Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Form Short Film: ROUGH DRAFT
Best Long Form Short Film: THE BECOMING
Best Story: ENTROPY
Best Direction: RE:BIRTH
Best Dance Film: TRAIL – RASTRO
Best Choreography: WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA
Best Style: PARADES
Best Performances: TOPIA
Best Cinematography: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Best Editing: BOLD
ENTROPY, 8min., Slovenia
Directed by Jan Hajšen
Entropy is closely connected to randomness, that is, absence of information – in living beings this primary information is the DNA that controls the entropy and prevents chaos. The movie is an illustration of chaos in an apocaliptic world and a structure that holds the space together.
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ROUGH DRAFT, 3min., Singapore
Directed by Joseph Lim, Anne Wang, Eve Tan
A dance film motivated by its makers’ personal struggles with self-expectation, “rough draft” is an introspective exploration of the complex and intricate discord between oneself and one’s ideal.
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, 13min., USA
Directed by Lisa Eaton
“Behind Closed Doors” is a poignant short film that explores the intricate dynamics within a hetero-sexual family. The story takes a dramatic turn when the husband confronts and grapples with his authentic sexual identity. As the film unfolds, it delves into the emotional turmoil, secrets, and challenges faced by the family members as they navigate this revelation, ultimately shedding light on the profound impact of self-discovery within their family and the place they call home.
http://lisaeaton.net/https://www.instagram.com/behindcloseddoorsthefilm
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BOLD, 3min,. USA
Directed by Alla Kovgan, Miko Malkhasyan
A surreal night shift of a female prison guard turns into a juggling fiesta, celebrating diversity and solidarity of women.
Home
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TRAIL – RASTRO, 9min., Mexico
Directed by Claudia Lavista, Alexander Dahm
We flow imprisoned by a weightless yet heavy burden, tied by tight yet incorporeal ropes that enclose us into endless circles that we walk through over and over until we vanish leaving invisible yet indelible trails. Hung on to an imaginary ballast, we live an existence diminished by our own condemn, and we relinquish our transcendence.
Delfos Danza Contemporánea
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RE:BIRTH, 8min., Taiwan
Directed by Laticia Fan
A lost soul traumatized by her past and trapped in the confines of her own imagination. Unable to move forward with life until she was led to begin her journey of recovery and discovery by a sound healer, ultimately conquering her darkest memories, fears, and desires, and transcending the perpetual tug-of-war between attachment and letting go.
https://www.laticiafan.com/
https://instagram.com/sheng.shortfilm
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PARADES, 16min,. Canada
Directed by Alan Lake
Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.
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TOPIA, 15min., USA
Directed by Jessie Lee Thorne, Justin Thorne
Topia investigates the complexity of emotions, specifically exploring individuals’ different manifestations of darkness – numbness, dissociation, depression, mania. The work examines the necessity of vulnerability, community, holding each other in pain and joy, and the effects that can have on the individual as well as those we let in.
https://www.instagram.com/jessieleethorne
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WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA, 9min., Costa Rica
Directed by Maui Barzuna
Directed and choreographed by Costa Rican-based artist Maui Barzuna, the short dance film Woulda Coulda Shoulda explores the search for self-esteem by trying to live up to an idealized image of yourself to compensate feelings of insecurity, self-doubt & anxiety. This cycle often produce a sense of impending failure that inspires frenzied hard-work and short-lived gratification when failure is delayed. This experience is more specific than mere self-doubt and overthinking. It is the fear of being found out. Revealed for what I really was. The finale – “taking off the mask” involves owning all the various parts of yourself, accepting them instead of trying to get rid of them, and understanding their function in the larger self at the core of one’s being, a shell that must be concealed, but also an intrinsic understanding of the selves as many selves.
https://www.facebook.com/mauibarzuna
https://www.twitter.com/mauibarzuna
https://www.instagram.com/mauibarzuna
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THE BECOMING, 25min., UK
Directed by Ben Crompton
The Becoming marks 30 years since the founding of award winning balletLORENT by choreographer Liv Lorent and celebrates the physical limits and self-discovery of performance.
http://www.balletlorent.com/
https://www.facebook.com/balletlorent
https://twitter.com/balletlorent
https://www.instagram.com/balletlorent/
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