SEPT 5th, 20:30 – 21:30
Peasant Museum CINeMA

Four short films from Hong Kong, France, Israel and the USA that speak firmly and critically about dance as a necessity, dance as a lifestyle. These four films explore different approaches for understanding, practicing and using dance: to remember, to transcend cultures and languages, to survive. For the first time, the official BIDFF competition presents an exquisite selection of shorts in which dance is documented as a transformative human process.

Someday I Will Become a Rock

19:08, 2019, CN-HK
D: Cheung Cheuk, Elysa Wendi

We see a rock
It transcends languages and cultures
It traverses time and space
Perhaps it has its own nature and memories

Turf Nation

13:27, 2020, USA / KR
D: Jun Bae
C: Lavish

Turfing is an Oakland-born dance form that combines roots in gang culture with elements of tutting, gliding and bone breaking; Turf Nation follows the street dancers perform on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) trains, as they pave their own paths towards freedom and independence.

The Golden Age

21:46, 2018, FR
D: Eric Minh Cuong Castaing

In a series of workshops, children with motor disabilities experiment with various dance techniques and virtual reality glasses to see what dancers see.

RIMONA

6:26, 2020, IL
D: Efrat Mazor, Noa Zamir
C: Efrat Mazor, Noa Zamir

This short doco dance film, starring 80 years old Rimona Sarig brings a narative from her early childhood. The secret from back then is still vivid within her body today and resonates through each gesture she makes.