11 April 2026
The Riverfront Theatre, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

About ADRA:

ADRA will be Wales’ first International festival dedicated to screendance - a celebration of dance, movement and film that brings together artists, audiences, and communities from across Wales and beyond.

ADRA is presented by Kokoro Arts and The Riverfront Theatre, supported by Ffilm Cymru .

Film Categories:

Reel Shorts : 2 minutes maximum

Shorts: 10 minutes maximum

Open: 25 minutes maximum (we have limited capacity for this category)

Submission Tiers:

There are four tiers in each category, you should submit in the tier that best fits your film.

  • International (worldwide)

  • Wales (Core creative team are based in Wales)

  • Graduate (Core creative team are students)

  • Youth & Community (in which the participants are core contributors)

A festival jury will award films across categories and tiers:

Reel Shorts : International, Wales, Graduate,Youth & Community

Shorts : International, Wales, Graduate,Youth & Community

Audience award (Voted for by festival attendees)

Best Film

Eligibility & Conditions:

By submitting the applicant confirms they have all necessary rights and permissions for exhibiting the film. You must own, or have clearance for all copyrighted materials, ADRA assumes no liability, or responsibility for copyright or infringement issues. If you provide still images of your film you must include a credit.

By submitting your film you grant ADRA the rights to programme your film in the festival.

If selected you agree that ADRA can use short excerpts (up to 20 seconds), and stills from the film for marketing, and archiving the festival. You also agree to abide by deadlines for submitting other required programme materials.

Films must have been completed after January 1st, 2023. Works created before that date can be submitted only if they have not been publicly presented or been available online.

Graduate submissions are for films made when the principal creators were enrolled in an accredited educational institute at the time the film was made. We may ask for evidence of your student status.

We do not accept filmed performances created for theatre unless they radically transform the theatrical work. We are not able to give feedback to unselected proposals.

How to Submit:

Please submit films via Filmfreeway

Selected films will need to be delivered in their native frame rate, ProRes (preferred) or H264 encoding in a QuickTime format (.mov) with captions as an .SRT file.

ADRA is managed by Kokoro Arts, a non-profit organisation.

Contact us for questions: kokoroartsltd@gmail.com

What are we looking for:

ADRA celebrates movement on screen in a broad range of styles, art forms, and approaches. You can submit Choreography, Improvisation, Animation, Documentary, Narrative, Experiential, Abstract, and Experimental films. Anything in which movement on screen is the main component.

Your film must be completed (no works in progress), and we ask that you include captioning for any dialogue and descriptions of sound and music.