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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. 13
Friday September 19th, 2014 / 9 pm
Studio des Ursulines/ Paris

 

When I Am A Bird
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Monika Pawluczuk

Poland
2013 | 00:28:30

"When I Am A Bird", immersed in the world of fortune tellers and ghosts, tells the story of the attempt to change one's fate. MuLa, a Kayan woman, refugee from Burma, has been living in Thailand for two years with her husband and all her sons. On the other side of the border her only daughter is left. The mother wants to bring her over to a better world. The time of waiting, full of anxiety and tension, sets the rhythm and the atmosphere of the film.





 
Extract:
http://vimeo.com/71326544

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Concerning Violence
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Göran Hugo Olsson

Sweden, USA, Denmark
2014 | 01:25:00

After his success during the 2011 Panorama with The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 about the Afro-American civil rights movement, Göran Hugo Olsson returns with a retrospective view of Africa’s independence movements. Based on Frantz Fanon’s famous book, ‘The Wretched of the Earth’, the film describes the uprisings that led to Africa’s decolonisation. Once again, Olsson concentrates on archive material filmed in Africa by Swedish documentary filmmakers and television journalists between 1966 and 1984. Footage of liberation movements in Angola, the Frelimo in Mozambique and the struggle for independence in Guinea-Bissau are juxtaposed with documentary images of Swedish missionaries in Tanzania and a strike in a Swedish mine in Liberia. Musician Lauryn Hill brings to life Fanon’s polarising texts which structure and provide commentary on the film’s visual material. A glimpse of today’s smouldering conflicts along the old colonial borders shows that, even 50 years after Fanon’s death, Africa is still having to deal with the consequences of centuries of European raids and interventions.





FRENCH PREMIERE
Extract:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohoiW9HrXkc
Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBYMyJ8AuFA
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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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