In the international competition, the program
The Politics of the Body explores acute problems, from the questioning of the social norms regarding beauty and sexuality, to the search of the identity and personal liberty, offering a platform of expression for the marginalized and politicized communities.
Launched as an international premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival,
Night Soil – Economy of Love proposes a reconsideration of the sexual conventions and ideas regarding intimacy. Still from Rotterdam comes
American Reflexxx, a disturbing and intense social experiment that forces the limits between passive voyeurism and active
participation.
Peep Show (directed by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro) introduces us to the sensory pleasures of erotic art, while in the short
Man, the film director Maja Borg explores the fluid borders between genders and identities, destabilizing the usual perception linked to the feminine body and maternity.
Flowers and Bottoms, directed by Christos Massalas, is a charming erotic love letter.
Having the same focus on corporality and identity, the program dedicated to the intersection between cinema and choreography is again part of BIEFF courtesy of the partnership with the main European Dance Film Festival,
Cinedans – Dance on Screen Festival, Amsterdam. Under the title
Emotional Bodies, contemporary dance films explore with a profound humanity and, at the same time, conceptual force, fascinating territories of human experience: from the hyperactivity within the modern finance jungle to the relationship between generations and post-internet communities.
In
Paralysis, a full force material about the multiple valences of the human body, artist Karel van Laere undergoes such an experiment and minutely documents the physical pain and psychic torment he lived all along his 24h trip to the universe of paralyzed people.
In the short
She/Her, Sonia Wyss analyses a mother/daughter relationship, unveiling layer after layer resentments, disapproval, rebellion, embarrassment until she reaches the well hidden and fragile kernel of affection.
Details at:
Bieff.ro
