Dance on Film: BBC Introducing Arts

Writer's Block(en)

The short film is a poetic interpretation of the writer's mental journey during the writing process. The writer, played by Bryan Cranston (AMC’s Breaking Bad), creates a woman in his mind, played by Lela Edgar, while working on his next script.

Two Sisters(ru)

Rouge et Blanche, two happy twin sisters, live in an arid plain on the edge of a hostile forest they are afraid to approach. The danger comes from elsewhere.

Lipstick(en)

A young adolescent boy is confronted by his new found feelings on sexuality.

Dream World(en)

Dan and Rhiannon Humes are filmmakers who craft their fans' dreams and fantasies into personalized, custom videos. The husband and wife team shoot the scripts their fans write and commission. Some are silly, some are sexual, and some are deeply personal experiences the fans want to recreate. Dan and Rhiannon's world is changed forever when they receive an unusual request they can’t refuse.

Exalted Mars(xx)

A man is dreaming of a city. Unless the city is dreaming of him.

She's Okay(en)

Zack, a lonely, troubled boy, is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime, until Tony, a former con himself, helps turn Zack's life around with a few simple words of wisdom.

Carreg Gron(cy)

Everyone has a hard time at school. But Sian needs more power than she ever imagined to deal with her bullies.

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat(fr)

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Antoine and Colette(fr)

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

My Strange Grandfather(ru)

A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle - merely from garbage.

The Making of The Lost Son(en)

Mac is at the threshold of losing everything while directing his feature film.

Navras(es)

An essay on memory that explores the vision of life and death in the Far East. Shot in five Asian countries over three years, it recounts the director's real experiences.

Taxi(es)

Anything can happen to a foreigner who travels to meet his fiancée.

Capricho(es)

8-year-old Nuria has a perfect plan: for her father to fall in love again. What she has not taken into account is that love is not so easy to find.

Free Child(en)

From leaving Egypt 10 years ago, to almost dying a month ago in a car accident. This film is about the journey in between and the massive role the internet played in the life of prominent Youtuber and Yes Theory co-founder Ammar Kandil.

Catalan(en)

A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.

Outside(en)

A long-distance relationship is threatened by a young woman's secret.

Labuta(pt)

Interim(en)

A young man meets a young woman under a bridge by a railroad. They shelter from the rain and exchange a kiss. The man grows sullen and leaves. The film starts with him and ends with her. It’s a straightforward anecdote told in traditional ways, the likes of which he’d forsake forever; that is, it uses actors, a soundtrack with music and post-dubbed sound effects, a photographer who frames everything professionally and a coherent edited narrative.

Ada et ses amis(fr)

Julien, 30, works as a tourist guide at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris over the summer. In an alley of the cemetery he runs into Ada, whom he was very much in love with and has not seen for a year.