Romanian films showing at BIEFF 2017

     BIEFF (March 28 – April 2, 2017) invites audiences to watch some of the most recent experimental visual works created by Romanian artists included in the International Competition.

     I Made You, I Kill You directed by Alexandru Petru Bădeliță - one of the most featured Romanian filmmakers at BIEFF over the years – gives a moving account of his traumatized childhood  transfigured in a regular attempt at self-exorcism. The film was included in the official selections of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
     Drawing on Albert Camus’ eponymous text, Luiza Pârvu and Toma Peiu’s Sisyphus 2.0 is a visual compendium of humanity’s search for meaning. Made of real surveillance footage, the film assumes their omniscient point-of-view, as it starts off as a series of quotidian assemblages of ‘a day in the life of’ a global citizen, accompanied by a voice-over retelling of the Sisyphus myth.
     Unapologetically critical and showing a playful sense of humor, The Story of Little Hans is a loose adaptation of the eponymous fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. The short film makes use of the deceitfully naïve tone of children’s stories in order to dig into the relativity which characterizes how we perceive national identities in light of the current political climate.
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(Translation by Andreea Mihalcea)