Film Awards
We celebrated videodance, documentary and animation, with the announcement of awards for the 15th Edition of the InShadow Festival. Of the approximately 350 applications in the different, 79 films were selected for international competitions. The InShadow juries - Documentary, Official, Schools, Audience, Emerging and Animation - were tasked with awarding 10 films in the various categories.
You Are Enough | Lisa Magnan (FR)
Embracing imperfections and fostering self-acceptance,This is a dance film that delves into the themes of identity, diversity, and individuality.
Anomalies | Rita Quelhas (PT)
Bringing together an acclaimed choreographer and a young director, "Anomalies" follows the creation of Victor Hugo Pontes' choreography "Corpo Clandestino".
The film follows each of the dancers and travels through their so-called non-normative bodies, allowing us to look at them long enough until the norm becomes strange and they form an admirable new body.
Big Noise | King Deluxe (CA)
An exquisite corpse project for King Deluxe, this film was created by nine different animators and travels from the confines of a smokey jazz club to the outer reaches of space.
Re: | Yi Hng Tan, Leonard Yee (SP)
A man is forced to partake in a celebration spanning various nostalgic locations. However, the cheerful atmosphere slowly reveals its artificialness, as a sinister undertone leaks through cracks in the faux reality. Inescapably, the choice to face reality or continue his delusion, soon looms over him once again.
SOMA | Arturo Bandinelli (UK)
Experimental film that uses movement and dance as its primary medium for story-telling. A contemporary myth on the genesis of the human body, it unfolds in two parallel dimensions: an infinite black hole and a labyrinthine. As the dreamlike narrative unfolds, different characters go through visceral experiences of pleasure, enchantment, pain and death.
Tell Me | Maria Koreneva (LT)
This film is an exploration of the visceral aftermath of the War in Ukraine. Four dancers delve into difficult emotions and borderline states that the war leaves us with, expressing them through dance, poetry and visual storytelling.
Re: | Yi Hng Tan, Leonard Yee (SP)
A man is forced to partake in a celebration spanning various nostalgic locations. However, the cheerful atmosphere slowly reveals its artificialness, as a sinister undertone leaks through cracks in the faux reality. Inescapably, the choice to face reality or continue his delusion, soon looms over him once again.
Finimondo | João Sanchez (PT)
There is a phenomenon of optical illusion that occurs in the sea, in which mirages distort the appearance of distant objects. Lighthouses, seagulls, islands, rocks, creatures and other elements float in the air and transform. The ancient sailors called it Fata Morgana. Fascinating and mysterious, in which reality dissipates and becomes suspended in a Finimondo against the clock.
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Blind Dreamers [•32°N 145°W•] | Sandra Geco (FR)
A visual fable with poetic notes that oscillate between reality and surrealism to reveal a universe mixing plastic, landscape and poetry. We discover a couple looking like René Magritte’s lovers who have exchanged their veil against a plastic bag. In research of sensitivity, this video fable questions our rupture with the rest of the living world and our (in)ability to identify with it.
Almost Uninhabited | Daniel Matos (PT)
You breathe out, I breathe in. Now forever. Breathing has been difficult lately, almost as difficult as breathing. Breathing has proved to be an act of courage for which we are not prepared to take responsibility, almost as difficult as deciding to breathe, as breathing so far that it is difficult for you to hear yourself breathing, to listen to the breath of the other while you breathe.
Maciço | Rafael Almeida (PT)
Sanctuary of geological time. Common ground that sustains us, reinventing itself at every moment. Changeable, impermanent and unpredictable. A homecoming. This film proposes a reflection on bodies that rescue a humanity that is one with nature, that carry within them memories and a duality that is both hard and fragile.