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SFDFF’s Encore Online Festival will stream on Marquee TV from October 21-November 3. It will be comprised of select 2024 Festival programs including feature films and shorts programs. Please see below for details.

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Streaming Programming:

(Subject to change)

Feature Films:

A greyscale image of two men in tuxedos alongside two women in formal gowns. The couple on the left strikes a traditional dance pose, while the couple on the right is caught mid-motion. The woman holds on the man's arm as the man move sideways, a funny expression on his face.

Breaking Form

Documentary feature “Breaking Form” explores the 40-year career of choreographer Jane Comfort, who emerged in the late 1970s with experimental fusions of text, rhythm, and movement that spoke to the social issues of her day.
A woman lies along an s-shaped ledge, one arm outstretched as she looks down the length of the ledge. Behind her is a bright orange door.

Rone: L(oo)ping

Amid the rush and sweep of French musician Rone’s orchestral-electronic score, “Rone: L(oo)ping” toggles between a performance and the daydreams of its artists and spectators.
A dancer in stage makeup, a golden tiara and a black feathered costume looks up. She stands in an elevator, and her reflection can be seen behind her. She holds her arms on the railings on the sides of the elevator.

Closer Than Yesterday

Dive into the world of high stakes ballet competition in the documentary feature “Closer Than Yesterday,” which follows two young San Francisco Ballet dancers on their journey to the Helsinki International Ballet Competition.
A group of nicely dressed high school-college age dancers pose for the camera with wide smiles. They all point a foot in front or behind themselves, and their arms are all up, pointed in front of them, or around each others' backs.

Kindred Spirits

Documentary short “Kindred Spirits” follows members of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company as they navigate the joys and challenges of a cultural exchange tour in Hong Kong.
A Cambodian dancer poses with his palms pressed together in front of him, fingers splayed. He wears a white collared shirt and a bright light shines on his face. Behind him is another Cambodian dancer wearing an ornate costume, gold bangles, and an elaborate gold headdress. Her left arm is extended in front of her, forearm bent upwards at a 90 degree angle, with her splayed fingers holding a shiny ball.

Pol Pot Dancing

Documentary feature “Pol Pot Dancing” interweaves the stories of classical Cambodian dance and the violent Khmer Rouge regime through the lineage and multigenerational legacy of star dancer Chea Samy.
Steven McCrae is a male ballet dancer with grey eyes, red hair, and a short beard. He stares intently at his reflection in a mirror while removing a crown from atop his head. He wears a peach-colored ballet costume with intricate beading.

A Resilient Man (USA only)

An intimate look at Steven McRae's struggle to return to the stage after suffering a severe injury at the pinnacle of his career.

Spotlight Shorts

This curated selection spotlights the breadth of creative imaginations at the leading edge of contemporary screendance. Interpersonal tensions, intimate portraits, exclamatory bursts of energy, and transformative emotional journeys unfold up close through the uncontainable impulse to dance. Filmmakers and dancers channel the expressive range of a psychedelic rock band, a throwback pop hit, a heartfelt singer-songwriter, a flamenco star, an underwater dancer, and the evocative power of bodies moving through landscapes and cityscapes.

A group of tennis-shoe clad dancers stands in a park looking out at the New York City skyline. Their backs are to the camera and they wear shorts with colorful tops.
Leigh-Ann Esty, Ellie Gravitte
Adriana Pierce
(United States, 2023) 6:18 minutes

A Place For Us

A dancer stands on a beach, looking towards the ocean. They are shirtless, wearing a silk, green skirt that extends far behind them. They hold their arms back behind them, with their elbows backwards and chest out.
Amy Seiwert
Amy Seiwert
(United States, 2024) 6:24 minutes

Organized Hope

A woman looks intensely into the camera lens against a dark backdrop. She wears a bright red dress and holds her hands out to the side, raised dramatically, as if mid-clap. She has long dark blonde hair that cascades down her back.
Jesper Tønnes
Selene Muñoz
(Denmark, 2023) 4:30 minutes

CUT

Against a cloudy dusk sky, there are the abstract silhouettes of two dancers leaning back to back. Around them are wooden chairs.
LanTianWen, YuLu, ZhongZhenWei
LanTianWen, YuLu
(2024) 6:07 minutes

Rural Girl Crosses the River

A blurred image of a tuxedo-wearing Asian dancer moving through a tunnel with light blue walls. The image feels unbalanced and the dancer glances at the camera with his mouth slightly open.
Andreas Guzman
Ruochen Wang
(Hong Kong) 5:02 minutes

Monday

A person in a long blue, puffy dress, blue gloves, and approximately 3-inch platform heels, crouches on a piano bench at a piano that has multiple keyboards extending upwards. They play a chord and look off to the side.
Ryan Renshaw
Josie Weise
(Australia, 2023) 3:40 minutes

We Know Who You Are.

