TELOS

Experimental, Fiction, Music Video, Art, Asian, Cinema, City, Dance, Drama, Electronic, Ethnographic, Fantasy, Identity, Mental Health, Music, Rural, Social, Spiritual, Women

France, Japan

2023

Runtime, min

A woman wanders like a sleepwalker in ruins of a city. She is frightened, as if being tormented by nightmares. However, she dances as if in a trans of a sweet memory. Then she whispers to the void, as if recalling the memory of a lost love. She is on the edge of madness, obsessed with death. The impulse of dance leads her to the theater of Telos, where she is driven into the endgame of her world.

Director:

Atsuhiko Watanabe

Upcoming screening:

Selections and Awards:

The B3 Festival of the Moving Image (Short Film Competition)2023, B3Biennale, Frankfurt, Germany. 28th VideoDanzaBA International Festival 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 6th TANZAHOi International Festival for Dance, Germany. Best Short Film, Tagore International Film Festival 2023, India. 12th Cambodia International Film Festival 2023. Best Experimental Short, Paris International Short Festival 2023, France. Best Director in the Short Movies category, Dubai Festival 2023, UAE. Best Actress in the Short Movies category, International Independent Film Festival of Madrid / Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid (FICIMAD) 2023. Best Cinematography, Korea International Short Film Festival 2023, South Korea. Brussels Capital Film Festival 2023, Belgium. Wallachia International Film Festival 2023, Romania. Best Choreography & Best Song, 8&Halfilm Awards Venice Edition 2023, Italy. Best Choreography & Best European Drama, Sweet Democracy Film Awards/Francis Scott Fitzgerald Awards 2023, France. MEDITERRANEO FESTIVAL CORTO XIII Edizione 2023, Italy. 13th Pune Short Film Festival 2023, India. 8th Bayamon International Film Festival 2023, Puerto Rico. Butterfly International Film Festival 2023, France., Best Experimental Short, Paris International Short Festival 2023, France. Best Director in the Short Movies category, Dubai Festival 2023, UAE. Best Actress in the Short Movies category, International Independent Film Festival of Madrid / Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid (FICIMAD) 2023. Best Short Film, Tagore International Film Festival 2023, India. Best Cinematography, Korea International Short Film Festival 2023, South Korea. Best Choreography & Best Song, 8&Halfilm Awards Venice Special Edition 2023, Italy. Best Choreography & Best European Drama, Sweet Democracy Film Awards/Francis Scott Fitzgerald Awards 2023, France.

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