Description
When dance takes centre stage on the big screen!
Come discover works where movement, the body, and the image engage in dialogue, offering a sensitive, inventive, and contemporary perspective on dance on screen!
For its 3rd edition, this event establishes Cannes as a major hub for the meeting of dance and cinema. Your voice matters: take part in the screening of the selected films and help award the Audience Prize
Your opinion matters: join us for screenings of the selected films alongside jury members from the film and dance industries, and help decide the winner of the Audience Award!
2.00 pm to 5.30 pm
Screening of the 20 selected short films *
The selected films will be announced on festivaldedanse-cannes.com from September 2026
8.30 pm
Performance by Théo Touvet: ‘Ritournelle’
Followed by the Awards Ceremony and screening of the winning films.
*The selection is made by partner institutions and festivals:
Centre national de la danse, Paris · Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam · Cinédanse, Montreal · Dança em Foco, Rio de Janeiro · InShadow Festival, Lisbon · Light Moves Festival, Limerick · Physical Cinema Festival, Reykjavik · POOL Movement Art Film Festival, Berlin · San Francisco Dance Film Festival · Suzanne Dellal Centre, Tel Aviv
Students from the screening panels:
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, BTS Audiovisuel Cannes Carnot and the teaching programmes at the Université Côte d’Azur: ESRA Côte d’Azur, PNSD Rosella Hightower, Villa Arson, Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts – EUR CREATES
MASTER CLASS ‘Dance & Cinema’
Wednesday 7 October, 2pm to 5pm at the Cinéum in Cannes
Free admission – registration required
With Cailin Manning, winner of the MOV’IN Cannes 2025 Student Award
This session offers an immersive experience of dance film production, through an approach that combines theory and experimentation.
Workshop reserved primarily for students who are members of the MOV’IN Cannes screening panels
Information and registration: Julie Parisse 04 92 99 33 78 - parisse@palaisdesfestivals.com
ROUND TABLE - ‘DANCE ON SCREEN’
Wednesday 25 November from 3pm to 5pm at the Cinéum in Cannes
Film and dance professionals will exchange views on the artistic, economic and distribution issues specific to dance short films.
Free admission, subject to availability
Information and registration: Julie Parisse 04 92 99 33 78 - parisse@palaisdesfestivals.com

