Bay Area Shorts

Local films and a community celebration to close out SFDFF 2025 in style.

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Celebrate the final night of the festival with Bay Area Shorts, an annual tradition honoring the artistry and imagination of Northern California’s vibrant dance film community. This dynamic program features local filmmakers and performers exploring a range of topics, including environmental justice, girlhood, labor rights, and queer heritage, all rooted in the landscapes and identities of the region. With a closing reception and community in full bloom, this closing night event is your chance to toast the creative spirit of the Bay. Don’t miss this joyful finale to an unforgettable week of dance on film.

Includes a post-screening closing reception in the lobby.

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Venue Accessibility: Brava Theater is located at 2781 24th Street. Curb cuts for the sidewalk to the Brava Theater Center are located on the corner of York and 24th Street. The entrance of the theater is on the ground floor and there is an elevator to seating in the upper level of the theater.

Program Info

Sunday, November 9 at 7:30PM

Venue: Brava Theater

Runtime: 54 minutes, plus a closing reception

GA $25 / Arts Patron $45

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Program Films

A group of dancers pose confidently in matching red/black athletic outfits on a gymnasium floor at the City College of San Francisco. A line of banners are hung above their heads.
An energetic celebration of Bay Area dance, rooted in local rhythm, style, and community.
Daniel Derrick
Daniel Derrick, Fae Salfiti, Lindsay Marshall
(United States, 2024) 8:28 minutes

Bay Area 2

A woman in a blue dress and a man in a red outfit lean on one another while standing on draped rugs in a minimalist, empty room.
A poetic duet explores how touch bridges distance - physical and emotional.
Jane Hope Rehm
Jane Rehm, Terez Dean Orr, John Speed Orr
(United States, 2024) 2:53 minutes

Warp and Weft

A person wearing a yellow dress, headwrap, and teal tap shoes dances on a wooden floor in a living room with plants, a painting, and blue curtains letting in natural light.
A unique fusion of oral histories, percussive dance, footwork, and folkloric dance bring to life stories of female essential laborers.
John Jota Leaños, Vanessa Sanchez
Vanessa Sanchez
(United States, 2025) 7:18 minutes

Convivencia

Five people in colorful traditional Indian attire sit on mats outdoors, surrounded by greenery and palm trees. They all wear soft smiles, looking in various directions, with their hands all in different positions.
A poetic excavation of queer histories in South Asia, revealing how erasure, modesty, and myth have obscured - but never silenced - queer expression.
Akhil Joondeph
Akhil Joondeph
(United States, 2024) 3:31 minutes

Parda

Two performers in red costumes are suspended upside down, dancing on the vertical wall of a bridge support, with a leafy tree and the bridge structure visible above.
Dancers suspended above the Klamath River honor one of the largest dam removal efforts in history.
Jessica Swanson
Lauren Godla, Kara Starkweather
(United States, 2024) 5:51 minutes

A Return to Movement

A dancer stands in a deep lunge on a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, with distant hills and a hazy sky in the background and trees framing the scene.
An artist and their muse meet the California coast in this meditative movement portrait.
Yoram Savion
Richa Krishna
(United States, 2025) 3:50 minutes

Weavers

A woman in black traditional south Asian attire performs a graceful dance pose on a round concrete platform by the water, with railings and a pier in the background.
A site-specific lullaby honoring the resilience of immigrant mothers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.
Joanna Ruckman
Preethi Ramaprasad
(United States, 2024) 6:05 minutes

Yours, Tenderly

A woman with curly hair sits at a table surrounded by books. She looks thoughtfully into the distance while holding a pen over an open book in a bright, cozy room.
A dancer’s quiet reflections on self-doubt and authenticity become a call to move boldly through a noisy world.
SoungYoung Park
Chloe Swoiskin
(United States, 2024) 1:32 minutes

Alive

A person with dark curly hair stands in moody green and red light beside glowing green text on a black wall that reads, “That’s how I know I’m right”.
In a single, surreal sweep, "Magma" channels an ancient myth to question what we choose to see and what we refuse to believe.
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Robin Dekkers
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
(United States, 2024) 6:29 minutes

Magma

Two dancers dressed in sheer orange garments and pink headbands lean over a wooden table from opposite sides. Their hands reach toward each other, touching fingertips, as they mirror each other’s positions.
Side by side in motion and imagination, two girls move through rooms, dreams, and growing pains.
Jia Wu
Jia Wu
(United States, 2025) 4:32 minutes

I Love ABC

A group of dancers perform energetically on stage under green lighting. The central dancer wears a headband and cropped top, with others behind her mid-movement, expressing intensity and focus.
In a world of sweat and strobe lights, femme power takes center ring: gritty, charged, and unapologetically bold.
Rocko Luciano
Rocko Luciano
(United States, 2025) 3:21 minutes

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