FILM REVIEW

short film

FILM REVIEW

short film

BFA

FOR FILMS IN CHARGE OF CHANGE

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Str. Negustori 26, Sector 2, 030167, Bucharest

January 27 - 29 - BFA Winter Official Screenings

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27

19.00 - Short Film Marathon

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THE TRAIL

Directed by Elke Brugger

Runtime: 34 minutes
Release date: June 1, 2015
Country: Germany, Austria
Category: Drama, Student Film

Synopsis: Rainer and Sarah want to start their lives over together. All they have to do is fake their disappearance while hiking a nearby mountain. What will happen when their seemingly perfect plan faces some complications?

Directed by YUDHAJIT BASU & PRITHVIJOY GANGULY

Runtime: 18 minutes 49 seconds
Release date: March 1, 2016
Country: India
Category: Drama

Synopsis: 'The Search' tells the story of a few hours in the life of two Bhutia kids in the midst of a revolution for a new state in the hills of Kurseong.

237 YEARS

Directed by Ioana Mischie

Runtime: 23 minutes
Release date: November 1, 2015
Country: Romania
Category: Comedy

Synopsis: A remote village succeeds to find an intriguingly charming way to survive in a globalized world. In a remote Romanian village, panic breaks out when a community of villagers, all of whom have been receiving additional financial aid for fraudulently claiming to have disabilities, is close to being unmasked by a local inquiry team.

SOMNOLENCE

Directed by Daniel Mattiasson

Runtime: 19 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: March 29, 2016
Country: Sweden
Category: Experimental, Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The film takes part in two separate worlds: One where Eric is sheltered with his father from a storm and the other where he gets closer and closer to a woman. Almost as a detective, Eric moves between the worlds to find out the truth. As the story progresses Eric starts to question the reality.

ROUTINE

Directed by David Sherbrook

Runtime: 13 minutes 2 seconds
Release date: June 16, 2016
Country: United States
Category: Sci-Fi, Thriller

Synopsis: Light years from Earth, floating aimlessly in space, Flight Engineer Matthew Spencer and his crew battle isolation and despair aboard a failing escape pod. Spencer struggles to fight against not only his imminent demise, but the demons inside of him that are beginning to take hold of his sanity.

EVENTIDE

Directed by Muriel Paraboni

Runtime: 20 minutes
Release date: July 1, 2016
Country: Brazil
Category: Experimental

Synopsis: A man and a woman relive moments of their lives transfigured on the landscape of a beach. Past, present and future merge in the cadence of the waters, which come and go revolving memories and old silences.

PAPAVERI E PAPERE

Directed by Adelaide Dante De Fino

Runtime: 24 minutes 5 seconds
Release date: December 15, 2015
Country: Italy
Category: Drama

Synopsis:1952, De Gasperi visits Sassi di Matera, the ancient part of Matera city. The town is bubbling with energy. Two rival families are getting ready for the most important singing competition of the year.

KAYAYO

Directed by Mari Bakke Riise

Runtime: 30 minutes
Release date: September 15, 2016
Country: Norway/Ghana
Category: Documentary

Synopsis: Kayayo means “girl-carrier” in the Ga language.
In the capital of Ghana, 10 000 girls from the ages of 6 work as real life shopping baskets - called Kayayo, carrying heavy loads on their head (from 130 to 220 pounds), earning very little and some end up in prostitution to make ends meet so they will get enough money to support their family.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28

15.00 - Screenwriting Workshop

with PhD Screenwriting Lecturer Mr. Tudor Voican

Tudor Voican is a lecturer of screenwriting at UNATC. He is a screenwriter and producer known for multi-awarded short and feature films as Mihai and Cristina, C Block Story, Marilena from P7, California dreamin’, Bless you, prison, Medal of Honor and Outbound. Mr. Voican worked as a journalist, he sold original concepts, wrote and supervised multiple TV series and also he developed dozens of advertising campaigns for local international and independent agencies. He holds an MFA Screenwriting from York University and a PhD from UNATC.

19.00 - Short Film Marathon

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THE WHOLE WORLD

Directed by Julián Quintanilla

Runtime: 29 minutes 53 seconds
Release date: October 3, 2016
Country: Spain
Category: Drama

Synopsis: As he does every year, Julián visits his dead mother in the village cemetery. She appears to him and they make plans... more or less 'together': she devises them and he obeys.

TABULA RASA

Directed by Sándor Csoma

Runtime: 29 minutes 47 seconds
Release date: January 1, 2016
Country: Hungary/Romania
Category: Drama, Student Film

Synopsis: A coming-of-age story from Transylvania in 1990. The dictator is dead. Thirteen year old Emma and Abel fall in love, but their parents' past harbours a dark secret. The mystery is reveald by an old typewriter and one question remains: who is able to forgive?

TAMARA, ECHELON

Directed by Kristina Cepraga

Runtime: 29 minutes
Release date: March 5, 2015
Country: Romania
Category: Black Comedy

ABMERGRIS

Directed by Sam Collins

Runtime: 23 minutes 30 seconds
Release date: March 1, 2016
Country: Australia
Category: Drama

Synopsis: 1850s South Australia. Two men meet for the first time. One has a proposition, both have ambition. They strike a deal to journey into the outback in search of riches. Dependent on one another for survival, they are pushed to their limits by the unforgiving landscape.

