Dance Your Pain

A world-famous choreographer comes to one of France's toughest prisons. A group of women will get a unique chance for freedom. Not release. But the freedom that art can give.

Memories of a Marriage

Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Karl Åge is quiet, detached; Regitze is spirited, lively. He thinks back: love at first sight during the war, living together

Danseuses cambodgiennes du roi Norodom, I

The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent

An old violin maker has been killed and the investigators have only one clue: on the night of the crime, a blind street musician heard a melody playing in the house. As they do not know the title of the song, they presen

Calicia best dancer

Tahiti, an island where people dance every night. We rehearse for the Heiva festivities, a dance competition where large troupes compete each July. The film follows a young girl from Raiatea, Calicia Taufa, second prize

International Dances

A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about stencil colouring at http://zauberklang.ch/filmcolors/timeline-entry/1218/.

Dancing in the rain

Self-portrait of a 38-year-old mother from Abitibi, struggling with breast cancer.

La danseuse de Siva

Stacia Napierkowska (1886-1945) was one of the most successful of the many dancers who appeared onstage, in Paris and internationally, as Hindu priestesses, Esmeraldas, Greek nymphs and maenads, oriental harem favourites

Whale Guardian

Modern Dances

Modern Dances is a 19-minute film that showcases the era's modern social dances like the sailor's jig, the bear waltz, one-step, open step, tango, and foxtrot. Preserved by the Royal Library, this film captures dance cul

Autumn’s Spring

Amateur dancers between ages 60 & 87 perform Stravinsky’s The Rites of Spring.

The Dancer and the Beggar

The story follows a beggar who is invited and taken in by a dancer, who introduces him to her sophisticated world and draws him into an atmosphere of fantasy and dance. However, the magic of the moment is abruptly shatte

La Danseuse de Marrakech

A little Métis girl, Kalina is saved from a massacre by Taraor, a black man from Sudan. Having become a great and beautiful dancer from the South, she meets Captain Portal, in garrison in Marrakech. This is the beginning

Zwangere Guy - Dansen op de vulkaan

In this documentary, we follow Zwangere Guy during a period of loneliness, pain, and healing. For the first time in his life, he has stopped using drugs and is facing his demons sober. Gorik hopes to come to terms with h

Dancers

»Dancers« is centred round a dance school run by the bright and lively Annika and her no-nonsense mother. One day Annika meets Lasse and falls passionately in love. But there is something Lasse hasn't told her, something

The dancefloor of democracy

Move fast! Breaking news!! Invades Arendalsuka

Just Let Me Dance

Ange and Julia return to the Corsican village where they grew up for the first time in ten years. They face the delicate task of telling their mother, Mado, who suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s, about her move to a n

Belleville Beats

At night, Matthieu, Solo, Kany, and their crew gather at La Perm’, a community space at the foot of Belleville Park, to debate, create, and build a collective. Facing the changes in their childhood neighborhood, La Perm’

Lilliputian Dance

A basket of flowers appears and moves by itself to the middle of a decorative arch. From the basket, a woman magician appears. From a cylinder, the magician conjures a series of tiny dancers and acrobats who perform on a

Sur quel pied danser?

A 35-year-old woman develops a strange passion for a 16-year-old homeless boy. A strong relationship develops between them, like mother and child, woman and man, single person and lonely soul.