Film Archive

See our Eventive Platform for list of Films

https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/films

3 Points of Contact to Survive  -  Filmmaker Brennan Naomi Leighton Roy and Full Radius Dance  (Canada)

A Butterfly Is Knocking on the Window -  Filmmaker Mohammad Hasani  (Iran)

A Memory of Touch  - Filmmaker  Pankaj Khanchandani  (India)  

OUTSTANDING EMERGING FILMMAKER

A Welcomed Surprise  - Filmmaker Megan Lowe & Shira Yaziv  (US)

Bryn Tik Tok  - Filmmaker Bryn Bamber (Canada)

Carry Weight  -  Filmmaker Maria Rutanen  (Germany)

Choreography of Care  -  Filmmaker Sonia Gemmeti  (Canada)

Cod'ine  -  Filmmaker Sasha Travis  (US)

Contact Dense  - Filmmaker  Olivia Proudfoot  (Canada)

AUDIENCE CHOICE

Contact Improvisation with Ruben - Filmmaker Ruben Garcia Arabit's  (Netherlands)

Contact Jam with Nilan Perera  - Filmmaker Mike Filippov  (Canada)

Contact Zoomprov . - Filmmakers Kathleen Rea,  Brennan Naomi Leighton Roy and Luke Anderson (Canada)

Cuerpos en Ruinas / Bodies in the rubble  - Filmmaker  Sara Calderón  (Spain)

HONORABLE MENTION

Danza y movimiento consciente en la Sagrada Familia  - Filmmaker  Sara Calderón  (Spain)

Decoherence  - Fimmaker  Adrijan Assoufi  (Canada)

Finding Helix  - Filmmakers Olya Glotka (Canada)

Give, Up, Give up  - Creator Sue Lauther (China)

HONORABLE MENTION

HOME(in)STEAD  - Filmmakers  Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyễn  (US)

AUDIENCE CHOICE

Mother Melancholia  -  Filmmaker Samantha Shay  (Iceland)

AUDIENCE CHOICE

Nana Triste  -   Filmmaker Verónica Daniela Gregorio  (Argentina)

OLD FASCIAN WAY  - Filmmaker Sasha Dodo  (Thailand)

OUTSTANDING IMPROVISATION IN A DANCE FILM

Part of you/me, Nowhere - Filmmaker  Tiina Jääskö  (Finland). 

SALTARE VITAM - Filmmaker/s Fanfy Francoise Garcia and Rachel Guénon (France) 

Skin Conversation - Filmmaker Fern Sripungwiwat  (Thailand)

Stone Jungle -  Filmmaker  Allan Souza Lima (Brazil)

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY

Swamp Thang  - Filmmaker  Dane Cree  (US)

OUTSTANDING POST-PRODUCTION

The Space In Between Us  - Filmmaker  Seraina Wams  (US)

OUTSTANDING DUCUMENTARY

The Things We Say  - Filmmaker  MillO Dance Projects  (Canada)

The Toronto Contact Improvisation Community  - Filmmaker Sarah Jones (Canada)

OUTSTANDING FILM GOLD 

AUDIENCE CHOICE

The Way You're Making Me Feel  - Filmmaker  Sphynx Green (Canada)

Toronto Tuesday Dance Jam  - Filmmaker Olya Glotka (Canada)

Umbilical Cord  - Filmmaker  Fan Mei  (China)

Up To The Light  - Filmmaker  Piper Morrison  (US)

Walks with Me  - Filmmaker Kati Kallio  (Finland)

OUTSTANDING NARRATIVE FILM

AUDIENCE CHOICE

Walls - Filmmakers  Dani Cobarrubias & Carmen Porras  (Spain and France)

OUTSTANDING FILM BRONZE 

AUDIENCE CHOICE

Yurodivy  - Filmmaker  Ryan Renshaw  (Australia)

 …more than breath  -  Filmmaker Carlynn Leah Reed  (Canada)

OUTSTANDING FILMSILVER
 

Absence - Director/Choreographer Diego Funes (US)

According to Movement (A story in 10 chapters): Documentary about Thierry Thieû Niang Created by Beatriz Mediavilla (Canada). 

