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Film Catalogue

Sense of the Damaged
Online
Available online: 24/03/2024
Sense of the Damaged New Dutch

Miloushka Bokma, 2023, NL, 8 min

An allegorical film based on the news photos of refugees. Reality is often more absurd and bitter than you could have ever imagined. We are inundated with images that make us jaded in a certain way and our conscience has become a casual phenomenon of our time: today it is here, tomorrow it is gone.

The film is accompanied by a performance by artist Miloushka Bokma.

Parel Moerwijk
Online
Parel Moerwijk New Dutch

Bart Sturing, 2023, NL, 6 min

Bart shares his experiences of living in Moerwijk-Oost, a working-class neighborhood in The Hague. The many empty buildings merge the world of a group of inhabiting creatives with the daily antics of five children living down the street. Shot with a hand-held 16mm and super 8 camera and accompanied by a photo series by Nas Hosen and soundtrack by Unit Nine.

Inei
Online
Available online: 25/03/2024
Inei New Dutch

Siba Sahabi, 2023, JP, NL, 4 min

Inei, meaning darkness in Japanese, is a poetic exploration of the unfixed time system known as futeijihō. The dance film unfolds against the breathtaking backdrop of Mount Yufu and is a visual and emotional feast for the senses. From the blue hues of sunrise to the dusky shadows of sunset, the film captures the shifting atmospheres and moods that accompany the passing of time.

Bull Rider
Online
Available online: 23/03/2024
Bull Rider Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition

Steven Gray, 2023, US, 2 min

Bull Rider merges meditations on dance from choreographer Martha Graham, music by composer Philip Glass and featuring bull rider in action Ouncie Mitchell.

Lucid Dreaming
Online
Available online: 23/03/2024
Lucid Dreaming New Dutch

Emma Evelein, 2023, BE, NL, 13 min

Lucid Dreaming tells the story of a girl in a train, who loses herself in the world of another passenger. As she falls deeper in his emotions and sensations, the train and its passengers become part of the world she encounters through him. During this non-verbal encounter between strangers, she experiences how imagination and empathy are both powerful and vulnerable at the same time.

This film is part of the online program but accessible only in the Netherlands.

100m
Online
Available online: 20/03/2024
100m online potential

Monika Szpunar, 2022, PL, 5 min

Shot in a single take in a long industrial tunnel, within its strict time, choreographic and spatial framework ‘100m’ underlines uniqueness of the experience of going through stages of grief.

Life Left Behind
Online
Available online: 23/03/2024
Life Left Behind Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition

Valia Phyllis Zwart, 2022, NO, 6 min, 9+

Whilst driving, a woman attempts to reconcile with her past and the scars it left behind.

Parades
Online
Available online: 23/03/2024
Parades Out of Competition

Alan Lake, 2022, CA, 16 min, 16+

Parades is an initiation to a mysterious pagan feast made by powerful images between fantasy and allegory. Director and choreographer Alan Lake depict a universe that is as alluring as it is disturbing.

Play / Repeat
Online
Available online: 20/03/2024
Play / Repeat online potential

Carlos E. Lesmes, 2023, EE, 7 min, 12+

There is a couple. Two bodies. Two beings. 1+1. Sometimes it feels like only one. This film piece wants to explore aspects of a relationship through movement, through the bodies of the performers. The unfathomable distance between two people. Broke but never broken

The unfathomable distance between two people. Broke but never broken

Tales of Freedoom
Online
Available online: 23/03/2024
Tales of Freedoom Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition

Riccardo Saraceni, 2022, CH, IT, 21 min, 18+

Tales of Freedoom explores the possibility of movement through recycled materials and wild thoughts. Like a magnifying glass that reveals what’s hidden in the evident, the main character embarks on a journey through the city and a world of sensations. A naively intuitive research, exposing fear, poetry, frustration, freedom and its restrictions.

The Goddam Milky Way
Online
Available online: 23/03/2024
The Goddam Milky Way Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition

Jérémie Battaglia, 2021, CA, 19 min

From the depths of the Earth to the dunes of an unknown desert, a group of women embark on an initiatory journey. A pagan mass, a quest, or a common elevation, The Goddam Milky Way celebrates femininity in all its roughness and complexity.

