On Friday, 31 March, from 18:00, and on Sunday, 2 April, at 21:00, at the Farmers' Museum Cinema, BIEFF 2017 International Competition is to trigger intensive debates with
The Politics of the Body, a thematic programme confronting the prejudices related to human body, drawing attention on the complex socio-political implications of identity and offering a platform for expression to marginalised and politicised communities.
The competition programme
Searching for Transcendence proposes a fascinating incursion into our individual and collective subconscious, at that ambiguous border
between real and virtual, between profane and metaphysical – on Sunday, from 15:00, at the Farmers' Museum Cinema.
On Friday from 20:30, and on Saturday, from 18:30, at Cinema Elvire Popesco, the screenings within the
Nostalgia for the Future will be held, which brings to Bucharest several of the most provocative titles of Berlinale Forum Expanded, the avant-garde section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The popular programme dedicated to
shorts that won the biggest awards in Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand is returning to BIEFF, the screenings being held at Cinema Elvire Popesco, on Saturday, 1 April, from 21:00, and on Sunday, from 18:00.
The films that will be granted awards at BIEFF within the Closing Gala as of Saturday, 1 April, will have a special screening the next day after the award ceremony, on Sunday, 2 April, from 21:00, at Cinema Elvire Popesco.
Furthermore, at the request of the viewers, BIEFF is organising an additional screening of the film
Endless Poetry / Poesia sin fin by Alejandro Jodorowsky, on Sunday, at Cinema Elvire Popesco, from 13:00.
At
the end of this year's edition, BIEFF is to screen, in premiere in Romania, the event-film
Manifesto, in which famous actress Cate Blanchett is playing 13 different characters in an impressive acting tour de force.
Details at:
Bieff.ro
