all the fridas

There's an overwhelming self-optimisation pressure, rather than encouraging building up our body and mind health and confidence from the inside. The captivating young dancer, Pauline Stöhr, knows well about breaking out from the patterns and body shapes requirements that a ballet dancer has to fit into, and grow into self-accepting, healthy, body positivity, confidence and contempt. In a contemporary dance film, Paula feels her body with its strengths and vulnerabilities in a surreal urban fantasy in the hidden corner of the infamous Kreuzberg in Berlin. Some thoughts on being honest with ourselves and embrace our natural body.

Concept & direction: Dana Tomos