Choreo Dance Film Festival 2026

Note
CDFF is open to Choreomundus students and alumni.
This year, we are also welcoming external submissions (film duration: 1–3 minutes).
All applicants are required to complete the mandatory submission form to indicate their applicant category:
Form Link: https://forms.gle/D8js8WXoEusSxRJE8

The Choreomundus Dance Film Festival (CDFF) recognizes and showcases the work of Erasmus Mundus students and alumni, acknowledging their artistic and scholarly contributions in dance film, while encouraging future generations to critically pursue their own creative paths. The Festival showcases how several countries invite cultural heritages from all over the world to share non-verbal embodied diversity and inclusivity through dance.
CDFF tags onto the biannual Choreomundus Conference and Festival organised by Choreomundus Alumni Association. It travels along with the Choreomundus Alumni Conference, a nomad summit around Europe (Trondheim, Norway 2016; Szeged, Hungary 2018; Virtually 2020; Clermont-Ferrand, France 2022, London 2024). CDFF is dedicated to promoting the diversity of dance cultures through film and media, bridging the gap between dance and film. Our primary aim is to use film to showcase and promote Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), gathering communities from all over the world with a special focus on humanitarian crises. Dance as ICH is a niche field in its early days of finding different audiences and formats. As film and digital media are the most effective ways of reaching the public, there is a lot of potential in combining film and dance through the lens of society and culture.

In its 2026 edition, CDFF invites dance artists, filmmakers, and interdisciplinary practitioners to explore home as something we do—an embodied, relational, and constantly shifting practice.
Home is not only a place, but something we build, carry, lose, and remake through movement, memory, and care.

We are interested in how home is choreographed:
-through everyday gestures and routines
-through caregiving and acts of support
-through teaching, learning, and transmission within artistic and dance practices

At the same time, we invite works that engage with the instability of home:
*displacement, migration, and exile
*conflict, rupture, and loss
*the gradual erosion or absence of care
-How do bodies remember home?
-How do they survive its loss?
-How do they rebuild, resist, or refuse it?

We welcome films that explore:
-caregiving in intimate, familial, or institutional spaces
-the experience of inhabiting, leaving, or losing home
-the body as a site of memory, archive, and displacement
-movement as a way of negotiating belonging, resilience, and survival
-the tensions within care—where it nurtures, but also disciplines or constrains

We are particularly interested in works that hold these complexities where home is both created and undone, and where care is both sustaining and fragile,and where the moving body becomes a way of navigating an ongoing search for belonging.