24e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris / 9-15 Novembre 2026
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Monday/ Lundi
November 9th, 2026
10 pm / 22 h
FoMaison des édudiants arméniens
Cité universitaire
75014 Paris
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Lilit Umedyan |
Armenia / 2025 / 0:07:39 |
The Artist works meticulously to turn the piece of clay into a perfect form. After squeezing that “perfect” form she worked on for a while, she takes a picture of the work and puts it on a large blue wall were there are already plenty of other photographs.
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Anna Grigorian |
Armenia, Canada / 2025 / 0:15:30 |
"Fibers" is based on personal accounts of women after the 2020 Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war. The film highlights a brief moment that took place in one of the bomb shelters in Artsakh in 2020.
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Ovsanna Shekoyan |
Armenia / 2021 / 0:15:00 |
Raffi is a young physical education teacher in a small village school. Everything changes in his normal life when one of the kids faints during his class. The situation gets more tense when Raffi confesses that the kids were doing a handstand to warm up in the gym at a temperature below zero.
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Instructions for the Future
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Greta Harutyunyan |
Armenia / 2023 / 0:40:00 |
"Instructions for the Future", an experimental documentary by Greta Harutyunyan, weaves together family VHS archives from the late 1990s and early 2000s with contemporary interviews, street encounters, and media fragments. Centered on a symbolic act of turning her family’s old camera back toward her aunt, the film initiates an intergenerational dialogue about expectation, identity, and destiny. Through intimate conversations and layered archival footage set against Armenia’s political upheavals, Greta explores the conflicting “instructions” imposed on a young woman’s life. Blurring personal memory with collective trauma, the film becomes both a search for an individual future and a meditation on a generation shaped by war, transition, and loss.
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Vahan Khachatryan |
Armenia / 2024 / 0:16:20 |
A young man named Grigor Grigoryan wakes up from a strange slumber and finds that he has transformed into the XX century writer Franz Kafka. He is chocked by profound sorrow and frailty and he desperately feels the need to understand how he must continue living now.
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Marianna Movsesyan |
Armenia / 2025 / 0:19:24 |
Vardan is a lonely man in his fifties. He lives alone in an old apartment and works as a security guard. Every morning, he carefully sets the table, eats a boiled egg with tea, puts on a freshly ironed blue shirt, and goes to work. At work, every day is the same — surveillance screens and a colleague constantly solving crosswords. Vardan spends his days watching other people’s lives unfold, while remaining apart, on the other side of the screen, like a Robinson on his own island. His only companion is a goldfish in an aquarium. One day, he notices a woman dancing alone in an empty library on one of the monitors. She awakens something inside him. From that moment on, he begins to watch her every day. He thinks about her constantly, even sees her in his dreams. Finally, he decides to go to her —and finds himself on the other side of the screen he had been staring at for so many years.
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