Encounters: Cinema and Contemporary Art

BFM — 39

BFM — 39

The Encounters: Cinema And Contemporary Art section was born from the collaboration between the Festival and The Blank Contemporary Art. Its purpose is to highlight the intersections between the universes of cinema and visual arts. This year, it’s being converted into three digital events that will be screened through both organisations’ social channels. The conversations, which will see the director photography Luca Bigazzi, director, voice actress and ISL coach Deborah Donadio, and visual artist Gian Maria Tosatti as protagonists, aim to be an analysis on the nature of the “gaze” and the relationship between seeing and knowing, in an approach moving from three different perspectives in order to embrace the most diverse audience.

Talks

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Sections

As always dedicated to new authors, the international competition will premiere 7 feature films, never before screened in Italy, characterized by their stylistic and narrative originality in dealing with contemporary themes.

Competition – Exhibition

Independent international productions never before screened in Italy. Documentary films in which the inquisitive and attentive gaze of the director delves without hesitation into the heart of reality, proving capable of grasping and synthesising the visible and the invisible, narrating a theme, a place, a character in "close-ups", with intensity and participation.

Close up

Mia Hansen-Løve and João Nicolau are the protagonists of Europe, Now!, the Bergamo Film Meeting section dedicated to contemporary European filmmakers.

Europe, Now!

Izabela Plucińska is the protagonist of the section dedicated to auteur animation cinema. The complete works of the award-winning and talented Polish animator will be presented as a European preview: 14 films, made in Claymation - i.e. stop motion with plasticine, a material that Plucińska has always masterfully used -, where everyday life and dreamscapes alternate in a surprising way.

Animation cinema: Izabela Plucińska

Una sezione variegata e ricca di sorprese, che va ad ampliare la proposta che Il Festival offre al suo pubblico. Eventi speciali, anteprime, classici e percorsi realizzati in collaborazione con altri enti e istituzioni con cui il BFM lavora da molti anni.

Previews, Classics and Special Events

Volker Schlöndorff chosen as the protagonist of the Bergamo Film Meeting 39th edition’s retrospective.

Volker Schlöndorff.
The BFM 39 retrospective

The second homage of BFM 39, which includes 6 films, is dedicated to Jerzy Skolimowski, Polish director, screenwriter and film actor, one of the most important representatives of Eastern European cinema and author of a free and innovative film style.

Tribute to Jerzy Skolimowski

With a tribute consisting of 5 films restored by the National Film Institute - Film Archive - Hungary, Bergamo Film Meeting pays homage to the innovative gaze of Hungarian director Márta Mészáros who, though her militant filmmaking, has given voice to strong and complex women portraying the reality and historical memory of his country.

Tribute to Márta Mészáros

Born from the collaboration between the Festival and The Blank Contemporary Art, its purpose is to highlight the intersections between the universes of cinema and visual arts.

Encounters: Cinema and Contemporary Art

All the films BFM 39

Non darlo per scontato!

Vogliamo continuare ad essere protagonisti del cinema e della cultura a tempo pieno! Unisciti a noi, condividi le emozioni che nascono e si alimentano durante il Festival e gli eventi che la nostra Associazione realizza durante tutto l’anno, perché di film da vedere ce ne sono e ce ne saranno ancora tantissimi.