WINNERS: May 2026 DANCE Festival

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

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS (From Feedback Festival):
Best Dance Film: VEKK
Best Performances: LES MEMES QUE TOI
Best Visual Design: PORTRAIT OF TRACES
Best Direction: ROOM
Best Ballet Film: Dance from the Angel and Faerie Operettas by Terry Ulick

Les Memes Yeux Que Toi, 11min., Canada
Directed by Derek Branscombe
Adapted from Anne Plamondon’s award-winning dance work, the film captures her return to her. late father’s apartment, opening a fragile dialogue with memory, loss, and the unseen, where movement leads toward release.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-les-memes-yeux-que-toi

PORTRAIT OF TRACES, min., South Korea
Directed by Hansol Jeong
is a four-chapter XR-based dance film tracing the journey from constricted breath to embodied self-return. Through performative movement that merges dance and acting, and immersive digital environments that externalize inner states, the body becomes both narrative and landscape.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-portrait-of-traces

ROOMS, 21min., USA
Directed by Levi Elizaga
When a curious young woman explores an abandoned mansion, she is delighted to find artifacts–and people–from the past. That feeling soon turns to confusion when an ethereal guardian takes her hand and guides her thru the secret recesses of the mansion. The atmosphere grows heavy and more sinister from room to room. When an uprising erupts, she bolts in a panic, leaving her guardian behind. Now she is lost and alone and faces a choice. Ultimately, the young woman learns the rooms hold a hidden dimension of truth that spans generations; a truth she may not be able to escape.

https://www.instagram.com/thedanceexperience.az/

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

VEKK, 6min., Norway
Directed by Thea Bay, Simon Matthew Valentine
A dance film about miscommunication and living in different realities.

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

Dance from the Angel and Faerie Operettas by Terry Ulick, 27min., USA
Directed by Terry Ulick
Ballet and modern dance numbers from the Operettas “An Angel’s Love” and “Shameless Faeries” by Terry Ulick from Wherever Music and Wherever Movies. All rights reserved and not for use without express written permission.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dance-from-the-angel