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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne

23 November - 3 December, 2017

Universidad De Lisboa
Ruadasgaivotas6
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AWARD CELEBRATION

The Awards of the Section Cinema in Trangression

Sunday, December 3, 2017 / 3 pm
Ruadas Gaivotas 6
Lisbon / Portugal

 

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Main Award :

The Eternals
Les Éternels
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd


  
The Eternals


The Eternals
Les Éternels
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd

Belgium, France
2017 | 1:15:00

We call those who suffer from the melancholy of eternity, eternals.Convinced that death cannot triumph over their lives, they believe thatthey are doomed to wander in anticipation of the day when they will befreed from their existence.This film is a story of wandering and fleeing, on the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan...



PORTUGAL PREMIER

Jury Statement :
The Eternals is awarded for the awe and discovery of a good subject. A film that moves the viewers both spiritually and personally beyond words, with moments of pure commotion and trance. The beauty contained in this film along with the respect of the subject so carefully portrayed on screen is what we believe making movies is all about, infusing us with longing to see more !


 
Special Mention :

Meijing
Qu Youjia
  
Meijing


Meijing
Qu Youjia

China
2017 | 0:34:00

Nine-year-old Zhu Meijing always goes to the film sets alone. Through a tutor of the orchestra, she got a part in a child movie, to play a bit of the flute. The leading actress Hanhan somehow cried and screamed all day, for which the shooting could not proceed. The director had to change the actress, and Meijing was asked to play the Chinese traditional instrumental music “Fisherman’s Song at Sunset”. After a frustrating day, Meijing got home, feeling the air was even colder than her loneliness.



PORTUGAL PREMIER

Jury Statement :
Meijing. For the the cool unemotional approach to a film that is both self-reflexive and auto-ironical portraying the harsh situations that a child must endure during a making of a picture. It was appreciated in its simplicity and mastery of scales and points of view achieving an intimacy never seen before in such films.


Director Statement :

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Signs Award :

The Ferryman
Christian Pfohl


  The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way.



The Ferryman


The Ferryman
Christian Pfohl

France
2017 | 1:11:00

"The ferryman" is a documentary on the place of the rite, the trance, the performance and the show in the world, with the creations of Damien Jalet, choreographer / performeur. Through the way of the existence of a man-deer interpreted by Damien Jalet, we build parallels between time and places connecte in a cinematic space: In Bali, in Japan, in the Scotland, in Brussels, in the Louvre, in the opera of Paris, in Créteil.... This movie is a deification of the life and the nature which expresses itself in a profusion of rites, trances, and sculptures. Exploiting nature untill Fukushima.



PORTUGAL PREMIER

Jury Statement :
The Ferryman is awarded for the original, surprising and aesthetically advanced way in which myth and dance both on stages and in nature are combined into a universal cinematic story of life.

Director Statement :
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Special Mention
for the Signs Award :

Long Yearning
Ellliot Spencer
Long Yearning


Long Yearning
Ellliot Spencer

Australie
2017 | 0:24:00

“Long Yearning” is a cinematic exploration of the lives of Chinese factory workers and the nature of repetitive industrialised work. The film is intermixed with written excerpts of traditional Chinese poetry, creating a surreal merging between modern and ancient China.

 

Jury Statement :
The Long Yearning got a special mention for the recognition of the role of sound throughout the film, superbly edited and designed, that refuses the use of the spoken word allowing the viewer to remain emotionally engaged and actively give him the tools to rationalize the deep meanings of the message. The contrast between ancient poetry and the ever renewing of a world in constant change and development was by far the best choice, of a structurally sound editing that kept us at the edge of our feet throughout the film.

Director Statement :
I would like to thank 15° Internacional Festival Signos de la Noite - Lisboa, Portugal for screening Long Yearning. I would also like to acknowledge the factory workers and factory owners for supporting this project.

 

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The Night Award :

The sea stares at us from afar
El mar nos mira de lejos
Manuel Munoz Rivas
  
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.


The sea stares at


The sea stares at us from afar
El mar nos mira de lejos
Manuel Munoz Rivas
Spain

2017 / 1:33:00

The legend of an Uncient and forgotten civilization lies buried under a large expanse of dunes. For more than a century, a number of travelers have reached this remote and desolate territory looking for the traces of ancient inhabitants, the ruins of a city, or perhaps a sort of lost utopia. Ignorant of these myths and the romantic delusions of archaeologists and adventurers, a few men, barely visible among the sands, today inhabit in solitude that place facing the sea.

 

 

Jury Statement :
The Sea Stares at Us from Afar is awarded for its masterful and beautiful interweaving of a study of place as character, an haunting and timeless place that is at the same time immutable and ever changing, with several micro-narratives of the inhabitants and visitors - who always seem to be in search of something that might or might not be there.

Director Statement :
Wonderful News! It's a pity that I can't join you to celebrare in Lisboa, a beautiful city that was my home for a few years, precisely by the time that I was writing or, better say, dreaming my film. NIGHT AWARD is a great name for an award, I'd like to thank the jury, it makes me happy that you enjoyed the subtle vibrations of my film, and thank you for accepting its invitation to explore the mysteries of a territory. Abraço grande. Manuel Munoz Rivas

 

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Special Mention
for the Night Award :

In Paradisum - le véritable dragon rouge
Ricardo Bross
  
In Paradisum


In Paradisum - le véritable dragon rouge
Ricardo Bross

Mexico
2017 | 0:15:00

Whom who inhabits occult in thy skin, thy flesh, thy bones, behind blinded eyes, behind unvirtuous hands, behind foul tongues and fading faces, I walk amongst ourselves… I am our Beast.





PORTUGAL PREMIER

Jury Statement :
In Paradisum for its use of montage technique to create a powerful essay on the ambivalent nature of human nature, reminding us that beneath a surface of normalcy and civility lies an ever present monstrous tendency to violence and (self-)destruction.

Director Statement :
I am incredibly honoured by the jury decision, to have received the special mention means a lot to me and the people involved in the short film. This make all the work, sweat, and blood worthwhile and give us the necessary push to continuing doing what we love: films. Thanks for the honour!

 

 
Special Award
"Transforming Limitations in Significance" :


To find the day 21th
Kieko Ikehata

To find the Day of 21st


To find the Day of 21st
Kieko Ikehata

Japan
2017 | 0:13:38

The main role is played by old family photographs. Illuminated by the beam of a flashlight like the objects of a treasure hunt, these pictures that are displayed pinned to a tatami mat present a strange scene. Encouraged to solve the mystery by the enigmatic developments surrounding a date that has been lost, we cannot follow this path to the “truth.” A work in which both the monologue and visuals make use of the immense power of poetry to deliver a message.


EUROPEEN PREMIER

Jury Statement :
To find the day of 21st combines an original and aesthetic concept in which two opposing visual media - photography as the capturing of one single moment in life and film as the fluent performance of time - in a cinematic story about forgetting and remembering that is profound and distressing.

Director Statement :
It is a great honor for me that being selected as a special award at such a meaningful film festival. I am very happy! Thank you very much. I gave birth to my daughter in September and became a mother. It became more difficult to make a movie than before, but such evaluation is very encouraging to me. I would like to do my best again for the next work.

 


 

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