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The 16th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Bangkok
Thaïland
June 2 - 10, 2018
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International Competition Short Film
# 2 |
Sunday 3, June, 2018 / 1 pm
Thai Film Archive
Bangkok |
3 Dreams of Horses
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ASIA PREMIERE |
Mike Hoolboom
Canada
2018 | 0:05:30
Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to
be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made.
Many years ago we learned the language of our masters. Though we
couldn’t help wondering why so few of you bothered to learn ours.
Three scenes featuring horses, remembering Jacinto. The first is a
daytime forest haunting that winds up at a carousel, the second a
rainy street in Portugal, the finale a nighttime vigil of fire and
water.
A triptych in which the figure of the horse becomes a medium for
meditation on its various incarnations as symbol, domesticated animal
for human domination, and its abstract power as spirit.
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Aya
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THAILAND PREMIERE
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Moufida Fedhila
Tunisie, France, Qatar
2017 | 0:24:00
In an inner city neighborhood in Tunisia lives Aya, a six-year-old
girl. Her father has no choice but to force her mother to wear a
niqab. One day, an unexpected turn of events disrupts the life of this
fragile family.
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Revolt
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Taghi
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ASIA PREMIERE
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Koorosh Argari
Iran
2018 | 0:16:00
A boatwoman who makes a living with carrying passengers encounters a
prostitute who travels sometimes with her. She asks the boatwoman to
take her somewhere around the marsh. The prostitute asks her to have
an eye on her in case she gets delayed. After a few minutes, she hears
the sound of something breaking and enters the conflict between the
prostitute and her customer to support her. This happening leads to
closeness between these two women. When the boatwoman comes back home
and sees her husband carousing with his friend, she decides to abandon
the home forever.
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Axolotl
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ASIA PREMIERE
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Olivier Smolders
Belgium
2018 | 0:25:00
A man accept a janitor’s job in an old building and, locked in his
room, undertakes a strange work of mourning. He discovers that, behind
the walls, a system of secret corridors makes it possible to observe
the tenants. But is it really the tenants he spies on ?
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Bonobo
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ASIA PREMIERE
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Zoel Aeschbacher
Switzerland
2017 | 0:19:00
A mosaic of interrelated characters living in the same social housing
project and all in search of happiness, forgiveness and meaning.
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June 2 - 10, 2018
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.
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