Leslie Shampaine and Pip Gilmour’s Call Me Dancer will take you on a fascinating journey. A true-life fairytale from the streets of Mumbai to the stages of New York, it features Manish, a young and talented street dancer from the City of Dreams. Preceded by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern’s What I Know So Far.

A masterfully made documentary, Bella, is about the life, influence and impact of California-based artist and activist Bella Lewitzky. Preceded by Emil Dam Seidel’s SHE.

Mother Melancholia is a multi-layered portrait of four women and a eulogy for the planet. In The Cell, every character is in the dancer, so which one is real? Transparent is a gentle manifesto and a visionary work of art.

Join a group of this year’s filmmakers for a far-reaching panel discussion about their processes for and challenges in making work at the crossroads of dance and film. This will be presented as part of Dance on Camera’s free public programming.

Moving Together is a joyful dialogue between dancer and musician that brims with kinetic life and energy. Reminiscences (Réminiscences) brings three sensual and brutal duets to the screen. Empty Vessel is partly inspired by a Post-It note discovered in a bathroom stall. iuSui is a striking ode to the visceral power of beauty, nature, freedom, and the vulnerability of the human psyche.

You Left Me Alone is about reviving a childhood connection. The Fell of Dark was made in response to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the opioid crisis and for the families who have been silenced by its stigma. Paying homage to classic film noir cinema, The Game brings together an unlikely cast of characters in a midnight game of cat and mouse. Grief and loss are viscerally physicalized in The Dance After the Last Dance. Suck It Up confronts the violent fallout of masculinity and resentment. A stunningly original dance for film, I was waiting for the echo of a better day unfolds from dawn to dusk on a single midsummer day.

Searching for Tarab translates an Eastern musical concept into Western dance performance. Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film is a powerful and very relevant narration of the history of labor in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands told through tap dance, Mexican zapateado and son jarocho, Afro-Caribbean movement, and music. Rooms 居拘 uncovers the spaces, both physical and metaphorical, that Albert Tiong inhabited in the period of growth that brought him to Singapore as a young dancer in his 20s.

As part of the festival’s free public programming, Production Grantees features recipients of Dance on Camera’s competitive production grants.

By showing us the process of encountering a wild animal in its natural habitat, Living on the Threshold asks what is happening within us in a space where we cannot control anything. Hans van Manen — Just Dance the Steps follows Van Manen, who is internationally recognized as one of the great masters of contemporary ballet.

Dance filmmakers, fresh and seasoned alike, engaged the public by posting their films to social media. A selection of these bold new dance films from around the globe make up the festival’s #MyDanceFilm Program.

Features Maurya Kerr’s Saint Leroi, Ana Contreras and Keely Song’s Twine, Ali Kenner Brodsky and Jarret Blinkhorn’s to be near you., Early Era Collective, Stephanie Patrick, and Ben Lee’s Milez, Dan Thorburn’s I Fall, and Brian J. Johnson and Company 605’s Future Futures.

Members of the legendary Top Nine crew tell us their stories with personal immediacy in Top Nine: A Story of the B-Boy Crew. With two interwoven expressions of worshipful praise, allahu akbar and te deum, the dance captured by the camera from the collective work of 10 directors gives shape to Sharqi.

Flashdance, an iconic 1980s dance film celebrating its 40th anniversary, will close the Dance on Camera Festival. Flashdance celebrates powerful women working tirelessly to make their dance dreams a reality.