2017 QUINZAINE THEME PROGRAM Special Acknowledgments to all the filmmakers, producers and distributors whose films are screened in BIEFF 2019 and to the following persons and institutions: 2 Concept 62 CAUGHT IN THE FRAME 6 Festival Board Alessandro Raja – Festival Scope Cristian Ignat – Canopy Festival Oberhausen Cannes Film Festival Alexander Nanau – Film Monitor Association Cristiana Tăutu – British Council Romania Laura Abrihan – Peggy Production Roxana Călinescu – Romanian Cultural Institute Alexandru Berceanu – CINETic Cristina Nițu – Fala Português Laurențiu Damian – Romanian Filmmakers’ Union Roxana Garet – Union Cinematheque 8 Festival Team 76GOLDEN SHORTS: BEST FILMS Alina Cantacuzino – Cervantes Institute Cristina Petrea – Manekino Film Liliana Costa – Agência da Curta Metragem Roxana Lăpădat – Austrian Cultural Forum IN MAJOR FESTIVALS Bucharest Daniel Ebner – VIS Vienna Shorts Liliana Ciurea – Embassy of Switzerland in Roxana Trestioreanu – UNARTE National 9 UNATC / UNARTE Presentation 70 GOLDEN SHORTS I Adina-Ioana Șuteu – French Institute Bucharest Daniel Mareș – Lente Romania University of Arts Bucharest Alina Raicu – Embassy of Canada in Romania Daniela Mirodone – Fala Português Virgil Nițulescu – National Museum of the Rozana Mihalache – Green Hours Ana Agopian – CINEPUB Dietmar Schwärzler – Sixpackfilm Austria 10 Partner Festivals 77 GOLDEN SHORTS II Romanian Peasant Salette Ramalho – Agência da Curta Metragem Ana Androne – Embassy of the Kingdom of the Edith van der Heijde – EYE Film Institute Lisa Linde Nieveld – EYE Film Institute Simona Necula – CEREFREA Villa Noël Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Stefanie Schulte Strathaus – Berlinale Forum 17 International Competition Jury Ana Mișu – TH Hotels Elena Belciu – CINETic Loredana Stroe – Embassy of the Republic of Expanded SIDE EVENTS Ana Serafim – Embassy of Canada in Romania Ezio Peraro – Italian Cultural Institute Argentina Ștefana Mărmureanu – Romanian Cultural 18 Opening Gala 82 FOCUS SPAIN: Essayistic Variations in Ana Ungar – TNT Felipe Guillermo Alvarez de Toledo – Embassy of Lucian Pricop – Romanian Filmmakers’ Union Institute Anamaria Antoci – Bucharest International Dance the Republic of Argentina Marian Bârcău – Canopy Tamina Bojoancă – Goethe-Institut Bucharest Contemporary Spanish Filmmaking Film Festival Filipa Henriques – Portugal Film Marina Neacșu – Goethe-Institut Bucharest Theus Zwakhals – LIMA Amsterdam 20 Closing Gala Anamaria Diaconescu – Hellenic-Romanian Florian Vimer – Lokal Markéta Šantrochová – Czech Film Center Thomas Kloiber – Austrian Cultural Forum Bilateral Chamber of Commerce François Bonenfant – Le Fresnoy Studio National Martijn te Pas – IDFA International Documentary Toril Simonsen – Norwegian Film Institute Anca Brezeanu – Sky Tour des Arts Contemporains Film Festival Amsterdam Tudor Ciortea – NouMax INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Anca Mitran – Romanian National Film Center Gabriela Petre – Italian Cultural Institute Martine Dekker – Cinedans Dance On Screen Tytti Rantanen – AV-arkki Anca Pandrea – Lente Gabriela Trandafir – Embassy of Liban in Romania Festival Amsterdam Ulrich Ziemons – Berlinale Forum Expanded 22 LABOR OF LOVE/LABOR OR LOVE Andreea Chindriș - Ministerul Culturii Gabriela Suciu – Asociația Follow Art Matt Carter – LUX Artists’ Moving Image Urs Herren – Embassy of Switzerland in Romania International Competition I Andreea Dumitriu – Eastwards Gala Hernández – LUXBOX Miguel Dias – Curtas Vila do Conde International Valentina Neagu – Administration of the National Andrei Lixandru – Eventbook George Pascaru – Canopy Film Festival Cultural Fund 30 LONGING AND BELONGING Andrei Rus – One World Romania Hajnalka Kerekes – Romanian Ministry of Culture Miguel Valverde – Portugal Film & IndieLisboa Vesa Puhakka – AV-arkki Angelika Ramlow – Arsenal Institute for Film and and National Identity International Film Festival Voicu Rădescu – Green Hours International Competition II Video Art Berlin Hilke Doering – International Short Film Festival Mihaela Drăghici – Fala Português Wouter Jansen – Some Shorts Anna Abrahams – EYE Film Institute Netherlands Oberhausen Mihai Chirilov – Transilvania International Film Yvonne Irimescu – NexT Cultural Society 38 PUBLIC SPACE AND URBAN ANXIETIES Arthur den Hartog – Embassy of the Kingdom of Ioana Biriș – Eastwards Festival and to all BIEFF 2019 media partners, International Competition III the Netherlands Ioana Diaconu – Bucharest Fashion Film Festival Mihai Crăiță – Eventbook Bianca Lucas – Sarajevo Film Festival Ioana Dragomirescu – French Institute Bucharest Mihai Olaru – Nikon volunteers and other festival friends. Bianca Oana – Manekino Film Ioana Turcu – Eventbook Mihai Orășanu – MDV Film 46 THE HUMAN FLOW: HOME Brigitta Burger-Utzer – Sixpackfilm Austria Ionuț Drăghicean – BDG Mirona Radu – Peasant Museum Cinema IN THE AGE OF DISPLACEMENT