A Dance Through Time (in person: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson)

Sarah Gavron: A Dance Through Time (GB 2026).

Telluride Film Festival (TFF) 2026

Viewed at Le Pierre, 6 Sep 2026

TFF 2026 Program Guide:

L/Sun 3:45PM Q&A

3 Stories of Resilience

TFF: "Three deeply intimate, human stories reveal the realities of authoritative state-control through history, and the enduring, integral resilience of family, neighbors, and community. Director Sarah Gavron’s A DANCE THROUGH TIME (U.K., 2026, 25m) brings her grandmother’s audio recordings—a memoir of her childhood—into a new focus, casting family members to enact, in shadow theater, a slow, painful family separation necessitated by the rise of Nazi Germany. In MAYBE TOMORROW, journalist and activist Wafa Mustafa refuses to let up her search for her father, one of more than 160,000 civilians disappeared during Assad’s regime (Wafa Mustafa and Waad Al-Kateab, U.K., 2026, 40m). With SAWYER AVENUE, SUNDAY AFTERNOON (U.S., 2026, 18m), Bill Morrison provides a startling composite of ICE body-cam footage and civilian cell phone recordings, creating a shocking account of an October 2025 incident in Chicago, in which a young man is detained in the street, prompting a neighborhood protest." –TFF In person: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson, Waad Al-Kateab, [Wafa Mustafa could not come], Bill Morrison

AA: Sarah Gavron's A Dance Through Time is an enchantingly imaginative memory project in which from scattered remnants of a Jewish family history a continuum is crafted via dance - often in silhouettes in front of photographs in projection. An audiotape by the grandmother (1919-1997) evokes a Berlin of the 1920s, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction and burning of the family library, the exile to England where the first host finds that "Hitler is a wonderful man". The substance of Gavron's movie is a topical warning for today, and its artistic form - dancing through history - could prove an inspiration for others.