PRESENTATION - Festival de danse

Editorial

In December 2023, the MOV’IN CANNES dance film competition brought together artists and professionals from the four corners of the globe to celebrate dancing bodies brought to the screen, magnified and interrogated by the camera. The combined magic of these two major arts of the 20th century found a new home at the Cannes Côte d’Azur Dance Festival.

The public and critical success of this first edition exceeded our expectations; the city of Cannes is indeed the city of cinema and dance!

This interest bears witness both to the vitality and quality of creation associating dance and cinema, and to the public’s interest in discovering the diversity and originality of the approaches employed. That’s why, from 2025 onwards, MOV’IN CANNES will be the annual meeting place for both professionals and the public, and we hope to see ever-growing numbers.

For this new edition, we’re delighted to see Cinedans / Amsterdam, one of the pioneering dance & film festivals, join our partner festivals in Rio, Montreal, San Francisco, Reykjavik, Limerick, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Lisbon and Paris. Together, across borders and cultures, accompanied by panels of students from the Côte d’Azur arts schools and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, we look forward to highlighting works that exalt the poetics of the body, and to supporting creation. In a changing world in search of new landmarks, the words of Albert Camus ring true: “On this ridge where the great artist advances, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In this risk, however, and in it alone, lies the freedom of art.” Whether an artistic gesture is meaningful or not, whether it is guided by an aesthetic desire, a need for poetry, a desire to escape reality or, on the contrary, to plunge our gaze into it, creating is and remains today more than ever an act of freedom, urgent and necessary, symbolic and political.

Long live dance and cinema, and long live creation!

Didier Deschamps and Eric Oberdorff

Artistic co-directors of Mov’in Cannes

TO PARTICIPATE

COMPETITION VENUE

CINEUM, a cinema complex in Cannes-La-Bocca, located in the immediate vicinity of the Georges Méliès University Campus and Cannes – Bastide Rouge, a hub dedicated to the creative economy and image professions. This campus offers training courses dedicated to images and new writing, and is home to over 1,000 students.

MOV’IN Cannes is the latest addition to this cluster, which brings together talented audiovisual professionals, entrepreneurs, startups, students and academics. The Cannes Bastide Rouge site offers studios for audiovisual professionals, as well as a business center, student and professional training, events and writing residencies. With these infrastructures and the cross-fertilization between the academic and professional worlds, the ambition of this cluster is to support creativity and innovation in the service of the development of the audiovisual industry in the region.

PARTICIPATION CRITERIA

The selection criteria are based on a maximum length of 10 minutes, documentary or fiction content concerning dance (all dances), originality and quality of choreographic and cinematographic writing.

THE FILM SELECTION PROCESS

A CALL FOR ENTRIES

A call for dance films has been launched on the FilmFreeway platform to international dance film festivals, producers, choreographers and directors.

Works received between November 20, 2024 and April 1, 2025 will be submitted for selection to viewing panels made up of students in training at the BTS Audiovisuel Cannes Carnot and in the educational structures of the Université Côte d’Azur: ESRA, PNSD Rosella Hightower, Villa Arson, Licence Arts du spectacle – EUR CREATES.

In 2023, 111 works were received and screened following the call for entries.

The viewing panels will select a maximum of 10 films, which will be added to the 10 films chosen by the competition’s partner festivals and institutions.

For 2025, a new viewing panel is envisaged alongside students from the Université Côte d’Azur :

The CNMSD Paris is putting together a panel made up of 2nd year dancers and students in Sound/Music/Image training in connection with their Screen Dance project.

THE FESTIVAL OF FESTIVALS

As part of its commitment to showcasing the diversity and richness of dance creation on screen, MOV’IN Cannes has teamed up with prestigious dance film festivals and institutions to create a network of international partners, who will be sending us their favorite films.