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A Way to B is a captivating portrait of the Catalan dance collective Liant La Troca, led by choreographer Jordi Cortés Molina. This hybrid documentary blends dance and storytelling, revealing the personal stories of its members through powerful performances by artists with visible physical disabilities.
Alongside the performances, the film offers poignant testimonies about the challenges, struggles, and triumphs of daily life. Framed as an autumn day around Barcelona, A Way to B celebrates human resilience, diversity, and the transformative power of art to redefine what is possible. This film is not just an ode to dance but a profound invitation to rethink beauty and artistic expression.
Director’s statement :
Jordi’s work sometimes reminds me of Pasolini’s early films, who often worked with amateurs, with wounded and disfigured people too, to lend authenticity to his mythological parables, really ‘putting them on the ground’. Similarly, Liant La Troca asks essential questions about life: Do you see me? What is beauty? What is perfect? In the choreographies that they create together with Jordi Cortès, the performers on stage are an urgent answer to the narcissistic dreams and the spectacle industry of many of our social, and unfortunately also traditional media in today’s society. This is an important motivation for making this documentary. I really wanted to make an ‘ode to difference and diversity’ – both in a zeitgeist and society that is extremely focused on achievement, and in a cultural film — and media-climate that is increasingly blatantly revolving around glamour and fame.
- Jos de Putter
Jordi Cortés Molina and I have worked together for a long time. We met in 1993, he as a performer and I as director for the short dance-film Courzand. He introduced me to the successful DV8 Physical Theater in London for the adaptation of their performance Enter Achilles (1996). We reunited for film adaptations of his solo performance Lucky (2001) and the duet Coup the Grace (2010). In Between 2 Houses (2006) he played one of the characters and also provided the choreography for the film. In Voices of Finance (2015) he dances one of the solos. In my feature film The Beast in the Jungle (2018) he stood next to me as movement director. After all these years and films I call him sometimes my muse or alter ego.
- Clara van Gool
Alongside the performances, the film offers poignant testimonies about the challenges, struggles, and triumphs of daily life. Framed as an autumn day around Barcelona, A Way to B celebrates human resilience, diversity, and the transformative power of art to redefine what is possible. This film is not just an ode to dance but a profound invitation to rethink beauty and artistic expression.
Director’s statement :
Jordi’s work sometimes reminds me of Pasolini’s early films, who often worked with amateurs, with wounded and disfigured people too, to lend authenticity to his mythological parables, really ‘putting them on the ground’. Similarly, Liant La Troca asks essential questions about life: Do you see me? What is beauty? What is perfect? In the choreographies that they create together with Jordi Cortès, the performers on stage are an urgent answer to the narcissistic dreams and the spectacle industry of many of our social, and unfortunately also traditional media in today’s society. This is an important motivation for making this documentary. I really wanted to make an ‘ode to difference and diversity’ – both in a zeitgeist and society that is extremely focused on achievement, and in a cultural film — and media-climate that is increasingly blatantly revolving around glamour and fame.
- Jos de Putter
Jordi Cortés Molina and I have worked together for a long time. We met in 1993, he as a performer and I as director for the short dance-film Courzand. He introduced me to the successful DV8 Physical Theater in London for the adaptation of their performance Enter Achilles (1996). We reunited for film adaptations of his solo performance Lucky (2001) and the duet Coup the Grace (2010). In Between 2 Houses (2006) he played one of the characters and also provided the choreography for the film. In Voices of Finance (2015) he dances one of the solos. In my feature film The Beast in the Jungle (2018) he stood next to me as movement director. After all these years and films I call him sometimes my muse or alter ego.
