The tenth edition of the 'Bucharest International Dance Film Festival' which will offer art lovers premiere films, dance perfomances and other events will take place from Thursday to Sunday in the capital. The festival program includes over 30 events: four dance films (national premieres), a competition of feature films selected from over 20 countries, a contemporary dance show, guided tours, workshops and an VR exhibition, inform the organisers, in a press release sent on Monday. At the centre of the festival is the BIDFF Films section, with four feature films in which dance, the body or movement play the main roles, presented for the first time on the big screens in Romania:' What the hell happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?'(Cinema Elvire Popesco -Thursday , September 5/6:30, pm);'Body Odyssey'(Cinema Elvire Popescu - Friday, September 6/8:30 p.m.); 'Memories of a burning bodyd' (Cinema Elvire Popoesco 0 Saturday September 7/8:30 p.m.); 'This is Ballroom' (Gradina cu Filme- Cinema & More, Friday, September 6/9 p.m. and Cinema Elvire Popesco - Sunday September 8 /9 p.m.) The International Short Film Competition is divided into four categories: Land of the Unmarked/Land of Fluids Outlines/ Land of Livinfg Frames/Land of the Flickering Bodies. The short films can be watched at the Elvire Popesco Cinema, the Romanian Peasant Museum, the Masca Theatre, the Film Garden, Roaba de Cultura and Apollo 111. BIDFF Expand will include a choreographic piece- 'Les Vagues', a reading performance - Cosmic Chronicles: Body and Gender Mythology' and an artistic installation dedicated to the dancer and choreographer Adina Cezar, conceived by the choreographer and dancer Andreea Novac. As part of BIDFF Exchange, there will be a forum dedicated to the current state and future of dance film in Europe, moderated by Simona Deaconescu, the founder of BIDFF, which will take place at Modul Carturesti, on September 7, starting at 3;00 P.M. During the festival, the BIDFF VR exhibition will be opened, organised in collaboration with /SAC@ MALMAISON which will present works signed by artists present at famous festivals, such as Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. This year's jury is made up of Lucia Carolina de Reinzo ( COORPI vice-president and producer of dance, digital art and dance film), Fu Le (choreographer - Performer- Filmmaker, director of the company Tetrapode, associate artist at Istres Dance House, France) Iztok Kovac (artistic director of the Cultural Center EN KNAP Productions) and Spanski Borcdi, choreographer, pedagogue, creator and internationally renowned dancer in the field of contemporarydance, Slovenia). Special guests, such as Marius Hodea, Ioana Mischie, will each hold a masterclass on VR production, choreographer, dancer Catrinel Catana - dance workshops for children under the care of PlayHood - the Ferentri Association and Lucie Eidenbenz will hold a workshop on dance. Under the theme of this year's edition, Mapping Bodies, the Bucharest International Bucharest International Dance Film Festival will bring together several new events: the screening - retrospective with the short dance films that won during the nine editions of the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, Off Competition screenings, guided tours that connects the participants with spaces in Bucharest where the choreographer Adina Cezar trained, danced and created, as well as the awarding of the BIDFF #10 awards and the screening of the short films that won this year's competition. The program can be consulted both on the festival website and on the event's social media pages. A cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund - AFCN and the Bucharest City Hall through ARCUB within the ' Bucharest 565, Urban Connections' 2024 Program, ' Bucharest International Dance Film Festival' is organised b y the Tangaj Collective Association.
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