Short films awarded at Locarno and Rotterdam screened at BIEFF 2016 opening the gates of subconscious

The Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival-BIEFF, running through March 14^th -10^th, will explore the power of emotions within three new sections: You Run Through My Veins, Journeys into Subconscious, Love Is the Sweetest Experiment.

The winner of the Tiger Award la Rotterdam 2015 along with the most appealing of the festival’s short films will run within You Run Through My Veins section.

“The films within You Run Through My Veins programme are shaping the deeply contradictory nature of our emotional relations, which are feeding us on the other hand, protecting and supporting us during out evolution, while they can also restrict our personal freedom and the natural impulse to explore live through more or less conscious behavior and mind patterns, but deeply rooted in our own psyche,” said Adina Pintilie, the curator of BIEFF selection.

Greetings to the Ancestors, the winner of Tiger Award 2015, directed by Ben Russell is a pattern of psychedelic ethnography which combines the documentary, ethnography and oneiric cinema elements to illustrate the flow of the conscience’s borders.

In Time and Place, a Talk with My Mom, Martijn Veldhoen focuses the camera on his mother’s life story in a unique cinema experiment that recomposes 50 years of her life. Besides the family’s history, we witness the stormy cultural and social changes of the 60s-70s, such as the fight for freedom of expression or the first pornographic prints.

Nine Yuen creates in Raymond a so-called monologue with the artist’s father. The screening results from the unique partnership in Romania with the Rotterdam Festival and is supported by the Netherlands Embassy in Bucharest.

An invitation in the subconscious world

Journeys into Subconscious, the new thematic section of BIEFF, presented with the support of Sweden Embassy and the Austrian Cultural Forum, invites movie fans to a introspection over the profound layers of the mind.

Dear Director by Marcus Lindeen, winner of the Cinema & Gioventù award at Locarno 2015 Festival is a captivating creation talking about the search for identity. In 1980, jazz singer Kazzrie Jaxen realized she is ‘a surviving twin’ while watching From the Life of Marionettes film by Ingmar Bergman.

Freud and Friends by Gabriel Abrantes will be screened at BIEFF one month after its release at Berlinale 2016. Director “Herner Werzog” is reporting from a laboratory, where he goes to study G. Abrantes, who offered to be guinea pig for his scientist girlfriend involved in some experiments to read thoughts.

The Exquisite Corpus directed by Peter Tscherkassky, awarded honorable mention at Cannes’ Quinzaine des Réalisateurs last year, is based on erotic images picked from various sources.

My Mommy, directed by artist FALCK, discloses an empty room, no setting, where two middle age women perform a heartbreaking scene about a child’s abuse.

BIEFF screening at Lente & șotron

Love Is the Sweetest Experiment, a collection of extremely sensitive visions on the various forms of love will be screened at Lente & șotron on Saturday, February 13 at 8 p.m. Venue: 20 Pache Protopescu Boulevard. Free access.

 In the programme:

Mondial 2010, by Roy Dib – Teddy Award at Berlin Festival 2014

Undress Me, by Victor Lindgren – Teddy Award at Berlin Festival 2013

Noah, by Walter Woodman & Patrick Cederberg – Grand Prix at Lab Competition of Clermont-Ferrand Festival 2014

Questions to My Father, by Konrad Mühe – Special Mention at Berlin Festival 2011

You and Me, by Karsten Krause – Prize of the Cinema Jury Oberhausen 2010

Florentina by Eva Pervolovici

BIEFF is supported by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Goethe Institute, Sweden’s Embassy, the French Institute, Cervantes Institute, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, National University of Arts, the National University of Cinema and Theatre Art.

The Romanian Journal is among the media partners of the event.