Dance with Me invites us into the world of dance as a language beyond words. Here, dance serves as a means of communication, an expression of deep emotions, a search for connection. Bodies speak of freedom and confinement, of rebellion and longing. Dance opens up spaces that create community and set identity in motion.
Suspendu
Elie Grappe / Switzerland 2015 / 15' / DCP / colour / French / Fic
At dawn, at a classical dance academy, a boy falls while rehearsing some movements. Something breaks in his foot, causing sharp pain. But he doesn't give up. The exams are held today, and the boy tries to face his dance partner and classmates, convincing himself that his body has no limits.
Les Indes Galantes
Clément Cogitore / France 2017 / 5'25" / DCP / colour / French / Exp
The krumping dance style was born in Los Angeles after the 1995 riots. Clément Cogitore creates a battle between urban culture and Rameau’s music on the Bastille Opera stage.
Duty Free
Hilke Rönnfeldt / Denmark/Sweden/Germany 2024 / 17'21" / DCP / colour / Swedish/German/Danish / Fic
The shop manager of a floating bordershop container in the Baltic Sea casts off the chains to shore to save the universe of love she and her employees have created inside. Is unconditional love an escapist dream?
Silent London
Ivelina Ivanova / Unites States Virgin Islands 2017 / 2'45" / DCP / colour / no dialogue / Exp/Ani
A celebration of community’s instinctual need for unity through dance. Inside the club, the borders of reality become blurry, revealing truths outside of representation. Outside the club is a vast cityscape of urban mundanity.
Travellers into the Night
Ena Sendijarevic / Netherlands 2013 / 9'40" / DCP / colour / no dialogue / Fic
A woman works in a gas station, alone, at night. People she doesn't know step into her world and out again, leaving her in her own little bubble. Until one night, a special kind of stranger walks in.
No, I Don't Want to Dance!
Andrea Vinciguerra / United Kingdom 2019 / 2'39" / DCP / colour / English / Ani
In these dark times, you may think that every hazard has been identified, but nobody has taken in consideration how dangerous dance can be…
Cold Cut
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan/Siyou Tan / Philippines/France 2024 / 14'47" / DCP / colour / Bisaya / Fic
Joy, a 19-year-old student, is about to compete at the local talent show. As she's about to enter the audition, a mysterious butcher takes her to unknown horizons...
Man khod, man ham miraghsam
Mohammad Valizadegan / Iran/Czech Republic/Germany 2023 / 20'33" / DCP / colour / Farsi / Fic/Doc
With rhythmic fluidity, Saba's body moves to the music. Dancing is what she lives for, how she expresses herself – yet she is not free to do so in her own country. In a film dancing the line between documentary and fiction, a moving portrait emerges of a generation of young Iranians hemmed in by the Islamic republic's rigid rules.
