Dance: BBC Introducing Arts (2022)

Brenda Emmanus presents an innovative collection of dramatic short films from emerging artists. Compelling stories of identity and isolation, trauma and power combine with the visceral impact of dance to explore our place in today’s world in a thought-provoking and heartfelt way. Daughters of the Sea; Breadline; The Dupe; Happy Okay Mate; Mad Smooth; Rat King; Reesheh; Spectrum; Testimony; Turbine; Wounds; Beneath the Movement; Divis Tower, Both Sides Now

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Hotel Chevalier

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

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6.9

Hotel Chevalier

2007

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The Cost of Consideration (Adjusted for Inflation)

A lonely man in his 60s accepts a stranger's invitation on a community app, leading him to Thanksgiving dinner with a young married couple in his neighborhood. As a tense evening unfolds, everyone's true motivations are revealed.

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The Cost of Consideration (Adjusted for Inflation)

2024

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Spring

Amanda struggles to keep something inside as she spends the day taking pictures of her best friend.

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4.0

Spring

2017

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Catherine

A tragic comedy of a sweet little girl, who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.

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5.6

Catherine

2017

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Why Won't You Dance?

Anna, a shy girl, sits alone at a party. Vasilis, a shy guy, also sits alone at the same party. Vasilis really doesn't want to talk to Anna. Anna is burdened by something. Their reluctant meeting will bring forth memories Anna would much rather ignore.

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Why Won't You Dance?

2023

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The Summer of 12

Just as the young members of the swimming team spend another day training in the pool, the cusp of early puberty threatens to turn innocent friendship and camaraderie into something much more. Sixth-grader Yu-Hsuan has a closely guarded secret, but this tide of feelings inside is brewing into a storm…

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The Summer of 12

2019

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Beautiful Dreamer

Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her last two years over the lifetime of her baby daughter, visiting for only one night every seven years. Mother and daughter must negotiate to build a relationship despite the longing and estrangement that marks the life moments they are able to share.

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5.2

Beautiful Dreamer

2016

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Birdboy

A terrible industrial accident changes little Dinki's life forever. Now Dinki's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the forest lost in his fantasies.

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Birdboy

2011

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The Atomic Adventure

Algeria desert, 1961. France just detonated an atomic bomb. A patrol of seven soldiers is sent to ground zero to take samples and measure the current radioactivity. The more they advance, the more they perceive that they are entering a dangerous uncharted territory: the future…

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The Atomic Adventure

2019

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Lukas & the Aspies

'Lukas & the Aspies' is a story about 12-year old Lukas. In many ways, Lukas is a normal kid: He plays in a band, hangs out with his friends and fights with his little brother. But Lukas' has also Asperger syndrome - and hence his own set of unique problems.

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Lukas & the Aspies

2015

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Felina

Felina, a woman capable of becoming a panther, or perhaps a panther capable of becoming a woman, lives in love with a blind pianist.

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Felina

2024

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Footloose

When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.

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6.7

Footloose

1984

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El sitio en el que también se está

Sebastián is from Venezuela and arrives at a shelter for migrant minors in Mexico City. There he meets Aurora, a girl from Guatemala, with whom he falls in love. Both are waiting for a response to their asylum application. Time is running out and the farewell is inevitable.

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El sitio en el que también se está

2024

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Contact Hours

A university caretaker's routine is disturbed when he unlocks the door of a student's room who hasn't been seen for days. This tragedy prompts him to try and mend the ailing relationship with his son.

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Contact Hours

2024

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After-School Special

A man and a woman have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground.

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4.7

After-School Special

2011

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Ape

To take control of his life, Travis Wilker must conquer the hallucinations that plagued his childhood.

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Ape

2017

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I Love Hooligans

A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.

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I Love Hooligans

2013

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Hello, Stranger

Arthur is a single dad, struggling with the care for his seven-year-old son Max and the combination of his secret life as a drag queen.

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Hello, Stranger

2016

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Naked

A message from Javier's boyfriend changes his family situation and causes them to reconsider their relationships.

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5.2

Naked

2013

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Carne

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

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Carne

1991

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White Man

A white-collar South Korean man discovers a severed human finger and keeps it.

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5.4

White Man

1994

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Herculanum

Three "meetings." Two men. A rumbling volcano.

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6.0

Herculanum

2016

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The World In Your Window

Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father. They're in limbo, existing more than living. The child intuitively understands that looking forward is harder than looking back, and that's where life happens. But they are stuck, until an accidental friendship with a V8 driving transsexual unlocks the means for Jesse to liberate his father and himself.

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7.4

The World In Your Window

2017

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III

By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.

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5.0

III

2022

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Chasin'

Two men connect more than just sexually, when a Scruff hook-up has them meeting in a park in the middle of a hot summer's night.

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1.0

Chasin'

2021

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Bulldog

Charlie and Jack find an escape from the brutality of country footy in an isolated beach, and each other.

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Bulldog

2023

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The silent cry of the trees

To protest the construction of a new car lot, a young guy named Bernat comes to the vacant lot in order to tie himself to the only left living tree. Upon arrival, Bernat finds Joel, an unknown young man who also has decided to tie himself up.

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The silent cry of the trees

2023

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Zero One

Jimmy Park is visiting home for the first time in years and has nothing to show for his time living overseas in Seoul. But old tensions come to a head when he confronts his homophobic sister at a family dinner.

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Zero One

2019

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Zurück

Lena returns to Germany after spending a year in Australia. Lena's mom and boyfriend are happy about she's home. Lena herself has mixed feelings. It is difficult to adapt to life in Germany again.

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Zurück

2014

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Polly

When Jacob's ex-girlfriend Polly comes to visit, the pair can barely contain their excitement. Since their teenage days when they were an item, Jacob has long since been out of the closet and in a happy relationship with boyfriend Nicholas, so both he and Polly have a lot of catching up to do. Sure enough, Polly's visit extends into a long stay as the trio relish each other's company. However, all good things must, eventually, come to an end.

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7.5

Polly

2017

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Vacua

During an ordinary summer, Alba lives day by day trying to find the way to her future: a job, a purpose.

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Vacua

2022

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Cherry Blossoms in March

In this mother-daughter story, a young woman explores her own mortality through art and poetry as her terminal illness holds her back from a normal life.

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Cherry Blossoms in March

2024

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I Will Always Love You Conny

It’s minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees F) and 20 y/o Conny walks around like a restless criminal with his hoodie up in a small forgotten village in northern Sweden. He's not welcome anywhere and the whole village seems to hate him. Yesterday he panicked and drove away from his girlfriend’s delivery of their baby - but now he has repented and wants to come back. But what will it take for her to forgive him?

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10.0

I Will Always Love You Conny

2017

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The Euthanizer

A black comedy about a man struggling to make a living by helping people kill themselves.

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6.0

The Euthanizer

2009

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The Decision

A film about the divorce decision and its impact on the children.

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5.0

The Decision

1982

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