Multiplié Dance Film
Since its inception in 2015, DansiT has enjoyed a valuable collaboration with Minimalen Short Film Festival. Sharing a vision to challenge and enrich short film as an art form, we’ve spent more than a decade together spotlighting unique voices and stories from the world of dance.
The competition is based on the unique profile of the Multiplié Dance Festival, where art of dance is bent and stretched into new, surprising and engaging forms. In 2022, we expanded to include a Nordic program, highlighting the diversity among artists from Norway and the Nordic region.
This year’s competition received 289 submissions from around the world, carefully evaluated by an artistic committee composed of dance artists Gunhild Løhre, Sebastian Tjørstad, and Mathias Stoltenberg.
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A poignant portrayal of dance as a transformative force in Joseph’s life, contrasted with the challenges of living with disability. The film expands the idea of dance as a universal language and a powerful space for expression.
In the aftermath of a party, a dancer in vivid red moves through a deserted space. Filmed in one continuous take, the raw immediacy lets the audience engage fully with the dancer’s physical and emotional presence.
Drawing its name from the ancient ordering of the Arabic alphabet, each letter is danced and embodied by Salma Zahore among the ruins of Barcelona. Blending fashion, music, poetry, and performance, the film reclaims a language often misunderstood, transforming it into a celebration of identity, resilience, and artistic freedom.
Laura is a Skolt Sámi woman who grew up outside the Sámi region. Through quadrille dance she reaches out to her unknown cultural heritage.
At sunset in Red Hook, Brooklyn, this site-responsive butoh performance film explores liminal space and ghostly energies emerging between land and water, day and night, body and landscape.
Inspired by Yvonne Rainer’s iconic short film Hand Movie (1966), the film zooms in on a hand carrying an entire choreography on its own. HANDY explores desire and imagination linked to both the presence and absence of another body, and is part of the Butch Tribute series.
A visceral attempt to escape a suffocating yet familiar environment where circles, repetition, and swirling movement pull her downward. Can she finally break free and find her way out?
Three women gather in an old bathhouse and reflect on the body’s natural transformations through puberty, childbirth, and menopause. Blending documentary, fiction, and dance, the film explores movement as a way to understand and express emotions tied to bodily change.
Ravel’s Bolero, renowned for its contagious rhythm and universality, is reimagined through Mehdi Kerkouche’s inclusive and visually driven style. The film captures scenes from a young life in Créteil through energetic and accessible dance.
A choreography in dissolution. A stop-motion animation composed of still images —self-portraits in dance— printed and scanned by hand. As the physical prints gradually move along the scanner bed, the choreography transforms, fragmenting into a visual echo of movement and memory.
A young woman, dressed in a tracksuit, walks through the backstreets of Sevilla into a housing project. This is Carmen Avilés - the young street superstar of flamenco.
Four good friends travel through time and space for an alchemical and sensuous celebration full of phantasms. Familiar yet unexpected faces appear along the way.
Memory and movement revive the Gaelic concerts once held by Melbourne’s Irish diaspora in the early 1900s. With no archival footage, the film crafts its own interpretation, merging tradition and contemporaneity in a poetic reflection on Irish identity.
Traumas affect our breath and our movement, it disrupts our rythm, but the harmonic frequency in nature can help us find it back.
A young woman remains suspended in emotional limbo after years of social suppression in Iran. Life echoes faintly around her as she dissolves slowly into nature. The film meditates on human fragility and the quiet tension between stillness and survival.
At the Baltic’s halocline, where salt and fresh waters tense against merging, three coastal dwellers embody the memory of the sea and reflect on vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience.
Two men - meeting at an intersection of alleyways - zoom in and out of past and present – An exploration of isolation, belonging, compassion and disdain, painting a portrait of life and longing on the streets of Venice Beach, where scarcity and abundance coexist.
When time stretches and choices torment, our freedom is revealed in all its beauty and chaos.
On her 34th birthday, Alesya retreats to the solitude of her remote home. When a mysterious box appears at her doorstep, her tightly controlled world begins to shift. A slow-burning, sensorial exploration of desire, resistance, and the fragile beauty of contact.
Kielo finds it hard to sit still in class. She takes a break venturing into the corridors of her imagination.
A short movement study on sapphic longing and obsession.