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Women of Water

A play about showing and concealing, moving and being moved. A ballet for isolated limbs, a trio for dancers flowing, floating, swimming and gliding. Carried by Thierry Zaboitzeff's marvellous sounds and tones, breathtaking through unprecedented perspectives, the piece writes a new, purely female story of creation out of the water.

  • Editta Braun
    Director
  • Menie Weissbacher
    Producer
  • Editta Braun
    Producer
  • Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger
    Key Cast
  • Nikola Majtanova
    Key Cast
  • Jerca Rožnik Novak
    Key Cast
  • Thierry Zaboitzeff
    Composition & sound mixing
  • Thomas Hinterberger
    Lightning
  • Cvetanka Mojsovski
    costumes
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 28 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 6, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Shooting Format:
    4k
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • MEXICO CITY VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    August 14, 2025
    Mid America
    Official Selection
  • London International Screendance Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    October 16, 2025
    Official Selection
  • InShadow
    Lisboa
    Portugal
    November 15, 2025
    Portugal Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Wild Dogs International Screendance Festival
    Calgary
    Canada
    October 4, 2025
    Canadian Premiere
    3rd Place
  • FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEODANZA ROSARIO
    Rosario
    Argentina
    October 25, 2025
    South America Premiere
    Official Selection
  • IMMAGI]NA Film Festival
    Pozzuoli,
    Italy
    November 4, 2025
    Italian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Mykonos Biennale
    Mykonos
    Greece
    September 25, 2025
    Greece Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Austrian Filmfestival 2025
    Vienna
    Austria
    October 10, 2025
    Best Dance Film
  • Dance On Screen
    Graz
    Austria
    November 16, 2025
    Official Selection
  • IMARP 10 imas-mostra International de Dança - Imagens em Movimento-Videodança
    Sãu Paulo
    Brazil
    December 7, 2025
    Brazilian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • ScreenDanceRoadShow
    Rhode Island
    United States
    January 4, 2026
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Sittannavasal International Film Festival
    Karaiyur
    India
    October 30, 2025
    Asian Premiere
    Best Women Short Film
  • Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico
    San Juan
    Puerto Rico
    May 13, 2026
    Puerto Rico Premiere
    Official Selection
  • crossing the screen
    Eastbourne
    United Kingdom
    May 2, 2026
    Official Selection
  • ScreenDance Festival
    Stockholm
    Sweden
    April 29, 2026
    Schweden Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Beirut International Women Film Festival
    Beirut
    Lebanon
    April 19, 2026
    Lebanon Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Physical Cinema Festival
    Reykjavik
    Iceland
    March 19, 2026
    Iceland Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Screendance Festival Stockholm
    Stockholm
    Sweden
    April 29, 2026
    Sweden premiere
    official Selection
  • Breaking Walls Dance Film
    Cairo
    Egypt
    January 22, 2026
    Egypt Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Pittsburgh International Dance Film Festival
    Pittsburgh
    United States
    March 19, 2026
    Award Winner
  • Festival Cuadro por Danza - dance film & dance photography
    Caracas
    Venezuela
    May 23, 2026
    Venezuelan Premiere
    Official Selection
  • enCore Dance on Film
    Decatur/ Georgia
    United States
    May 1, 2026
    Georgian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • BRAGA INTERNATIONAL VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL
    Braga
    Portugal
    April 10, 2026
    Official Selection
  • Women Over 50 Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    September 5, 2025
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Editta Braun

Director Biography – Editta Braun

* 1958 in Austria, pioneer of contemporary choreography in Austria. Academic degree in Science of Sports and German Language and Literature (University of Salzburg). Studied dance in Paris and New York, 40 years of teaching, including at the University of Salzburg and the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. Has created more than 30 productions (physical theater, dance) and tours worldwide with her company. Has turned towards experimental short films since 2020. Characteristics: intercultural collaborations, politically engaged, feminist view on society and arts.

Filmography
LUVOS migrations, AT 2022
LUVOS migrations, short cut, AT 2025
Women of Water, AT 2025
Women of Earth, AT 2025

Awards
1994 bronze medal at the New York Film Festival for „Collision“, category Non Broadcast Performing Arts, directed by Othmar Schmiderer
2001 prize for the best director at the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre
2014+2015 Heidelberger Theaterpreis
2014 International Prize for Arts and Culture by the City of Salzburg
2017 Great Prize for Performing Arts by the Region of Salzburg
2023 Cairo Breaking Walls Festival, Special Jury Award Music
2023 FlorenceDanceOnScreen, 3rd place of Best Overall Dance Film Winners
2023 Moving Body Festival in Varna / Bulgaria, Best Visual Language Award
2024 Sittannnavasal International Film Festival / India, Best Experimental Short Film
2024 Austrian Film Festival Vienna, Best Experimental Film

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Director Statement

For the film project, a special platform with a transparent Plexiglas floor was constructed to provide a completely new view of the protagonists. Seen from the soles of their feet, the world is upside down. Distances appear shifted, lines of sight distorted. In the film, the close-up from the side complements the unfamiliar view from below, I can combine different perspectives and cut them against each other. The bodies are reflected on the glass floor, limbs seem to double. 
Water is life. Women give life. The beginning quotes Michelangelo's story of male creation, the female body in the embryonic position reminds us that the female body gives life, the gush of water is reminiscent of the water that breaks at birth, that makes its way. Against the dark night sky, the women seem to float in space - an escape movement in times of resurgent patriarchy? In the end, they are completely with themselves, completely together, and together they form the circle of life that knows no end. A female creation myth.