International Festival Signs of the Night - Paris
Festival internatinal Signes de nuit - Paris
 

24e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris / 9-15 Novembre 2026
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Saturday / Samedi
November 14th, 2026
4 pm / 16 h
Fondation hellénique
Cité universitaire
75014 Paris



 

 

The Other Side of Reality

 

Zig Madamba Dulay
Philippines / 2026 / 0:16:00 15


After five decades of searching — since the Martial Law era under a dictatorship — a mother is finally reunited with her desaparecido son. But not in person — their meeting unfolds in virtual reality, filled with nostalgia and longing. Yet in a post-truth world where technology commodifies emotion and reshapes memory, can her grief ever find closure — or will it be turned into another illusion of comfort and control? During Martial Law in the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos Sr., at least 50,000 were arrested, 11,103 tortured, and 2,326 killed or disappeared. Now, with the dictator’s son back in power, and truth itself under threat, will justice ever be found?

WORLD PREMIERE

 

 

Alter Time

 

Anna-Maria Bechara Oueini
Lebanon / 2026 / 0:04:34

A tour inside the mind of a parkour athlete, where a few seconds spent mid air are enough for time to slow to its absolute stillness, the body to dissolve into weightlessness, and questions to arise.

FRENCH PREMIERE







 

Smouldering Silence

 

Luobing Ye
United Kingdom / 2026 / 0:23:30


"Smouldering Silence" follows Lin An, a young woman torn between family duty and truth after discovering her father’s affair. As her grandmother’s health declines, she struggles with whether to tell her mother, while moments of tenderness between her parents complicate her judgment. The film reflects on silence, forgiveness, and the fragile bonds within family.

WORLD PREMIERE


 

Denied

 

Alexia Colette
France /2026 / 0:15:30


In near-future France, the public hospital system answers to an authoritarian government and decides who gets care: overnight, patients are marked "denied." Stella, 35, a doctor at the end of her rope, keeps practicing while holding her breath under the watchful eye of Nil, a department head obsessed with protocol. At night, with her colleague Hawa, she treats the outcasts in an underground clinic. When one patient's condition worsens, only one drug can save her. It's under lock and key, inside the hospital. To get it, Stella will have to step out of the shadows.

FRENCH PREMIERE


 

Death of a Fantastic Machine

 

Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck
Sweden / 2025 / Documentary / 0:17:21


A visual essay examining how cameras and their economic exploitation shape our perception of reality, fueling political division in today's media-saturated world.

PARIS PREMIERE




 

Love and the Others

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Berna Sitera Degirmen
Turkey / 2025 / Fiction / 0:20:00


Zeynep and Can, whose love is just starting to blossom, are stopped by the police one night while cycling. During the ID check, nationalist and patriarchal biases surface through the officers’ discriminatory behavior. Can their love become a form of resistance strong enough to overcome these biases?

PARIS PREMIERE