Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award:
Best Dance Film: SPARE ME THE DECISION: NATION OF LANGUAGES
Best Experimental Film: DON’T SAY MY NAME
Best Music Video: PLAY THE KEY REVISED
Best Direction: HOME
Best Story: KNOT IN MY CHEST
Best Sound & Music: MEROPE
Best Documentary: WALK OFF THE EARTH AT BUD STAGE 2024
Best Poetry Film: DARK CIRCLES
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SPARE ME THE DECISION: NATION OF LANGUAGES, 3min., USA
Directed by Samuel Hart
A dance music video exploring the pull of longing and Self Isolation
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MEROPE, 8min., USA
Directed by Juan Carlos Zaldivar
The short film, Merope, follows a personification of the hidden star on a journey towards emancipation from the ties that historically have bound her and her six sisters, the Pleiades constellation, in a narrative about captivity and victimization, towards a new story where she claims visibility and a more authentic place in the universe for her and her sisters.
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WALK OFF THE EARTH AT BUD STAGE 2024, 11min., Canada
Directed by Mike Onley
A behind the scenes look at a day in the life of Canadian rockstars Walk Off The Earth at Budweiser Gardens the day of their annual performance. We explore why the home-town show is so special to the band and fans alike, and what goes in to creating a spectacular show.
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KNOT IN MY CHEST, 4min., USA
Directed by Ali Malik
A NAUSEATED STOCK BROKER, A BORED DELI CLERK, AND A LONELY ARISTOCRAT BREAK OUT OF THIER OWN DYSTOPIAS THE ONE WAY THEY KNOW HOW.
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HOME, 30min,. USA
Directed by Sue Schroeder, Adam Larsen
Filmed in France and Poland, Larsen and Schroeder, alongside an international community of gifted artists – from Columbia, France, Germany, Israel, Poland and the US- seek to create connection, impact, and meaning through a visually rich and poetic experience of beauty and loss, tenderness and urgency, action and recognition, mirroring and magnifying light. The work is gentle and steadfast, sharing and protecting life and in its surest moments, revealing the “we”, instead of the “I”.
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PLAY THE KEY REVISED, 4min,. Germany
Directed by Stefan Westphal
Play the Key is a self-produced, no-budget music video that visualizes a complex journey of resilience and healing. This song, part of our 2013 collection from [Former Drum & Bass Work PT.08 2013 – 2017], follows a protagonist grappling with deep personal challenges. Under relentless emotional assault from her close yet fractured surroundings, she discovers solace by “playing the key,” which transports her into an epic, dreamlike world. In this alternate reality, she encounters the dandelion—a symbol of healing and renewal—that provides a powerful antidote to the cruelty she’s endured since childhood.
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DARK CIRCLES, 4min., USA
Directed by Suswana Chowdhury
“Dark Circles” is a surrealist short poetry film directed and produced by Suswana Chowdhury, and written by Jean-Sebastien Surena.
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DON’T SAY MY NAME, 29min,. UK
Directed by Shobana Jeyasingh, Teresa Griffiths
Claudio Monteverdi’s II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda – a fierce combat set in the first Crusades between a European knight and a female Saracen warrior – is given a contemporary twist. A group of dancers rehearsing the work in a studio and on tour abroad encounter a stranger who seems to have stepped out of their story but does not want to be in it. Shot in locations in London and Spain, (Don’t) Say My Name is a poetic and layered exploration of otherness, conflict and reconciliation.
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