The Bordeaux International Independent Film Festival (
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: Festival international du film indépendant de Bordeaux) (Fifib or FIFIB) is an annual
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online.
Films may be of recent ...
held in
Bordeaux
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, France.
History
The Festival international du film indépendant de Bordeaux (Fifib or FIFIB),
[ or Bordeaux International Independent Film Festival,]Costa-Gavras
Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thril ...
, was the closing film at the festival.
The 8th edition took place from 15 to 21 October 2019.[
The 12th edition was held from Wednesday 18 October to Sunday 23 October.
The 13th edition of the festival took place from 8 to 13 October 2024. The grand jury members included filmmakers ]Thomas Cailley
Thomas Cailley (; born 29 April 1980) is a French screenwriter and film director. In 2014, he made his feature directorial debut with '' Love at First Fight'', which won three César Awards including Best First Film. In 2023 he made his second m ...
, Lola Quivoron, and Corneliu Porumboiu
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Life and education
Corneliu Porumboiu was born in Vaslui, Vaslui County, Romania. He is the son of a former Romanian language teacher ...
, as well as actress and pop singer Camélia Jordana
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.Emmanuelle Béart
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was a special guest at the event.
Description
There are three major competition categories :[
*International Feature Competition
*Francophone Short Films Competition
*Contrebandes
The Contrabande section is for films which do not have a French distributor. Other prizes are also awarded, including for music, television.][
]
Past award-winners
In 2024, '' Ivo'', by Eva Trobisch, won the Grand Prix for feature film, while ''The Roller, the Life, the Fight'', by Elettra Bisogno and Hazem Alqaddi won the Contrebande Grand Prix.[
]
References
External links
*{{official, https://www.fifib.com/en
Festival international du film indépendant de Bordeaux
on MUBI
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Film festivals in France
Culture of Bordeaux
Film festivals established in 2012