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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Urbino
Italy
April 5-6-7, 2017
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AWARD CELEBRATION
Student Jury
Friday 7, April 2017
Sala degli Incisori, Piazza della Repubblica
Urbino / Italy
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Documentary Competition
Main Award
The War Show
Obaidah Zytoon , Andreas Dalsgaard
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The War Show
Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas Dalsgaard
USA, Danemark
2016 | 1:34:00
In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and her circle of friends join the street protests against President Bashar al-Assad, as the Arab Spring reaches Syria. Knowing their country would be changed forever, this group of artists and activists begin filming their lives and the events around them. But as the regime’s violent response spirals the country into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future will be tested by violence, imprisonment and death. Obaidah leaves Damascus and journeys around the country, from her hometown of Zabadani, to the centre of the rebellion in Homs, and to northern Syria where she witnesses the rise of extremism. A deeply personal road movie, the film captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends.
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/185501557
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Jury Statement :
Un'immersione in una forte realtà raccontata da un punto di vista
molto personale e descrittivo.
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Documentary Competition
Special Mention
Dum Spiro Spero
Pero Kvesic
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Dum Spiro Spero
Pero Kvesic
Croatia
2016 | 0:50:00
"Dum spiro spero" is a Latin saying meaning ‘while I breathe, I hope’. Until this day it has remained the motto of those who refuse to quit until the very last breath. Intertwining daily life, books and death, the author speaks about losing strength and the strength to cope with the loss. Everybody die the moment they are born, which is the greatest reason why to understand the values of life and enjoy the joys it gives. The acclaimed writer after a series of book made his first film and his literatal experience spoke in a cinematic language that reaches the level of his literature. Details of ordinary surrounding and daily life fit in with the story they engender. This film is to a great extent a one-man show, because next to the script and directing, the author also filmed all the material and played the mouth harp.
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/156003602
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Jury Statement :
Una biografia difficile raccontata in prima persona in maniera
spiritosa, suggestiva e originale.
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Director Statement :
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Documentary Competition
Signs Award
A 157
Behrouz Nouranipour |
| The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a
surprising way sensible and perturbing aspects of reality. |
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A 157
Behrouz Nouranipour
Iran
2015 | 1:13:00
One of the most horrifying Isis operations was the physical and cultural genocide of the Yezidi Kurds in Iraq. After conquering the Shingal region west of Mossul the terrorist militia began to systematically kill the male population while thousands of children, girls and women were kidnapped, enslaved, forced into marriage or raped. A157 is a filmmaker look at three pregnant girls recounting their stories of war, violence and sexist conquest in a land where people have no more dreams.
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Jury Statement :
Il racconto attraverso un lungo lavoro di una dolorosa realtà in cui
si trovano le donne-bambine siriane.
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Documentary Competition
Night Award
Two way Jesus
Jet Leyco
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| The Night Award for Documentary honors films, which represent reality
in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of
representation and simple conclusions. |
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Two Way Jesus
Jet Leyco
USA, Philippines
2016 | 0:12:00
In "Two Way Jesus", reality conquers fiction, and versa. The people of Cutud, Pampanga - celebrates the annual "Maleldo", the Crucifixation of Jesus Christ. This seemingly voyeurism approach tackles its participants and observer, religion and culture, and the power of new media in between.
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Jury Statement :
Per l'utilizzo di una tecnica originale che trasmette la potenza della
suggestione della fede.
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Director Statement :
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Short film Competition
Main Award
TEN TO THE MINUS FORTY THREE SECONDS
Francis
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Ten to the minus forty three second
10 puissance moins 43 seconde
Francis
France
2016 | 0:12:00
An Instant in the universe: a few seconds above in space, a few minutes here below for a man, and how much for the plant staring at him… Little by little, these three journeys overlap, fuse with one another and plunge into the heart of matter.
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Jury Statement :
Per essere riuscito a trattare in modo innovativo i temi della vita e
della morte senza l'utilizzo della parola.
Inoltre in corto va premiato per la fotografia, in sound e il video editing.
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Short film Competition
Special Mention
Limbo
Konstantina Kotzamani
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Limbo
Konstantina Kotzamani
Greece, France
2016 | 0:30:00
The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. Confrontation with the death, approachments with the unknown, exluding the stranger.
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/165907333
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Jury Statement :
Per la sceneggiatura e la fotografia.
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Director Statement :
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Short film Competition
Special Mention
The Provisional Death of Bees
Maryam Firuzi
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The Provisional Death of Bees
Maryam Firuzi
Greece, France
2016 | 0:26:46
A poetic journey into the mind of a woman artist in Iran who is creatively blocked and can not finish her next film. The borders of reality and her dreams has faded away as she tries to cling to something in her isolation. Her gender seems the main obstacle she is facing. The only solution she finds is to let go her past, but in the most poetic way as her hair becomes the metaphor of her freedom
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Jury Statement :
Per aver utilizzato una struttura narrativa originale e sperimentale.
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Short Film Competition
Signs Award
IL SILENZIO
Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari |
| The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject o in an original, convincing and surprising way. |
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Il Silencio
Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari
Italy, France
2016 | 0:15:00
Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees in Italy. On their visit to the doctor, Fatma has to translate what the doctor tells to her mother but she keeps silent.
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/166347974
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Jury Statement :
Film di forte impatto emotivo e di sensibilizzazione verso le
situazioni alle quali sono sottoposti alcuni bambini posti in tristi
realtà.
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Short Film Competition
Night Award
JAMAIS-VU
Werner Biedermann
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| 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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Jamais-Vu
Werner Biedermann
Germany
2016 | 0:04:00
The found-footage film „Jamais-vu“ shows archetypical situations which, in this new montage, are perceived as different and strange. This panorama presents a gamut of emotional sensory impressions focussing on cinema as the means of expressing the condition of a culture. All about heart, skin and brains, eyes and genitalia, consciousness and sub-consciousness, in short, all about cinemastory – cinema stories: or, all about life, from birth to death.
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Jury Statement :
Per essere riuscito a creare una narrazione in continuo crescendo di
emozioni forti e contrastanti, utilizzando solo materiale d'archivio.
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Short Film Competition
Edward Snowden Award
Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
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| The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensible (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future. |
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Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Philippines
2016 | 0:15:00
Under the humid night within a lively slum in the center of Manila, Inday, a 54 year old single parent of a special child goes to her unusual work.
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Jury Statement :
Per trattare con immagini crude una realtà a molti sconosciuta.
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