MOV’IN Cannes, the international dance film competition under the artistic direction of Didier Deschamps and Eric Oberdorff, will showcase the diversity and creativity of choreographic and cinematographic writing in a single day of international competition.
On Thursday November 27, 20 short films will be screened in public at Cineum before a jury of film and dance industry professionals. Take part in the screening and vote for your favorite film and the Audience Award!
Art Directors' Editorial
Eric Oberdorff and Didier Deschamps“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’re looking forward to ever-growing numbers.
For this new edition, we are 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 carries meaning 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
Eric Oberdorff
Co-Artistic Directors of MOV’IN Cannes
AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
In its desire to show the diversity and richness of dance creation on screen, MOV’IN Cannes wanted to involve prestigious institutions and dance film festivals in its approach by weaving a network of international partners:
- Center National de la Danse, Paris
- Cinédanse, Montreal
- Dança em Foco, Rio de Janeiro
- Inshadow Festival, Lisbon
- Light Moves Festival, Limerick – Ireland
- Physical Cinema Festival, Reykjavik
- San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco
- Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv
- POOL Movement Art Film Festival, Berlin
- Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam (New partner 2025)
