Friday, SEPT 6 / 21:00 / Roaba de Cultură
Sunday, SEPT 8 / 18:00 / CinÉma Elvire Popesco
During the tenth anniversary edition of BIDFF, we invite you to a special screening of the 11 short films awarded with the Best Film Award in the previous editions of the festival, in the park, at Roaba de Cultură, or in the movie theatre, at Elvire Popesco, where many of them actually met for the first time with the Bucharest audience. A selection of films worth reliving.
* Free entry for the September 6 screening at Roaba de Cultură.
SU MISURA
1:10, 2014, IT
D: Augenblick
C: Augenblick
A tailor, his wife. A day like any other: old and new customers, one after another. Then she enters. Suddenly a glimpse, a mistake... and there’s already a stitch to remove: one more word and the elbows will lightly touch. The rhythmic, repetitive gestures of the craft become a dance, now. The motif sewed on the dress takes the form of a movement, of a fantasy that is tailor-made. But this glimpse of desire springing from the line of the mountains falls down after only one minute, like a pin on the floor.
WOMENS' CHRISTMAS NIGHT
5:42, 2016, IRL
D: Oonagh Kearney
C: Megan Kennedy, Jessica Kennedy
Inspired by Seán Ó Ríordáin’s celebrated Irish poem and working with a schoolgirl choir and inter-generational cast of female performers, this film offers a visually arresting vision of Women’s Christmas Night.
The Line
13:24, 2015, FR
D: Adrien Ouaki, Nathan Cahen
C: Adrien Ouaki
A film that explores the various patterns of human behaviour when facing time and how the human mind can easily become a prison.
NIGHT DANCING
6:24, 2016, UK/RO
D: Barney Cokeliss
C: Louise Tanoto, Jacob Ingram-Dodd, Jason Thorpe
Every night, a lonely man sees a beautiful young woman dancing outside his window. He is transfixed by her. Wonders if she's real. Then things become more complicated....
DANSE, POUSSIN
13:03, 2016, FR
D: Clémence Dirmeikis
C: Lucie Germon
Eight-year-old Louise and her young mother Marianne are usually very close. But on a “fest-noz” evening (traditional Breton dancing), their relationship alters because of the dance, and an unsettling dancer. Louise feels lost.
OTHERLAND
13:27, 2018, NL
D: Jan Pieter Tuinstra
C: Keren Levi
A Vogue dancer performs at a Voodoo Carnival Ball, an important dance contest where he will have to prove himself to be accepted by the local ballroom community. He remembers growing up on Sint Maarten, a small island in the Caribbean and all the changes he has been through since. The freedom he longed for seems within reach.
Navigation
13:30, 2020, CAN
D: Marlene Millar
C: Sandy Silva
Set in the spectacular Burren region of the west coast of Ireland, Navigation explores the current humanitarian crisis of displacement and dislocation that is experienced both individually and collectively. Using the land itself to explore how we navigate through unknown terrain, themes of survival and perseverance, departure and renewal emerge in a nuanced and layered interpretation of the migration experience. The rhythms, movement, vocals and landscape define and embody this exploration, featuring the performances of 10 dancers, singers and a choir of 40 participants.
Belia
9:51, 2021, EG
D: Eman Hussein
C: Eman Hussein
A young woman and her friends join a car repair shop as “Belia” (colloquial Egyptian for apprentices) to learn the craft from the Ustas (craft headmasters). They explore what this relationship creates as it merges labor with everyday life rhythms to open up a new space for movement.
ISN’T IT A BEAUTIFUL WORLD
12:57, 2021, UK
D: Joseph Wilson
Isn’t It a Beautiful World is a short film combining performance, drag, dance and it depicts the traumatising stories of queer performers Soroya, Harry & Kenya and their emotional journey to adulthood. The film takes the audience on a journey through metaphorical locations to explore themes of loneliness, anxiety, addiction and recovery, all common issues within the LGBT+ community.
WARSHA
15:55, 2022, FR/LB
D: Dania Bdeir
Mohammad is a crane operator working in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
URBAN GENESIS
18:01, 2022, FR
D: Fu Le
Phuong is released from prison and returns to her native village. She finds Khang, her childhood sweetheart. Khang runs a brickyard, but everything has changed, modernity is shaking up the world of his memories. Urban Genesis is a journey to the last brickyard of An Hiep Island in the heart of the Mekong Delta.