midnight specials

7 SEPT | 10.0OPM - 11.15PM

DESCHIS GASTROBAR

Free admission

Table reservation: 0753 372 447
(in addition, blankets will be available during the screening, based on the order of arrival)

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.

Cold Storage
Best Film - FIVER (ES)

8:45’, 2016, FI
D: Thomas Freundlich
C: Valtteri Raekallio

When a lonely ice fisherman discovers his frozen prehistoric soulmate in the ice, multiple levels of time and reality blend together into a cinematic and kinetic exploration of alienation, dependency and friendship.

CO-PRESENTED BY FIVER FESTIVAL

Lines

1:46’, 2016, IN
D & C: Nikita Maheshwary

The film delves into the multi-pronged issue of drug abuse in Punjab, India. The state bordering Pakistan is besieged with social, political, geographical & emotional recuperation of the drug trafficking leading to an alarming rate of youth addiction and deaths.

CO-PRESENTED BY POOL INTERNATIONALES TANZFILMFESTIVAL BERLIN

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One Floor Above Sing Until Someone Swims with Dolphins

12:45’, 2016, RU
D & C: Vik Laschenov

My heroes work in large corporations, buy food in the shops, have dinner at cafe and restaurants. They are successful, sleek, provided, but a little bit unhappy. They are trying to find themselves and unconsciously seek to the nature.

CO-PRESENTED BY POOL INTERNATIONALES TANZFILMFESTIVAL BERLIN

Wind Telephone

06:20’, 2016, USA
D: Joe Stillwater
C: Nicole Klaymoon

Playful, emotional and at times dark, The Wind Telephone is a dance film about girl-child Micah, who has built a spectrum of imaginary friends to replace her parents.

CO-PRESENTED BY SAN FRANCISCO DANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Ravages

14:00’, 2015, CA
D: Alan Lake
C: Alan Lake & Complicité Des Bailarinas

Ravages tells a kind of abstract narrative, inviting the viewer to dive into the raw and fragile world of a symbolic epic where the human confronts what is perishable or unchangeable.