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This event is covered by the Short Film Pass and the Flatpass. You cannot buy an individual ticket for this event.


Following the success of our first Screendance competition last year, we're coming back strong and teaming up with Birmingham International Dance Festival to present two installments. This first programme, curated by Sima Gonsai, looks at the Screendance genre as a unique language, and brings you showstopping works that couldn't be seen on a stage. Full of colours, energy and ideas, these dance films will get you moving in your living room!


These films are eligible for the Screendance Award, given out by our jury. The winner will we revealed at the Flatpack Awards on 30 May (free event, booking essential).


Total running time: 50 mins


The second Screendance competition programme will be available online for 48 hours from Monday 7 June, 12pm, as part of Birmingham International Dance Festival.

It features the following films:

  • In Plain Sight, by Tanin Torabi
  • Green Dawn, by Fu Le
  • Navigation, by Marlene Millar
  • Material Bodies, by Dorothy Allen-Pickard
  • Time Perspective, by Line Klungseth Johansen
  • L'Appât, by Tang Chenglong


Delivered in partnership with Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF 2021), produced by DanceXchange.


The Protocol is filmed using a colourful, eccentric and retro-vintage cinematic language where the performers - in confidence to the viewer -express their thoughts, exposing their contradictions, fears and worries about our relationship with the other.


This film is also available with captions.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    UK
  • Premiere
    UK premiere
  • Rating
    12
  • Director
    Avatâra Ayuso