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It has been a tradition for the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival to stay connected to the most meaningful European film events, and this year is no exception. We are honoured to present yet again our Golden Shorts program dedicated to outstanding cinema pieces that won the most prestigious awards in 2019 and 2020, The Orizzonti Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Pardino d’Oro at Locarno International Film Festival, the Tiger Short Film Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlinale's Golden Bear for Best Short Film, the Principal Prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and the Special Jury Prize Clermont-Ferrand.
Directed by: 
SOETKIN VERSTEGEN
Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop-motion film, identical figures try to perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice, like archivists. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside the blocks.
T
USA
2019
14'
Directed by: 
KEISHA RAE WITHERSPOON
A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami's annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead. “When you do things with your hands, it heals you in places lower than where you cry from,” she says and makes a costume out of crisp bags for her late son. Because he loved crisps. T is a film and a ball and a ceremony for the ones that have been lost and those who have lost someone. It is a manifestation of grief, anger and the spiritual power of creativity. (Berlinale)
BITTERSWEET
India
2019
14'
Directed by: 
SOHRAB HURA
In BITTERSWEET, the director focuses on intimate family life, particularly the relationship between his mother who was diagnosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia and her dog, Elsa. What began as a way to escape his family situation turned into a method of confronting the realities at home. Photographed and filmed over a period of ten years, it is a search for meaning and closure with Hura questioning and discovering the banalities of everyday life at home.
COMMUNICATING VESSELS
Canada
2019
35'
Directed by: 
ANNIE MACDONELL, MÄIDER FORTUNÉ
Based on the works by Dennis Oppenheim, Lygia Clark and Joan Jonas, the film recounts the experience of an experimental film teacher with a female student, interested in performing for the camera. A sweet voice describes and analyzes the result of the exercises, going through a critical history of the beginnings of video performance. Everything becomes more complex when the gestures themselves become a sophisticated metaphor for interpersonal relationships, the teaching of the arts, parenting, alterity and the very act of seeing and …of being. (Ricardo Vieira Lisboa)

 

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