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The film received theAudience Award and Best director award at B-Est fest 2012 Radu Jude
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Sunday 25 was the conclusion and awards ceremony of the Bucarest B-Est 8th edition.
under the presidence of Jan Harlan producer of Stanley Kubrick the jury decided on the following awards:
Audience award: Toata lumea din familia noastra, Everybody in our Family
Best Film: Tyranosaurus, Paddy Considine (Great Britain)
(Tyrannosaur is a 2011 BAFTA award winning British drama film written and directed by Paddy Considine, his first feature film)
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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, director Paolo Sorrentino’s first English language film (awarded the Jury Prize at Cannes 2008, for Il Divo), will be presented, in absolute premiere and exclusively in Romania, within the Bucharest International Film Festival Closing Gala, March 25, 2012. "Anchored" by Sean Penn’s unbelievable performance ("flawless…transcending the masklike qualities of eyeliner and lipstick with deadpan, childlike candor." - Variety), THIS MUST BE THE...
The all-time classic masterpiece screened to full audience at Bucarest B-Est, the film was part of an hommage to Jan Harlan (Stanley's producer) which included The Shining, ClockWord Orange... The beautifully restored digital screening restored the memories I had kept from the original print in 1972.
Such a rare treat to have the privilege of hearing more on this superb work by Jan Harlan. the film took 3 years of his life (1 for pre production and one year...
JAN HARLAN (Head of the Jury)
Producer and Director
„I joined Stanley Kubrick in 1969 for his Napoleon project, which was unfortunately abandoned, but I enjoyed working with Stanley and he liked me, so I added the study of film-production with a great teacher to my previous profession. My first film as an assistant was A Clockwork Orange. Four years later I became Kubri...
Jury President of the eighth edition of Bucharest IFF
Brief biography Jan Harlan
I joined Stanley Kubrick in 1969 for his Napoleon project, which was unfortunately abandoned, but I enjoyed working with Stanley and he liked me, so I added the study of film-production with a great teacher to my previous profession. My first film as an assistant was “A Clockwork Orange”.
Four years later I became Kubrick’s Executive Producer and worked for Warner Bros. on “Barry Lyndon...
Nicolas Sornaga's presentation of Monsieur Morimoto at B EST Fest Bucarest 2009
Pest performance to Morimoto.
Check the Video below.
Nicolas Sornaga presentation of Monsieur Morimo...
Bucharest B-Est film festival closing ceremony shot and edited by Bruno Chatelin for fest21.com, filmfestivals.com
Cloture ed B Estenvoyé par filmfestivals-com
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Video shot in Bucharest during B-EST 2009
Filmed/edited by Bruno Chatelin
Check the video below
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B-EST IFF Awards 2009
SPECIAL SCREENINGS AND OFF COMPETITION FILMS AT B-EST IFF
"You cannot walk straight when the road bends" catch a glimpse of the Romani culture with Gipsy Caravan
Nik Powell (EFA) will preside over B-EST Jury
JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI – Guest of honor at B-EST
Romano cinema and culture at B-EST
Special screenings at B-EST
3 Romanian Films that were selected in Berlin are inv...
Sunday, 29th March, within the closing gala of the 5th edition of B-EST IFF, presided by the Director of the Festival, Dana Dimitriu Chelba and film critic, Irina Margareta Nistor, the Festival awarded the following:
3 Lifelong Achievment Awards to actors Gheorghe Dinica, Adela Marculescu
and Radu Beligan.
Short Film:
LUNGUL DRUM SPRE CASA (d. Anamaria Chioveanu) won Best Student Short, while EL ATAQUE DE LOS ROBOTS DE NEBULOSA-5 (d. Ghema Garcia Ibarra) was deemed Best Short.
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Nik Powell, Vice-President of the European Film Academy and Director of the National Film and Television School in London, has agreed to be the president of the feature film section of the festival.
In 1972, Nik Powell set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson, nowadays a multi-million pound company. In the 80’s, Nik Powell went into partnership with Stephen Wooley and formed Palace Productions, later on producing three of Neil Jordan’s most succesfull films - COMPANY OF WOLVES, ...
BucharEST International Film Festival (B-EST IFF) has the pleasure to announce the complete list of films off competition and the special screenings which will be shown at Studio Cinema between March 23rd and 30th!
This year, B-EST IFF has some exceptional films in store for you:
THE FLOWER BRIDGE, director Thomas Ciulei's newest documentary;
FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA, screened in the presence of Polish director Jerzy Skolimovski, the festival's Guest of Hnor and author of a splen...
Jasmine Dallal the director said: "I originally named this film after a Romani proverb about
how to cope when life doesn't deal you a straight hand ("You cannot
walk straight when the road bends"). So the film title began as "When
the Road Bends... tales of a Gypsy Caravan." However, brevity and the
marketplace have prevailed so that it is being released simply as
"Gypsy Caravan" in many places. Sorry about the confusion, but it is
all the same movie a...
Polish director JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI has accepted to come to Bucharest as Guest of Honor of BucharEST International Film Festival (B-EST IFF), 5th edition.
