Category: — PEARLS 26 – 12.09.26

Through ritual, dance, and body-based practices, three traditional practitioners seek to restore the connection between humans and nature. Babadana (The Opening) reinterprets inherited knowledge through an experimental cinematic language. MORE

• Titel: Babadana (The Opening)
• Director//Regie: Moch Alvi (Muhamad Alfi Majid)
• Choreography//Choreographie: Bonardi · Fakih Arya
• Production//Produktion: Sekitar Kita Kreativa
• Country of Production//Land: Indonesia
• Year of Production//Jahr: 2024
• Duration//Dauer: 00:06:54
• Dance and Performance//Tanz: Fakih Arya · Bonardi · Mulyani
• Camera//Kamera: Akbar Riyadi · Luthfi Izra Mahendra
• Montage: Moch Alvi
• Sound//Ton: Luthfi Izra Mahendra
• Music//Musik: Gardika Gigih
• Screenplay//Drehbuch: Moch Alvi
• Webpage//Webseite: --
• Special Thanks//Besonderer Dank: M. Faiq Arifin, Fernand Deroussen, Nanang Bayu Aji, Hye-Ohn Park, Victor Pradipta

Inspired by Nietzsche’s chapter “The Wanderer” from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The ruins of a castle at the end of the world, overgrown by nature, come to life through a body that reflects melancholy and memory. MORE

• Titel: La Última Isla
• Director//Regie: Alejandro Chaparro Figueras
• Original Idea//Idee: Alejandro Chaparro Figueras
• Country of Production//Land: Chile
• Year of Production//Jahr: 2025
• Duration//Dauer: 0:06:47
• Dance and Performance//Tanz: Nahua Calderón
• Camera//Kamera: Alejandro Chaparro Figueras
• Montage: Alejandro Chaparro Figueras
• Sound//Ton: Gianlucca Doménico
• Music//Musik: Gianlucca Doménico
• Instagram: @chapashot
• Webpage//Webseite: moviendofilms

Where the land ends and the sea begins, two bodies lose themselves. MORE

• Titel: NOUAGE
• Director//Regie: Fu Le · Magalie Lanriot
• Choreography//Choreographie: Magalie Lanriot · Roel Q Seeber
• Production//Produktion: Tetrapode & La Boite aux Courts · Vanessa Bajoue-Degaugue (Executive producer) · Olivia Sander (Production assistant)
• Country of Production//Land: France · Portugal
• Year of Production//Jahr: 2026
• Duration//Dauer: 00:09:51
• Dance and Performance//Tanz: Magalie Lanriot · Roel Q Seeber
• Camera//Kamera: Fu Le
• Montage: Fu Le
• Voice//Stimme: Ricardo Figueira (Text · Voice)
• Music//Musik: Tiago Cerqueira
• Behind the Scenes: Nuno Larau (Rigging)
• Instagram: @cie.tetrapode · @magalielanriot
• Webpage//Webseite: tetrapode.fr
• Special Thanks//Besonderer Dank: With the support of Adami

A man wakes to a batik cloth that stirs his desire — straining against invisible restraint, he
merges with it and is free. MORE

• Titel: Fallen Memory
• Director//Regie: Lao Keng U
• Choreography//Choreographie: Abdi Karya
• Production//Produktion: Cinemovement
• Country of Production//Land: Indonesia · Macau · Singapore
• Year of Production//Jahr: 2020
• Duration//Dauer: 00:10:00
• Dance and Performance//Tanz: Abdi Karya
• Camera//Kamera: Lao Keng U
• Montage: Lao Keng U
• Sound//Ton: Abdi Karya · Lau Keng U
• Music//Musik: Ellison Lau Chi Keong
• Foley//Geräusche: Abdi Karya · Lau Keng U
• Instagram: @keng_u_lao
• Webpage//Webseite: kengulao.com

We inherit more than blood. Through wind, water and two inseparable bodies, Satu Garis Menurun unfolds as a meditation on the invisible legacy of prayers, resilience and memory passed from one generation to the next. MORE

• Titel: Satu Garis Menurun | Inherited Line
• Director//Regie: Mekratingrum Hapsari
• Choreography//Choreographie: Mekratingrum Hapsari
• Production//Produktion: Seni Tari Indonesia
• Country of Production//Land: Indonesia
• Year of Production//Jahr: 2021
• Duration//Dauer: 00:08:32
• Dance and Performance//Tanz: Mekratingrum Hapsari, Sekar Tri Kusuma
• Camera//Kamera: Eprom
• Montage: Ardy Cahyo
• Sound//Ton: Dani S. Budiman
• Music//Musik: Rio Murti
• Screenplay//Drehbuch: Mekratingrum Hapsari
• Instagram: @mingkeh__
• Webpage//Webseite: https://youtu.be/rFDD1O0LdYs?si=6QUGSgpgTPeg7E7C

In a proscribed mass, a ritual of deliverance is orchestrated as ecstatic bodies, exhilarated by the joy of being together, find themselves irresistibly caught in the delicious clutches of decadence. MORE

• Titel: RELUCTANCE
• Director//Regie: Sebastien De Buyl · Sacha Caloussis · Jacques Lemaire
• Choreography//Choreographie: Terlingua Films · Jhaya Caupenne, Sophie Mélis, Chiara Monteverde, Zehra Proch, Delphine Jungman, Castélie Yalombo, Camille Dejean, Elliot Minogue-Stone, Pepe Kasses
• Production//Produktion: Terlingua Films
• Country of Production//Land: Belgium
• Year of Production//Jahr: 2025
• Duration//Dauer: 00:11:22
• Dance and Performance//Tanz: Jhaya Caupenne, Sophie Mélis, Chiara Monteverde, Zehra Proch, Delphine Jungman, Castélie Yalombo, Camille Dejean, Elliot Minogue-Stone, Pepe Kasses
• Camera//Kamera: Sebastien de Buyl · Sacha Caloussis · Jacques Lemaire
• Montage: Sebastien de Buyl · Sacha Caloussis
• Sound//Ton: Christophe Clébard
• Music//Musik: Christophe Clébard
• Scenography//Szenografie: Gaël de Ville
• Instagram: @terlinguafilms
• Webpage//Webseite: https://vimeo.com/user5401890

“If the Arabic language is perceived in that way today, then i’ll create it with my own body” MORE

• Titel: Abjad Hawaz
• Director//Regie: Hadi Moussally
• Choreography//Choreographie: Hadi Moussally
• Production//Produktion: h7o7
• Country of Production//Land: Lebanon, Spain & France
• Year of Production//Jahr: 2025
• Duration//Dauer: 00:05:00
• Dance and Performance//Tanz: Salma Zahore
• Camera//Kamera: Olivier Pagny
• Montage: Olivier Pagny
• Music//Musik: Salma + Louise (Abjad Hawaz)
• Instagram: @hadi.moussally · @olivierpagny · h707studio
• Webpage//Webseite: h7o7.com