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12th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Section Documentary
Paris

September 15-21, 2014



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International Competiton
(Experimental) Documentary
No. 12
Friday September 19th, 2014 / 6 pm
Institut finlandais / Paris

 

Semra Ertan
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Cana Bilir-Meier


Germany, Austria
2014 | 00:03:30

Semra Ertan was born in Turkey, 1956 and moved to her parents to the federal republic of germany in 1972. She worked as a construction draftswomen as well as an interpreter and wrote over 350 poems. 1982 Semra Ertan burnt herself in Hamburg to give a sign against xenophobia in Germany.





FRENCH PREMIERE
Extract:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIcUMZwCc38
http://vimeo.com/21592483

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Voices of El Alto
Voces de El Alto
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Benjamin Oroza

Finlande, South Africa
2013 | 00:49:00

A tent is pitched on the market square of El Alto, the Bolivian city perched 4,000 meters above sea level. The filmmakers ask random passersby to tell a personal story for the camera. The film opens with a young girl half giggling, half crying as she describes a very unpleasant experience. It seems that the impersonal camera has become the first confidant she has had for a long time. It's a confronting first scene, but at its core it's representative of what is to follow. The Finnish-Bolivian director Benjamin Oroza explains that this "story tent" – which he has been taking all over the world since 2009 – is a way of "making films with them, not about them. I want my films to convey a sense of us – while I remain silent and invisible." Oroza's sympathetic presence and the generosity of the passersby in sharing their personal experiences combine to create a sensitive collage of stories, a poignant and intimate insight into personal joy and sorrow. There's everything from an optimistic anecdote about a first kiss to a loudly declaimed mini-play about the native population's struggle for independence, along with accounts of runaway spouses, violent fathers, and the pain of being cast out by your own family.





FRENCH PREMIERE
Extract
http://vimeo.com/70274175

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Gangster Backstage
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Teboho Edkins

France, South Africa
2014 | 00:37:30

Gangster Backstage is a documentary film with gangsters in Cape Town, South Africa. As the film moves between a casting interview and scenes in an empty theatre, the sense of confinement within the space increases and becomes a feeling of being trapped, a square, boundaries, a sort of purgatory, the tempo of cigarettes, not knowing where the soul goes, fear, caught in one's thoughts, wanting to break free but can't… a cell.





PARIS PREMIERE
Extract:
http://vimeo.com/79677425

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September 15- 21, 2014

An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.


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