And You See Me - Director Emily Shapiro (US)  

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY AWARD

au mur de la mer - Director Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern (France)

SILVER AWARD

Between Snow and Sky - Co-Directed Karen Kaeja and Allen Kaeja (Canada)

Between Sun and Sand - Co-Directed Karen Kaeja and Allen Kaeja (Canada)

Blue Monday - Andrew Margetson Director (Spain)

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD

Contact Impromptu - Director Blas Payri (Spain)

OUTSTANDING POST-PRODUCTION  AWARD

BOOKANIMA - Director SHON KIM (Republic of Korea)

Born in The Trees -Filmmaker/s: Magalie Lanriot and Rachel (Portugal)

BRONZE AWARD

Colors - Directors Emiko Tamura, Saki Tagami and Atsushi Kakefuda (Japan)

Contact Without Borders. - Filmmaker Olya Gotka (Canada)

OUTSTANDING IMPROVISATION  AWARD  to Tali Wertheim (Israel), Hai Cohen (Israel)

HONORABLE MENTION - Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)

AUDIENCE CHOICE - Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)

Contacts - Filmmaker Itamar Baruch (Israel)

Contact improvisation: Tango Playground - Filmmakers Rosina Porto and Joaquín Cruz and Diegotzin (Uruguay)

Climate Strike Contact - Fimmaker Sarah Jones (Canada)

COVID Contact Improvisation in Quarantine - Filmmakers Marta Wrzesinska and Jesus Alonso (Spain)

Dancing with You, When You're Not There: A memorial to Nancy Stark Smith - Creator Sue Lauther (US)

Dois Corações Pertinhos (Two hearts close by) - Filmmakers Barbara Cunha & Mary Gatis (Brazil)

Downriver - Andrea Boll (Switzerland)

Dear Contact Improvisation -  Dancer/creator Sara Zolbrod (US)

Distinctly Social - Filmmaker Malcolm Shute (US)

Dovercourt House: A Home For Dance" Created by Sarah Jones (Canada). 

Duet on a Wall - Filmmaker/s: Magalie Lanriot and Maitane Sarra/de (Portugal) 

AUDIENCE CHOICE

Falling Up - Director/Filmmaker - Esther Dganit Zimmerman (Israel -Tel Aviv based)

Fallow - Concept/Choreographer/Performer: Karen Kaeja and Co-Directors: Karen & Allen Kaeja (Canada)

Hic et Nunc "Here and Now" - Director Emma Cianchi (Italy)

HILA - Adam Bentley and Tiffany Ayalik (Canada)

Holding Space - Choreographer/Director Renay Aumiller (US)

OUTSTANDING EMERGING DANCERS AWARD

HORS - Directors Amélie Gagnon and Julia-Maude Cloutier (Canada)

Impression Banks - Director - Chris Hopkins (UK) and Banks Artiste (New York, US)

Inbetween - Tiina Jääskö (Finland)

Infinite - Director Liam Cheng (Taiwan)

Infinite Flow Sizzle Reel - Infinite Flow Company (US)

Moving On - Laura Doehler (UK)

My Disability Dancer - Filmmakers Victor Pineda, Zachary Kerschberg with dancer/teacher Mr. Antione Hunter (US)

GOLD AWARD

My Body - Rythea Lee and Mac Boone (US)

Never - Sphynx Church

Nom finito/ Implied lines - Concept: Francesca Pedullà and Sabrina Marzagalli with direction by David Valolao (Italy)

ON EGO - Director Jessica Ray (US)

Parcon Resilience - Sarah Jones (Canada) with dancer/facilitator Andrew Suseno (US)

Pliancy - Infinite Flow Dance with Dancers Marisa Hamamoto Piotr Iwanicki with choreography by Phillip Chbeeb (US)

OUTSTANDING DANCERS AWARD

PROPinquity Dance Jam - Filmmaker: Oya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine) 

