1. Coffee Stains
After their break-up, Chester and Theresa each reminisce about their first moments of falling in love which changes the course of their current relationship.
2. Lost Way (行方不明)
Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
3. Corazón en el cenicero (Corazón en el cenicero)
(Corazón en el cenicero)
4. Daniel (Daniel fait face)
Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender and troubling, and it seems to take place in a sort of vacuum. In Marine Atlan’s dream-like feature film debut, children dance tango timelessly, recite poems and do the drill for an imaginary terrorist attack.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
5. Rosso
For an anxious person, being trapped on a boat with someone you don't like can be the tense. Stuck for hours afloat, nothing on the line, bad conversation, and cold winds as resentment rises. Both people chained to a rod and tackle because one won't speak up and admit that they want to go home.
6. Take the Lead
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
7. Húmus
A videodance short-film of the avant-garde / experimental dance group of the same name based on the book "Húmus" by Raul Brandão.
8. The Beast in the Jungle
Based on the novella by Henry James Beast in the Jungle depicts the enigmatic love story of John Marcher and May Bartram. Their duet around an omnious secret is captured in a style both physical and poetic. Set in a remote countryside mansion the story stretches over a century, spiraling from the Jamesian late 19th century to the global present.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
9. En tos'laos (En tos'laos)
(En tos'laos)
10. In Wake of the Crashing Dawn
In a dystopian present, a young Japanese-American man battles the cascading effects of his family's wrongful incarceration in the 1940s.
11. How She Move
After the death of Raya Green's sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle with her. They become enemies then friends later on. Her uptight mom pushes her to pass the test to get into Medical school, but she thinks she failed....
It has an average vote of 4.606 on TMDB.
12. Dance with Me
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
13. Off Ground
A light grey room. A slender woman of 50 and a 12 year old boy. Joined together like the links of a chain. Changing positions at a constant rate. One flowing movement. Never losing touch with each other. A game played by a mother and her child. A kind of tango. Sound of feet. Breathing. Faint smiles. Until suddenly the woman's hands let go of each other.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
14. Polina (Polina, danser sa vie)
Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
15. Dead Flies And Starless Skies
In this short experimental film, three friends are waiting for their train to arrive.
16. The Empty (The Empty)
My representation of emptiness and what it is to be alone without humans or sociality.
17. Reflection
As she keeps watching old home movies isolated in her hotel room, the screen becomes a mirror from which she tries to see herself. Levels of subjectivity, narrative, and reality entwine into a surrealist fever dream of scopophilic cinéma pur. The final layer of meaning is all of us watching the film on the screen-mirror in the theatre.
18. A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles
A wandering young woman explores the crevices of her apartment, of her corporeal creases, as well as the shadows made up of those things. Through her journey, she comes into contact with fellow vagrancies: a nondescript man of around similar age; a young girl with similar, even familiar, eyes; streets that can only exist during those brief moments of glazing stares. The rain comes and goes, but the A/C never turns off.
19. Norwegian nature, suburbia and the Creatures living there (Norwegian nature, suburbia and the Creatures living there)
A human-like Creature, emerging from the ancient depths of the Norwegian forest, ventures towards suburbia. The local inhabitants react in different ways to its unannounced presence.
20. A Christmas Carol
The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.