DANCING MADNESS

BAILAR LA LOCURA

By Marta ESPAR, Maiol VIRGILI

MOVIES FOR FESTIVALS - as SALES World / DISTR VOD, World, Film Festivals / PROMO

Female director - Completed 2022

Three contemporary women dancers and three women diagnosed with mental disorders share the creative process of a choreography that seeks the limits between normality and madness.

Festivals
& Awards

SEMINCI, 67º Valladolid Int. Film Festival (Spain) 2022
DOC.ESPAÑA
Choreoscope Dance Film Festival Barcelona (Spain) 2022
Audience Award
67º CORK Int. Film Festival (Ireland) 2022
International Competition
6º BRAIN FilmFest Barcelona (Spain) 2023
Official Section
DocsBarcelona Film Festival 2023
Official Section: Docs & Teens
Docu-Mental Festival, Moscow 2023
Official Section
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Female director, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • SPAIN
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 73 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marta ESPAR, Maiol VIRGILI
    • Writer(s)
    • Marta ESPAR
    • Producer(s)
    • Marta ESPAR (Reporters)
    • Synopsis
    • Three contemporary women dancers aim to create a choreography that seeks the limits between normality and madness and invite three women diagnosed with mental disorders to share their creative process with them. They stay together in a house in the Basque Country to attend rehearsals together and discover what a psychiatric diagnosis implies. They talk about drugs side effects, delusions and suicide. But also about loneliness and friendship. Without prejudices. In a human journey that breaks taboos about madness.
      When they premiere, the dancers have changed their vision of madness and the dance piece includes the voices of these women who have been by their side throughout the creative process. We typically associate crazy with what deviates from the norm, but what is normal? Who decides it? And what is madness? Can it be danced?