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Open call: International and ROMANIAN SHORT Film CompetitionS 2021

Submission deadlineS: June 25 (regular) and July 16 (late)

BIDFF — Bucharest International Dance Film Festival invites filmmakers, dance artists, animators, visual artists and digital art makers to submit their works for the International and Romanian Short Film Competitions of the festival. The seventh edition of BIDFF will take place September 1—5, 2021, in multiple locations from Bucharest, Romania. BIDFF encourages syncretism and dialogue between movement and diverse forms of cinema and visual art, from the more traditional ones to experimental or virtual reality works. Besides film screenings, the festival also presents panels, exhibitions, public presentations and film production labs.

Through the theme of "Potential Worlds," the seventh edition of BIDFF calls on artists and audiences alike to imagine the future of art as a dynamic ecosystem that incorporates new elements and mutations. Starting this year, the festival widens its programming by presenting futuristic hybrid works. We are looking for daring cinematic works in which the body relates to technology, ecology, and new socio-political discourses. BIDFF also addresses recent video-art formats and animations that question the relation between solid artistic content and the fast process of digitization. The curatorial approach goes towards trying to decipher, transform and shape these ideas.

BIDFF is a platform for exquisite films that use movement as their main language or the body as their main subject. Faced with the camera lenses, the body becomes the main focus of cutting-edge arthouse films with a sometimes transparent, sometimes coded meaning, but always challenging the viewer to a playful exchange of information about social life, politics, extreme emotions, interesting places and oddly beautiful aesthetics.

BIDFF awards excellence, novelty and courage in filmmaking, with a prize pool of 1500 euro.

HOW TO APPLY

  • The call opens on May 31. The deadlines for submissions are June 25 (regular) and July 16 (late).

  • Each director can submit a maximum of two films in the competition.

  • The films must be submitted through Film Freeway. Before submitting, please check all the fees related to your category and deadline.

All applicants will be informed about the outcome of their submission by August 1, 2021.

RULES & TERMS

The competitional section is dedicated to short films only and is divided into International and Romanian. The board will take into consideration fiction, documentary and animation films that either use movement to explore an idea or speak about issues related to the body and the world of dance and performance. We also highly encourage you to apply if you have a short film that explores the future of art, questioning issues related to the ethics of collaboration, communication, and co-existence.

we are looking for:

  • Short dance films produced in the last two years that do not exceed 20 minutes in length and have a minimum quality of Full HD (1080p), that can be either live action or animation in genres of fiction, documentary or experimental.

we are not looking for:

  • Music videos, trailers or recordings of performances, films already submitted to previous editions of BIDFF, one-minute films, commercials.

WE offer:

  • Money awards for Best International Film and Best Romanian Film.

  • Free entry to all the events of the festival, excluding workshops that require a previous application.