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Bucharest International Film Festival to start Thursday in Bucharest; eight awarded films in Panorama section

October 16, 2024

The 20th anniversary edition of the Bucharest International Film Festival (BIFF), the only international feature film competition organized in Bucharest, will screen from Thursday to September 29 eight awarded films in the Panorama section, inform the organizers in a press release sent on Tuesday.Conceived as a festival open to art cinema, which encourages newly emerging cinema trends, discovers talents and promotes young filmmakers, the 20th edition will include the following sections: Official Feature Film Competition, Panorama, History and Cinema, Romanian authors, Radu Mihaileanu Retrospective and Philippe Lesage Retrospective. The BIFF anniversary edition will have nine films in competition, respectively eight films in the Panorama section.The "Panorama" section includes films awarded or nominated at the most important film festivals around the world, presented for the first time in Bucharest.In the Panorama section, the following films will be presented: "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" - directed by Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran), "Slow" - directed by Marija Kavtaradze, "Eternal" - directed by Ulaa Salim, "The Master and Margaret" - directed by Michael Lockshin, "My Favorite Cake" - directed by Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, "The Sparrow in the Chimney" - directed by Ramon Zurcher, "Mr. Blake at your Service" - directed by Gilles Legardinier, "Hors du Temps".The honorary president of the BIFF XX anniversary edition is the film critic Irina-Margareta Nistor, and the members of the international BIFF Jury are: the Canadian director and screenwriter Philippe Lesage, the president of the BIFF Jury this year, Paul Cozighian, French-Romanian independent director and journalist, the actress Ana Ularu, the director, screenwriter and actor Valeriu Andriuta and the Lithuanian film producer Marija Razgute.At the Panorama Closing Gala, which will take place at the Muzeul Taranului Cinema, on September 29, starting at 7:30 p.m., the award-winning films from the Competition section will be announced. Also at this Gala, the French director, of Romanian origin, Radu Mihaileanu, the special guest of the 20th edition of the Festival, will receive the Award for Excellence.The films that will bear the imprint of BIFF will run this year in four spaces - Cinema Muzeul Taranului, Cinema Union, CREART - Gradina cu filme and Cinemateca Eforie.    

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