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                  Internationales Festival  
                  Zeichen der Nacht  
                  (Signes de Nuit)  
                   
                  Berlin 
                  Deutschland 
                   
                  Januar 18 - 24, 2016  
                   
                
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                 Wettbewerb 
 
Kurzfilm  
                  # 3  | 
                Dienstag 19. Januar  2016 / 17 Uhr  
                  ACUDkino 
                Berlin / Deutschland 
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                   Wayward   | 
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                    Kira Richards Hansen  
                      Danemark 
                      2014 / 0:19:00 
                       
                     A coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old girl who works at a car
                      mechanic's and hangs out with her friends. She challenges boundaries
                      in her search for identity, but her behaviour has repercussions that
                      force her to acknowledge new aspects of who she is. 
                     
                     
                     
                       
                      
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                     A Random Act of Kindness  
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                    Andrei Gruzniczki  
                      Romania 
                      2015  | 0:27:300 
                       
                      A couple tries to rescue a stray dog run over by a car, amidst
                      general indifference. A certain social understanding of what is good,
                      a certain model of social responsibility that is catching on now tugs
                      at them, and they respond. They collect the dog off the street and
                      take it to a private clinic. The dog is too badly hit and cannot be
                      saved. However, the two wannabe rescuers come to be involved, both
                      financially and emotionally, in euthanizing the dog. They feel abused.
                      Moreover, they have to also take care of the dog’s “funeral”, since
                      that is the law. In the end, they come to feel “punished” for the good
                      deed they attempted to do. Revolted, they throw the dog onto a heap of
                      garbage.  
                         
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                   Times in Competition  | 
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                    Toti Loureiro, Ruy Prado  
                      Brasil 
                      2015 / 0:22:00 
                       
                     After Márcio lost his scholarship for the preparatory course, he faces his last chance to be admitted to Med school. As the qualification exam approaches, he dives into a universe of competition, paranoia, and violence. 
                     
                     
                     
                       
                      
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                  Symbolic Threats  | 
                   
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                    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? 
                     
                       
                      
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                    Tom Bailey  
                      Great Britain 
                        2015 | 00:08:15 
                     A young man has to come to terms with a mysterious epileptic condition that compels him to run at night, experiencing feelings of deep depression and transcendent euphoria. As his everyday life begins to seem fickle in comparison to these 
                     
                       
                      
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                        January 18 - 24,   2016 
                           
                            Eine internationale Jury überschaut das Kurzfilmpanorama aus aller Welt. Das FISDN präferiert Filme, die gesellschaftlich sensible Themen in orgineller Weise thematisieren, Filme, die Ambiguität und Komplexität nicht scheuen, die zuweilen enigmatisch bleiben, so dass die Reflexion über sie nicht abbricht, aussergewohnliche Filme, die alle Fommen künstlerischen Ausdrucks nutzen und offen sind für ästhetische Innovation, kurz Filme, die die irritierende Fremdheit der gegenwätigen Welt im komplexer Weise darstellen. 
                       
                        
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