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Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Film: THE WAY WE CHANGEBest Dance Film: LET OFFBest Experimental Dance: COUNT IT ALLBest Sound & Music: GHOSTLY LABORBest Performances: INFERNO Best Direction: YOU WANTED RIVERSBest Cinematography: FAREWELL Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film: FAREWELL, 5min., China, DanceDirected by Ruo Wen… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: June 2022 Dance Film Festival

Directed by Tonya KayThe official music video for Lyra Star’s original song “Moonrise,” featuring contortion and special visual effects. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Project Links  Website  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram Director Biography – Tonya Kay Tonya Kay’s career started as a professional dancer on Broadway and in blockbusters. Expect to see dynamic physicality, choreographed camera movements… Continue reading Short Film: MOONRISE, 5min., USA, Music Video

Directed by Allexia GalvãoSONAR is a fashion film that shows about loneliness in one way, and strength when we connect our selves with our inner power. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Project Links  Website

Directed by Changhee ChunA visual poem on life, death and rebirth of water. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Director Biography – Changhee Chun Changhee Chun Professor & Filmmaker(Morgan Woodward Distinguished Professor in Film)Department of Art + Art HistoryThe University of Texas at Arlington Since the first moment I saw the effect that a film can have… Continue reading Short Film: MEMORY OF WATER, 9min., USA, Poem

Directed by Daniela ZambranoThe concept of this visual composition is to convey the audience into a parallel reality or dream state.However, it is not about the romanticism of a dream, but rather a scenario of not wanting to wake up and return to a sad and painful reality. The dream is an escape from the… Continue reading Short Film: DISPLACED, 3min., Australia

Directed by Igor Correa, Carlos LaerteIn the discomfort and misunderstanding of one’s individuality, it is necessary to perceive oneself as lost in order to be found. The directors Carlos Laerte and Igor Corrêa question the existence, self-love and the process of liberation of someone who lives in trouble with himself and does not heal. The… Continue reading Short Film: LET OFF, 15min., Brazil, Dance

Directed by Louise Marie BeauchampPoetic fresco shot in the cold of Canada that expresses the difficulty for a migrant to tame a foreign territory. On J.-S. Bach’s Adagio in D minor, which he brilliantly interprets on the piano, the Guatemalan indigenous artist and farmer Salvador Chavajay tells us with simplicity and clairvoyance the recent forced… Continue reading Short Film: THE MIGRANTS, 5min., Canada, Music Video

Directed by Mickey Smith, Allan WilsonAcross two decades a clan of curious misfits illuminated the frost bitten frontiers of North Atlantic salt.A pack of strays with a rare eye for heavy water, a halcyon era of exploration & camaraderie in the cold.From the supernatural alchemy of Kernow to the raw majesty of Eire, ‘HUNROS JORNA’… Continue reading Short Film: HUNROS JORNA, 19min., UK,

Directed by Ruo Wen TianCountless ordinary life experiences are buried deep in the dust.In an old factory trapped in stilled time, I try to show how common folk constantly exist in an ever moving forward torrent of time, through the collision and contrast between the youth of young dancers and the antiquity of the machinery… Continue reading Short Film: FAREWELL, 5min., China, Dance

Directed by Nima B. DjavidaniWe, like two openings facingaware of any of each other’s ramblings.Everyday, salutation, amenities and laughter,everyday, a tryst for tomorrow,life, a mirror of heaven, but…alasshorter than the night and days of June and Decembernow my heart is broken and tired,because one of the openings is shut.Neither the sun did sorcery nor the… Continue reading Short Film: THE OPENINGS, 6min., Cyprus, Musical