- Clara van Gool
Overview of some festivals:
IDFA, The Netherlands (2022)
DOK.fest Munchen, Germany (2023)
DOXA, Canada (2023)
RIFFA — Regina International Film Festival and Awards, Canada (2023)
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, United States (2023)
IDFA, The Netherlands (2022)
DOK.fest Munchen, Germany (2023)
DOXA, Canada (2023)
RIFFA — Regina International Film Festival and Awards, Canada (2023)
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, United States (2023)
| Director | Jos De Putter, Clara Van Gool |
| Director of Photography | Jean Charles Counet NSC |
| Editing | Stefan Kamp NCE |
| Sound | Rik Meier |
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Clara Van Gool
Director & scriptwriter Clara van Gool is born and based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her films are international award winning, highly visual stories, using dance and choreography. Her early short films Reservaat (1988), Courzand (1993), Bitings & other Effects (1995, Exit (1996) the documentary Zikr (1999) and Reimerswaal (2004) are expressed through choreography, marking her unique style.
Continuing in fiction, combining acting with movement and dance, in Passing Future (2001), Between 2 Houses (2006) and One False Move (2011) her hybrid style emerged into feature length film The Beast in the Jungle (2018).
Her work includes successful adaptations of dance performances for the screen: Enter Achilles (1996) won the International Emmy Award of Performing Arts (New York 1997) followed by Nussin (1998), Lucky (2001), Up at Down (2003) and Coup de Grace (2011).
In Voices of Finance (2015) van Gool has explored the use of dance and dialogue in documentary film, based on the Banking Blogs by Joris Luyendijk in The Guardian. In a collaboration with her husband, documentary maker Jos de Putter, she has found yet another innovative way to involve dance in the documentary A Way to B (2022).
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Continuing in fiction, combining acting with movement and dance, in Passing Future (2001), Between 2 Houses (2006) and One False Move (2011) her hybrid style emerged into feature length film The Beast in the Jungle (2018).
Her work includes successful adaptations of dance performances for the screen: Enter Achilles (1996) won the International Emmy Award of Performing Arts (New York 1997) followed by Nussin (1998), Lucky (2001), Up at Down (2003) and Coup de Grace (2011).
In Voices of Finance (2015) van Gool has explored the use of dance and dialogue in documentary film, based on the Banking Blogs by Joris Luyendijk in The Guardian. In a collaboration with her husband, documentary maker Jos de Putter, she has found yet another innovative way to involve dance in the documentary A Way to B (2022).
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Voices of Finance (2015)
Coup de Grace (2011)
Nussin (1998)
Bitings and Other Effects (1995)
Reservaat (1988)
Coup de Grace (2011)
Nussin (1998)
Bitings and Other Effects (1995)
Reservaat (1988)
Jos De Putter
Jos de Putter (1959) studied linguistics, literature and philosophy in Leiden and Berlin, and worked several years as a film critic before he made his first documentary in 1993.
“It’s Been a Lovely Day” (1993), about the last year of his parent’s work and life on their traditional farm, was hailed internationally as a film in the purest documentary tradition. It won the prize for best debut of the year and was elected best Dutch film of the year by dutch film critics.
In 2007, the film was selected as one of the 16 best Dutch films ever made and thus became part of the Dutch Film Heritage.
In 1994, “Solo, the Law of the Favela”, focusing on the dreams of teenagers in the slums of Rio de Janeiro to become soccer stars, won the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at the Amsterdam Documentary Filmfestival.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
“It’s Been a Lovely Day” (1993), about the last year of his parent’s work and life on their traditional farm, was hailed internationally as a film in the purest documentary tradition. It won the prize for best debut of the year and was elected best Dutch film of the year by dutch film critics.
In 2007, the film was selected as one of the 16 best Dutch films ever made and thus became part of the Dutch Film Heritage.
In 1994, “Solo, the Law of the Favela”, focusing on the dreams of teenagers in the slums of Rio de Janeiro to become soccer stars, won the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at the Amsterdam Documentary Filmfestival.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
See No Evil (2013)
Beyond the Game (2008)
Dans, Grozny Dans (2002)
The Making of a New Empire (1999)
Beyond the Game (2008)
Dans, Grozny Dans (2002)
The Making of a New Empire (1999)
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