06.28.2022

Fellini, Marlene Millar, Eileen Kramer, Thierry Thieû Niang… The July releases on ARTS.FILM.

As part of its summer programming, the ARTS.FILM platform is proud to put dance in the spotlight this month. Just awarded Best Music and Performance at the Fine Arts Film Festival in Venice (CA), Best Performing Arts Film at the Yorkton Film Festival, Best Short Film at the Screendance Film Festival, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Bucharest International Film Festival and at the 39^th edition of FIFA, see Navigation, the sixth film of the Migration Dance Film Project directed by filmmaker Marlene Millar and choreographer Sandy Silva. Best Canadian Work, FIFA 2021, take a gentle journey into body, time and space with Habiter le mouvement — Un récit en 10 chapitres by Béatriz Mediavilla celebrating the work of renowned French choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang. Discover the documentary Danse, petit chef, danse ! by Eric Michel who shows us how art, and in particular hip hop dance, can create a new form of dialogue and expression between New Caledonian youth and their traditional cultures. Don’t miss Sue Healey’s Lady of the Horizon by Sue Healey, a portrait of dancer Eileen Kramer who, at 106, is probably the oldest dancer and choreographer in the world.

Also to be seen this month, the splendid and intimate Akeji, le souffle de la montagne by Corentin Leconte and Mélanie Schaan, winner of the best essay award at the 39^th edition of the Festival. In parallel to the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, ARTS.FILM invites jazz fans to listen and watch Heath Brothers, Jimmy Cobb, Ranee Lee, Sheila Jordan and Peter Bernstein Quartet in the film Jazz Club Owner by Guylaine Dionne which unveils the behind-the-scenes story of the legendary Montreal jazz club Upstairs. Go to China with David Borenstein’s film Dream Empire which takes us to western China where the real estate market is booming. Discover a never seen before interview with Claude Jutra and Michel Brault from 1957, when they interview Federico Fellini in New York in Paul Tana’s Fellini premières fois.