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The 16th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbon
16. Festival Internacional
Signos Da Noite
January 4 - 7, 2019
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Competition International Short Films
# 2 |
Friday, January 4, 2019 / 5 pm
DARC, Desterro
Lisbon / Portugal |
Water |
Neer |
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
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Dipendra Vasistha
Inde
2017 | 0:33:00
After the death of his mother, a melancholic man is in the middle of a
deal to sell his ancestral place in Varanasi and wants to return back
to the United States for good. The night before the date of his
departure, he's given a bag of food by a sadhu (a holy man) to feed a
hungry soul.
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Rikishi |
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LISBOA PREMIERE
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Lilien Menanteau
France
2017 | 0:19:47
Despite his solid build, Jason is a shy teenager. At the pool, a classmate bullies him, comparing him to a "Sumo". Furious, he seizes the young man and tries to drown him. The assault is violent, Jason faces three days of suspension. At home, he kills time researching on "Rikishis", these Japanese athletes considered godlike. The identification is instantaneous. The journey begins...
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Hide and Seek |
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INTERNATIONAL PREMIER
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Venera Kaizhanova
Kazakhstan
2018 | 0:29:00
Two little girls’ light childhood goes dark every time it contacts
with the world of adults. Can they hide in the sunny world or the
clouds of the stark realities of life will find them?
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May Day |
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LISBOA PREMIER
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Olivier Magis
Belgium
2017 | 0:22:00
In Thierry's living room, several people have gathered. None of them
know each other but they are all there to try and fulfil the same
dream. They want to find a job... and quickly. But we're in Brussels,
so nothing goes quite as planned.
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January 4 - 7 , 2019
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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