THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS NOW OPEN

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (September 6th - 9th, 2018) invites directors, choreographers and artists to submit their dance films to the fourth edition of BIDFF.

[re]tracing - THE THEME OF THE 2018'S EDITION

This year's festival theme is [re] tracing, paying attention to the leftovers the time has carved through the lives of individuals and communities. Intimate personal stories, different means of archiving collective memories and speculations of a future life, can provide a context of [re] positioning of “the one” against “the many”, willingly altering the so called general accepted truth. All of these manifestations and many others leave traces in the body, erasing and [re] writing meanings with the speed of light. [Re] living the reality can generate a new fictional “state of truth”, one that can link together different temporalities and emotional levels, confusing the psychological and the chronological. Will the counter positioning of the one against the history of many really generate a creative conflict, one that can [re] frame repressed historical realities or [re] define uncertain present facts?

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The competition is open for short dance films (fiction, documentaries and animations) around the world, with a prize pool of 3000 euro. BIDFF is looking for cutting edge dance films with a transparent and sometimes coded meaning, challenging the viewer to a playful exchange of information about social life, politics, extreme emotions, out of the ordinary places and oddly beautiful dance aesthetics. BIDFF encourages syncretism and dialogue between movement and the diverse forms of cinema from the most traditional to experimental. 

• Shorts of maximum 20 minutes will be accepted and should be produced in the last 2 years.
• A minimum quality of Full HD (1920 x 1080) is required for the exhibition copies.
• You can submit a maximum of 2 films. Both can be taken into consideration.
• Films submitted to previous editions of the festival will not be taken into consideration.
• You can submit also documentaries and features, as they can be screened as part of different theme based selections, off competition. 
• Three movies shall be awarded by a professional jury appointed by the organizers. The jury members will be made public prior the festival, after the official selection will be published. 

SUBMISSION FORM

To submit your films to the festival please fill in the form:: https://form.jotformeu.com/81307694915363

DEADLINE

10th of July 2018

BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL '17

THE AGE OF THE STRANGE

The ever more troubling context of a world in crisis makes us question the authenticity of our everyday life. Contradiction and fragility become thus vectors in our daily trajectory. The Age of the Strange is the concept under which the festival gathers a series of events that propose a return to the natural, seeking for “techno-surrealist” forms of expression. This edition we build a bridge between an uncertain past and a probable future.

SIMONA DEACONESCU - artistic director

THE DANCER - BIDFF'17 OPENING 

7 sept | 7PM - 9PM

@ elvira popescu cinema

feature film, 108', 2016 (FR)

Born in the American Midwest, nothing in her background destined farm girl Loïe Fuller to become the toast of Europe’s Belle Epoque cabarets, even less to dance at the Paris Opera.

Hidden behind metres of silk, her arms extended by long wooden rods, Loïe reinvents her body on stage and enthralls her audiences a little more every night with her revolutionary Serpentine dance.

MIDNIGHT SPECIALS  

7 SEPT | 10.00PM - 11.15PM

@ DESCHIS GASTROBAR 

shorts from five top international film festivals

In the opening night of the festival, BIDFF connects with the international circuit of dance film festivals through Midnight Specials, an exquisite selection of 8 shorts, co-presented by 5 of the most popular festivals in Europe, USA and South America.

free admission

masterclass Tomer Heymann  

8 sept | 1PM - 5PM

@ GALLERY

Between Cinema and Dance; Between Documentary and Fiction

In this documentary workshop  – Masterclass with the Creator of MR. GAGA about Dreams and Dignity, Heymann shares the complex artistic choices he made while filming and editing the film, the connection (mostly in the director’s mind) between Naharin’s personal biography and his dance creations that are interwoven in it, the link between art, politics and freedom of speech, and the reasons that made him reopen the film three times after it had already been screened in public and the production phase seemed to be over.

ALEX MIRUTZIU

8 sept

NO BLOOD BANK INCLUDED opening (SOLO EXHIBITION) | 7pm - 10pm

DIGNITY to THE UNSAID (PERFORMANCE) | 8.00pm - 8.30pm

@NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

exhibition visiting dates/hours: 9-10 SEPT, 12PM-8PM

NATIONAL COMPETITION

8 SEPT | 9.00pm - 9.40pM

@ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

For the first time BIDFF presents a competition dedicated exclusively to the Romanian dance films. 7 shorts have been selected to be part of the competition as they have an experimental approach to either dance or film, bringing to light the creative strength of the Romanian industry and its diversity. The films explore the body-space relationship, different perspectives on the concept of cohabitation and choreographies of the senses.

¿HASTA DÓNDE…? 

9 SEPT | 3.00PM - 3.30pm

@ CAROL PARK, AT THE BASE OF THE MAUSOLEUM

a performance by the Sharon Fridman Dance Company (Spain), 20'

Hasta dónde...? is a contemporary dance duet based on the technique of contact. Rendered to the drift of the body, we began to abandon that which prevented us from being. 

