?
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
TOUCHING THE UNGRIEVED GRIEF, 8min., USA
Directed by Sah D’ Simone
“Touching the Ungrieved Grief” embraces and celebrates the unique perspective of Sah D’Simone, a queer person of color who both stars in and created the film.
http://sahdsimone.com/
https://facebook.com/sahdsimone
https://twitter.com/sahdsimone.com
https://instagram.com/sahdsimone
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE FIVE STAGES, 12min., USA
Directed by Jessica Orcsik
Eva Allen is a recently single, devastated young woman. She enters a black box theatre being filled with well-dressed and put together people, laughing and drinking. A variety act performance is about to begin.
http://www.diversitypictures.org/https://www.instagram.com/thefivestages_
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
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