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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 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
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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...
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| PORTUGAL PREMIER |
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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 !
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Special Mention :
Meijing
Qu Youjia |
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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.
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| PORTUGAL PREMIER |
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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.
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Director Statement :
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Signs Award :
The Ferryman
Christian Pfohl
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| The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way. |
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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.
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| PORTUGAL PREMIER |
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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.
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Director Statement :
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Special Mention
for the Signs Award :
Long Yearning
Ellliot Spencer |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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| PORTUGAL PREMIER |
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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.
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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!
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Special Award
"Transforming Limitations in Significance" :
To find the day 21th
Kieko Ikehata
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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.
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| EUROPEEN PREMIER |
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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.
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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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