Being connected to the major European film events, BIEFF presents an exceptional program, dedicated to the short films which received the Golden Bear in Berlin, the Orizzonti Award in Venice, or the Best Debut Award in Locarno and other awards at the most recent editions of these festivals. The films included in the program Golden Shorts: Best Films in Major Festivals will have their Romanian premiere on
Saturday, March 31, 2018 (from 21:00, at Cinema Elvire Popesco), followed by a second screening on Sunday, April 1, 2018
(from 18:30, at the Peasant Museum Cinema).
The Men Behind the Wall (directed by Ines Moldavsky) – the winner of the prestigious Golden Bear for short films at the Berlin Film Festival, less than a month ago – offers a unique look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the swipes of a dating app, as an Israeli woman is being suggested meetings with (Palestinian) men who live on the other side of the barrier. Where do boundaries begin and where do they end?
The winner of the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,
You Will Be Fine, directed by Céline Devaux shows us the confusion and the mind-wandering caused by a separation, describing what a break up might actually feel like, with hints of existentialism and a pinch of French humour. Jean celebrates his birthday, gets drunk and recalls the
dreadful weekend that led to his break-up with Mathilde. “Do you want me to leave you? I will”. And thus, Jean becomes the victim of a freefall that he himself has decided to undergo. In a surprising approach, the short film Jumps from the lovers` quarrel (live-action) to visual images of deconstructed human figures, silhouettes without heads, people in the form of glasses or abstract shapes.
Being nominated for the 2018 European Film Awards by the Berlinale Short Films Jury,
Burkina Brandemburg Komplex deconstructs cultures and civilizations and puts them back together so that the result is a powerful fable about the ridicule of preconception and stereotype. The film director and visual artist Ulu Braun, one of BIEFF`s favorites, analyzes our collective perception of Africa, starting from the image that was created in the media; the result is also a comment on consumerism.
In
Les Intranquilles - the winner of the Best Swiss Newcomer at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival – an ominous fog is slowly rising above a forest. Magdalena Froger sets the mood for the encounter of the viewer with “the restless”, three young men wearing military uniforms who roam a ghost town. The director will attend the screening on March 31, 2018, with the support of the Swiss Sponsors`Fund and of the Swiss Embassy.
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