BOREAL SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL 2025

 

The sixth edition of Boreal Screendance Festival will be held October 24th - November 9th 2025!

Screening locations are The Akureyri Art Museum, Mjólkurbúðin Gallery and Deiglan Gallery.

 

Since 2020, Boreal has taken over Akureyri’s Art Street once per year. The festival strives to promote dance, international collaboration and multimedia in North Iceland with creative screenings of video art from all over the world!

 

 

Friday October 24th - Akureyri Art Museum

Opening Ceremony - 20:00 - 22:00

Opening Party - 22:00 Kaktus

Pitenz (Live set)

Akureyri Art Museum - Video installations
Friday October 24th - Sunday November 9th

Godspeed / Klāvs Liepiņš / 10:00 min / 2025 / Iceland

NO DEFINITE SHAPE / Hanna Kortus & Felicia Nilsson / 5:49 min / 2025 / Austria

Haptonomy / Fu Le / 6:00 min / 2024 / France

Woolgod / Sirin Sponga / 11:36 min / 2025 / Sweden, Norway

a stone is a stone is a stone / Clara de Cápua / 4:25 min / 2019 / Brazil

EINMIN / RAMMATIK (Rannvá Káradóttir & Marianna Mørkøre) / 4:50 min / 2024 / Faroe Islands

INTERSTICES / Judith Preciado Rea / 5:14 min / 2024 / Mexico

The Eyes of Charcot / Edith Vázquez / 9:59 min / 2025 / Mexico

Vitrun / Cristina Agueda in collaboration with Múr, Kári Haraldsson /9:37 min / 2023 / Iceland

Forgotten Body / Karoline Sødal Sellæg & Salóme Sól Norðkvist / 10:00 min / 2025 / Iceland, Norway

In This Dark Time / Nicoleta Mureș / 3:42 min / 2022 / Romania

Colosa / Flor Giardino / 2:19 / 2025 / Argentina

Deiglan

Saturday October 25th - Special screening 20:00

Pina / Wim Wenders / 2011 / 1h 43min / Germany

A tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.

 

Deiglan

Friday October 31st 20:00

 

The (un)fortunate encounters of Kika and Pedro / Germán Aguila Gonzalez & Lola Ramírez / 7:50 min / 2024 / Mexico

Oxowusi / Augusto Soledade & Gabriel Yjalade / 13:57 min / 2023 / Brazil

The Yard – In and Out of Place / Juhani Haukka / 5:56 min / 2022 / Finland @juhanihaukka

Kala / MGR / 1:00 min / 2025 / India

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(e)motion of the ocean / Bergþóra Sigurðardóttir / 5:44 min / 2025 / Iceland

Bhramari (The Turn) / Sugandh Lamba & Siddharth Kumar / 5:00 min / 2025 / India

0,3p/km² / Jasmine Kristina Skog / 7:19 min / Sweden

 

Saturday November 1st 20:00

Who Sits Beside Us in The Bath / Dana Sokolowski / 11:11 min / 2022 / United States

Sin Título / César Ulloa Cuéllar / 3:28 min / 2024 / Peru

Threshing #2 / Ariny Bianchi / 9:18 min / 2024 / Brazil

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Cihuacoatl / Yojanan Montaño & Mauricio Rico / 5:34 min / 2025 / Mexico

Falling in Water is Flying / Improv for Dance Enthusiasts & Vikram Pradhan / 11:44 / 2025 / Iceland

Eugenio Sue 63 / Enrique Traver / 3:46 / 2023 / Mexico

Mjólkurbúðin

October 24th - November 2nd

Video installations with all selected videos on display.

 

Sponsors and collaborators of Boreal Screendance Festival 2025 are: Akureyrarbær, The Delegation of the European Union to Iceland, KEA, Uppbyggingarsjóður Norðurlands eystra, Prentmet/Oddi, Gilfélagið and The Akureyri Art Museum.