Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Dance Film: YOU ARE ALSO US
Best Direction: RUINS WITHIN RUINS
Best Story: 20 + 1
Best Sound & Music: CRESCENT HEIGHTS
Best Choreography: AWAKENING
Best Experimental Dance: THE GOOD LIFE
Best Cinematography: AWAKENING
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RUINS WITHIN RUINS, 9min., Greece
Directed by Lefteris Parasyris
A group of dancers positions themselves between the ancient and modern ruins of the island of Crete, Greece. Drawing inspiration from its rich heritage, they craft a series of kinetic forms and patterns influenced by folk dances and Minoan frescoes. These installations, whether harmonising with or contrasting against the island’s culture, offer reflections on historical memory and the Cretan identity.
https://www.instagram.com/lefteris.parasyris/
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CRESCENT HEIGHTS, 5min,. Greece
Directed by Yiannis Margetousakis
The concept is based on our inner battles to escape from our own thoughts and desires. The constant antithesis between light/hope and darkness is depicted through contemporary vibes to a classical feel. The title is inspired by the moon phases as a symbol to various and contrasting sentimental moods, a travel that we all make each and every day. The journey can be rough but the arrival point always is a quiet place – like our true home.
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VIVALDI SPRING I, 3min., Canada
Directed by Sarah Dolan
Inspired by Vivaldi’s timeless music of waking after a long winter’s slumber, the dancers of the youth company, YYC Dance Project, joyously spring into beautiful movement, surrounded by the gorgeous rocky mountain terrain, on the land of the meeting place of Treaty 7.
https://louisstudios.ca/
https://www.instagram.com/yycdanceproject/
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YOU ARE ALSO US, 15min., UK
Directed by Cathy Waller
You are also Us is a powerful exploration of the complex and multifaceted experience of invisibility. The film explores the themes of pain, joy, power, connection and resignation that come with the struggle to hide certain parts of ourselves from this world.
http://www.cathywaller.com/
https://www.facebook.com/cathywallercompanyUK/
https://twitter.com/CathyWaller
https://www.instagram.com/cathywallerco
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20 + 1, 11min., Russia
Directed by Alexey Rikinov
Apathy, suspicion and indifference reign in a world that is heading nowhere. People get stuck on their personal problems and refuse to see the big picture.
https://ar-movement.ru/projects
https://www.instagram.com/ar_movement_project
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THE GOOD LIFE, 7min., France
Directed by Didier MULLERAS
This film is a poetic and experimental exploration of the notions of separation, memory and absence, in the human relationships that a group of people who have shared long periods of life and actions can have.
http://www.didier-mulleras.com/
https://facebook.com/didier.mulleras
https://instagram.com/didier.mulleras
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AWAKENING, 4min,. Taiwan
Directed by Sze-Ting Huang
The body serves as a vessel that stores self-awareness.
This film initially develops through the sense of touch, picking up traces of various emotions left along the journey. It constantly moves, pauses, and intersects, driven by the power generated through shifting of balance, prompting a dialogue between the body and memory, re-experiencing the mutual influence of “internal” and “external,” thus reflecting on one’s own state of floating unease.
https://www.huangszeting.com/2023awakening
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1797245748
https://www.instagram.com/szeting_h
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