CSÁNGÓ

Directed by Wouter Hoek

Runtime: 20 minutes
Release date: June 1, 2016
Country: Netherlands, Romania
Category: Documentary

Synopsis: In a remote valley in Transylvania there is a community (Csángó) which presently maintains medieval traditions. These unique traditions are still practiced but because of urbanisation and a loss of interest amongst the younger generation, they are likely to die out.

O THE MOVIE

Directed by Frank Aron Gårdsø

Runtime: 29 minutes
Release date: April 10, 2015
Country: Norway
Category: Horror

Synopsis: Four friends are on a hiking trip into the deep midst of a forest. While filming the trip they accidentally lose one of their cell phones. In search of the lost phone they discover a mysterious black hole in the ground. Curious and puzzled by this newly discovered hole, they decide to explore it, which leads to a dramatic chain of events.

NOT WAVING

Directed by Freya Billington

Runtime: 10 minutes 30 seconds
Release date: March 2, 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Category: Experimental

Synopsis: Struggling psychiatric nurse Joe, impulsively absconds to the seaside with Archie, his deeply haunted, elderly patient
Intending to re-engage him with real life, the memories he stirs up for Archie however, are not happy ones as the truth of the past resurfaces.

WELCOME

Directed by JAVIER FESSER

Runtime: 27 minutes 39 seconds
Release date: September 19, 2014
Country: Spain, Peru
Category: Drama

Synopsis: An amazing innovation reaches a tiny school lost in the heart of the Peruvian Andes and revolutionizes the lives of the whole community: the internet. It brings the world to their doorstep, but even more importantly, it offers the world the chance to finally discover what's happening in the remote village of Ingatambo

THE PERFECT DAY

Directed by Ignacio Redondo

Runtime: 11 minutes 43 seconds
Release date: July 15, 2016
Country: Spain
Category: Comedy

Synopsis: It's the most important day in David's life. He has a $10.000.000 deal with a Japanese Holding and it's all or nothing today.
Everything seems to turn out perfectly well, until...

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 29

19.00 - Special Shorts Screening

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GLIMMERS

Directed by Marcello Di Trocchio

Runtime: 11 minutes 2 seconds
Release date: October 23, 2016
Country: Italy
Category: Drama

Synopsis: Glimmers narrates an high-class party, made of stereotypes and empty words, seen with the eyes of a timid and silent girl.

THE LAST CUT

Directed by Tamino Parren

Runtime:30 minutes
Release date: August 1, 2016
Country: Netherlands
Category: Documentary

Synopsis: Carel Eilers (77), started his career as a projectionist in the Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam. He now works in the local cinema. In 2012 the analog projector will be replaced by a digital projector and Carel is forced to isolate himself from his old profession. Five years later he decides to say goodbye to his passion for good.

THE HOUSE OF ASTERION

Directed by Juri Händelsson

Runtime: 23 minutes 39 seconds
Release date: October 30, 2016
Country: Italy
Category: Experimental

Synopsis: A doctor visits an ancient castel with the intention to save a hermit imprisoned there surrounded by high walls and possessed by mental illness.

#WHOWEKILL

Directed by Pavel Ivanov

Runtime: 8 minutes
Release date: July 20, 2016
Country: Russia
Category: Experimental, Comedy

Synopsis: Everybody has freedom. Everything is available.
Say and do whatever you want but be ready to stand by your actions and to make sure they follow your words.

BITCH, POPCORN & BLOOD

Directed by Fabio Soares

Runtime: 16 minutes
Release date: November 11, 2014
Country: France
Category: Thriller, Black Comedy

Synopsis: At Salt’ n Sugar, a popcorn bar in the middle of nowhere, LILY a bored waitress, is goingto turn her life around when two fishy strangers show up in the bar.

STY

Directed by Árpád Hermán

Runtime: 16 minutes
Release date: 10 minutes 25 seconds
Country: Hungary
Category: Drama

Synopsis: The deadbeat Endre tried to earn money as pig sticker. The morning, when an old peasant asked him to kill his fat stock, subverted his life a lot.

THE POSTMAN

Directed by Francis Lau

Runtime: 15 minutes 54 seconds
Release date: August 22, 2016
Country: Singapore
Category: Drama, Psychological Thriller

Synopsis: A rogue cop reneges on a drug deal in the hope of seeking redemption and reconciliation with his wife. But he soon finds out the hard way that life sometimes does not offer a second chance.

PITER_BY

Directed by Alex Sobolev

Runtime: 30 minutes 12 seconds
Release date: October 10, 2016
Country: Russia
Category: Drama

Synopsis: The movie about people of Sankt Petersburg.

TWO OLD FOLKS

Directed by Cosmea Spelleken

*Special Screening - Feel The Reel IFF*

Runtime: 11 minutes 15 seconds
Release date: March 31, 2016
Country: Germany
Category: Comedy

Synopsis: The two pensioners Mr. Schmitt and Mr. Fink spend their sunset years by playing boule all day long. After a childish fight both try to find a new hobby their own. A hilarious hunt begins...

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NOT WAVING

Directed by Freya Billington Runtime: 10 minutes 30 seconds Release date: March 2, 2016 Country: United Kingdom Category: Experimental Synopsis: Struggling psychiatric nurse Joe, impulsively absconds to the seaside with Archie, his deeply haunted, elderly patient Intending to re-engage him with real life, the memories he stirs up for Archie however, are not happy ones as the truth of the past resurfaces.