Cinedans – Dance on Screen Festival Amsterdam returns to BIEFF with the programme
Emotional Bodies, dedicated to crossroads between cinema and choreography, with a focus on corporeality and identity – to be screened on Wednesday, during the second Festival day, from 18:00, at Cinema Elvire Popesco and on Thursday, 30 March, at 20:30, at the Farmers' Museum Cinema.
Wednesday, 29 March, marks the start of the international competition from 18:00, at the Farmers' Museum Cinema, with the programme
The Alchemy of the Frame, an exploration of the limitless and always surprising potential of the cinematography language. Also on the first competition
day, on Wednesday, from 20:30, at the Farmers' Museum Cinema, the programme
Cutting the Cord is to be presented, dealing with family and societal connections, which have a decisive role in setting who we are and what we can become, and on their deeply contradictory nature. Authored by Alexandru Petru Bădeliță – one of the most active presences among the
Romanian filmmakers in BIEFF selections along the years –
I Made You, I Kill You is the disturbing chronicle of the author's childhood, in a true self-exorcising exercise.
Wednesday and Friday will bring the competition programme
You Are Another Me, which also gives the name of this BIEFF edition's theme. The
films included in this section are investigating the frontier notion and dissolve the barriers standing in the way of understanding the Other's tragedy.
On Thursday, during the 3rd Festival day, from 20:30, at Cinema Elvire Popesco, within the competition programme
Searching for Transcendence the multiple-award-winning film
Limbo will be screened, by Konstantina Kotzamani, presented in international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in the section Semaine de la Critique – a subtle and confident film on growing up, devised as a meditative fable with a biblical resonance.
This year, the jury of BIEFF international competition is made up of: Nora Molitor (representative of Berlinale Forum Expanded and of the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art), Paolo Moretti (member of the selection committee of al FIDMarseille Documentary Film Festival and program advisor for Visions du Réel Nyon) and Boglárka Nagy (responsible for film project at the French Institute in Romania and programmer of Cinema Elvire Popesco, and ever since 2016, member of the Europa Cinemas validation committee).
On Thursday, 30 March, from 18:00, at Cinema Elvire Popesco, the section
Painting With History is scheduled, concentrating upon the role of the film in (re)presenting recent history and including films from the selection of the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Details at:
Bieff.ro
