EE/LT/LV/FR/UA | 2024 | 9 x 3' / 30’11’’ | HD | non spoken except Estonian in the episode YES! | By Lina Lužytė, Greta Grinevičiūtė, Valerijs Olehno, Rūta Ronja Pakalne, Vadym Ilkov, Kateryna Gornostai, Madli Lääne, Marta Pulk, Laure Delamotte-Legrand (One director per episode) | Just a moment (LT), Air Productions (LV), Stellar Film (EE), Tag Film (FR), Moon Man (UA) | Broadcasters: ARTE, LRT
Nine short films blend contemporary dance with architecture across five countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, France, and Ukraine. Each film offers a unique exploration of how the physical structures around us—often overlooked in our daily lives—interact with the fluidity of the human body, inviting viewers to rediscover the architecture of different eras and regions.
Choreographers: Kaisa Kattai, Artūrs Nīgalis, Loreta Juodkaitė, Dovydas Strimaitis, Raido Mägi, Mariia Yakobchuk, Darius Algis Stankevičius, Ruta Ronja Pakalne, Anastasia Kharchenko, Yaroslav Kaynar.
EPISODE x DURATION:
EP1 3’39’’ Circus of Love and Lament
EP2 3’29’’ YES!
EP3 3’33’’ Drama King
EP4 3’08’’ In Between
EP5 3’28’’ H61
EP6 3’53’’ SOLO
EP7 3’33’’ Sea Fragment
EP8 3’33’’ Gravitas
EP9 3’39’’ We Will Be After Us
FR | 2021 | 52' | HD | non spoken (French credits) | By Nicolas Habas | JPL Productions & WIPS | Broadcaster: France Télévisions.
The ten greatest dancers from Martinique tell the story of their identity and the history that binds them intimately to their island of Martinique through their dances in the most iconic natural landscapes and architectural heritage of this Caribbean island, deeply marked by the history of French colonialism. This dance film shows the great creative vitality of the Creole people.
Choreographer: Jean-Hughes Miredin
Dancers: Josiane Antourel, Renaud Bonard, Fabrice "Flexx" Vaillant, Marlène Myrtil, Jean-félix Zaïre, Pascal Seraline, Jean-Hugues Miredin, Laurent Troudart, Annabel Gueredrat, Émilie Alves De Puga, Lindy Callegeri, les Zion BBoys.
Composer: Yohann Landry
FR | 2019 | 52' | HD | non spoken (French credits) | By Nicolas Habas | JPL Productions - AvCom | Ministère de la Culture, France | Broadcaster: France Télévisions NC la 1ère
Ten New Caledonian choreographers and dancers dance in ten emblematic locations of the island of New Caledonia, both natural landscapes and architectural heritage, and put them in dialogue with their bodies. A true cross-pollination of dance and cinema, Le corps de la ville à Nouméa proposes to discover the vitality of dance in New Caledonia, in its original context of emergence. It allows us to appreciate its capacity to tell the story of a territory in its diversity, thanks to the camera.
Choreographers-dancers:
Clancy Tenene – chorégraphe
Elsa Gilquin
Julien Leboulanger
Linda Kurtovitch
Richard Digoué
Simane Wenethem
Soufiane Karim
Troupe Le Wetr
Yoan Ouchot
Les jeunes du Rex
Music composed and played by: Yohann Landry
FR | 2016 | 68’ | HD | French | By Philippe Lainé & Robyn Orlin | Axe Sud Coproducers: France Télévisions, NC 1 ère, Culturebox, SRTV(Vanuatu) | Broadcaster: France Télévisions
In the heavenly archipelago of Vanuatu, the South African dancer-choreographer Robyn Orlin captures the Gaua women's unique art of making water sing and let them perform a fascinating hymn to nature, making us aware of the climate change endangering the existence of the archipelago. A singular film-ballet, in which the landscapes, accessories and characters compose a colorful choreographed film.
This programme is presented by Greg Germain in theMultiscénik show.
PL | 2015 | 28’ | HD | Polish, English (sub.) | By Krzysztof Stasiak | BMC Films
Meaning “tango” in Latin, Tactum mixes contemporary dance, tango and classical ballet. Highlighting the “sensation of a body”, the idea of touch is exploited through the perspectives of masculinity and femininity in a celebration of the four elements: earth, water, air and fire. The Polish choreographers, Ester Duarte, Chiche Nunez and Witold Jurewicz open new doors to dance programming.
PR | 2015 | 76’ | HD | Portuguese, English (sub.), Spanish (sub.), French (sub.) | By Lucia Murat | Taiga Films | Broadcaster: Telecine
This hybrid dance film with acting and contemporary dance let us revive the mother's death of a woman. After a first act recalling the intensive relationship between the mother and the daughter, the second act sees the death arriving, while they both have to face the mother's death in the last act. The daughter's monologues on her questioning towards death, vibrantly quoting Simone de Beauvoir, let us experience this film as a true fiction.