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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne
23 November - 3 December, 2017
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Competition International Short Films
# 5 |
Friday, December 1, 2017 / 5 pm
Ruadas Gaivotas 6
Lisbonne |
Star People |
Esseri di stelle |
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Adriano Giotti
Italy
2016 | 0:14:00
Lucio and Luna are imperfect beings, so skinny that they become almost
invisible. Their love is passionate, extreme, violent, like their
bodies destroyed by food deprivation. When Luna decides to take refuge
in Lucio’s house, their love will have to deal with their problem.
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The Beast |
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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 s
protest reaches Shakespearian proportion.
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Selva |
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Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Costa Rica
2016 | 0:18:00
The land expels and the ocean drowns, departures repeat themselves
with each generation.
Selva dances within voices and memories, in a game that prepares her
for the inevitable separation. |
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I love Anna |
Rakastan Annaa |
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Joonas Rutanen
Finland
2016 | 0:11:00
Santeri looks on as older guys are driving their motor bikes and wants
to be part of their world. He combs his hair and goes to meet his
friend Anna. At Anna‘s home childhood’s anarchy meets puberty.
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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Woodpeckers |
Dayaa |
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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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Mother |
Madre |
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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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November 23 - December 3, 2017
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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