Do Not Dance

2024
dance film / experimental
7′ / digital / 4:3

Collaboration with cinematographer Sarah Kramer and Julian Quentin
Directed together with Julian Quentin
DoP Sarah Kramer
Concept Sarah Kramer, Marie Heleen Samrotzki, Julian Quentin

Music by acidpach v. chôko

Main performer Mila Stoytcheva
Supporting performerx Philip Esch, Luisa Kömm, Lotta Loos, Jeannette Petrik, Paul Samrotzki, Charlie Wyrsch

High performer Mila loves her company. She just started her career and is highly motivated to give everything she has to prove herself. Only slowly, she realizes what she never wanted to see.

Festivals:
2025 Atlanta Film Festival, USA
2025 Athens International Film and Video Festival, USA
2025 Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, DE
2025 20minmax International Short Film Festival, DE
2025 Award Winner Greensboro Dance Film Festival, USA
2025 Ghent Shorts International Film Festival, BE
2025 SHORT to the point, ROU
2025 Lisboa Indie Film Festival, PR
2025 Curiosa Shorts, ES

2024 Etiuda&Anima Krakow Film Festival, PN
2024 TFFL, Lausanne, CH
2024 InShadow Lisboa Screendance Competition, PR​​
2024 Semi-Finalist Flicker‘s Rhode Island, USA

screening link available upon request through:
m.samrotzki@gmail.com