Camelia Ciucă – Romanian National Film Center Irina Cios – Administration of the National Mirsad Purivatra – Sarajevo Film Festival International Competition IV Carmen Constantin – Administration of the Cultural Fund Monica Anita – TNT National Cultural Fund Irina Petrescu – French Institute Bucharest Natalia Andronachi – Austrian Cultural Forum Carmen Grigoraș – Embassy of Finland in Isabella Alexandrescu – US Embassy Romania Natalia Trebik – Le Fresnoy Studio National des 54 HEALING VOICES: Romania Jenniffer Corrales – Romanian Ministry of Culture Arts Contemporains REMEMBRANCE AND REENACTMENT Carmen Stejeroiu – Romanian National Film and National Identity Noni Surugiu-Cândea – Point HUB International Competition V Center Jing Haase – Swedish Film Institute Nicolae Mandea – UNATC National University of Carsten Spicher – International Short Film Johannes Klein – The Festival Agency Theatre and Film Bucharest Festival Oberhausen Jonathan Pouthier – Centre Pompidou Paolo Moretti – Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Călin Dan – National Museum of Contemporary Joost Daamen – IDFA International Documentary Cannes Film Festival Art MNAC Bucharest Film Festival Amsterdam Pavla Kallistova – ATHANOR Cătălin Bălescu – UNARTE National University of Juan José Felix – Embassy of the Republic of Peter Greenaway Arts Bucharest Argentina Peter van Hoof – International Film Festival Christophe Leparc – Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Juhani Alanen – Tampere International Short Film Rotterdam Cannes Film Festival Festival Raluca Ganea – ARCUB Claudiu Sfirschi-Lăudat – Greek Cultural Jukka-Pekka Laakso – Tampere International Rana Mokaddem – Embassy of Lebanon in Foundation Short Film Festival Romania Corina Burlacu – Eastwards Kevin Hamilton - Embassy of Canada in Romania Răzvan Bucur – ZeList Monitor Cornelia Popa – Cinelab Romania Lars Henrik Gass – International Short Film Rémi Bonhomme – Semaine de la Critique, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF - Concept Starting with 2012, PETER GREENAWAY has become the HONORARY PRESIDENT of the Bucharest International Copel Moscu, Festival Director Experimental Film Festival BIEFF, Adina Pintilie, Artistic Director generously joining us in our educational initiative. PETER GREENAWAY is one Created under the patronage of the being to broaden perception, to open a BIEFF presents on one side an As for each of our editions, we are of the key voices of contemporary work of Alexander Sokurov, his impressive National University of Theatre and Film whole new artistic territory, both for the INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT honored to welcome in our International avant-garde cinema, one of the most FAUST, winner of the Golden Lion in “I.L. Caragiale” and the National University general and the specialized audience, FILM COMPETITION, consisting of some of Competition Jury prestigious films ambitious and controversial experimental Venice 2011. In 2012, BIEFF presented the of Arts Bucharest, with the support of the particularly for film and visual art students the most intriguing and innovative visual professionals: MORGAN POKÉE filmmakers of our time. Trained as a Romanian premiere of Peter Greenaway’s Administration of the National Cultural and professionals. experiments from the last few years, painter and heavily influenced by theories impressive latest feature, GOLTZIUS AND Fund and the Romanian National Film titles awarded and screened in prestigious Programmer, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs - of structural linguistics, ethnography, and THE PELICAN COMPANY, while in 2013 Center, BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL Therefore we present films which festivals, museums and galleries all over Cannes Film Festival; FLORIAN WEGHORN philosophy, PETER GREENAWAY’s films the film to open the festival was Terry EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL BIEFF are lessons in cinema, emblematic the world, such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Program manager, Berlinale Talents - often traverse unexplored territories, Gilliam’s most recent feature, THE ZERO has as its main focus the courage to pieces, eye-openers with regard to Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Toronto, Centre Berlin International Film Festival; IOANA rejecting conventional narrative THEOREM. In 2014, BIEFF opened with experiment in cinematic language. the unlimited possibilities offered by Pompidou etc. DRAGOMIRESCU, Head of Programming structures in favor of awe-striking the Golden Lion winner from that year, the cinematic medium, the ways to for Elvire Popesco Cinema in Bucharest, co- imagery, constantly testing the limits Roy Andersson’s A PIGEON SAT ON A BIEFF is the first showcase of avant-garde transcend any possible borders between programmer for the French Film Festival. of the cinematic