From the 13th of March to the 13th of April
An exquisite collection of films about dance that includes about 30 titles to enjoy Dansa Metropolitana on the screen in your own home as well.
The seventh art and dance show us the alliances that weave in a series of films that you can find on the Filmin platform during this edition of Dansa Metropolitana from March 13 to April 13. With the cooperation of the Choreoscope Barcelona Dance Film Festival.
You can enjoy the films with subscription to Filmin or payment.
Feature films: Border in motion
Migrants
Iran; 2022 - Running time: 85min.
Migrants is an experimental film without dialogues that follows 15 different people, 15 stories, but none of them are told. A cinematic interpretation of Jerzy Grotowski's poor theatre. Despite its production conditions, everything we see in the film is simultaneously both inside and outside of it. A train that passes and does not pass. An explosion that occurs and does not occur. And a village that exists and does not exist. This is migration. You leave your place of birth, but you remain there, as if you had never left.
Director and choreographer: Masoud Ahmadi
Portrait of a Generation Award Choreoscope 2024
Kite Zo A / Leave the bones
Canada, Haiti; 2022 - Running time: 68min.
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a voodoo ritual that led to the creation of the first black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. Kite Zo A is a sensory film about the rituals in Haiti, from the ancient to the modern, created with the collaboration of poets, dancers, musicians, fishermen, skaters, and voodoo priests, set against the poetry of Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel.
Directed by: Kaveh Nabatian
In collaboration with the Le FIFA Montréal festival
La somme de nos rêves
Canada; 2021 - Running time: 75min.
In the depths of a mythical forest, people sleep. They dream of strange places where their bodies live, floating in a real or imaginary world. Produced in collaboration with the École Nationale de Cirque, Le somme de nos rêves offers an intimate and unique immersion into the world of the circus.
Directed by: Jérémie Battaglia and Johanne Madore - Choreography: École Nationale de Cirque
In collaboration with the Le FIFA Montréal festival
Enter Achilles by DV8
Netherlands, United Kingdom; 1996 - Running time: 48min.
This Emmy-winning film is set in a typical British pub, a shabby, nicotine-stained den where pop songs echo, football plays on the television, and eight men joke around with pints of beer in hand. But their masculine fun is balanced on a razor's edge, as beneath this camaraderie lies a disturbing current of paranoia and insecurity, where weakness is brutally exploited and violence conceals vulnerability.
Directed by: Clara Van Gool - Choreography: Lloyd Newson
Choreographies of the world: short stories in motion
Dark Field Analysis
Germany, Sweden; 2022 - Running time: 18.58 min.
We may imagine ourselves as unaffected by the changes of contemporary times but the organic and the synthetic have fused. In Dark Field Analysis we immerse ourselves in the unsettling strangeness of the inner self, that which often remains hidden, anatomically, psychologically, and spiritually; it speaks of the complexity of living in this world and incorporates animal forces, desire, instinct, and technology.
Directed by: Jefta Van Dinther and Max Vitali - Choreography: Jefta Van Dinther
Public Jury Award Choreoscope 2024
A Bird Called Memory
Brazil, United Kingdom; 2023 - Running time: 15.06 min.
A bird named Record has forgotten how to return home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Record in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place.
Directed by: Leonardo Martinelli - Choreography: Soraya Bastos
Special Mention of the Jury Choreoscope 2024
Somber Tides
Canada; 2024 - Running time: 12min.
Inspired by a natural disaster that took place in 2013 in Lac-Mégantic (Quebec, Canada), in which a 72-car train carrying 7.7 million litres of crude oil derailed, killing 47 people on the spot and causing the spill of oil and other contaminants into the environment. A short film shot on drifting ice during two majestic snowstorms, featuring three performers who embody the survival of our species or its final breath of life.
Director and choreographer: Chantal Caron
Walks with me
Finland; 2021 - Running time: 10.47min.
Sanna, 80 years old, lives alone with her memories and houseplants. One day, she witnesses an event from the window that makes her remember her friends and realise her own solitude.
Director and choreographer: Kati Kallio
Finimondo
Portugal; 2023 - Running time: 9.18 min.
There is an optical illusion phenomenon that occurs at sea, where mirages distort the appearance of distant objects. Lighthouses, seagulls, islands, rocks, creatures, and other elements float in the air and transform. Ancient mariners called it Fata Morgana. Fascinating and mysterious, where reality dissipates and remains suspended in aFinimondo against the clock.
Directed by: João Sanchez - Choreography: Maria Abrantes and Sofia Kafol
Me. Summer. About her
Latvia; 2024 - Running time: 8.18 min.
Inspired by the saying "in a relationship, one person always loves more than the other" this short film uses elements of choreography, including breakdance and acrobatics, to explore the relationship between two people.
Director and choreographer: Jegors Gordejevs
Noora
Finland; 2024 - Running time: 7.40 min.
Noora has a congenital bone fragility condition, osteogenesis imperfecta. She uses a wheelchair as support for dancing; with the chair, she can move freely, but she feels isolated from her surroundings. On the ground, she feels the earth against her skin. In the water, she dares to move with more freedom and can do without the wheelchair. The water supports her fragile body through its pressure, making her body more elastic and increasing her range of movement.
Directed by: Anna Kekkonen - Choreography: Noora Västinen
Tale of a violet sky
Italy; 2023 - Running time: 4.08 min.
A seductive dance between two young people with visual impairments, a meeting that goes beyond sight. Their mutual discovery and fear of rejection transform into an extraordinary metaphor, taking us to a parallel world, a vibrant mental intimacy.
Directed by: Nicolò Roberto Roccatello - Choreography: Erica Pianalto and Tomasso Speziale
Noir
Portugal; 2020 - Running time: 6.23 min.
Film noir is a term used by French critics to describe a type of cinema, mainly in black and white, filled with shadows and suspense. Adopting the same aesthetics and atmosphere, in this organised chaos, it is difficult to find someone to point the finger at.
Directed by: Marta Romero - Choreography: Bruno Duarte
The Crown Shyness
Canada; 2024 - Running time: 19.22 min.
A dance short film about a man's introspective look at his artistic identity.
Directed by: Loup-William Théberge - Choreography: Harold Réhaume
VIBRATIONS: a kinetic symphony
The Goddam Milky Way
Canada; 2022 - Running time: 20.10 min.
From the depths of the Earth to the dunes of an unknown desert, a group of women embarks 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.
Directed by: Jérémie Battaglia and Mélanie Demers - Choreography: Mélanie Demers
The Paper Ensemble #16
Netherlands; 2022 - Running time: 15.38 min.
In an empty old paper factory, we follow a woman playing with fascinating paper sculptures. Inspired by the design of Japanese gardens, The Paper Ensemble #16 invites you to be receptive in a world made entirely of paper sounds: rustling shrubs, ocean waves, and singing whales.
Directed by: Jochem van van Tol and Jiska Rickels - Choreography: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti
4
Sweden; 2020 - Running time: 11.47 min.
Two pianists and two dancers journey together on a retro-futuristic quest for knowledge through pulse and rhythm, creating a progressive and hypnotic piece that positions the piano as a shared operating table for their interaction. The music features extended piano techniques in an intense and minimalist score.
Directed by: Mariana Palacios and Adrián del Arroyo - Choreography: Adrián del Arroyo
Caballo
Colombia; 2023 - Running time: 11.23 min.
They opened the horse's chest, tore out its heart, and the warm heart throbbed in one hand; between two hands. The horse carries the wound in its chest.
Directed by: Ixchel Marina Casado Pérez and Thais Doimeadios Huerta
