The fourth edition of the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival will take place from September 6 to 9, 2018, in 6 different locations in Bucharest.
This year`s theme of the only film dance festival will be “[re]tracing” – the traces that time left in the lives of the people and of the communities that they are part of.
“The fourth edition of the festival comes in a time where we are forced to fight for normality, rethinking the coordinates of the past in order to understand the present. Dance and film meet on equal grounds to showcase stories about resistance, persistence and courage.” Simona Deaconescu, the aartistic director of the festival declares.
“We searched and found ingenious ways of archiving the collective memory, but also daring speculations about the future, through which we offer a context of repositioning of “the individual” in relation to “the many more”, even if that means intentionally altering the so-called “general given truth”. I believe that by positioning an individual against the history of the masses, we can truly generate a creative conflict on the level of ideas and suggestions, one that could restructure repressed historic realities or could redefine uncertain facts of the present. By showcasing a complex programme that brings together artists from different fields, we intend to challenge the audience to an imagination exercise, which will be able to re-live the reality on three different vectors: temporal, emotional and psychological.” Simona Deaconescu added.
This year, besides the two competition programs (the international short films competition and the national competition), BIDFF brings to Bucharest two international specialists, who will coordinate the lab for developing dance films – “Stories in Movement”.
During the lab, Guy Cools, one of the most renowned international dance dramaturges who worked with important choreographers such as Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, will hold the writing workshop.
Helena Jonsdottir, one of the most important choreographers in Scandinavia, innovator of the dance film, will coordinate the creation workshop.
The lab is dedicated to the South-Eastern European creators and will take place from September 3 to 9, at Qreator and LINOTIP-Independent Choreography Center and will be finalized with a pitching ideas session dedicated to the participants. The best presentation will receive an award of 700 Euro, offered by the Romanian Cultural Institute.
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival is a project of the Tangaj Dance Association, organized with the support of the Romanian Film Center, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Honorary Consulate of Iceland in Bucharest, the British Council and the Balassi Institute.
The hosts and partners of the project are: Elvire Popesco Cinema (the French Institute in Romania), the National Dance Center in Bucharesti, LINOTIP-Independent Choreography Center, DESCHIS Atelier, DESCHIS Gastrobar and Qreator.
Details:
http://www.bidff.ro/