Releasing - Filmmaker: Tiina Jääskö (Finland)

Rolling in the Deep: Extract from "Put Out the Flames" - choreographer Jos Baker from Trodden Dreams (US)

Resonance - Director María Mayoral Moreno (Poland)

Seeding - Nisrin Aziz - Director (India)

HONORABLE MENTION

Shira and Megan - Dancers/Filmmakers: Shira Yaziv and Magan Lowe (US)

Staccare - Director Daniel Garcia (US)

Terracotta - Umur Coskun (Canada and Turkey)

The Blood Harvest -Director Alia Montijo (US)

The Venusian Slip - Director Sam Mcgilp (Australia)

the window kind of opens by itself - Director Anya Cloud and Rebecca Salzer (US)

AUDIENCE CHOICE

Twist of Fate - Choreographer Jos Baker (US)

HONORABLE MENTION

You and Me - Directors Karni and Saul (UK)

AUDIENCE CHOICE

 Wall Dance - Colleen Bartley (UK)

ACF falta Trailer by Irene Alvarez Coto (Asturias)

AGRILLE by Gaetano Maria Mastrocinque (Italy)

A Provocation on Wheels by Shay Erlich and Jenna Roy (Canada)

bacK by Sarah Jones (Canada)

Bruno Caverna Documentary FORMLESS ARTS/PLAY FIGHT by NOIR Films (Russia)

Cindy and Micheal Choreography by Michael Demski and Cindy Salgado (Canada)

COLLAB by Marisa Hamamoto (US)

Contact Improvisation in Finland by Tiina Jääskö & Katri Lausjärvi (Finland)

Contact Improvisation by Tiina Jääskö & Jordi Ramon (Finland)

Contact Improvisation Mazunte @ Mermejita Beach by Pau Segui and Fran Cesk (Spain)

Contact Improvisation Goa India by Rohit Perm & Ariane Bernier (India) 

EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD

Contact Improvisation Lab Goa by Rahul Varma, Guru Suraj, Hari Choudhary (India) 

SILVER AWARD

Contact Improvisation: Zuzanna and Sasha by Sash Dodo (Thailand)

Contact Improv India Short-Film, Dharamkot 2018 by Psycharitra and Divye Dua (India)

Counter Balance by Anita Fillmore Kenny, Kris Lenzo, Jamie Fillmore (US)

Contact with Escalator by Vivek Patel (Canada)

Contact Improvisation in Vallpineda by Tiina Jääskö & Guy Leon (Finland)

Dancing Outside by Bryn Bamber (Canada)

Dancing with your Dreams by Gustavo Neves ( Portugal and Brasil) 

GOLD AWARD

Dance Contact Improv Costa Rica by Alejandro Barboza, Camilo Chica and Josh Desanti (Costa Rica)

Diversity & Inclusion in Contact Improvisation by Taja Will (US)

DOS by Luca Carco Pacell (Argentine) 

BRONZE AWARD 

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

I2M  by Nuria Bowart and Shira Yaziv (US)

Isabel and Ezra: Dance No. 4 by Andrei Andreev a.k.a andreimoment (US)

Jacob’s Pillow Contact Improvisation by Sophia Roméu & Hayim Heron (US)

Kitchen Dance in Kitchener by Vivek Patel (Canada)

Ki2m -Mix by Leomar Moring (US)

Little Playful Moments by Shira Yaziv (US)

Liquid Body Practice by Bruno Caverna (Brazil)

Mareta - Please Yes: a lullaby by Blas Payri (Spain and Switzerland)

Mindfulness Meditator by Kim Simons and Olivia Proudfoot (Canada)

Masculin / Féminin by Imogene Newland, Sylvain Ka and Faustas Talacka (Scotland)

Mass by Fu LE (France) 

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

Mix of Films by Jiemba Sands (US)

(No) Detachment by Marisa Cecchetti (Italy)

Osaka Panorama Contact by Charles Billard and Yangjah (Canada, Japan)

