Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Long Form Short Film: NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES
Best Short Form Short Film: YOURS
Best Music: EAT YOUR YOUNG
Best Sound Design: THE BREATH, THE FIRE
Best Story: STIGMA
Best Performances: cor·re·spond·ence
Best Nature Dance: WEST WIND
Best Direction: YOU CAN’T DO A THING
Best Cinematography: LIKE A DUET
Best Ballet Film: OPTING TO BE PULLED
Best Choreography: THE DISTANCE
YOURS, 9min., UK
Directed by Flaminia Graziadei
The body of a dying old woman lies in a bed in stillness, while her soul is dancing on the magic stage she dreamt to be all her life. The blinding lights and the clapping of an imaginary audience, accompany her to the final curtain call. In this poetic piece, life and death blend in a metaphoric farewell dance.
http://www.lonromfilmproduction.com/https://www.instagram.com/lonromfilm
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STIGMA, 8min., Canada
Directed by Reilly Michael Saso
Confronted with a devastating diagnosis, stigmatized and shrouded in despair, a young man desperately grapples with the dark specter of mortality and societal rejection in his tender teenage years. Thirty years on, he reflects on his extraordinary odyssey in search of solace through self-acceptance, love, and a sense of belonging, captivatingly narrated through the expressive form of dance.
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NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES, 20min., USA
Directed by Laura Perdrizet
“we are the dream the city is having about itself.” ~ “the city is the dream we are having of where we belong” Nomadic Mythologies is a genre bending tale of a woman and the imagination of the city. As she maps each site with her body, the city is transformed from the foreign into the familiar, the dream wakens, their connection grows, ultimately revealing what belonging somewhere truly means. Nomadic Mythologies shines light on the invisible edges between memory and desire, perception and experience, reality and fiction. The boundary between the perpetual and the evanescent vanishes, the concept of a map becomes a dimensional frontier of experiential wonder. Simultaneously an experimental narrative and screen dance film, this psychogeographic journey is inspired by wanderlust, Italo Calvino, and kinship.
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EAT YOUR YOUNG, 4min., USA
Directed by LaKesha Sowell
https://instagram.com/iam.lakesha
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THE BREATH, THE FIRE, 9min., New Zealand
Directed by Kelly Nash, Nancy Wijohn
Two M?ori dancers engage in the abstract circling’s of ‘Te H?, Te K?” the breath and the fire, seen here as many fangled creatures who whip around the various landscapes of Aotearoa, NZ together.
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cor·re·spond·ence, 20min., USA
Directed by Akwi Nji
cor·re·spond·ence is a hypnotic exploration of our human quest for connection, intimacy, and the elusive sense of geographical and spiritual home. Drawing inspiration from transatlantic letters exchanged between a Cameroon-based father and his United States-based children and wife from the 1970s to the early 2020s, the short experimental film of choreopoetry transcends familial bonds to uncover the profound impact of written correspondences across time and technology.
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WEST WIND, 9min., New Zealand
Directed by Kelly Nash
The movement is influenced by Butoh, a practice that among many things can be viewed as a turn away from the Western styles of dance, ballet and modern, to create an aesthetic that embraces an earthbound physique and natural movements.
http://www.bodyislandnz.com/https://www.instagram.com/bodyislandnz/
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YOU CAN’T DO A THING, 4min., Singapore
Directed by Taufiq Amaran, Genevieve Ho
We scrutinise and curate how we move through the world for fear of the undesirable and unpredictable in ourselves surfacing. But when we repeatedly recognise this fear as part of ourselves do we shed the instinct to overpower it. Only then do we begin freeing fear instead of fighting it.
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LIKE A DUET, 9min., Israel
Directed by Dganit Sahar Harpaz
The story of a man taken captive, tortured, and imprisoned in solitary confinement, not knowing if or when he will be released — and his wife, who is left at home, their only connection being through letters. Can love survive without seeing, hearing, touching, or knowing if and when they will ever reunite?
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OPTING TO BE PULLED, 5min. USA
Directed by Emilie Silvestri
Inspired by Alex Katz’s five-panel painting “Pas de Deux”, Opting To Be Pulled explores the push, pulls, and patterns of the five posed couples featured in the Katz source material, interpreted and expanded upon by the choreography of Colby College’s Annie Kloppenberg.
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THE DISTANCE, 3min,. USA
Directed by Zoran Prodanovic
“The Distance” is a 3-min knockout film collaboration between Choreographer Marisa f. Ballaro and Cinematographer Zoran Prodanovic. “The Distance” film was “Round 8” in the live dance production of the same name produced by Ballaro Dance at The Underground Theater in NYC; it was filmed at Overthrow Boxing Club.
https://www.ballarodance.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ballaro_dance
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