Also for the first time, the festival gave an award for best sound concept for a film in the International Short Film Competition.

This year, the festival was held under the motto “Vanishing Futures”.

BIEFF is part of the European Network for Film Discourse (THE END) alongside FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival (Slovenia), Vilnius Short Film Festival (Lithuania), Filmfest Dresden (Germany), Vienna Shorts (Austria), Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival (Portugal), and Kortfilmfestival Leuven (Belgium).

The festival is organised by the Manekino Cultural Association, whose board is composed by director Adina Pintilie, producer Bianca Oana, and photographer/director Dragos Hanciu. It is co-financed by Administrația Fondului Cultural Național (AFCN), the Bucharest City Hall through ArCuB, and Creative Europe – MEDIA. 

FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

International Feature Film Competition:

Best Film (shared):

Chronovisor (USA)
Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker

and

At Night (UK, France)
Directed by Beatrice Gibson

International Short Film Competition:

Best Short Film:
Equal Dust (Finland)
Directed by Jani Peltonen

Best Director:
Vika Kirchenbauer for The Suffocating Now (Germany)

Best Visual Concept:
Language Models (Peru, USA)
Directed by Sidney Mandros and Giancarlo M. Sandoval

Best Sound Concept:
How to Listen to Fountains (Slovakia)
Directed by Eva Sajanová

Special Mention:
The Recce (UK, Germany)
Directed by Daniel Mann

Romanian Short Film Competition:

Best Romanian Short Film:
Three Goodnight Stories / Trei povești de noapte bună (Romania)
Directed by Andreea Chiper

Best Visual Concept in a Romanian Short Film:
In My Dreams, Or in Ours (Romania)
Directed by Alma Buhagiar

Click HERE for a press release.