A blonde dancer with blue eyes and stubble wears a bright red jumpsuit with a white collared shirt underneath. He leans slightly forward with his arms above and behind his head, and with his hands in claw shapes. He looks directly at the camera.
Eve McConnachie
Ishan Mahabir-Stokes
(United Kingdom, 2024) 4:14 minutes

How Much Squid is Too Much Squid?

A singer emerges from a black background. She wears a crisp white button-up shirt. Her hands are slightly raised as she closes her eyes to sing.
Tony Holman
(United States, 2023) 4:03 minutes

In the Dark

Two male dancers are in a wood-paneled room. One leans away while the other holds his arm, providing a counterbalance. They are shirtless and wear grey pants with black ballet shoes.
Eve McConnachie
Madeline Squire, Nicholas Shoesmith
(United Kingdom, 2024) 5:34 minutes

Breathless

A large group of dancers are posed in black chairs in a vast industrial lot. They lean right and left, parted in the middle by a dancer who faces the camera straight on with their arms raised. The dancers are uniformly dressed in black long-sleeve shirts, black pants, and black shoes, with a white untied bowtie around their necks.
Yadiel Alejandro Figueroa
Yadiel Alejandro Figueroa
(United States, 2024) 3:51 minutes

Concérto

A white woman with flowing brown hair floats underwater above the deck of a wrecked ship covered in algae. She leans backwards in a layout with one leg straight up above her. Fish swim past in the background.
André Musgrove
Ariadna Hafez
(Bahamas, 2024) 3:54 minutes

The Deepest Dance

A group of nine dancers in sunglasses cluster around one seated in a chair with orange sunglasses and long nails. They all wear vintage 70s clothes in earth tones and are indoors on a wooden stage.
Sergio Santos Reis, Jowha van de Laak, Mauro van de Kerkhof
(Netherlands) 3:50 minutes

GOTYE – Somebody That I Used to Know – CDK Company

Narrative Shorts: Stories in Motion

In a collection of narrative screendance shorts, artists tell universal stories through the intimately personal language of movement. From moving odes to loneliness to a darkly comic romance, a touching story of family bonds, and an action-packed game of survival, these films span an dizzying range of expressive tones. What they hold in common is the undeniable power of dance to forge connections between individuals that go on to shape our worlds.

A woman's face pokes out from behind a man's face as she stands with her back against his bare chest. She looks directly at the camera, while he looks down, eyebrows furrowed. Image is slightly out of focus.
Marc Grey
Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber
(Israel, 2023) 14:39 minutes

Life Hacks for Lovers

A girl with slicked back hair held by a clip looks down to her side, a bright stage light on her face. She wears a pink collar with rhinestones and pearls, and has white flowers cascading down the side of her face.
Nomin Gantulga
Ganchimeg Lkhamjav
(Mongolia, 2023) 12:35 minutes

Dancer

Two young men sit at outside a chess table, reaching across the board towards one another, as if for each other's pieces. They are holding deep, inquisitive eye contact.
Sasha Korbut
Adam Barruch
(United States, 2023) 15:55 minutes

Incomplete

A woman with short brown hair is in a tango hold with a gray haired man with a beard. He wears a forest green suit jacket as they dance beneath a crystal chandelier.
Dimitri Sterkens
Anibal Lautaro
(Belgium, 2022) 18:26 minutes

TWO TO TANGO

A dancer in bright red lipstick stands at a bar in a ballet classroom. Her eyes are wide and focused, and her reflection in the mirror shows a number pinned to her black leotard. Her hair is slightly frazzled, and a couple flyaways stick out of her bun.
Jason Hogan
Patricia Zhou
(United Kingdom, 2023) 15:41 minutes

Twenty

A man stands in a city street with his hands to his sides in front of a car that has one door open. He looks at something off-camera, and his face shows a look of dismay.
Or Schraiber
(United States, 2024) 12:47 minutes

Strays

Documentary Shorts: Human/Nature

Four documentary shorts capture real-life stories of dance in conversation with stunning natural settings. Artists share the transformative power of dance and its capacity to shape notions of identity and community through a deeply-rooted sense of place. A group of dancers express their commitment to cultural preservation, a world class climber conquers legendary ascents, immigrant children find common expression through embodied imagination, and underwater dancers share their unconventional passion. These stories of movement, migration, homecoming, and home-building unfold on the Pacific island of Rotuma, the cliffs of Viñales Cuba, a working-class Montréal schoolyard, and deep in the clear blue waters of the Mediterranean.

