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Lisboa
The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
at Lisboa

October 1st - 9, 2016

Lisboa
Lisboa
Darc Desterro
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AWARD CELEBRATION

The Awards of the Section Documentary Film

Thuesday, October 6, 2016 / 7 pm
DARC Desterro
Lisbon / Portugal

 

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Main Award :

Brothers
Bracia
Wojciech Staron

  



Brothers

PORTUGAL PREMIERE

 


Brothers
Bracia
Wojciech Staron
Polen
2015 / 1:11:00

Two old Polish brothers come back to their homeland after having been deported to Siberia. The first one is an artist, the other a pragmatic engineer: despite their differences they love and support each other, and together they face the passage of time and the hardships of life. To tell their story, Wojciech Staron paid recurring visits to the two brothers and took plenty of time to become a part of their daily lives. He captured the passing of time in the old men’s lives and reveals the deep bound that unites them.

Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/156541463


Jury Statement :
Brothers - For thinking about art as a means of overcoming exile and giving the story of two brothers the film it deserves. It manages to capture an unbreakable bond while reflecting on historical events as being made of personal stories.

Director Statement :
"Dear Friends, thank you very much! I am extremely proud being awarded in your festival. It was first screening in Portugal. Today in the morning I called Alfons and I told him we were awarded, he was very happy and he promised me to pass this news to Mieczyslaw. Please take the warmest greetings from Poland from me, my crew and brothers." Wojciech Staron

 

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Special Mentions :
for Main Award

Kings of Nowhere
Los Reyes del Pueblo que no Existe
Betzabé Garcia

Resplandor
Fernando Priego Ruiz
  



Kings of Nowhere

 


Kings of Nowhere
Los Reyes del Pueblo que no Existe
Betzabé Garcia

Mexico

2015 | 1:23:00


Mexico 2015 | 1:23:00 Three families live in a village partially submerged by water in Northwestern Mexico: Pani and Paula do not want to close their tortilleria and spend their spare time rescuing the town from ruins; Miro and his parents dream of leaving but can’t; Yoya and Jaimito live in fear but have everything they need.

Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/111865423



Jury Statement :
Kings of Nowhere - For showing how completely alien forces affect the life of small communities in a dramatic way and making the viewer feel like it is living in isolation, with the few remaining inhabitants of San Marcos.



Resplandor

PORTUGAL PREMIERE

 


Resplandor
Fernando Priego Ruiz

Argentina

2016 | 0:50:00


Camilo Peña an old gaucho from Patagonia decides to remain taking care of his animals in the wild side of the river, isolated, at the foot of los Andes in spite of knowing that the illness that affects his eyes, sooner or later will transform his world in a blinding radiance.

Trailer :
https://youtu.be/fHDzzloMrZE



Jury Statement :
Resplandor - For depicting the story of a man trying to deal with his own weaknesses and limitations in a way in which all senses are exacerbated.

 

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Signs Awards :

American Reflexxx
Ali Coates, Signe Pierce


 The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a surprising way sensible and perturbing aspects of reality.



American Reflexxx

PORTUGAL PREMIERE

 


American Reflexxx
Ali Coates, Signe Pierce

United States
2014 / 0:14:00

A social experiment with performance artist Signe Pierce who walked the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in a sexy tight dress and mask. Director Alli Coates and Pierce agreed not to communicate until the experiment was over, but never expected the terrible responses. A technicolour spectacle that elicits questions about gender stereotypes, mob mentality and violence in America.

 





Jury Statement :
American Reflexxx - For being an unsettling, brutal, courageous and uncomfortable registration of the provoked American spirit and society dynamics. Through the use of an apparently simple concept of public performance it is able to confront the viewer with questions of gender, otherness and difference.


Director Statement :

 

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Night Award :

Symbolic Threats
Matthias Wermke, Lutz Henke, Mischa Leinkauf

The Night Award for Documentary honors films, which represent reality in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of representation and simple conclusions.


Symbolic Threats


Symbolic Threats
Matthias Wermke, Lutz Henke, Mischa Leinkauf

Germany
2015 | 0:15:00

Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? These were the theories that New York puzzled over last summer. How can one incident be interpreted in so many ways? By means of press reports, Symbolic Threats allows the public at large to express their extreme disparity of interpretation. Inspired by the heated debate over the two „White American Flags“ that suddenly appeared on the towers of New York City’s iconic Brooklyn Bridge, the film asks what kind of societal scope art has in the present day. What happens when threatened freedom reinstates art with the element of danger? Who or what makes it into a threat? Are we safe in the city? What is next?




Jury Statement :
Symbolic Threats - For demonstrating how the paranoia about the unusual and the incomprehensible can grow in such a way that it gives place to a speech filled with horror and fear, using contrafactual arguments to gain strength.

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Special Mentions :
for Night Award

When You Awake
Jay Rosenblatt
  



When You Awake

 


When You Awake
Jay Rosenblatt

USA

2016 | 0:11:00


The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” –Sigmund FreudAn exhilarating journey into the collective unconscious where all the images, sounds and music are entirely from found footage.

Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/157789643



Jury Statement :
When You Awake - For effectively blurring the boundaries between dreams and reality without recurring to their traditional and dichotomizing representations on film.

 

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Special Mentions :
for Edward Snowden Award

Life after Guantánamo
La Vida después de Guantánamo
Esteban Cuevas

The Spirit of the Forest
El Espiritu del bosque
Monique Munting
  




Life after Guantánamo

 


Life after Guantánamo
La Vida después de Guantánamo
Esteban Cuevas

Argentine

2016 | 0:31:00

Almost 13 years Jihad Diyab remained at the worst place in the world for a muslim: Guantanamo. In 2014, by an agreement between Jose Mujica and Barack Obama, he arrive to Uruguay with five others ex detaines. But freedom was not what he expected .

Trailer :
https://youtu.be/8j00XUOZt80



Jury Statement :
Life after Guantanamo - For its important content and for being an investigation of great depth focusing on analyzing the maintenance of respect for basic human rights.



The Spirit of the Forest

 


The Spirit of the Forest
El Espiritu del bosque
Monique Muntig

Belgium, Camerun

2015 | 0:50:00

A poetic & political documentary In less than a hundred years, half of the world's tropical forests have been destroyed. As a consequence, all over the world forest peoples are threatened and endangered. Among them the Baka of Central Africa, driven from their ancestral territory by the advance of logging activities and the establishment of protected areas, claim their right to live in peace in their natural environment, their “source of life”, as they say. Despite their specific situation, the issues raised by the Baka are universal and essential and particularly relevant in the present.





Jury Statement :
The Spirit of the Forest - For giving a new perspective on deforestation and its effects, and for being respectful towards the voices of the Kaba people, letting them present their own culture, history and personal experiences.

 

 

 


 

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