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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
# 7 |
Friday, December 1, 2017 / 10 pm
Ruadas Gaivotas 6
Lisbonne |
Partir |
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Maria Saavedra
Venezuela
2016 | 0:15:00
Rita lives in a small house in the middle of the desert and tries to
escape to find her husband who abandoned her. Her sister Saida always
stops her. One day, tired of it, Saida decides to go with her;
together they embark on a journey through the Venezuelan desert in
search of answers.
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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Words of Caramel |
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Juan Antonio Moreno
Spain
2016 | 0:26:20
In a refugee camp in the Sahara desert lives a deaf boy who wish to
learn how to write. Welcome to Kori and his best friend the camel
Caramel's silent world.
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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Lunch Time |
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Alireza Ghasemi
Iran
2017 | 0:15:00
A 16 year old girl has come to the hospital to identify the body of
her mother. The people in charge at the hospital – due to her young
age – won’t let her into the morgue and ask her to bring her guardian
instead. However the girl insists that most of her family is in jail
for criminal activities. Finally after her insistence they agree to
let her into the morgue... |
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Caliber |
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Cusuman Tanner
USA
2016 | 0:16:07
After a domestic violence call goes haywire and someone is shot,
Officer Mike Banner fights to keep the victim alive, no matter what
the cost.
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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Disco Obu |
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Anand Kishore
India, USA, Singapur
2017 | 0:20:00
A journalist captures a day in the life of a former child actor turned
autorickshaw driver. Over the course of the day their relationship is
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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On the Origin of Fear |
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Bayu Prihantoro Filemon
Indonesia
2016 | 00:12:00
Overdubbing the roles of both torturer and victim in one of
Indonesia's most contentious films, Darto becomes the one-man
embodiment of an era's worst cruelties and sufferings.
* Lors du doublage d'un film indonésien très controversé, Darto
incarne à la fois le tortionnaire et la victime, endossant à lui seul
les pires atrocités de toute une époque.
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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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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