Play-Fight Camp 2018/Fangas & I-Fen by Bruno Caverna

PLAY-FIGHT PRACTICE/DISSECTING FLOW by Marina Sekacheva (Russia)

POEM by Olya Gltoka (Canada) 

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

Pool Side Play by Eric Liu (Canada)

Rooftop Contact Improve by Ari Choudhary, Ariane Bernier and Abhishek Goyal (Canada and India)

Salt Water by Abe Abraham (US)

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

Somatic-Landscape Encounter One (an embodied documentary) by Real Eguchi (Canada)

The Gentle Ladies Allie Costello by The Gentle Ladies (US)

Unedited Tension by Alina Kouvchinova and Pablo Perez (Canada)

Ultimo Turno by Sebastian Sansotera, Andres Montero Bustamante, Iván Varela (Argentina)  

Waves by Danielle Nash (Canada)        

Wild by Leah Trottier, Graeme Leung (Canada) 

EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD 

An Intimate Dance: Journeys through Movement and Touch by Sanford Lewis (USA)

CAR by Tara Brandel (Ireland)

Contact Dance Every Body by Olya Gltoka, Luke Anderson & Laura Storey (Canada/Ukraine)

GOLD AWARD

Contact Tango by Clara Groezinger and Javier Cura (USA/Argentine)

Contact Tango Underwater by Clara Groezinger and Javier Cura (USA/Argentine)

Contested Landscapes by Sarah Puja Jones (Canada)

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

Edifice by Carmine De Amicis, Harriet Waghorn, Rogerio Silva (UK)

Embraced by Irene Sposetti (Germany)

Exant by Ines Von Bonhurst (UK/Portugal)

Dancing Around Helsinki by Tiina Jääskö (Finland)

For John and Merce by Malcom Shute (USA)

Farewell to Honest's Eds by Karen Kaeja, Allen Kaeja, and Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)

Flesh and Stone (Olya Glotka, Kathleen Rea and Nils Clifford (Canada, Ukraine)

EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD - Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)

Gazebo by Olya Glotka, Kim Simons & Caroline Joyal
(Canada/Ukraine)

Is CI Performable? By Martin Keogh (Canada)

I see You...? Vivek Patel & Tanya Williams (Canada)

Israeli Contact Festival 2015 by Eugene Titov (Ukraine)

Lajka by Johan Planefeldt (Sweden)

Los Mundos Lisergicos by Javier Cardenete (Spain)

Magic-making by Vanessa Faria, Eric Liu & Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)

Momentary by Suzanne Liska and Farivash Babanorouzi (Canada)

Movement Research: FloorWork and Libertango by Tom Weksler and Annie Rigney (Israel)

Never Grow Up by Alina Kouvchinova, Paul Barton, Olya Glotka & Kim Simons (Canada/Ukraine)

NOOS by Frédéri Vernier and Justine Berthillot (France)

Oliverance by Olya Glotka, Olivia Proudfoot, Ference Szabo (Canada/Ukraine)

Parcon NYC #1: Subway Stops by Parcon NYC: Andrew Suseno, Javaka Steptoe, Cecilia Fontanesi, Richard Inkyu Kim, and Dean James Beck (USA)

SILVER AWARD

Rest by Tom Weksler and Olya Glotka (Israel/Canada/Ukraine)

Shinrin-yoku /森林浴 by Tom Weklser and Mayumu Minakawa (Japen/Israel)

Sigur Rós – Valtari by Christian Larson (Sweden)

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

Social CI Action by Kathleen Rea, Vivek Patel, and Jeff Moskal (Canada)

Sphere by Ariel Llamas & Jane Husak (Canada)

Sur Ton Dos Frédéri Vernier and Justine Berthillot (France)

Sur ton dos - Spectacle(s) In-situ by Frédéri Vernier and Justine Berthillot (France)

To One by Tiina Jääskö (Finland)

Violators will be Towed Away by Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)

Wake Me Up by Celine Poon and Sonya Janejit Kaur  (Malaysia)

BRONZE AWARD

Waves by Tom Weksler by filmmaker Olya Glotka (Israel/Canada/Ukraine)

