Friday, SEPT 9, from 18:30
AT CINÉMA Elvire Popesco

A boy passionate about dance from Chad doesn't want to stop smiling not even when his village is destroyed by war. A girl in Lebanon becomes a woman overnight because of poverty and personal sacrifice. A dancer from Poland loses connection with her body after a traumatic abuse. For young people in Lithuania and Chile, the sense of belonging gives rise to consequential identity crises. In the second competitive section of BIDFF, five film productions launch a complex dialogue about the contexts that put our lives at risk. Danger Zones is about those physical or emotional scars that cannot heal in a generation.

AMANI

17:25, 2021, CA/TD
D: Alliah Fafin
C: Taïgue Ahmed

In this tale, halfway between reality and fantasy, a mysterious narrator tells us the story of Amani, a young boy passionate about dance. Amani's innocence and joie de vivre open the narrator’s eyes to the humanity he had never really cared about before. But as the night begins to rumble, Amani's joie de vivre disappears to give way to his pain, which echoes in the silence of the plain.

QUIVER

13:52, 2022, PL
D: Joanna Różniak
C: Benedykt Król

Justyna (Adrianna Mrowiec) is a young dance student who fills her days with love, movement, and parties. One quiet autumn night, a violent encounter disrupts her carefree life.

TRUMPETS IN THE SKY

14:55, 2021, PS/LB/FR/BE
D: Rakan Mayasi

Lebanon today – the war in Syria is next door. A once dreamy and undisturbed meadow changes drastically in the eyes of Boushra, who returns from work picking potatoes to learn that her childhood will soon come to an end. With an absent father, her mother sells her into marriage. As she tries to connect with her decaying hometown, Boushra fears the impending possibilities of departure and becoming a woman. Part fiction, part documentary, and purposely blurring the distinction, the bleakness of the narrative explores a dark socio-political critique of patriarchy, the repercussions of war, and the myth of sacrifice.

TECHNO, MAMA

18:18, 2021, LT
D: Saulius Baradinskas
C: Kipras Chlebinskas

Nikita loves to listen to techno music and dreams to go to Berlin and visit the famous club “Berghain”. His mother, Irena, doesn’t know about his son’s dreams and soon enough their mutual expectations will clash.

TARJETA ROJA

12:37, 2022, CL
D: Ana Albornoz
C: Ana Albornoz

Tarjeta Roja is a video dance proposal that seeks to embody that unresolved feeling of a body in a state of travel, transition, moving, walking, expectation, circulation, words that this piece seeks to recite from the individual and collective.