From the organizer: A Tale of Two Cities 10 mins. Film by Linh Phan and Nick Fernandez.

A Tale of Two Cities—The relentless march of time sees communities rise and fall. Progress and development seem a given but despite the proof of history, humans forget that any civilisation can fall. Thu Thiem is nestled on a bend in the Saigon river, facing the new, towering city centre - it was once bustling with the kind of street life for which Vietnam is famous - but it is now a ghost town. Few said she was beautiful but many called her home.

Tableaux 12 mins
Film by Maïté Jeannolin, Charlotte Marchal

Inspired by a mystical ceremony,Tableaux mainly shot in Morocco is a contemporary reappropriation of a rite of passage, a symbolical journey through the colours of a trance night. If the body is a vehicle that moves, it’s to move its environment, to embody the landscape.

ORE 30 mins
Film by Kim-Sanh Châu, Ray Lavers

ORE is blue, gleaming, fragile and powerful.
This screendance project, shot in Saigon (Vietnam), follows 11 dancers in this rich and chaotic city. Believing in a deep and visceral body language, Kim-Sanh Châu & Ray Lavers’s creation is intimate and assumes its own subjectivity. Their work is anchored within space, as well as rhythm. ORE is their second screendance shot in Vietnam, following Inner Smoke, which was awarded Best Direction 2017 by Festival Quartiers Danses - Cinémathèque Québécoise (Canada).

Cities & Eyes Valdrada 15 mins
Perfromance by Hong Nhung Vo, Florian Nguyen, and five dancers

Cities & Eyes Valdrada is divided into two chapters: the first part describes a city constructed on the shores of a lake, whose houses and streets face towards the water; the second part conceptualizes the mirror image of that city beneath the surface and how they both coexist and reflect the other but still retain their individual stories.