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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Berlin
Germany
January 21 - 22 , 2017
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AWARD CELEBRATION
Documentary Competition
ACUDkino
Berlin / Germany
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Documentary Competition
Main Award
A 157
Behrouz Nouranipour
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A 157
Behrouz Nouranipour
Iran
2015 | 1:13:00
One of the most horrifying Isis operations was the physical and cultural genocide of the Yezidi Kurds in Iraq. After conquering the Shingal region west of Mossul the terrorist militia began to systematically kill the male population while thousands of children, girls and women were kidnapped, enslaved, forced into marriage or raped. A157 is a filmmaker look at three pregnant girls recounting their stories of war, violence and sexist conquest in a land where people have no more dreams.
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Jury Statement :
A 157, for its poignant way to stay very close to three pregnant Yezidi girls, aged 11, 13 and 15, who miss what is dearest to them, mother and family. With the rain pouring on their tent (A157) in an refugee camp, they tell us their stories of (only physical) survival (as slaves) during the genocide perpetrated by the IS.
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Documentary Competition
Signs Award
Woman and Her Car
Elle pis son char
Loïc Darses |
| The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a
surprising way sensible and perturbing aspects of reality.
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Woman and Her Car
Elle pis son char
Loïc Darses
Canada
2015 | 0:18:00
On 31 December 2003, Lucie Tremblay decided to write to the man who abused her between ages eight and twelve. She is determined to personally deliver the letter. She films her journey to gain closure for the trauma that has haunted her whole life. When her son finds the footage well over a decade later, he decides to turn it into a film: A Woman and her Car. An intimate homage to the courage of an exceptional woman who decided to stand up for herself and a savage condemnation of the bastards who abuse the innocence of others and think they can get away with it.
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/139626517
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Jury Statement :
Elle pis son char (Woman and Her Car) for the beautiful cooperation between a mother who finds a way to cope with her experience of being mollested as a child by shooting film accompanying her way, and her son, a filmmaker who manages to finish the film in a way the mother feels to be understood. A courageous film that conveys much of the anger and fear still vivid long after the devastating experience.
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Director statement :
"I want to thank the jury for this price, but also everyone at the
festival, behind and in front of the screens.
This is a personal film for us and I am very glad to see that it
managed to reach you guys, and ultimately move you."
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Documentary Competition
Night Award
Dum spiro spero
Pero Kvesic
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| The Night Award for Documentary honors films, which represent reality
in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of
representation and simple conclusions. |
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Dum spiro spero
Pero Kvesic
Croatia
2016 | 0:50:00
"Dum spiro spero" is a Latin saying meaning ‘while I breathe, I hope’. Until this day it has remained the motto of those who refuse to quit until the very last breath. Intertwining daily life, books and death, the author speaks about losing strength and the strength to cope with the loss. Everybody die the moment they are born, which is the greatest reason why to understand the values of life and enjoy the joys it gives. The acclaimed writer after a series of book made his first film and his literatal experience spoke in a cinematic language that reaches the level of his literature. Details of ordinary surrounding and daily life fit in with the story they engender. This film is to a great extent a one-man show, because next to the script and directing, the author also filmed all the material and played the mouth harp.
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/156003602
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Jury Statement :
Dum spiro spero for the very well structured autobiographical research of the well known Croatian writer into questions of death and life in a situation of degrading strength, when old decisions and values become uncertain and start to change.
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Director Statement :
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Documentary Competition
Edward Snowden Award
Patient
Paciente
Jorge Caballero
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| The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensible (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future. |
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Jury Statement :
Patient for creating a film that takes us into the endless labyrinths of hospital corridors and bureaucracy while a mother tries to remain positive as the life slips away from her child undergoing chemotherapy. The film depicts the woman’s state of limbo as she waits and struggles with full fronted honesty and great delicacy.
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Documentary Competition
Award created by Jury
Journalistic Achievement Award
The War Show
Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas Dalsgaard |
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The War Show
Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas Dalsgaard
USA, Danemark
2016 | 1:34:00
In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and her circle of friends join the street protests against President Bashar al-Assad, as the Arab Spring reaches Syria. Knowing their country would be changed forever, this group of artists and activists begin filming their lives and the events around them. But as the regime’s violent response spirals the country into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future will be tested by violence, imprisonment and death. Obaidah leaves Damascus and journeys around the country, from her hometown of Zabadani, to the centre of the rebellion in Homs, and to northern Syria where she witnesses the rise of extremism. A deeply personal road movie, the film captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends.
Trailer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CqjtlozG30
Interwiew :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uyweJiHgPA
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Jury Statement :
The War Show for introducing us into today’s Syria and one of the most violent conflicts in recent history. The film shows what has driven the younger generation during the “Arab spring”, managing to capture the hopes and fears of an entire generation: how people got involved into a peaceful struggle, to which the regime reacted which made everything more and more violent, till the struggle of the Syrian people was captured by other forces in the pursuit of their own agendas.
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