- You are here: Home >
You are here
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF closed on the 14th of December at CinemaPRO, after 5 intense festival days which welcomed an audience of more than 7,000 people to full house screenings and special events.
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF 2014 opened two days ago with a highly anticipated event: the Romanian premiere of the latest feature by the undisputed master of absurd humour, Roy Andersson: A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival 2014. Having been sold out days in advance, the opening gala screening had a full house and was possible thanks to the kind support of Coproduction Office and the Swedish Embassy in Bucharest.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
BIEFF carries on its mission to promote Romanian experimental film and visual art, by presenting the most recent Romanian works both to the local audience and to top professionals of the international film industry. More than just a screening space for these daring experiments, BIEFF has become an international networking platform which facilitates the direct meeting between Romanian artists and these cinema professionals, invited to Bucharest both as members of the BIEFF 2014 International Competition Jury and as representatives of BIEFF Special Programs.
Saturday, December 6, 2014
After last year’s impressive success, the special program dedicated to dance-films returns to Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF, this time through an inspiring partnership with with one of the main European dance-film festivals: CINEDANS – Dance on Screen Festival Amsterdam. Cinema and dance merge in seven charming short films, in which the human body becomes synonymous with emotion, a means of defining one’s own personal identity, of reclaiming the urban space, an expression of love and community.
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Referencing Jung's seminal work Modern Man in Search of a Soul, this theme program is primarily an internal examination, a reflection on the self, on the divine and demonic nature of mortals, of the arts, and, beyond that, a desire to transcend them. There are no limits to the exploration of the soul, and neither to the techniques through which the films in this program were made, starting from experimental documentary, to animation, CGI and motion capture.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Continuing the long-term collaboration with one of its most inspiring partners, the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival Bucharest BIEFF yet again brings QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS to Romanian audiences. Parallel section of Cannes Film Festival created by the French Directors’ Guild during the tumultuous events of May ‘68, QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS took on the mission of creating a breeding ground where the Cannes Film Festival would regularly find its future prestigious auteurs.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
True to its main focus on cinematic experimentation, BIEFF is honoured to launch this year a new educational partnership, with the INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF NEW CINEMA, BERLINALE FORUM in short, the most daring section of BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. The theme program POLITICS VERSUS META-CINEMA: Layered Perspectives on Contemporary Reality offers Romanian film lovers the rare opportunity to watch several thought-provoking and conceptually innovative titles from the BERLINALE FORUM EXPANDED 2014 line-up.
Friday, November 14, 2014
The Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF international competition continues its thematic inquiries, looking at the forces that shape us, give us strength, but also confine us, within the program FAMILY TIES: Love Bonds or Prison Bars? Going beyond the conventional definition of a family, we expand its meaning and explore its nuances and the structures similar to it that govern our lives; any system that nurtures our perception of the world, of ourselves and teaches us the rules of being. We think of our family of relatives, of friends, of beliefs, of social behaviours and sexual roles.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
The prestigious IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam comes back to BIEFF with a deeply moving and insightful theme program: DIARY FILMS: The Intimacy of Politics and the Politics of Intimacy, screened with the kind support of the Rule of Law Program South-East Europe of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
BIEFF 2014 International Competition: Theme Program – URBAN GHOSTS: Between Foreboding and Nostalgia
The BIEFF 2014 International Competition confronts us with the reality of a new human species, Homo Urbanus, and his unexpected and permanently changing faces. The theme program URBAN GHOSTS: Between Foreboding and Nostalgia explores the symptoms of urbanization, the inner tensions of contemporary man: caught between here and there, now and then, between the longing for an idealized past and an uncertain threatening future, estranged from his environment, from others and, ultimately, himself, and yet in a continuous process of recovering and redefining his humanity.