Apart from 4 NIGHTS WITH ANNA / Cztery noce z Anna (2008), screened for the first time in Romania within the off-competition section of B-EST IFF , Jerzy Skolimowski will also bring to Bucharest his expressionist painting exhibition, one that has already gathered praises in the United States, France and Central and Eastern Europeean...
This year, Charta Cultural Foundation and the National Center for Roma Culture, with the support of S.C. Niro Investment S.A., propose a challenging new section within B-EST International Film Festival, entitled ROMANO CINEMA AND CULTURE
– featuring films about the Roma culture and cinematography, scheduled
to be screened on March 27th and March 28th at Studio Cinema.
The
intercultural dialogue is one of the necessary conditions of a modern
society and one cannot deny the fact that t...
BucharEST International Film Festival (B-EST IFF) has the pleasure to announce the complete list of films off competition and the special screenings which will be shown at Studio Cinema between March 23rd and 30th!
This year, B-EST IFF has some exceptional films in store for you:
THE FLOWER BRIDGE, director Thomas Ciulei's newest documentary;
FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA, screened in the presence of Polish director Jerzy Skolimovski,
the festival's Guest of Hnor and author of a splend...
Three out of the four Romanian films that screened this year in different sections of Berlin International Film Festival will be competing for the awards of the 5th edition of B-EST International Film Festival.
Thus, the long-awaited feature film debut of director Radu Jude, CEA MAI FERICITÃ FATÃ DIN LUME / THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, presented at Berlin IFF within the Forum section, was selected in the Official Competition of B-EST IFF. Moreover, the short films BRIC-BRAC, by Gabr...
B-EST IFF, 5th edition : The Jury of the Feature Film section is composed of:
President of the jury - Nik Powell (vice-president of the European Film Academy)
Andrei Plakhov (program coordinator Moscow International Film Festival)
Pjer Zalica (director, winner of the Silver Leopard, Locarno International Film Festival)
Mircea Bunescu (professor Media University)
Alin Ludu Dumbrava (film critic)
The Jury of the Documentary section is composed of:
President of the jury - Lauren...
B-EST IFF, 14th–22nd April 2008
The 4th edition took place at Scala movie theater, with the opening film "Se, Jie" /"Lust, Caution" (Golden Lion, Venice 2007 and nominated at the Golden Globes 2008), directed by Ang Lee.
The special guest of the 4th edition was the well-known Polish director Andrzej Zulawski, who presented his film "La Fidelite" (France, 2000), and afterwards answered the questions of the spectator public in a series of Q&A.
Andrzej...
3rd edition, 14 – 21 April 2007, Scala and Eforie cinemas
The Russian director Nikita Mihalkov opened the 3rd edition of B-EST IFF by the movie Burned By The Sun (Oscar for the best foreign movie,1994)., Mihalkov as well, was present at the movie projections Statski Sovetnik (2005, producer and actor) and The Barber of Siberia (1998), movies chosen at the director’s suggestion.
Nikita Mihalkov answered the audience and the press questions all along the press conference organized at the M...
Awards
• Hell, directed by Danis Tanovic, Oscar award for the best foreign movie, screened in the official competition in Cannes got The TROPHEE of B-EST IFF 2006
• Garpastum, directed by Alexei Gherman Jr.; FIPRESCI Award, Venice, 2006, Special Prize of the Jury of B-EST IFF 2006
• Shanghai Dreams, directed by Xiao Shuai Wang; The Big Prize of Critics, Cannes, 2006; awarded for the Best Direction, B-EST IFF 2006.
Special Guests of the second edtion
B-Est 2nd edition enj...
The 1st edition of B-EST IFF took place between 20.04 - 24.04 2005, at Union, Eforie, Elvira Popescu cinemas and enjoyed recognition on behalf of the national and international press. The festival was opened by the film “The Land Of Freedom” directed by Amos Gitai, (official competition Cannes, 2005),
in the presence of Israeli director Amos Gitai.
The president of the jury of the 1st edition of B-EST IFF was the Australian director Bruce Beresford, well known for his “Oscar Nominati...
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About Bucharest International Film Festival - BIFF - B-EST
 Dima Madalina
(B-EST IFF) B-EST IFF 2009 takes place at Cinema Studio, between 23rd and 30th March.
Price for one ticket 8 RON, 4 films pass 24 RON.
All students, regardless of university, have free access, based on their student id.
Buchar-EST International Film Festival (B-EST IFF) is the first major feature film competition organized in Bucharest, starting with 2005.
The aim of the festival has been to become a forum that encourages new cinema trends. We wish to discover new talents, to promote young filmmakers that have achieved recognition both at a national level, as well as in prestigious international competitions. We wish to bring a selection of best quality films to the cinema audience of Bucharest, and we invite you to take part in this event.
B-EST is a festival dedicated to art cinema, but also to those that want to express something new and different through film. Although the focus is represented by independent creations, low and medium-budget productions, B-EST has always managed to include important international awarded films in its selections.
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