SEPT 5th, 22:00 – 23:00
Peasant Museum Cinema

This year's Romanian Short Film Competition brings a selection of films that render into perspective the body and the (non)movement, touch and human interaction, and the notion of reality, in the way that it is commonly perceived. The seven short films offer, in an eclectic and detached manner, a new approach on these topics.

OPIA

10:04, 2020
D: Simona Dabija
C: Simona Dabija

OPIA is a short dance film about living in a space guided by its own rules. It’s an utopic place where the dancers are behaving and moving based on inspirational life quotes.

Call of Pink

6:28, 2020
D: Denisa Anastasiu, Maria-Luiza Dimulescu, Catalin Rugina
C: Denisa Anastasiu, Maria-Luiza Dimulescu

We can easily say that our life is a game, not an ordinary one where you can determine the story, the space and the characters, but a game which comes with opportunities and traps, with gains and losses, a game we have to play every second, a game in which we are rooted. Sometimes we choose the virtual space in order to escape reality, but in the end it turns out to be just a way to avoid the real game, our everyday life. We see the big changes as new levels in our lives and we don’t have the option to skip, our only choice is to play. So, the “Call of Pink” comes with the positive point of view that the world needs to overcome the real life levels, which we all know are the hardest to pass. Anyway, some details as creativity and fun are the things we should keep as weapons for the reality.

Sunless

7:27, 2020, RO / UK
D: Corina Andrian (Red-Cor)
C: Corina Andrian, Beatrice Tudor, Mariana Gavriciuc

DANCE = body + motion
How deep can you dive into the concept of “dance”? What moves when everything is still?
The still body is alive. The pores breathe, the heart beats, the weather disturbs it. The dynamic viewer is shaken.
How far can you strip down the concept of “body”? What is vulnerability when there’s nothing left to strip? Intimacy is lost in the freedom to purely be and inhabit...
‘I am so happy I’m only made of skin and I feel all the pain and everything moves me.’
SUNLESS is film embodied.

ÉTUDES FROM AN INNER GARDEN
(CIORNE DE GRADINA)

14:09, 2020
D: Gal Orsolya
C: Gal Orsolya

Études from an inner garden is a fiction, composed by short scenes with plants, filmed in a garden in the center of Cluj Napoca, with the technique of light and shadow plays, borrowed from shadow theater. By this playful interaction between plants and a puppeteer (cameraman), leaves and flowers gain autonomy and become characters. A project supported by Contemporary Calgary.

Memory of a Kneaded Touch

8:33, 2020
D: Daniel Alexandru Dragomir
C: Daniel Alexandru Dragomir

Memory of a Kneaded Touch is a short dance film that revolves around the exploration of human touch in a dystopian society. The touch was considered a ridiculous element in some historical periods and continues to be so in some geographical spaces, often becoming a taboo, an action, even tough needed, put in practice with reserve. The five bodies fight these restrictions by letting themselves driven by what cannot be considered only a primary instinct, the need to touch and be touched.

Ausum

6:48, 2020
D: Alin Duruian
C: Anastasia Grigore, George Alexandru Plesca

Two golden characters, familliar with nothing but their appearance, are trapped in a sisyphic world. They meet each other accidentally and start interacting. One of them discovers that their interaction can be their way out and decides to return.

Inhabited_ The attic

5:47, 2020
D: Smaranda Gabudeanu
C: Smaranda Gabudeanu, Svitlana Pashko

The being tries to tame the space, to domesticate it. When it gains trust, it can extend. The limits of its body become one with the ones of the place.
No matter how much you’d seal it off, you’d engrain it with yourself, the space in which you live stays permeable, total isolation – utopia. The outside world permeates through pores. ’Till one day you wake up inhabited by something else...
In inHABITED_ The Attic, in a retro-kafkian-interwar atmosphere, two dancers from different species dispute in a secretive manner their limits and their place in space.