Best of Sans Souci 2025: a Dance Film Installation
Sans Souci is pleased to collaborate once again with our favorite venue and presenting partner, Museum of Boulder. “Best of Sans Souci 2025” is a film exhibit celebrating SSF’s 22nd Anniversary Season. This collection of staff favorites was curated from screenings at Museum of Boulder and Dairy Arts Center, with a focus on artistic excellence, significance within the festival, diversity in representation, and program variety, and they include a variety of artists from local Boulderites to internationally renowned dancers.

If you love what you see, join us for Premiere weekend 2026 for all new films, food, drink, installations, and more!


Museum of Boulder
2205 Broadway St
Boulder, CO 80302
Accessibility: handicap parking, elevator to second floor.
Carmen
2025 / Spain, United Kingdom / 5 min
A young woman, dressed in a tracksuit, walks through the backstreets of Sevilla into a housing project. This is Carmen Aviles – the young street superstar of flamenco.
Well!
2024 / China / 6 min
Monkey & Dog: Coded Paws – Two pals cling tightly, hand in hand they stroll, One’s a wily monkey, one’s a tail-wagging soul. How to bond through thick and thin? When one sulks, the other grins — Secret codes only “we” control! Through foggy dawns or meteor showers, we charge through thorns, we sniff wildflowers. Let the world spin fast or slow…Our friendship’s a bold cartoon — Paw prints chasing paw prints — Where? Nobody knows!
Cut Me Summa Dat Noise
2024 / United States / 6 min
Cut Me Summa Dat Noise celebrates the rhythms of everyday life through the eyes of a neighborhood matriarch who sets the tone for a new day with the beat of her own heart. As the neighborhood comes to life, people of all ages unite in a joyous cacophony of sound that illuminates the connections between them as members of a vibrant and diverse community in rhythm.
Fuga Y Misterio
2024 / United States, Argentina / 4 min
One night in Buenos Aires, a group of friends gather at a milonga (Tango Social Club) to enjoy a challenging dance piece in the form of a “fugue,” where emotions seep through their bodies and they immerse themselves in every note of each melody offered by this exciting and mysterious contrapuntal composition by the great Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla.
C’est LA Vie
2024 / United States / 6 min
Join us above the Los Angeles skyline as one life-loving woman makes a surprise entrance. Commanding the attention of the entire party, she ignites the day and sparks connections between the Angelenos. You never know what might happen at a party in L.A., but “That’s Life” in Los Angeles!
Drain
2024 / United States / 5 min
A meditation in movement on the strained limitations of the California landscape.
Directions to the Other Side of the World
2025 / Ireland / 12 min
A woman explores the far reaches of rural Ireland in an attempt to make peace with the darker aspect of her spirit. Shot on location in County Kerry, Ireland in 2025, Directions to the Other Side of the World is a blessing, in the style of noted Irish poet John O’Donahue, for those of us visited by a depressed and desolate spirit, a sincere wish for friendship with the greyer aspects of self, and the darker times of day and season. Narrated and accompanied by the modern master of the Sean-nós tradition of singing, Iarla ó Lionáird, and scored by contemporary Irish composers Linda Buckley and Hannah Peel, the film attempts to bridge generations of place and ritual into poetic and practical film of belonging and peace.
Alma Luz
2025 / United States / 4 min
Inspired by the emotive words of Clarice Lispector’s poem, My Soul Has the Weight of Light, Alma Luz illuminates the immaterial weight of the human condition — the weight of an unspoken word, the fleeting touch of a look and the fragile, ethereal essence of the soul itself.
Moving Through
2025 / Poland / 1 min
A dancer moves through an urban space, blending the art of dance with the dynamics of the cityscape and nature. Her movements flow seamlessly with the surroundings, creating a harmonious narrative of freedom, expression, and the connection between humans, the city, and the natural world. Each gesture and step highlights the contrast between reality and imagination. Time constantly chases her, confined within 60 seconds. Every shot offers a moment to reflect on how movement can be interpreted as a metaphor for the rush of life.
Motherhood
2024 / United States / 3 min
In the light of dawn she awakens in her nest, one baby under her wing, the other two in search of food.
Cimetre
2024 / France, Burkina Faso / 7 min
Cimetre takes viewers deep into the vibrant heart of Bobo-Dioulasso’s popular neighborhoods, where life pulses on every street corner. This poetic and sensory immersion explores the essence of the cimetre, a six-meter social perimeter around homes where tradition, modernity, and solidarity intertwine. From the first light of dawn to the fiery celebrations of night, the Saint-Étienne district becomes a living tapestry of artisans, merchants, children, and dancers. Guided by cinematic storytelling, this music video celebrates the collective energy of a tightly-knit community while raising a universal question: how can we preserve connection and compassion in an increasingly individualistic world? Through vivid dance scenes, striking contrasts between tradition and modernity, and evocative symbols like the communal mirror, Cimetre captures the hidden beauty of the ordinary. A woman in a red satin dress in a garage, a dancer in white moving through a bath of black ink — each detail highlights the duality and richness of these neighborhoods. Straddling modern influences and deep-rooted heritage, this film transcends music to present an intimate, universal portrait of a world where conviviality becomes an act of resistance.
Shared Breath
2023 / Canada / 8 min
Shared Breath is a short film inspired by a dance piece of the same name. Four dancers wear square skirt-like structures attached to their waists, symbolizing the socially defined shape of their personal spaces. The characters whirl tirelessly within the beautiful, but restrictive forms, such as modern-day dervishes, and add dynamic curves and flows to the rigid straight lines. Defying distance and absence of touch, striving for contact, they break free eventually, all within one shared breath. The film is a soul-stirring reminder of our essential need for touch and connection.
