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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne
23 November - 3 December, 2017
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International Competition
Documentary
# 12 |
Sunday, November 26, 2017 / 7 pm
Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbonne
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My Daughter Nora |
Ma fille Nora |
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Jasna Krajinoviv
Belgium, France
2016 / 0:15:00
Nora, Samira’s daughter, left for Syria in May 2013. Since then, her
mother leaves no stone unturned in her attempt to bring her home. ‘My
daughter Nora’ is a letter that Samira wrote to Nora. It follows
Samira in her fight to prevent other youths from leaving, her trip to
the Syrian border and her painful, everyday life, torn between hope
and the fear of losing her daughter in the war in Syria. |
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Silent War |
Syrie: La guerre silencieuse |
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Manon Lezeau
France,
Switzerland
2017 / 1:12
Hidden human suffering, a deafening silent scream from the torture
cells of Syrian prisons. The scream of thousands of women raped by the
Syrian regime since the beginning of the war. A crime against
humanity, a war crime ignored, an organized crime aimed at destroying
the Syrian society. From the start, rape was used as a tool by the
regime to destroy the spirit of resistance. Rape is such a taboo in
Syria that the victims can only stay silent, or they are rejected by
their families, sometimes they are even killed. The women who have
survived carry the infinite physical and psychological wounds
inflicted by the aggressors, and for the rest of their lives, they
live in shame. Thousands have been jailed, NGOs talk about more than
50.000 women raped.
The ‘condemned to silence’ have never spoken up. The women who speak
in this film have decided to break the silence. Their testimonies are
rare, exceptional, and heartbreaking. They are the voices of the
untold crimes of Bashar al Assad’s regime. |
| PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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November 23 - December 3, 2017
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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