Evening of Dance Films
Kino Film Europe
Cena:
The American-Canadian Dream
The collaboration between the Dance Film Festival Prague and the Bratislava in Movement Festival has been going on for four years. This year’s film selection focuses on America and Canada, as both countries are powerhouses in the field of dance film and have earned well-deserved recognition on the international scene.
GHOSTS IN YOU (USA)
Director: Rafael Alejandro Lopez, Hanna Tzong-Han Wu
Choreography: Hanna Tzong-Han Wu
Premiere: 2024
About grieve…
REMINISCENCES (Kanada)
Director and choreography: Virginie Brunelle
Premiere: 2022
The dance short film Reminiscences brings three sensual and brutal duets to the screen. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic feelings of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates and which settle in us like so many emotional vestiges.
BOLD 3‘ (USA)
Directors: Alla Kovgan, Mko Malkahasyan Miko
Premiere: 2023
A surreal night shift of a female prison guard turns into a juggling fiesta, celebrating diversity and solidarity of women.
NAVIGATION (Kanada)
Director: Marlene Millar
Choreography: Sandy Silva
Premiere: 2020
Set in the spectacular Burren region on the west coast of Ireland, Navigation explores the humanitarian crises of displacement and relocation as they are experienced both individually and collectively. It uses the land itself to explore how we navigate through unknown terrain. Themes of survival, perseverance, departure and renewal emerge in a nuanced, layered interpretation of the migration experience. The rhythms, movement, vocals and landscape define and embody this exploration, which features the performances of ten dancers and singers and a community choir of forty participants.
THE SEA (USA)
Director: Douglas Rosenberg
Premiere: 2025
The Sea, is a 60-minute black and white film by Douglas Rosenberg was filmed at the edge of the Baltic Sea, on the island of Fårö, an extraordinary place that was Ingmar Bergman’s home as well as the place in which he shot some of his most important and compelling films. ̎The Sea explores the nature of aging and the relationship of men of my age to the landscape, to solitude and to community with a cast of largely untrained performers who come from the areas surrounding the island of Fårö“, says Rosenberg. The film explores male intimacy, camaraderie and aging via men in their third age.