Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go into a music-induced trance and dance on bonfires in a display of religious passion.

She Dances Alone

Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to produce a film on the life of controversial ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky. He finds his goal

Dancing Mothers

An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and attempts to prevent a man from pursuing her daughter.

Pol Pot Dancing

A star dancer at the Cambodian royal court lovingly raises her husband's little brother as her own son. Decades later, as a forced labourer under the Khmer Rouge, she discovers that her foster son is Pol Pot.

Tanssi yli hautojen

In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.

The Love Cheat

Henry, a struggling Greenwhich Villiage artist, accidentally finds an invitation to Louise Gordon's coming out party. He goes to the party, falls in love with the pretty socialite, but soon decides to leave as he realize

Kahden tanssin välillä

Forester Antti Kare and manager John Freyberg travel north in search of millions worth of timber sales. The manager's giddy daughter Margit also secretly joins the journey.

Manuel Liñán - The New Face of Flamenco

Manuel Liñán is a Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer who is pushing the boundaries of the artform and challenging gender norms. Born into a modest family in Granada in 1980, Liñán grew up under pressure to fulfil

Dancing with Pictures

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the two have met again and kept detailed discussions. With their youthful joy

They Dance with Their Heads

The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. This film unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.

Youthful Hand-to-Hand Battle

Follows 3 young men who live in the gayborhood "2 Chome" of Shinjuku and their encounters and relationships. One is in charge of the gay bar.

THEY NEVER STOP DANCING

Inside a confined cube, chaotic shadow dancers move without rhythm or order. A mysterious figure, seen only through fragments of a face, begins reshaping their world — pulling curtains, rebuilding space, and restoring st

The Fisherman and the Dancing Girl

After 20 years of wandering taiga weather stations searching for a suitable place for having a life, Nataliya and Yuri Usovy settled on Olkhon island, on a remote weather station. They thought to find happiness here.

Een danstragedie

Mario is a very successful violinist who marries Meina, a housewife. They are happy together until she starts a dancing career and becomes even more successful than her husband. Mario becomes jealous of his wife and estr

Vibe Istanbul

La Gigue

"La Gigue" (Gaumont #590) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587), "Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588, th

Little Miss Lillian

Little Miss Lillian is Lillian Graham, billed as the youngest prima ballerina in the world. She appears in four different costumes, doing four dances, and the transition is handled by movie magic, stopping the camera and

The Tale of Maddalena

Maddalena, a poor flower girl, meets Jandolo, a promising painter, and becomes his model, muse, and lover. After a carefree period, financial difficulties force her to distance herself from him so as not to hinder his ca

How to be a ballet dancer

This ballet instruction movie shows you how to prepare for ballet classes.

Star dancer - Elisa Carrillo Cabrera

A day in the life of Elisa Carrillo Cabrera, a dancer with the Staatsballett Berlin. Solitary exercises and rehearsals with her partners begin in the early hours of the morning, in search of the perfect movement. By the