Boreal Screendance Festival 2025
International Screendance Festival in Akureyri's Art Street
The Boreal Screendance Festival returns for its sixth edition from October 24 to November 9, 2025.
Festival venues include Akureyri Art Museum, Mjólkurbúðin and Deiglan.
Boreal has been held annually in Akureyri's Art Street since 2020. The festival aims to strengthen dance, international collaboration and multimedia art in North Iceland through an innovative programme of screendance and video works from around the world.
Programme
Friday, October 24 – Akureyri Art Museum
Opening Ceremony
8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Boreal 2025 Opening Party – Kaktus
10:00 PM
Pitenz – Live set
Akureyri Art Museum – Video Installations
Friday, October 24 – Sunday, November 9
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 min / 2025 / Argentina
Deiglan
Saturday, October 25 – Special Screening at 8:00 PM
Pina / Wim Wenders / 2011 / 1 hr 43 min / Germany
A tribute to German choreographer Pina Bausch, featuring dancers performing some of her most celebrated works in a film by award-winning director Wim Wenders.
Friday, October 31 at 8:00 PM
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
Kala / MGR / 1:00 min / 2025 / India
Intermission
(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 1 at 8:00 PM
Who Sits Beside Us in The Bath / Dana Sokolowski / 11:11 min / 2022 / USA
Sin Título / César Ulloa Cuéllar / 3:28 min / 2024 / Peru
Threshing #2 / Ariny Bianchi / 9:18 min / 2024 / Brazil
Intermission
Cihuacoatl / Yojanan Montaño & Mauricio Rico / 5:34 min / 2025 / Mexico
Falling in Water is Flying / Improv for Dance Enthusiasts & Vikram Pradhan / 11:44 min / 2025 / Iceland
Eugenio Sue 63 / Enrique Traver / 3:46 min / 2023 / Mexico
Mjólkurbúðin
October 24 – November 2
Video installations featuring all works included in the festival programme.
The partners and sponsors of Boreal Screendance Festival 2025 are Akureyri Municipality, the Delegation of the European Union to Iceland, KEA, the North East Iceland Development Fund, Prentmet/Oddi, Gilfélagið and Akureyri Art Museum.