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The 13th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
at Lisboa
June 2 - 7, 2015
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Program
Short Films
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Tuesday June 2, 2015 / 6 pm
Espaço Espelho D'Agua
Lisboa / Portugal |
Semalu
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Jimmy Hendrickx
Belgium, Malaysia
2013 | 0:15:00
Semalu, which means sensitive plant in Malay, is a cinematic portrait of the abandoned children of Cheras, a suburb in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A place in a process of modernization. Between a noisy landscape of construction works we see the next generation grow up. The ancestors of these children came here to build a new future. 30 years ago this territory was still jungle and swamp. Far away from the jungle this will be be the kids’ new urban residence. Semalu is a dark, yet magical journey along their concrete playground.
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Emergency Calls
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Hätäkutsu |
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Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
Finland
2013 | 0:15:00
Being human is a fragile and fleeting opportunity to experience life and the universe around us. In the face of overwhelming darkness all we can do is to rely on and find solace in one another.
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Kamin
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Kamina |
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Arttu Nieminen, Roosa Nevala
Finland
2014 | 0:04:30
Sensual poetic rhytmn of Kamina leads you to a cabin in the wilderness where love turns in to a hypnotic shape. Light in the fireplace witnesses the miracle of life, when two become one. |
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Seven Times a day we bemoan our lot and at night we get up to avoid dreaming
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Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und Nachts stehen wir auf um nicht zu träumen |
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Susann Maria Hempel
Germany
2014 | 0:18:00
A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his fellows), living in the East German countryside, who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up into several nightmares.
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Yaar
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Simon Gillard
Belgium
2013 | 0:20:00
Yaar, in the heart of the bush where the gravel is hollowed, a stubborn civilisation hunts out its future below the earth's surface. Blind, or perhaps all too seeing, they dig away, night and day, spurred on by the madness that drives man to his death.
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Vegas
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Lukasz Konopa
Great Britain
2013 | 0:25:00
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, a city of neon shimmers like a mirage. But the closer you get, the more you see through the false image. The glitz, glamour and gambling are all just smoke and mirrors. At the peak of the economic crisis, three Las Vegas residents find their luck has run dry and struggle just to get by. |
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June 2-7, 2015
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.
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