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Cinedans Festival 2022
The Dutch Dance film is growing in popularity with creators from various disciplines.Cinedans FEST presents a selection of the best new Dutch dance films. Each screening will be concluded with a short Q&A with the makers and audience.

Second Hand Stories
Director:Danielle van Vree
Choreography: Danielle van Vree
Year completed: 2022
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 24:47
Set in a second-hand shop, Second Hand Stories is about our relationship to others and the patterns or rituals we develop within those relationships. During the night, we discover fragments of stories that could have been lived by all of us.
SILENT FRAGMENTS
Director: Andrea Hackl
Choreography: Andrea Hackl
Year completed: 2018
Country of production: Finland
Duration: 5:18
SILENT FRAGMENTS takes the human body as the landscape of our psychology, as an ocean of emotions and memories. An intimate and simultaneously intense dialogue between dancer and camera.
SYZYGY
Director: Jakop Ahlbom
Choreography: Jakop Ahlbom
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 10:42
SYZYGY is an intimate and poetic portrait of four bodies and refers to a collinear configuration of celestial bodies. A hypnotic film with kaleidoscopic effect in which the four individual performers melt together into one moving body.
PLASTISCH
Director: DansBlok
Choreography: Dieuwertje Spek, Éryn Nieuwint, Rosa Allessie, Tessa Wouters
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 8:00
Plastic is practical, robust and cheap. It can take many forms and for that we love it. There is just one problem: it doesn't decompose. The dance film PLASTISCH shows the contradictory properties of plastic, embodied by four dancers.
Home
Director: Thabi Mooi
Choreography: Maite Levy, Nikki Meierink
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 11:37
HOME is a short documentary dance film about the Dutch Lieneke and the Syrian Anwar, who face their war memories through dance. Despite their huge differences, their personal experiences melt together into one story.
FACES
Director: Amantina Jean
Year completed: 2022
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 10:00
The young adults in FACES search for what connects and moves us. In a world that is increasingly focused on the individual, it is all the more important to be in touch with each other - to feel and express ourselves, while growing closer to each other.
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Production year
2022
Length
93 min.
Country
NL
Part of
Cinedans 2022
In five full days, Cinedans presents the state of the art of international dance film in partnership with dancescreen - IMZ International Music + Media Center Vienna.



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