19th edition
POOL · MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin
09. – 12. September 2026
(Photo © Barbara Dietl)
Wir freuen uns, die 19. Edition des POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin ankündigen zu können.
POOL wird eröffnet mit SHINE und widmet sich dem filmischen und künstlerischen Schaffen der Choreographin und Performancekünstlerin Meg Stuart. PEARLS – eine Auswahl internationaler Filmproduktionen mit künstlerischen Positionen und Perspektiven zwischen Bewegung und Film – werden an drei Abenden präsentiert. Das Programm wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit Elysa Wendi (Hong Kong · China), Mayo Rodríguez Baeza (Chile) sowie Louise Coetzer und Oscar O’Ryan (Südafrika) kuratiert. Das Festival ist legendärer Treffpunkt und endet allabendlich gemeinsam mit den anwesenden Künstler*innen an einer festlichen Tafel.
Wir freuen uns darauf, euch zahlreich bei POOL willkommen zu heißen.
ENGLISH
We are delighted to announce the 19th edition of POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin. POOL opens with SHINE, dedicated to the cinematic and artistic work of choreographer and performance artist Meg Stuart. PEARLS presents a selection of international film productions featuring artistic perspectives at the intersection of movement and film across three evenings. The programme was curated in collaboration with Elysa Wendi (Hong Kong · China), Mayo Rodríguez Baeza (Chile), and Louise Coetzer and Oscar O’Ryan (South Africa). The festival is a legendary meeting place and concludes each evening with the attending artists and guests gathering around a long, festively laid table.
We look forward to welcoming many of you to POOL.
POOL SCREENINGS 2026
SHINE · Meg Stuart 09.09.26
7:30 pm · 19.30 Uhr
DOCK 11
Opening evening · SHINE presents MEG STUART · Screening of films from her artistic, cinematic work · followed by a gathering with artists and guests around a festively laid table
Moderation: Peter Pleyer
Photo © Aline Belfort
7:30 pm · 19.30 Uhr
DOCK 11
First PEARLS evening · Screening of international Movement Art Film productions · followed by a gathering with artists and guests around a festively laid table
Moderation: Johanna Lemke
7:30 pm · 19.30 Uhr
DOCK 11
Second PEARLS evening · Screening of international Movement Art Film productions · followed by a gathering with artists and guests around a festively laid table
Moderation: Johanna Lemke
7:30 pm // 19.30 Uhr
DOCK 11
Third PEARLS evening · Screening of international Movement Art Film productions · followed by a gathering with artists and guests around a festively laid table
Moderation: Johanna Lemke
PEARLS 2026 · GUEST CURATORS
The PEARLS Programme 2026 brings together guest curators from Hong Kong, Chile and South Africa, contributing distinct artistic and curatorial perspectives. Their selections reflect different cultural contexts, artistic traditions and ways of approaching personal, social and emotional themes. At the same time, recurring questions emerge across regions — around identity, memory, belonging, vulnerability and social change. What is especially compelling is how similar concerns are transformed into very different visual languages, rhythms and forms of expression through the moving image. Together, these perspectives create a dialogue across continents and open up different aesthetic understandings of how experience can be translated into image, body and movement.
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Elysa Wendi (Hong Kong · China)
Mayo Rodríguez Baeza (Chile)
Louise Coetzer & Oscar O’Ryan (South Africa)
POOL ON TOUR
Collaborations · Invitations · Presentations
POOL ON TOUR
March 14 & 15, 2026
Teatro San Materno, Ascona, CH
A selection of international movement-based films, co-curated by POOL · MOVEMENT ART FILM · Festival Berlin and Teatro San Materno.
Wir freuen uns über eine erneute Zusammenarbeit mit dem Teatro San Materno in Ascona.
POOL ON TOUR
POOL‘s Film Selection at JUMPING FRAMES
The programme brings together dance films in which singular and collective bodies poetically engage with broader forces, exploring relationships between the micro and macrocosmic. Time is stretched, paused or looped; gestures rest or circulate rather than progress. In this temporal dilation, the films reflect on presence, resistance and vulnerability in a shifting world. Choreography unfolds not only on screen, but also resonates through the bodies and minds of viewers.
November 15, 2025
1 pm at Broadway Cinematheque, Hong Kong
POOL ON TOUR
YOSHIKO CHUMA at FUTUR 9
Three selected Films by Yoshiko Chuma at FUTUR 9
AUGUST 29, 2025
7 pm at CINEMA 3001, Hamburg
VIEW ALL POOL ON TOUR STORIES →
ARRANGING MOVEMENT IN FILM
Practise · Research · Online LAB
The Arranging Movement in Film Lab is a collaborative platform for training, experimentation, and exchange focused on the interplay of dance and cinematic movement.
POOL JOURNAL
POOL JOURNAL
A Punk Mind in a Tailored Frame · Helena Jónsdóttir
An extensive in-depth interview with award-winning Icelandic filmmaker Helena Jónsdóttir on how dance films can capture the choreography of the everyday in a cinematic movement of ordinary gestures.
Ein Interview mit der isländischen Filmemacherin und Künstlerin Helena Jónsdóttir.
21.7.2025 written by Silja Tuovinen
A co-production by POOL and DOCK ART, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Community and supported by Goethe-Institut South Africa.
Thank you.
Eine Koproduktion von POOL und DOCK ART, gefördert von der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt und unterstützt vom Goethe-Institut Südafrika.
Wir bedanken uns für die Unterstützung.
