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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

November 24 - December 4, 2016

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Maison du Portugal
Maison du Mexique
Main d'oeuvres
 Bibliotheque Francois Truffaut


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Competition International
Short Films
# 7
Sunday 27, November / 2 pm
Mains d'Oeuvres
Paris

 

Cut Out
cut out


Guli Silberstein

Great Britain

2016 | 0:04:00


A radiant, energetic girl is shouting and punching an unseen enemy in the empty space in front of her. She is roughly cut out from her surroundings by a computer algorithm struggling to contain her.


PARIS PREMIERE
 

 

Woman and her Car
Elle pis son char
A woman and her car


Loïc Darses

Canada

2015 | 0:18:00


On 31 December 2003, Lucie Tremblay decided to write to the man who abused her between ages eight and twelve. She is determined to personally deliver the letter. She films her journey to gain closure for the trauma that has haunted her whole life. When her son finds the footage well over a decade later, he decides to turn it into a film: A Woman and her Car. An intimate homage to the courage of an exceptional woman who decided to stand up for herself and a savage condemnation of the bastards who abuse the innocence of others and think they can get away with it.

PARIS PREMIERE
 

 

Poem to Go
Poem to Go


Nina Hochrainer

USA

2015 | 0:07:00


Lynn Gentry is a street poet in New York City. Every day, he places himself with his typewriter on a street corner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and writes poems for passer-bys under the simple premise: Pick a subject, choose a price, get a poem.

FRENCH PREMIERE
 

 

Hounds
Hounds


Omer Tobi

Israel

2016 | 0:30:00


For sixteen years Iris Kadosh has been the keeper of the museum’s exhibits, with much dedication and no complaints. One day she arrives to work to find out that the museum’s operational manager has left and she will be taking her place. The good news is tainted by Iris’ involvement in an accident, one that causes the museum to shut down and brings about an investigation. Iris must work her way through the ever growing anxiety she feels and the colorful and crude ensemble of workers that hover around her. She must face dark questions on ethics, good vs. bad, and decide how far she will go in order to keep the great position she was offered just that morning. The tragic and amusing dynamics between the museum’s employees creates an opera of marginal and rejected characters searching for any shred of respect from the world.

FRENCH PREMIERE
 

 

The Island
La Isla
The Island


Marco Ferrari

Spain

2015 | 0:19:30


The history of a magic island where everything is possible.


 
 

 

Plasma Vista
Plasma Vista


Harriet Fleuriot, Sarah Cockings

Great Britain

2016 | 0:07:31


Plasma Vista allowed us to explore themes of economics, production, creativity and collaboration. Objects and devices become bodily and manipulative. The magician is a composed cartoon machine repeating tricks and equations. When products become prosthetics does the accessory take some emotional control? A creative trance. A collaborative force. A playful duplication of the self with greater consequence that first suspected. A filmic exhibit and retail site that morphed into an experimental piece of moving image occupying the dual space between utility and art.

INTERNATIONAL PREMiERE
 


November 24 - December 4, 2016

An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.



 

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