2017 Special Acknowledgments to all the directors, producers and distributors whose films are screened in BIEFF 2017 and to the following persons and institutions: THEME PROGRAMS 6 Concept 64 ARSENAL INSTITUT FOR FILM AND VIDEO ART AND Alessandro Raja – Festival Scope Emanuela Cuciuc-Nacu – Agercont Matt Carter – LUX Artists’ Moving Image BERLINALE FORUM Alina Cantacuzino – Cervantes Institute Emil Truță – Journey Pub Miguel Dias – Agência da Curta Metragem Alexander Nanau – Film Monitor Association Eric Poppe – Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Miguel Valverde – Portugal Film & IndieLisboa 8 Festival Board EXPANDED: NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE Alexandre Peyre-Dutrey – Embassy of Sweden in Bucharest Delegation International Independent Film Festival Bucharest Evelin Hust – Goethe-Institut Bucharest Mihai Chirilov – Transilvania International Film 10 Festival Team 70 ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL: PAINTING WITH HISTORY Adina-Ioana Șuteu – French Institute Bucharest Ezio Peraro – Italian Cultural Institute Festival Ana Mișu – Hotel Venezia François Bonenfant – Le Fresnoy Studio National Mihai Ciubotariu – Canopy 11 UNATC / UNARTE Presentation 76 CINEDANS AMSTERDAM: EMOTIONAL BODIES Anca Brezeanu – Sky Tour des Arts Contemporains Mihai Crăiță – Eventbook Anca Damian – Film Monitor Association Gabriela Albu – Peasant’s Museum Cinema Mihai Leontescu – Embassy of Sweden in Anca Mitran – Romanian National Film Center Gabriela Dobre – Wallonie-Bruxelles Bucharest 12 Partner Festivals 84 GOLDEN SHORTS: BEST FILMS IN MAJOR FESTIVALS Andra Bellu – SCPA Pârvu și Asociații International, Bucharest Delegation Mihai Orășanu – MDV Film Andreea Chindriș – Romanian Ministry of Culture Gabriela Petre – Italian Cultural Institute Mihály Zoltán Nagy – Romanian Cultural Institute 19 International Competition Jury Andreea Tincea – Journey Pub Hilke Doering – Oberhausen International Short Natalia Andronachi – Austrian Cultural Forum SIDE EVENTS Andrei Lixandru – Eventbook Film Festival Natalia Trebik – Le Fresnoy Studio National des Andrei Rus – Film Menu Ioana Diaconu – MUBI Romania Arts Contemporains 20 Opening Gala 90 Panel: The Lifespan of Cinematic Experimentation - Festival Angelika Ramlow – Arsenal Institute for Film and Ioana Dragomirescu – Le Pacte Nicolae Mandea – UNATC National University of Strategies and Beyond / BIEFF on MUBI Video Art Ioana Nastea – Agercont Theatre and Film Bucharest 22 Closing Gala Anca Pandrea – Lente & Șotron Ioana Turcu – Eventbook Nora Molitor – Berlinale Forum Expanded Anna Abrahams – EYE Film Institute Netherlands Irina Cios – Administration of the National Oana Iancu – Film Monitor Association Bianca Oana – Manekino Film Cultural Fund Paolo Moretti – Festival of Documentary Film INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Brigitta Burger-Utzer – Sixpackfilm Irina Petrescu – French Institute Bucharest FIDMarseille Boglarka Nagy – French Institute Bucharest Jonathan Pouthier – Centre Pompidou Pauline Ginot – Autour de Minuit 24 THE POLITICS OF THE BODY Camelia Ciucă – Romanian National Film Center Joost Daamen – IDFA International Documentary Peter Greenaway International Competition I Carmen Constantin – Administration of the Film Festival Amsterdam Peter van Hoof – International Film Festival National Cultural Fund Juhani Alanen – Tampere International Short Film Rotterdam Carmen Niculescu – Canopy Festival Radu Boroianu – Romanian Cultural Institute 34 SEARCHING FOR TRANSCENDENCE Carmen Stejeroiu – Romanian National Film Jukka Pekka Laasko – Tampere International Rémi Bonhomme – Semaine de la Critique, INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION II Center Short Film Festival Cannes Film Festival Carsten Spicher – Oberhausen International Lars Henrik Gass – Oberhausen International Roxana Trestioreanu – UNARTE National 42 YOU ARE ANOTHER ME Short Film Festival Short Film Festival University of Arts Bucharest Caroline Seebregts – Embassy of the Kingdom of Laura Abrihan – Peggy Production Salette Ramalho – Agência da Curta Metragem INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION III the Netherlands Laurențiu Brătan – Anim’est International Sergi Steegmann – The Match Factory Călin Dan – MNAC Bucharest Animation Film Festival Simona Pop – Embassy of Sweden Baucharest 50 THE ALCHEMY OF THE FRAME Cătălin Bălescu – UNARTE National University of Laurențiu Damian – Romanian Filmmakers’ Union Stefanie Schulte Strathaus – Berlinale Forum INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IV Arts Bucharest Liliana Costa – Agência da Curta Metragem Expanded Christoph Terhechte – Berlinale Forum Liliana Ciurea – Embassy of Switzerland in Ștefan Bradea – Transilvania Film Christophe Gigaudaut – French Institute Romania Ștefana Mărmureanu – Romanian Cultural 58 CUTTING THE CORD Bucharest Liliana Passima – National Museum of the Institute INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION V Christophe Leparc – Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Romanian Peasant Thania Dimitrakopoulou – The Match Factory Cannes Film Festival Lisa Linde Nieveld – EYE Film Institute Theo Pârvu – SCPA Pârvu și Asociații Claudia Tocilă – Aqua Carpatica Netherlands Theo Tsappos – Swedish Film Institute Claudiu Sfirschi-Lăudat – Greek Cultural Lucian Pricop – Romanian Filmmakers’ Union Theus Zwakhals – LIMA Amsterdam Foundation Lucie Guérin – French Institute Bucharest Toril Simonsen – Norwegian Film Institute Cornelia Popa – Cinelab Romania Marina Neacșu – Goethe-Institut Bucharest Tudor Ciortea – NouMax Cristian Ignat – Canopy Marion Poeth – Cinedans Dance on Screen Ulrich Ziemons – Berlinale Forum Expanded Cristina Niculae – Peggy Production Festival Amsterdam Urs Herren - Embassy of Switzerland in Romania Daniel Mareș – Lente & Șotron Martijn te Pas – IDFA International Documentary Valentina Mușa – Administration of the National Dietmar Schwärzler – Sixpack Film Film Festival Amsterdam Cultural Fund Edith van der Heijde – EYE Film Institute Martin Scheuring – German Films Vesa Puhakka – AV-arkki Netherlands Martine Dekker – Cinedans Dance On Screen Yvonne Irimescu – NexT International Short Film Elisabeth Marinkovic – Austrian Cultural Forum Festival Amsterdam Festival and to all BIEFF 2017 volunteers. Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF - Concept BIEFF is also honored to collaborate with some of the major international film festivals and institutions in the area Copel Moscu, Festival Director of avant-garde cinema and visual art, Moreover, BIEFF has started in 2010 a wonderful collaboration with one of the leading Adina Pintilie, Artistic Director recognized worldwide for their consistent experimental filmmakers of our time, PETER GREENAWAY. He made an unforgetable creative support of innovative, radical official opening at our festival in 2010 with an impressive Masterclass, addressed Created under the patronage of creative background, BIEFF comes as a filmmaking and visual art: QUINZAINE especially wto our core audience, Romanian film and visual art students and professionals; the National University of Theatre and natural complementary reaction, its main DES RÉALISATEURS - Cannes Film Festival, and in 2011 he brought his groundbreaking LIVE CINEMA VJ PERFORMANCE Film “I.L. Caragiale” and the National goal being to broaden perception, to open BERLINALE Forum Expanded - Berlin LUPERCYCLOPEDIA, a highly innovative audio-visual experiment, intended to challenge University of Arts Bucharest, with the a whole new artistic territory, both for International Film Festival, ARSENAL the borders of filmic language and offer the audience a totally new cinematic experience, support of the Administration of the the general and the specialized audience, Institute for Film and Video Art Berlin, performance which was immensely successful all over the world. National Cultural Fund and the Romanian particularly for film and visual art students International Film Festival ROTTERDAM, National Cinema Center, BUCHAREST and professionals. Le FRESNOY – Studio National des Starting with 2012, PETER GREENAWAY has become the HONORARY PRESIDENT of INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM Arts Contemporains, CINEDANS - the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF, generously joining us in our FESTIVAL BIEFF has as its main focus the Therefore we present films which Dance on Screen Festival Amsterdam, educational initiative. PETER GREENAWAY is one of the key voices of contemporary avant- courage to experiment in cinematic are lessons in cinema, emblematic SIXPACKFILM Austria and EYE Film garde cinema, one of the most ambitious and controversial experimental filmmakers of language. pieces, eye-openers with regard to Institute Netherlands, who bring to our time. Trained as a painter and heavily influenced by theories of structural linguistics, the unlimited possibilities offered by Bucharest a selection of highly innovative ethnography, and philosophy, PETER GREENAWAY’s films often traverse unexplored BIEFF is the first showcase of avant- the cinematic medium, the ways to multi-awarded films from their last year’s territories, rejecting conventional narrative structures in favor of awe-striking garde cinema and visual art in Romania, transcend any possible borders between selections. imagery, constantly testing the limits of the cinematic medium. Regularly nominated a non-commercial event with educational fiction, documentary and visual art, the in prestigious film festivals such as Cannes, Venice and Berlin, he has an impressive purpose, aimed at bringing to the transgression of boundaries on every level As for each of our editions, we are body of work, consisting of 13 feature films and 50 short films and documentaries, plus audience highly innovative films