Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2011
Award Winning Films & Jury Statements
BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL AWARD
OUT (2010, Israel, Roee Rosen)
Motivation: The jury awards the BIEFF Prize to a film without compromise: OUT by Roee Rosen. The work combines eroticism and exorcism with political critique, while developing a visual strategy that cannot but touch a sensitive chord with every individual in the audience. Watching OUT is an astonishing and painful experience. In a highly original, artistic language it confronts us with a strong statement against Israel’s right wing politics, by driving out the devil of Israel’s minister of foreign affairs, Lieberman, from a young Israeli woman, in a sexual performance. And, right at the moment the audience seems to get a grip on the film, it bursts out in a puzzling song –full of tradition, sentiment and longing – which brings the viewer in the next unexpected emotional state.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD, offered by KODAK
HOW TO PICK BERRIES (2010, Finland, Elina Talvensaari)
Motivation: The jury decided to give the Award for Best Cinematography to the film “How to pick berries” for the courageous and imaginative way in which the director uses powerful images to show the reality of global economy versus human nature. It is remarkable how the gradation of the visual exercise builds up a powerful mental reaction.This fillm at the border between documentary and science-fiction has a strong imaginative impact
JURY AWARD, offered by ABIS STUDIO
SO DO I (2011, Romania, Vlad Constantin)
Motivation: A student film which displays signs of an approach to storytelling and of a visual sensibility that remind some of the best present European art cinema, with a surprising control over framing, performance, set design and editing, used to challenge common thoughts on human relations and moral values, as well as habits of narrative short film directing. The jury wishes that this special award to SO DO I, involving a substantial postproduction support, will help the director in further developing and refining his skills and vision, and in putting a new name on the map of the vibrant Romanian contemporary film scene.
SPECIAL MENTION
I’M NOT THE ENEMY (2011, Germany, Bjorn Melhus)
Motivation: Alienation, dizziness, hallucination are situations revealed by the symptoms of PTS (post-traumatic stress) in war veterans. Creating several characters (all acted by the director himself as a strong commitment to his own idea) who talk with each other using dialogue lines from Hollywood movies about veterans of war, the director portrays a world of estrangement that gives the spectator the same effective feeling. The jury also appreciates the precise editing and the intelligent use of sound and music.
SPECIAL MENTION
NIGHT FISHING (2011, South Korea, PARKing CHANce)
Motivation: For his cinematographic images produced by a mobile phone and the way a surprising storytelling of a shaman can deal with cultural issues without being exotic. A clear remark also for the acting that emotionally portrays a state of mind and for the unforgettable beginning scene with the band Uhuhboo Project.
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2010
Award Winning Films & Jury Statements
press release, 28.11.2010
The Members of the International Jury would like to congratulate the film festival director Mr. Moscu Copel and all the curators of the program and all the film festival team for setting up an important and innovative event with passion and professionality.
We believe that Events like this one have to be continued and encouraged, to promote in Romania, like everywhere, an exchange of artistic dialogues and creation.
The Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival is giving to the audience the great opportunity to spend some days discovering the new tendencies of cinema and the experimental films heritage.
SPECIAL MENTION
For the never ending and passionate exploration of filmmaking the first special mention goes to Werner Herzog for LA BOHEME, UK.
JURY SPECIAL MENTION
The film puts together fluently all different aspects of art: painting, collage, photography, animation, computer graphic and sound design. The special mention goes to WESTCOAST, Ulu Braun, Germany.
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE ofered by ROMANIA FILM (500 euro)
The prize goes to a person who developed through his experience, in a different and creative way, narrative and experimental expressions.
This prize is for the director of photography George Chiper for 2 films: THE PALM LINES, Romania, and SPACES, Denmark/Romania.
THE THIRD PRIZE offered by JTI (1000 euro)
We award the passion of the author who transforms documentary footage in another cinematic language making us reflect of nature of cinema and in the same time allowing us to be engaged and absorbed by it's inherent power: PLOT POINT, Nicolas Provost, Belgium.
THE SECOND PRIZE offered by KODAK Cinelabs (1000 euro in stock and processing)
With this prize, we want to recognize an emerging voice for their challenging content and means of narrative filmmaking, specially for their exploration in acting. We give the KODAK prize which consists of film stock and developing to OLYMPIA I & II and A HISTORY OF MUTUAL RESPECT, by Gabriel Abrantes & Katie Widloski, Portugal.
THE FIRST PRIZE offered by ARCUB (1500 euro)
This film shows us the ambiguous complexity of the history on many levels in particular the moral and the persistence of memories of the events. The filmmaker allows the viewers to understand the emotion of all participants in a deep and intimate way through a powerful work of sound, editing and research. The prize goes to EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN A CRIMINAL, Jean Gabriel Periot, France.
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