Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Dance Film: MITOTE – SMOKEY MIRROR
Best Direction: MORNING INTERLUDE
Best Experimental: KINGDOM
Best Story: POET
Best Performances: OUT OF THE DARK
Best Choreography: SLOWLY
Best Ballet Film: DAYLIGHT
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SLOWLY, 4min,. France
Directed by Christophe Dachy
Paris, Place de la République, July 2022. Alone, facing the trampling crowd, the march of time, the freezing rain, she dances.
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OUT OF THE DARK, 3min,. USA
Directed by Alexa Ruggiero, Ashley Carrizo
A screendance film that portrays how certain relationships in ones life can cause turmoil. The process of letting someone go can be freeing while also being an emotional rollercoaster full of sadness, anger, and relief.
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POET, 5min,. China
Directed by Mofei Wei, Yang Sun
“Poet” is a dance film inspired by Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua, a rural woman with cerebral palsy, who recently became famous in China. Many started to know her works from her audacious Poem “Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You”. Living in a conservative rural village in southern China where prejudice against women, disability, and divorce are high, she managed to break free from an unwanted marriage and live her life as a writer despite the satirical voices around.
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MORNING INTERLUDE, 7min., France
Directed by Sirius
At daybreak on a country road, a young couple returns from a restless night visibly exhausted. Angry with each other the couple will in a magnetic danse try to reconcile.
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KINGDOM, 8min., Poland
Directed by Jagoda Turlik
Past, Present, Future – Three orders determining the space of life. Distant, but without each other they do not constitute truth. They coexist as a sum, a stream of experience. The past stores memories, evokes sentiments, but also hides demons. There is no future, it may be dangerous. The present forces you to decide in what direction to go “here and now”
https://www.instagram.com/jatu_film/
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MITOTE – SMOKEY MIRROR, 9min,. South Korea
Directed by Jana Sturmheit
In today’s world us humans have developed a complex social system of rules and expectations. Children are taught from the day they are born on how they are expected to behave. They are told what is right and wrong, what is possible and what not. That is, by the standards of the children’s parents and other people in their surroundings, in other words the society they grow up in.
https://instagram.com/jaystorm24.mov
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LOST DREAMS, 10min., USA
Directed by Andrew Wakeman Proctor
Lost Dreams is about dreams. Scientists have not fully figured out dreams. The ancients believed you could predict the future through your dreams, Native Americans created dream-capturing devices. Some people keep dream diaries. Freud believed that we could fix people’s psychological problems by analyzing their dreams.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32021226/?ref_=ttawd_rvi_tt_i_4
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Experimental Film & Music Video Festival 