“A gem of intensity and nuances, a lack of love towards chaos duo. ” — Roger SALAS, El País, June 20, 2012

FREE ADMISSION

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

9 SEPT 

I: 6.30pm - 8.00pm

II: 8.30pm - 10.00PM

@ELVIRA POPESCU CINEMA

20 films from 14 countries, selected from over 300 applications

Q&A with some of the creators of the films in the competition

awards

HONORABLE MENTIONS

JURY

festival venues & locations

CINEMA ELVIRA POPESCU

dacia BVD.77

MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art

Palace of the Parliament wing E4, Izvor St. 2-4

National Centre for Dance bucharest

Marasesti BVD. 80-82

DESCHIS Gastrobar

sPLAIUL UNIRII 160

POINT CULTURAL HUB

GENERAL EREMIA GRIGORESCU ST. 10

GALLERY

LEONIDA ST. 9-11

CAROL PARK

at the base of the mausoleum, general candiano popescu st. 105

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival 2017 is a cultural project produced by Tangaj Dance Association, funded by The Bucharest Municipality through ARCUB - in the frame of the Cultural Program "Bucharest Participatory City", co-financed by AFCN - The Administration of The National Cultural Fund, with the support of the Romanian National Film Center and the Romanian Cultural Institute.The project does not necessarily represent the position of The Administration of The National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for the way the results of the project can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the financing beneficiary. 
Partners: Elvira Popescu Cinema (the French Institute in Romania), The National Centre for Dance Bucharest, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Embassy of Israel in Romania, the Embassy of Spain in Bucharest, POINT Cultural Hub, Gallery, FranceDanse Orient-Express, Tiriac Auto, Colorgrade, Crama Histria, Brigada de Voluntari.
With the media support of: NEWS.ro / Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Music Channel, Scena9, Arte și meserii, Ziarul Metropolis, Cinemagia, Cinefan.ro, All About Romanian Cinema, DinFilme.ro

BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL '16

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (BIDFF) is the only Romanian festival dedicated to the dance film. Last year we had our succesfull debut with a 54 dance films marathon from all over the world, of whom we awarded 4 short films that challenged the limits of the genre and that intrigued the jury. The second edition of the festival brings to Bucharest the two most awarded documentary dance films:  Mr. Gaga (d: Tomer Heymann), which captures the internal laboratory of on of the most important contemporary choreographers - Ohad Naharin, alongside with his company, Batsheva Dance Company and Rare Birds (d: T.M. Rives) which captures the backstage of one of the most daring stagings of A Swan Lake, directed by Alexander Ekman, at the Norvegian National Opera House from Oslo.

Among the international guests of the festival there are: the renowned austrian choreographer Chris Haring, awarded with the Golden Lion in the frame of Biennale di Venezia, the multimedia artist Claudia Hart (SUA), the directors Samuel Retortillo, Alex Pachon (Spania) and T.M. Rives (SUA). The showcase of the festival has its opening on the 9th of November with an international conference - Intermedia Body - a concept developed by Mihaela Kavdanska, an event co-organized by Platforma Avmotional with the participation of the multimedia artists Antoni Rayzhekov and Gerhard Funk from Austria, alongside with romanian artists like: Catalin Cretu, Cinty Ionescu, Raluca Nestor Oancea, Cristian Iordache and Simona Deaconescu. Besides the competing and non-competing, this year BIDFF organizes at the Galateca Gallery the international Digital Body Exhibition. 

 timetable bidff'16

awards

SPECIAL MENTIONS

BIDFF (Bucharest International Dance Film Festival) is produced by Tangaj Dance Association and financed by AFCN - The Administration of The National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of The Administration of The National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for the way the results of the project can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the financing beneficiary. BIDFF is a cultural project financed in the frame of The Cultural Program “Bucharest - The In-Visible City” by ARCUB – The Cultural Centre of Bucharest Municipality and The Bucharest Municipality. The hosts and partners of the festival are The National Centre for Dance Bucharest, The National University of Music Bucharest - Electroacoustic music and multimedia center, Galateca Gallery, the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest, Control Club. The project is supported by The Romanian Cultural Institute, The Austrian Cultural Forum (The Austrian Embassy in Bucharest), the Embassy of Israel in Romania and the Embassy of Spain in Romania. The co-organizer of Intermedia Body is the Avmotional Association.

TEAM

Artistic Director
Simona Deaconescu
 
Festival Manager
Anamaria Antoci

International Relations
Irena Isbasescu
 
Production Manager
Emilia Paunescu
 
Project Assistant
Edith Alibec  
 
PR & Marketing
Catalin Anchidin
 
Online communication
Emilia Cazan
 
Technical Manager
Andrei Dascalescu
 
Graphic Design
Sergiu Lupse
 
Video Editor
Alex Catalin Gheorghe
 
Pre-selection
Gabriela Filippi
 
Financial Manager
Andreea Tudor
 
Translations
Ligia Soare
 
Subtitles
Andrei Harabagiu

CONTACT

E-mail: 
tangajdance@gmail.com
contact@bidff.ro

Telefon / Phone: 
+40 741 113 365
+40 740 155 602