International Festival Signs of the Night - Paris
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18e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris - October 1-5 / 22-25, 2020
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The Memory Atlas

Domenico Centrone
Belgien / 2019 / 0:10:00


Between 1922 and 1924, the art historian Aby Warburg spent more than two years in the Bellevue Psychiatric Asylum in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. In 2018, a filmmaker finds the real diaries and the medical reports of that experience. Trough a surrealistic journey in Warburg’s mind, The Memory Atlas questions the limits between madness and greatness in the process of creation.

 

Crackland

Cracolania
Edu Felistoque
Brazil / 2020 / 1:28:00


FRENCH PREMIERE


The phenomenon of open-air drug use is becoming a worldwide epidemic and is one of the most complex urban challenges of modern life. Seen through different realities, from those who study it, those who try to contain it and those who live in it, the feature film documentary "Crackland" directed by Edu Felistoque opens a debate about the largest and most impactful scene of crack usage in the world: the “Crackland” of the city of São Paulo.The debate includes leaders, specialists, doctors, health workers, social services agents, police officers, judges, representatives of NGOs, medical centers and support centers, drug addicts and other professionals from various fields of activity related to the search for a solution of the problem in Brazil and other countries.Through these objects the film analyzes the causes of this evil and its progression, the combat tactics already carried out in São Paulo, opening a parallel with the strategies used in other countries