WINNERS: January 2026 DANCE Festival

A showcase of the best DANCE films from around the world today.

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS (From Feedback Festival)
Best Dance Film: MELBOURNE HOPAK
Best Story: THE BROKEN CYCLE
Best Visual Design: PACE
Best Direction: CORPS LIQUIDE

The Broken Cycle, 3min., Hong Kong
Directed by Andreas Guzman
An endless cycle. A dance of stagnation. A relationship’s rhythm, caught in a relentless tide, is about to break.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-broken-cycle

Melbourne Hopak, 10min., Australia
Directed by Melanie Anna Moravski Dechnicz
Melbourne Hopak is part of the Lehenda Film series. The origins of Lehenda’s film series can be traced back to the global Covid-19 lockdowns—a time when theatres were dark, stages silent, and traditional forms of cultural expression temporarily out of reach. Faced with the absence of live performance, we turned to film as a new medium to preserve and express our identity as Australian Ukrainians.

https://www.instagram.com/lehendaukrainiandancecompany/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-melbourne-hopak

PACE, 3min., Brazil
Directed by Jens Kjær
Set against the raw landscapes of Brazil, PACE is an artistic dance film that unfolds as a visual poem exploring movement, color, and perception. Through wide-angle cinematography and radical color grading, it immerses the viewer in a world where the human body merges with untamed nature.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-pace

Corps Liquide, 11min., Canada
Directed by Amandine Garrido, Matthew Gaines
Liquid Bodies is a sensory and immersive dance film that explores the vital connection between humans and water. Carried by the dance of a contemporary performer, the film evokes the major stages of existence — from gestation to metamorphosis — in resonance with the different phases of the water cycle: liquid, vapor, rain. Filmed in dreamlike aquatic environments, this poetic work merges movement and cinema to reveal the beauty, power, fragility, and constant presence of water in our bodies and lives. An intimate, universal of life in motion.

https://www.instagram.com/amandinepaulina/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-corps-liquide