Two Fijian dancers sit huddled in an embrace on the rocky shoreline of a tropical beach. The upper dancer curls over the lower dancer and wears a red feathered top and grass skirt. In the background are palm trees and a beach.
Letila Mitchell
(Fiji, 2024) 20:15 minutes

ARMEA

An underwater picture of a person in a flowing white dress holding a long red scarf that extends far below them in the water.
Juliette Sutherland
(United States, 2024) 14:40 minutes

Otherworldly: Dancing in the Deep

A woman with curly brown and bonde hair extends her arms out to her sides. The sun lights up the edges of her hair. She wears a blue, patterned bra and gray flowy pants. In the background is lush greenery.
Rachel Trudeau
Yelda Del Carmen, Aymara Vila Rodríguez
(Canada, 2024) 21:31 minutes

Mataperra

A child sits in a classroom, gazing solemnly into the camera lens. Behind him are his classmates standing on and sitting at desks. On holds his arms to his sides, index fingers pointed upwards. Another has his hands together in a praying position, eyes closed.
Robin Pineda Gould
Élodie et Séverine Lombardo
(Canada, 2024) 15:02 minutes

Caravane

Women on the Move

Women’s voices take center stage to showcase the diversity of their life experiences and perspectives. Dancers traverse space and time through moving portraits, intimate relationships, and collective dances of solidarity and celebration, revealing women’s stories in the fullness of their complexity. Social issues come to the fore to highlight the impacts of domestic abuse, political repression, and oppressive beauty standards while celebrating the resilience of women who find the strength to overcome adversity.

A group of 19 young dancers stand in a grassy field in front of grey mountains and a dramantic sky of grey clouds. They take the same pose: looking over their right shoulder with both arms raised above their heads, hands tilted right.
Sarah Dolan
Sarah Dolan
(Canada, 2023) 3:15 minutes

Vivaldi Spring I

On a Parisian Métro platform, a woman twists her right shoulder forward while extending her right arm sideways. Her left arm fold above her head. She wears an army green jacket and her long brunette hair obscures most of her face.
Tizia Benmchich-Lanardonne
(France, 2024) 3:09 minutes

Contresens

A dancer in a bright orange dress holds the head of another dancer, who is wearing a black suit. The dancer in the dress's long brown hair tumbles down around their face, while the other dancer looks into the sky, their light eyes matching the gray sky. Behind them is only sky.
Margot Gelber, Rebecah Goldstone
Margot Gelber
(United States, 2024) 8:44 minutes

If I Were You

A white woman stands in the rain, with one arm rounded in front of her and her eyebrows furrowed. Cars pass behind her with blurred motion.
Christophe Dachy
Ambre Perez
(France, 2024) 3:53 minutes

Slowly

Than Povi Martinez, a Native American dancer, stands in a sunny desert. She wears a thin, beige dress, holding it up by her sides. Light shines gently through it. Her long, dark hair falls over one shoulder.
Povi Martinez, Jo Kami
Than Povi Martinez
(United States, 2024) 5:37 minutes

Healing Wounds & Painting the Skies

Against a black backdrop, a woman wearing a dark teal shirt leans backwards, one hand raised. Behind her, a man grips her arm while placing his other hand by her face.
Chanchan Gou
Chanchan Gou
(China, 2023) 6:46 minutes

Prisoner

Three dancers stand in a dark photo studio, and a light shines on them from the side, causing a long shadow across the floor. Two of the dancers stand close together, looking at one who is bowed at the waist with one arm reaching out towards the other dancers and another arm dangling below their chest.
Dalila Frassanito
Dalila Frassanito
(Italy, 2023) 2:44 minutes

GEMINI ASCENDANT GEMINI

In a dark snowy landscape, two figures mirror each other with their hands raised. One has a short, bubblegum pink bob. The other looks otherworldly with a pale face, dark markings around their glowing eyes, and tattered clothing. Their hands glow dimly.
Liz Gibson
Lilia Tsarka, Anastasia Emphis
(Bulgaria, 2023) 5:54 minutes

Druid

A blurry greyscale photo of a dancer wearing all black. They tip sideways, lifting one leg into a full side split, their hair wild.
李祥政 祥政 李
李祥政 祥政 李
(China, 2023) 3:39 minutes

My Role My Life

An office worker sits at a desk with a corded phone up to their ear. They wear a yellow shirt under a gray vest, and their face shows annoyance. There are splashes of the same shade of yellow all around the office.
Caroline Grimprel, Clara Lie
Amalia Salle
(France, 2023) 3:35 minutes

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