Best of DANCE Film Festival

Watch the festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/best-of-dance-film-festival-july-2026

pLEasurEs 650, 6min., UK
Directed by Oscar Oldershaw, Joseph Campbell
Born from live improvisation between dancer and musicians, this film evolves through further improvised layers — a continuous conversation between movement, sound, and image.

https://www.instagram.com/oscaroldershaw

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/pleasures-650-audience-feedback

Everyone Left, 4min., UK
Directed by Abby Wardlow, Lewis Gourlay
This film explores the alternate, dark memories of a abandoned spaces, revealing fragments of a forgotten past or glimpses into a possible future.

https://www.instagram.com/cagoule_tv

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/everyone-left-audience-feedback

SURGE, 6min., USA
Directed by Elijah Beyer
A swarm of dancers intertwine together, as they make their way through the different rooms and spaces of a mysterious place.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/surge-audience-feedback

CATCH, 2min., USA
Directed by Audrey Baran
Short dance film exploring sensations of confinement and release created through internal and environmental challenges.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/catch-audience-feedbackLIGHT

LIGHT BETWEEN BREATH, 2min., Canada

Directed by Laina Brown, Dominique Rey

Light Between Breath is an experimental dance film—born from a collaboration between artists and dancers—that transforms the human body into a shifting, energetic canvas. Rather than focusing on traditional choreography, the work uses dynamic lighting, in-camera collage techniques, and disorienting camera angles to continually blend, obscure, and reveal the dancers’ forms. The result is an immersive, cinematic experience that finds meaning in the fluid, weightless intervals between gestures, shadows, and breaths.

https://www.instagram.com/rwballet

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/light-between-breath-audience-feedback

BEING WITH YOURSELF, 4min., USA
Directed by Mike Godlewski
A short dance film in which painted layers of words gradually reveal the layers of self that are put out into the world.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/being-with-yourself-audience-feedback

process, 4min., Japan
Directed by Ryo Kobayashi
Trapped between expectation and self, the body resists.

https://www.instagram.com/kobaryo4565

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/process-audience-feedback

She Wants To Go Dancing, 4min., USA
Directed by Cami Lea Bertossi
When the monotony of office life becomes too much to bear, two office ladies celebrate the urge to break free and just dance.

https://www.instagram.com/bcam_media

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/she-wants-to-go-dancing-audience-feedback