新星竞赛·评审团奖项 NOVA Competition - Jury Awards BEST FILM 最佳影片 The Knife, the Wound 刀与伤 Lucas Minier 卢卡斯·米尼耶 2025｜0:21:48 ｜France ｜French｜World Premiere  一部罕见的法国电影，如此赤裸，粗鄙，让人联想起皮亚拉毫不掩饰的直接，和早期杜蒙对于人脸的研究。虽然设定在一个与世隔绝的村庄里，但一切都与现实有关。失踪的士兵，闯入的军车，世界的角落也无法免于暴力。Coming-of-age 正是 Coming-of-violence，构成了对当下的有力回应。 - 仇晟 A rare French film, so raw and crude, reminding one of Pyala's unabashed directness and early Dumont's study of the human face. Although set in an isolated village, everything is c

国际竞赛·评审团奖项 International Competition - Jury Awards BEST FILM 最佳影片 Riverlands 河流之境 Sofie Blom 索菲·布洛姆 2025｜0:12:22｜Netherlands｜English｜World Premiere With a gently unfolding poetic narration that weaves together intergenerational legends of the Merwede River, the film mobilizes archival footage across multiple registers. The sensory qualities embedded in its materiality—together with the intimate viewpoints and emotional memories carried by family footage—at moments grow estran

BISFF 2025 will take place from November 8 to 16, 2025 , showcasing 331 short and medium-length films  across 12 sections.  Competition Sections The International Competition  features 75 films from over 35 countries , reflecting our belief that images are not simply vehicles of representation but spaces of cohabitation, where perception, memory, and relation unfold. These works inhabit the complexities of lived experience, tracing entanglements between bodies, environments,

Re-enchanting the Image​​  In an era where algorithmic feeds shape visual inertia, the mission of a film festival is no longer to provide answers, but to reignite questions. When every screen becomes a battlefield for the attention economy, the“short” in short films acts as a blade piercing through the information cocoon—it is not a reduction of content, but a distillation of intensity. In this year’s BISFF AURORA Sinophone Shorts Vista Program, we excavate not only stories b

War-Image-War Chapter I,II,III   Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity, such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies.  — Aristotle, Poetics   When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. — Sun Wu, The Art of War   Within the process of modernity, a complex and recursive relationship has formed between war and the