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An animated music video by Sawako Kabuki for Yanakiku's song Hachiko↑Dance.

Leyla, a beautiful and feisty middle-aged woman, lives with her mother, whose nagging has become everyday background music. The two women fight shamelessly and cruelly, and in protest against her mother Leyla makes choices that even she herself finds a bit startling. Ahmet is a taxi driver, years younger than Leyla and confused after his father’s death. He still has to report his every step to his mother and obey his uncle who is the head of the family.

In the spring of 2009, Sri Lanka's decades long civil war is entering its most violent phase. Siva, a young Sri Lankan refugee living illegally in France, has lost contact with the family he was forced to leave behind. Haunted by the trauma of the war that devastated his childhood and obsessed by the flow of images on the Internet, Siva sinks into a waking dream that propels him into the heart of the battlefield.

Yuya's parents are separated, his mother is a nurse and has signed up for a well-paying job during the summer vacation. For the boy's good. During this time, Yuya visits his grandparents in Kagawa, the birthplace of his mother. Every night Yuya is plagued by nightmares in which he is chased by a blue lion costume. His grandfather knows more about it - he painstakingly handcrafts these costumes and tirelessly fights against the decay of an ancient tradition - the Kagawa lion dance.

On the day of her first period, Woori hears a strange request from her favorite Gunwoo.

After VINCE, a low life Mafia boss is informed by his accountant that all of his deceased wife's inheritance has been spent. His Mother-in-law demands that NITA her grand daughter marry a nice, hard-working young man within a week or she will lose her million dollar family inheritance.

Off-site means a character, an object, or an act that is not visible on the screen, but is part of the scene. "Gniele baila" presents a story about women, immigrants and abandoned Peoples who are invisible but are the most involved in life. This story is related to us by a stubborn and ambitious dancer. Gniele dances regardless of on-site or off-site. As the world turns and everything happens Gniele gets her strength from dancing.

Dancing eurynome (Mytho-Clip) is dedicated to the Greek goddess Eurynome, the child of Oceanus and Tethys. She was the mother of the Graces and of the river-god Aesopus. Eurynome dances on water - and to the music of der Plan. Astrological symbols (an egg, a bird and the suchlike) are added to the image of her mythical dance. In Mytho-Clip (as in Philo-Clip and Lyric-Clip), Bódy exploits video's considerable potential to transform the image.

the story of an audition and the story of a girl who meets a guy in said audition.

The tale of how toys came to entertain a sick girl.

Two brides but no groom, the most beautiful wedding

Vilde (12) wants to be the first female 'Halling' folk dance champion. A traditional dance for men only. Her greatest challenge isn't the competition - she's convinced that her strength and passion for dance and life are helping her beloved grandfather to win his fight against cancer.

Shakespearean theatricality meets the subtlety of Kathakali subverted in the dramatic space of street theatre to give birth to a performative ‘caliban’ – Khelkali – a hybrid act of articulating the post colonial irony of contemporary India.

Martin Slaatto is a trained dancer and actor from London and Oslo, and works to promote dance in everyday life and make people more aware of their own movements.

Marina is a girl who discovers the legends and traditions of her ancestors on a magical journey through the nature that surrounds her and takes her to Shark Island. Short film spoken in the Comcáac language.

A young woman seeking her identity explores her history and that of her ethnic group to have a better understanding of who she is.

An opera singer, who is a substitute for the primo uomo, has to spend the time of a performance routinely behind the scenes. He has yet no knowing that it will be his turn on that particular day to appear on the stage and replace an Italian singer who had fallen ill.

Documentary about Sipho Singiswa's delayed rite of passage into manhood, the traditional circumcision of the Xhosa people in Africa. It also shows his brother Vuyo's refusal to take part in it himself, because, among other reasons, he is adopted and gay.

Angeli Salazar is on death row for murder. Twenty five years in prison and fearful of the reinstatement of the death penalty, she finds solace and freedom in the art of dance.