Author of Concept and Director: Oliver SachsYear Created: 2026Length: 4 minutesCountry of Origin: GermanyDancers: Hugh Stanier &amp; Vega LuukkonenCamera: Oliver SachsEditor: Oliver SachsMusic: AndieSounds - Andrea JungeFilm DescriptionRooted in Motion is a short landscape-format film featuring Hugh Stanier and Vega Luukkonen dancing Contact Improvisation and sharing reflections through interview. Shot and edited by Oliver Sachs, the film brings together movement, conversation, and landscape, accompanied by an original score by AndieSounds (Andrea Junge).

Rooted in Motion

Directed by: Marisa HamamotoProduced by: Marisa HamamotoYear Created: 2025Length: 1 min 34 secCountry of Origin: United StatesCountry of Filming: United StatesChoreographer: Phillip ChbeebAssistant Choreographer: Makenzie DustmanDancers: Mia Schaikewitz, Shaheem Sanchez, Natalie Trevonne, Dmitriy Kim, Ryann Mason, Danny Gomez, Denisha Davis, Riley Higgins, Marisa HamamotoProducing Company: Infinite Flow DanceFilm DescriptionA short dance film celebrating the power, energy, and visual possibilities of dance on screen. Featuring a diverse ensemble of dancers, #ThisIsDance ENVISION brings choreography and movement together in a dynamic cinematic composition, inviting us to experience dance through a bold and expansive visual lens.

#ThisIsDance ENVISION

Directed by: Matthew RosmarinOther Filmmaker: Dave Gardner &amp; Ashraf VahedLength: 1 min 30 secCountry: South AfricaFilm Description:A short CI film exploring the experience of allowing oneself to be moved by the natural world. Through movement, connection with the landscape and surrendering to the wild, we ask the question ~ what comes alive through our collective expression and how does that change the world?

Wilderness

Directed by: Lisa CamboursYear Created: 2026Length: 4 min 5 secCountry of Origin: FranceCountry of Filming: FranceMovement Director: Naïs HaïdarFilm DescriptionThe Art of Peer Pressure explores what it means to grow up as an artist in a society that values conformity. Becoming an artist is never what you expect, yet is often seen as strange, unrealistic, or lost. Through dance, the film portrays the silent pressures imposed by friends and social norms, and the inner struggle of an artist fighting to protect their individuality.

The Art of Peer Pressure

Dancers and Co-creators: Eiza Rayn and Ailfrid Fischer&nbsp; Description:Earth is the thing that lives between and around all of us, connecting us through shared experience and felt sensation. Through movement, touch, wind, water, rock, and grass, two bodies meet and respond to the world around them. Filmmaker: Kathleen Rea Music: Filmed in: Toronto

Between Earth and Us

Directed by: Fredhi BudinProduced by: Oliver ZimmermannYear Created: 2026Length: 6 min 35 secCountry of Origin: GermanyCountry of Filming: GermanyMusic: Alex ZampiniKey Cast: Martin Seidler, Ester KalozCoordination: Maria RutanenFilm DescriptionMartin loves to dance contact improvisation. For decades he has joined jams where he connects with people through movement, sharing weight and momentum. As a disabled person, he often experiences that people move him, but he does not like to be moved. He wants to move himself.

As I Am Able

Directed by: Maayan ReiterYear Created: 2025Length: 9 min 30 secCountry of Origin: GermanyCountry of Filming: GermanyMusic: Kevin MacLeodSound Editing: Adaam James Levin-ArreddyMusic Remastering: Adaam James Levin-ArreddyVideo Editing: Maayan ReiterMotion Design: Maayan ReiterSpecial Effects: Maayan ReiterCamera: Jens PusselKey Cast: Jacqueline Krell, Hojoon Moon, Maayan ReiterWriter: Maayan ReiterFilm DescriptionSet beneath an open sky, The _____ Between Us explores connection through dialogue, dance, and AI-generated imagery. Through contact improvisation and digital compositing, the film invites viewers to reflect on how we relate to one another, to ourselves, and to the world around us.

The _____ Between Us

Directed by: Candelaria Antelo, Arthur Bernard-Bazin, Alejandro LarumbeYear Created: 2026Length: 12 minutesCountry of Origin: SpainCountry of Filming: SpainChoreographer: Candelaria Antelo, Arthur Bernard-BazinCamera: Alejandro LarumbeEditor: Alejandro LarumbeSound Design: Roberto AlonsoFilm DescriptionTe odiero explores the meeting point between love and exasperation, where bodies, relationships, and desire become entangled. Through movement and contact, the performers navigate a dance that shifts between sensuality, intensity, and conflict, creating a physical portrait of a relationship caught between attraction and frustration.

Te odiero

Directed by: Ray JacobsProduced by: Sabrina ScollanYear Created: 2025Length: 9 min 41 secCountry of Origin: United KingdomCountry of Filming: United KingdomDirector of Photography: Calum BarreKey Cast: Eve Washington, Graham Busby, Georgie Dawson, Mervyn BradleyWriter: Ray JacobsFilm DescriptionA group of climate refugees, most of whom have disabilities, make a home in an abandoned house. They live, cook, laugh, eat, dance, and work the land together, feeling like a family while remaining vulnerable to the hostile outside climate. When a wild storm arrives, one of the group has to leave.

Our Circle in the Storm

Directed by: mike bennionProduced by: mike bennionYear Created: 2025Length: 3 min 24 secCountry of Origin: United StatesCountry of Filming: United StatesKey Cast: carmen, esmeraldaFilm DescriptionA woman dances with a bull in this stark black-and-white short film, creating an intimate encounter between human movement and animal presence.

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DancersLulu Lai and Dolores Dewhurst Marks CameraFern Sripungwiwat Film &amp; EditingSasha Dodo A 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑙 Intensive Workshop 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 CI53, 2025

AFTER THE RAIN

Directed by: FU LE, Magalle LanriotProduced by: Vanessa Bajoue Degaugue, FU LE, Magalle Lanriot, Roel Q. SeeberYear Created: 2026Length: 9 min 51 secCountry of Origin: France, Portugal, United StatesCountry of Filming: PortugalMusic: Tiago CerqueiraKey Cast: Magalle Lanriot, Roel Q. SeeberWriter: Magalle LanriotFilm DescriptionWhere the land ends and the sea begins, two bodies lose themselves. Suspended in their memory, they weave a delicate dance made of silence, exchange, and shared mourning. Moving between the shore, the sea, and the surrounding landscape, NOUAGE explores the fragile space between bodies and the emotional ties that connect them.

NOUAGE

Directed by: Olya Glotka (Ukrainian/Canadian)Produced by: Ola HaslaLength: 3 minCountry of Origin: CanadaCountry of Filming: EgyptA short experimental dance film exploring grief, displacement, war, and the terror of holding on. Through movement and storytelling, the film searches for connection and the possibility of finding joy within difficult experiences.

Expectations Sharpen the Blade with Which We Carve Joy

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