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The 16th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbon

16. Festival Internacional
Signos Da Noite

January 4 - 7, 2019

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International Competition
Documentary
# 3
Sunday, January 6, 2019/ 9 pm
DARC, Desterro
Lisbon, Portugal

 

Diorama

Diorama

PORTUGAL PREMIER


Zoya Latktinova
Ukraine
2018 / 0:12:00

Offscreen voices remember a childhood in Mariupol, happy days by the sea. With their schoolmates they had planted willow trees that still grace the shore, more than fifty years later. Today the beach is deserted, only a few fishermen are waiting for a catch. Even the deepwater port seems abandoned. The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has changed everything overnight. The holiday region is now a dangerous exclusion zone. What’s left are the memories.



 

 

 
   

 

 

I am a Pagan Baby

I am a pagan baby

PORTUGAL PREMIER


Jana Debus
USA
2017 / 0:11:15

“I Am Pagan, Baby” is about marginal zones of life in a kind of primordial form. This experimental portrait depicts life originating at the edge of civilisation. In-depth looks at a path through life that encourage us to ask what we humans can become when we move away from the actual rituals of necessity.

 

 

 
   

 

 

Atmahaú Pakmát

Atmahau Pakmat

 


Cameron Quevedo
Mexico, USA
2017 / 0:24:00

Everybody’s talking about the planned wall between the US and Mexico, but what’s often overlooked is that this borderline is in itself a construct. In the mid-19th century, Mexico had to accept a massive loss of territory to its powerful northern neighbour. The demarcation line has followed the Rio Grande ever since. A poetic and political film about border demarcations and their consequences, the struggle for survival of adobe brick makers in the Mexican-US border region and the magic of a river.
 
   

 

Doctor Co

Doctor co

PORTUGAL PREMIER


Lysander Wiering
Netherlands
2017 / 0:24:00

Eighty-year old Doctor Co cycles all over Amsterdam to visit refugees in run-down garages and empty buildings. They stay here illegally and aren't eligible for professional medical care. Doctor Co tends to them and listens to their stories. They live in wretched circumstances; alcohol abuse and conflicts among themselves are regular occurrences. What motivates the old doctor to stick up for them unconditionally?


 

 

 
   

 

 

Tungrus

Tungrus

PORTUGAL PREMIER


Rusti Chandna
India
2017 / 0:14:00

A tragi-comical drama, whose protagonist is no other than a young cock, unfolds in a Mumbai apartment just like thousands of others. Grabbed by an eccentric patriarch to serve as a distraction for the family cat, the chick survived, grew up and now imposes his troublesome presence on everyone, tyrannising the entire household. From this unexpected situation, Rishi Chandna creates a hilarious urban fable, which implicitly reveals the life of an Indian middle-class family. Like in a group therapy exercise, everyone shares their point of view, through bold editing that is able to create suspense in a few shots. Will the feisty fowl end up in the pot? Can one escape one’s condition and climb the social ladder, peck by peck? A study of human and animal mores in today’s India lies behind the small domestic theatre of the absurd.


 

 

 
   




January 4 - 7 , 2019

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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