Bellydance Vogue
Alone on his birthday during lockdown, Hadi celebrates as if it were his last, blending 80s and 90s archive footage with a VHS aesthetic to transform isolation into a defiant act of joy.
Synopsis (EN) :
"My birthday was on the 3rd of April 2020, and for the first time, I celebrated it all by myself. But even if I was alone, I decided to celebrate it as if it’s the last one" The film was made during quarantine, using archive films from the 80-90s and using VHS recorder app.
Synopsis (FR) :
« Mon anniversaire était le 3 avril 2020, et pour la première fois, je l’ai célébré entièrement seul. Mais même si j’étais seul, j’ai décidé de le fêter comme si c’était le dernier. »
Le film a été réalisé pendant le confinement, en utilisant des images d’archives des années 80 et 90 ainsi qu’une application d’enregistrement VHS.
Credits
Produced by
h7o7
Film by
Hadi Moussally
DOP / Post-Production / Special Effects
Olivier Pagny
Music
Bellydance Vogue by Hadi Zeidan
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14 Awards & Nominations
2024
• QueerCine International Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
Best Music Video Award
• Vancouver International x MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Honorable Mention
2023
• Emergentia, Geneva, Switzerland
Audience Award Winner
• Girona en Moviment, Girona, Spain
Best Documentary Award
2022
• On Art - Dance&Music, Warsaw, Poland
Best Short Independent Award
• TANZAHOi International Dance Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Claussen-Simon-Stiftung Feature Award
• Brussels Independent Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Best Music Video Award
2021
• CUERPO MEDIADO - Festival de Videodanza, Online, Argentina
Best Realidad Mediada: Documentary Videodance Award
• Toronto Arthouse Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Best Experimental Award
• Wicked Queer, Boston, United States
Best in Show Award
• Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, United Kingdom
Honorable Mention Award
• New Jersey Independent Film Festival, New Jersey, United States
Best Music Video Award
• Super 9 Mobile Film Fest, Porto, Portugal
Honorable Mention Award
• Austin Arthouse Film Festival, Online
Nominated for Best Edit, Best Style, and Best Social Commentary
106 Official Selections
2026
• Queer Shorts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2025
• Jaha Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
• Pink Screens Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
• Queer+ Ruídos International Film Festival, Pelotas, Brazil
• art200, Bucharest, Romania
• Rawy Films, Berlin, Germany
• Soura Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
• Edinburgh Film Festival, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Fashion in Flux, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2024
• Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Ciné-corps, Paris, France
• Art200 International Queer Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
• ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza, Bologna, Italy
• Art Night Venezia - Sleepless Video Art Night, Venezia, Italy
• Raksa Cine, Paris, France
• Freiburg Gay Film Festival, Freiburg, Germany
• Fête de la Danse, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Bipod Festival, Beirut, Lebanon
• Arlequeen, Paris, France
2023
• Haram, Honey!, Malmö, Sweden
• Gay Consent Lab, Berlin, Germany
• Boreal Screendance Festival, Akureyri, Iceland
• FeX - Festival eXperimental de Cinema, Alcântara, Brazil
• Cinema Queer, Stockholm, Sweden
• (In) visible structure(s), Berlin, Germany
• The Place, Online, United Kingdom
• Movi|mentale Festival, Napoli, Italy
• The Atlanta Black Pride LGBTQ International Film Festival, Atlanta, United States
• Queer & Pride: Kriterion x Canvas, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Queer Mvmnt Fest, San Diego, United States
• Queer City Cinema, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Dubrovnik
• Toronto Queer Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
• The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), Montreal, Canada
2022
• FASHIONCLASH, Maastricht, Netherlands
• Chéries-Chéris, Paris, France
• Choreoscope, Barcelona, Spain
• BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
• Arab World Institute - Habibi, les révolutions de l'amour / La Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
• Queer City Cinema, Regina, Canada
• Mill of Performing Arts, Larissa, Greece
• Love & Hope International Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
• Taiwan International Queer Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Cinedans FEST, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• FIRE!! Barcelona International LGBTI Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
• Doc.Sydney Documentary Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
• V&A Museum - Friday Late: Freedom of Movement, London, United Kingdom
• Queer City Cinema, Glasgow, Halwick, Galway, Dublin, London
• Doc.London Documentary Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
• Vinilonga Short Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021
• InShadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
• Super Shorts Film Festival London, London, United Kingdom
• Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, London, United Kingdom
• 180° Berlin Filmfest, Berlin, Germany
• International Queer and Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Canadian International Fashion Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
• Soura Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
• COVIDaVINCI, Online
• Flip the Script Fest, Online
• Thessaloniki International G.L.A.D. Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Luststreifen Film Festival, Basel, Switzerland
• Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis, United States
• London International Screen Dance Festival, London, United Kingdom
• Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Kansas, United States
• Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia, Bogotá, Colombia
• Image+Nation, Montreal, Canada
• Boston Short Film Festival, Boston, United States
• CINEMQ, Shanghai, China
• Cinema Al Fouad - Aflamuna, Beirut, Lebanon
• Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, Hong Kong
• Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
• Ghent Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
• Kalakari Film Festival, Dewas, India
• Beirut Love Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon
• Moinho Cine Fest, Porto, Portugal
• Opine Dance Film Festival, Philadelphia, United States
• Screen.Dance, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• Flikkers Queer Film Festival, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Tag! Queer Shorts Festival, Portland, United States
• DANCE@30FPS, Columbus, United States
• Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Guadalajara, Mexico
2020
• Knowbox Dance Film Festival, Cholula, Mexico
• Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, Raleigh, United States
• Short To The Point, Bucharest, Romania
• Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
• International Meeting on Video-dance and Video-performance, Valencia, Spain
• Danzattack Festival de Danza y CineDanza, Tenerife, Spain
• Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival, Los Angeles, United States
• Fashion Film Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Mexico City Videodance Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
• Pool Festival, Berlin, Germany
• Strangelove Time-based Media Festival, Folkestone, United Kingdom
• Online Isolation Short Videos Festival, Moscow, Russian Federation
• A Shaded View On Fashion Film Festival - Lockdown Edition, Online, France
Magazines
• MyKali Magazine, Amman, Jordan
June 2020
• Kaltblut Magazine, Berlin, Germany
May 2020
Exhibitions
• Arab World Institute - Habibi, les révolutions de l'amour / La Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
October 2022
• V&A Museum - Friday Late: Freedom of Movement, London, United Kingdom
April 2022