THORN
Online
Available online: 25/03/2024
THORN Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition

Alexander Stamatiadis, 2022, GR, 8 min, 0+

In a remote gas station in the heart of winter, a place where time stands still, three strangers cross paths and reshape time in their own way.

to be near you.
Online
Available online: 20/03/2024
to be near you. online potential

Jarret Blinkhorn and Ali Kenner Brodsky, 2021, US, 10 min, 0+

Based on a live duet between Ali Kenner Brodsky and Jenna Pollack, to be near you. honors the memory of those that we have lost, collapses distance by energizing the spaces between, and demonstrates how people can find connection through physical separation. to be near you. pushes at the boundaries of time to create a feeling of reconnecting with something, or someone, who is gone.

Little Movement
Online
Available online: 25/03/2024
Little Movement New Dutch

Sergio Gridelli | Maaike van de Westeringh, 2023, NL, 8 min

Little Movement is a short dance film in which six patients with Huntington's disease are portrayed in a dream-like space where time is suspended. An intimate choreography shows us their positive energy, zest for life and resilience in their vulnerable and fragile existence.

A new day has come
Online
Available online: 20/03/2024
A new day has come online potential

Red Nguyen Hai Yen, 2022, VN, 8 min

Ngày Mới’ (A new day has come), is a poetic visual response to the new track “Ngày Mới” of Vietnam-based electronic band Tiny Giant. The film depicts a world in constant motion that opens up when we slumber. Cavernous darkness is a habitat of transit, between worlds and the axis of time. In the heart of this motion, memories, knowledge, sadness and joy will leave their residues without completely disappearing: perhaps they have fallen into another place, another turning of time. The moment of transit in the cave doubles as both childhood and adulthood come to the surface in sync, where we bend closer in proximity to the inner child, the taste of a spoonful of innocence lingering on the tongue. Deity-like characters also appear in the video. They are gods of the filmmaker’s own world turned into images, as any person can have their own interpretation of a god. In this film, God is understood as a provider of support and company, and trust is a form of custody. We trust in the things that can protect and guide us. The eyeless horses, then, appear as mascots and attachment figures that walk with the children towards the world.

Part of the choreography was initially inspired by the ‘Kitsune Wedding’ scene in ‘Dreams’ – a film by Akira Kurosawa, in combination with experimental hip hop moves and the krumping stomps, choreographed and performed by Saigon-based dancer Kim from La Différence Saigon and Hanoi-based dancer Quay Trần from Abnormal Conceptz.

Heartache
Online
Heartache Out of Competition

Iker Karrera & Alberto D. Centeno, 2023, ES, 3 min

Heartache deploys tensely expressive movement in a darkly playful take on the dynamics of seeing and being seen. Dark humor, sarcastic imagery and expressive choreography conveyed a unique atmosphere to color the interactions between the dancers and their setting.

Branché
Online
Available online: 25/03/2024
Branché Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition

Janique L Robillard, Eric Bates , 2023, CA, 16 min

Through unique female circus and movement art, Branché traverses time and Quebec's lush natural landscapes. While diminishing resources and livable land are causing existential collapse, the performers' bold three-high formations and breathtaking falls remind us that a oneness of nature and humanity is undoubtedly worth preserving.

Spellbound
Online
Spellbound New Dutch

Nicola Hepp, 2023, NL, 11 min

A woman walks slowly through a dark, untouched forest. She is following someone in the distance, someone she can’t quite make out. Or is the other actually following her? Too late, the woman regrets a desperate attempt to escape her pursuer. As she starts to understand and approaches the point of no return, she is lured into making a dire decision.

Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl
Online
Available online: 23/03/2024
Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl Out of Competition

Claudia Owusu & Ife Oluwamuyide, 2022, GH, US, 18 min

Ampe is a high-energy game played by girls in Ghana. It includes jumping, clapping, and an all-around cheer as two teams select a stepping pattern and face off. The innate joy and competitive edge of ampe discloses the desire of girls to be set free unconditionally and feel a range of emotions without judgment.

Leleb
Online
Available online: 25/03/2024
Leleb Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition

Marc Aziz Ressang, Nathaniel J Brown, 2022, ID, 3 min

Set in the flooded villages of Java, Indonesia, this dance film attempts to come to terms with the despair that surrounds a disappearing home. Leleb is dedicated to those who endure.

And Me, I´m Dancing Too
Online
Available online: 22/03/2024
And Me, I´m Dancing Too Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition

Mohammad Valizadegan, 2023, CZ, DE, 20 min

Saba, an Iranian girl, is a dancer. She wants to be indifferent to her surroundings and manifests this self-being and freedom with her body. She is in love with the art of dancing, the art of letting go and living away from conventional bonds. But this art of being is forbidden in an ultimately religious state that ignores the very basic human rights. The film is an honest portrait of the daily oppression women have to deal with in Iran towards the path to freedom.

This film is part of the online program but accessible only in the Netherlands.