A Snake on the Grass

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kNOwBOX dance Film Festival 2026

Official Selection Film Spotlight

A Snake on the Grass (2025)

Directed by Fu Le

📍 France ⏱ 19 minutes

"This film immediately pulled me in and continued to surprise me as the story and concept unfolded. The cinematography was brilliant and played an important role in shaping the world of the piece. The performances were top tier, and I especially appreciated the use of spoken storytelling alongside the movement. Together, these elements created a gorgeous and compelling world that was both engaging and memorable." Elisa De La Rosa, NBFF 2026 Invited Juror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Enyt67OJ0

Trailer

Film Description

Tara lives in a traditional rural village where a construction program of new houses takes place. She meet a worker and will escape with him, at the risk of creating jealousy in the village. The film struggles with the social yoke about marriage and the danger of a forbidden love in South India, the land of snakes.

Meet The Makers

Coming soon!

What do you hope to communicate with our audience through your work?

A dance film that wind through the social yoke about marriage in South India.

Our theme this year is "The Light We Move Toward: When the World Darkens, We Dance". This year’s theme explores how movement becomes a pathway toward light: across borders, across time, and across lived experience.

How do you think your film relates to this theme?

The dance offers to the characters a pathway toward freedom and resilience.

Biographies

Fu LE is an award winning filmmaker and choreographer in the Tetrapode dance company in France. Graduated in sculpture at the Art Crafts National School in Paris, he then trained in physical theater and in contemporary dance in Argentina, Belgium and Switzerland. He pursued recently his research in Taiwan, questioning social issues linked with urbanization.

Fu Le produced a dozen of dance films awarded worldwide. He founded in 2020 the Tetralab - international screendance laboratory.

He is now evolving on the edge between dance, sculpture and video, and brings visual arts to the intimacy of bodily sensations. His cinematographic approach is presently based on single shot practice, and how to manage the choreography of the camera itself.