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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne
23 November - 3 December, 2017
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AWARD CELEBRATION
The Awards of the Section Short Film
Sunday, December 3, 2017
/ 5 pm
Ruadas Gaivotas 6
Lisbon / Portugal
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Main Award :
Genaro
Jesus Reyes, Andrés Porras
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Genaro
Jesus Reyes, Andrés Porras
Columbia
2016 | 0:18:00
Genaro is a farmer who has been ordered by the paramilitary to deliver
the dead bodies of combatants and an envelope with money to their
mothers. Genaro is immune to the pain of death. His job has ripped his
soul apart and he hopes for only one thing: finding a particular body
amongst the dead.
* Genaro est un paysan à qui l'armée a confié la mission de ramener
les corps des combattants à leur mère avec une enveloppe contenant de
l'argent liquide. Ce travail l'a rendu indifférent à la mort et il ne
souhaite qu'une chose : trouver parmi tous ces morts le corps qu'il
cherche.
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| PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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Jury Statement :
Genaro brings us a story beyond life and death where as a man who
delivers those who fell within the conflict in the Colombian jungle
ends up relating with its own personal circumstances. The filmmaker
uses serves that reality in a touching way that touches the core of
our own humanity. It received the jury’s unanimous choice.
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Director Statement :
First of all, thanks to show Genaro in the Festival.
This had been a fantastic year to Genaro around the world. Our purpose
is tell a part of a our history: bloody, sad and unjust but to the end
full of hope to the victims of the conflict in Colombia. This kind of
stories help to collective memory to don't make again the same
horrible acts that happened in the past. It's is our job as artists to
put in the eyes of the world the things that affect us like citizens
and human beings.
thanks a lot. |
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Special Mention :
Belle Ville
Jung Won-hee |
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Belle Ville
Jung Won-hee
South Corea
2016 | 0:26:00
Sun-haw is a Chinese-Korean woman who works illegally in a Korean
hostel in Paris. She expects her twin sister, who has just get a
tourist visa to come in France. Sun-haw has planned everything: with
her sister’s passport, she will finally be able to exchange her place
and meet again her sick son she’s let in China. But the departure day,
nothing goes as planned.
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Jury Statement :
Belle Ville brings us to the City of Lights, in the very heart of
Europe, where we follow a tale about racism towards a Sino Korean
woman who fights to overcome her condition as an illegal immigrant. A
compelling and mature story that could easily fit a feature film.
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Signs Award :
Koropa
Laura Henno
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| The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an
original and convincing way. |
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Koropa
Laura Henno
France
2016 | 00:19:00
Sailing at night off the Comoros archipelago, the young orphan Patron
silently follows the instructions of his "adoptive" father to become
Captain: he will soon smuggle his first passengers to Mayotte.
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Jury Statement :
It is a startling and sensitive film. It was shot in a simple yet
inventive way, that resorts the documentary language of direct cinema
in a convincing staging of human smuggling by real people on a journey
of a little boat in the darkness of the night.
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Director Statement :
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Special Mentions
for the Signs Award :
The Beast
Samantha Nell, Michael Wahrmann
Mother
Mother
Simon Mesa Soto |
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The Beast
Samantha Nell, Michael Wahrmann
South Africa, Brazil,
France
2016 | 0:18:00
An ordinary day at a Zulu cultural village. Shaka, their star
performer, expresses his frustrations to his co-workers as he sits on
display for tourists. When he reaches the end of his tether his
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Jury Statement :
The Beast is awarded a special mention or its layered integration of
narrative and visual storytelling, defying the expectations of the
viewer at every turn, while dealing with themes of existence as
perormance, racism, social mobility, and cultural appropriation. |
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Mother
Mother
Simon Mesa Soto
Colombia, Sweden
2016 | 0:14:00
16 year-old Andrea leaves her neighborhood in the hills of Medellin to
attend a downtown casting call for a porno film.
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Jury Statement :
The Mother is awarded a special mention for its approach, which is both subtle and avoiding a moralistic tone, to its story of a underage girl entering the porn film industry and the consequent psychological effects.
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Night Award :
Dadyaa - The Woodpeckers of Rotha
Bibhusan Basnet, Pooja Gurung
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| The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and
complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,
which keeps mind and consideration moving. |
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Dadyaa - The Woodpeckers of Rotha
Bibhusan Basnet, Pooja Gurung
Nepal, France
2016 | 0:16:00
Atimaley and Devi’s village is haunted by memories. When a dear friend
leaves the village without saying “goodbye”, the old couple faces a
dilemma; to keep living with the memories or to leave the village for
good? Why create anything when everything ends as dust and grime? Is
it for the sake of remembrance? Is it for the immortality of the
subject or the ‘artist’ itself? Or for the hope that our ‘work of art’
will one day come alive and lift our souls from this mess of life ?
‘Dadyaa’ started out as an exercise to test these very themes around
an old couple in the highlands of Jumla. But once again, life happened
and the wonderful mess around it helped us as directors to draw
parallels between our fictious world and the reality that exists in
remote Nepal.
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Jury Statement :
For its cinematic weight, namely its visual strength and gripping
sound design, with an unconventional approach which explores the
worldwide problem of the countryside desertification with a mysterious
and thrilling mythic dimension, the Night Award goes to “Woodpeckers”,
by Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung.
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Director Statement :
This is great news ! Our film has already played in so many places
through Signes De Nuit and receiving the Night award means a lot to
us.
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Edward Snowden Award :
Sub Terrae
Nayra Sanz Fuentes
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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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Sub Terrae
Nayra Sanz Fuentes
Spain
2017 | 0:07:00
A picture of the future, taken in the present, offering a glimpse of
our fate if we remain quagmired in this system.
hot in Rumichaca Market in Bogotá, this film looks at plants from a
different perspective: their relationship with the cosmos and the
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Jury Statement :
Sub Terrae, is awarded for connecting in a relatively simple structure
the removal of dead bodies and of material waste. With sharp visual
choices it contemplates the beauty of what we mostly prefer not to
see. With an end that reminded us of Hieronymus Bosch’ paintings,
this is a film we wish to be seen at many places.
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Director Statement :
I feel extremely honour to recieve the "Edward Snowden Award" for my
film "Sub Terrae", not only for what the prize defends but also
because it has the name of such an important person, who with his
brave acts ables all of us to live and understand more deeply this
complicated and abstruse XXIst century.
I also feel very happy to have been part of this festival that works
for a cinema that defents film as a critical art that allows to
re-think and question this world in a deep way.
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Special Award for the Best Real Character:
Black Hours
Les Heures-Encres
Wendy Pillonel
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Black Hours
Les Heures-Encres
Wendy Pillonel
Switzerland
2017 | 00:28:46
Frank burns himself to death at his job in protest against the
inhumane working conditions. Two stories emerge from this tragic
incident. Léa, Frank’s wife, who is searching for the truth. Igor, an
employee who finds the dead body and steals the letter of protest for
fear of losing his job.
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Jury Statement :
Black Hours is a strong realistic story about the cruelness of people who
are trapped in a system. We consider the strong performance and character
of the male protangonist, and especially his deep humanity as a crucial
element of the strenght of this short film. Therefor a special mention for
the best real human character. |
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