Brighton Screendance Festival 2025

Lights, Camera, Action! Brighton Screendance Festival 2025, our festival of dance for screen, returns as part of Cinecity this autumn. 

From 7-9 November, you'll be treated to a programme of brave and beautiful dance film, which will include:

  • A selection of locally made work as part of our Homegrown event on Saturday 8 November (if you are a regional artist who would like to enter a film, find out more here.) 
  • Brownton Abbey Cinematic Universe, a co-presentation with Marlborough Productions.
  • Film screenings of much loved classic films for children and grownups.
  • An accessible digital programme of international work hosted on our website for the duration of our festival.
  • We will also be launching a remote Dance and Moving image course, led by Becky Edmunds, find out more here.
     

All events will be pay-what-you-can, so try something new and immerse yourself in the curious and creative world of dance on screen at The Dance Space. 

Keep an eye out here and on our socials for the release of tickets for these special events. 

 

Image credit: A still from the film Fierce Grace, by Stopgap Dance Company.

Date and time
Wednesday 05 - Wednesday 12 November 2025
Times
Wednesday 5 - Wednesday 12 November
Location
The Dance Space

Brighton Screendance Festival

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Brighton Screendance Festival Digital Stage

A bold and accessible digital programme of international work.

Wednesday 05 November - Sunday 12 October 2025
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Brighton Screendance Festival Digital Stage
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Dance and Moving Image

A four week, open access, online course led by Becky Edmunds.

Thursday 06 November - Thursday 04 December 2025
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Dance and Moving Image
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Sweet Charity

A special screening of the 1969 classic musical.

Friday 07 November 2025
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Sweet Charity
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Homegrown

Screendance by makers from across the South East.

Saturday 08 November 2025
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Homegrown
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Brownton Abbey Cinematic Universe

Four films by Brownton Abbey, a performance collective centering and celebrating disabled, queer people of colour.

Saturday 08 November 2025
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Brownton Abbey Cinematic Universe
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Happy Feet Family Film & Tap Taster

Join us for a screening of Happy Feet, plus a tap workshop.

Sunday 09 November 2025
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Happy Feet Family Film & Tap Taster