Welcome to Nido by Sharon Fridman (Spain/Israel)

Wild Horses by Réka SZŰCS (filmmaker is Hungarian and production is a Hungarian-Mexican co-production)

William and Heloise Duo on a Chinese Pole by William Underwood and Heloise Bourgeois (USA/France)

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

30 Days of Contact by Olya and Kim Simmons (Canada/Ukraine)

30 Days of Contact Compilation Olya Glotka and Kim Simmons (Canada/Ukraine)

  ...be like wind...dance everywhere.... by Inna Pavlichuk/Lisa Via (Ukraine)

Caída Libre/Free Fall- excerpts Andrea Vázquez, Damián Varela/Miramemira, Sharon Fridman (Spain)

Caída Libre/Free Fall - site-specific by Eva Viera and Sharon Fridman (Spain and Israel)

Caída Libre/Free Fall by Andrea Vázquez, Damián Varela/Miramemira, Sharon Fridman (Spain and Israel)

GOLD AWARD

City Music by Michael Demski (Canada)

BRONZE AWARD

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS 

Contact Improv from the Inside out by Vivek Patel (Canada)

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS 

Cures for Fears by Mika Lillit Lior in collaboration with Rob Fairley (Canada)

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS 

Daily Contact by Rocio Marano (Argentina)

Dansen! CI in daily office life by Menno van der Woude (Netherlands)

Declan & Athos: CI by Declan Ji & Athos Germano (Spain)

Five Ways In by Mike Poltorak(UK), Sonja Bruhlmann (Switzerland), Alyssa Lynes(USA)

Motel  Labyrinthos by Sideris Nanoudis, Georgia Petrali, Daniel Bear Davis (Greece)

SILVER AWARD

Not to Look For Answers by Pierre Enaux (France)

Now CI in everyday life - in rainy May by Christina Speth (Switzerland/Germany)

Passage by Allen Kaeja (Canada)

Perpetual Motion by Ariel Llama (Canada)

Persephone and Aurora's Dream Excerpts by Malcolm Shute (USA)

Poured Out by Inna Pavlichuk/Lisa Via (Ukraine)

Rolling Like an Orange in Little Sun by Jija Sohn (Netherlands)

Rizoma Paris Excerpts by Julio Guzmán and Sharon Fridman (Spain and Israel)

Rizoma in Rovereto by Sharon Fridman and Sebastiano Luca Insinga (Israel, Spain, Italy)

Scuffle by Emma Rozanski (Australia)

Sweet Exit by Allen and Karen Kaeja (Canada)

The Heart by Douglas Rosenberg, Allen Kaeja (Canada)

Tu Tness by Inna Pavlichuk (Lisa Via) & Alex Postnikov (Ukraine)

Between the Lines by Blake Nellis and Laura Heinecke (USA/Germany)

Contact Baby by Kathleen Rea (Canada)

Contact Improvisation: Moments of Practice by Irene Sposetti, Johan Nilsson, Wayne Avanson (Germany, Italy)
BRONZE AWARD

Epreuve Synthese by Samuel Charlton and Reuben Hosler (Canada)
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

Five Ways In (Trailer) by Mike Poltorak, Sonja Brühlmann and Alyssa Lynes (Switzerland\USA)

Greyscale by Allen Kaeja and Karen Kaeja (Canada)

Groundswell by Suzanne Liska, Kathleen Rea, Lee Walder (Canada)

Hasta Dónde? By Sharon Fridman (Israel/Spain)
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

In Touch by Johan Planefeldt (Sweden)
SILVER  AWARD
CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD FROM THE AD
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

Negative Space > Positive Space by Rachel Brown (USA)

Sense-8 by Katrina McPherson (UK)

Souvenir of a Summer Jam by Neige Christenson (USA)

Stereoblind by Rebecca Salzer (USA)

Stumble by Allen Kaeja (Canada)

東京C I 日常 Usual by Suzuki Yasukichi (Japan)

Sketchbook by Jeremy Finch
GOLD AWARD

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD