BIEFF 2016 – Golden Shorts and Danger Is My Business

     BIEFF is presenting an exceptional program, dedicated to short features that were awarded the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2016, Palme d’Or and Cannes 2015, and also the 2015 Orizzonti Award in Venice, as well as to the competition Danger Is My Business.

     Within Golden Shorts: Best Films in Major Festivals, the viewers will have the opportunity to see six award-winning shorts over the previous year. Batrachian’s Ballad (Berlinale 2016, Golden Bear), directed by Leonor Teles, started from a story about the Portuguese tradition to place ceramic frogs at the entrance to restaurants in order to keep gipsies away. Waves ’98 (Cannes 2015, Palme d’Or) is a visual essay dedicated to Beirut, made by Ely Dagher. Kung Fury, by David Sandberg, is a parody of action cop movies of the ’80s, being nominated at the European Film Academy Awards in 2015. Rate Me (Illy Award for short at Cannes) was directed by Fyzal Boulifa and tells the story of Coco, a teenager escort. In To Be and to Come Back (Canala+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival), Xacio Baño tries to explain to his grandparents what it means to be a filmmaker, and Belladona (Orizzonti Award in Venice 2015), directed by Dubravka Rutic, brings into discussion the Balkan conflict from the perspective of several women.
     BIEFF also announced the screening of shorts that are part of the Danger Is My Business competition program. The Breath (directed by Fabian Kaiser) offers an original view on the strength of character of the modern society's anonymous hero: the firefighter. Nothing Human (directed by Tom Rosenberg) presents a surprising paradox of us being defined as human beings. Uncanny Valley, by Paul Wenninger, unveils the war trauma story, depicting the camaraderie between two soldiers who try to pull through the tranches of the First World War. The Bureau of Melodramatic Research presents the last part of Alien Passions' trilogy, the video-performance Above the Weather. I Remember Nothing, by Zia Anger, which follows the five stages of epilepsy while observing a day of the teenager Joan's life.
     The sixth Edition of BIEFF is to be held during 14–20 March, 2016, at the Romanian Farmer Museum Cinema, Elvire Popesco Cinema and at the National Music University.
     Details at: BIEFF