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Le 16e Festival International
Signes de Nuit
Paris
4 - 14 octobre, 2018
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International Competition
Documentaries
# 2 |
Thursday 11, october
2018 / 10 pm
Maison de Norvège
Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris
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Aguyje |
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WORLD PREMIERE
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Joao Couto
Brazil
2018 | 00:35:00
A day in the life of a father and his daughter in a Guarani-Mbya
village in Brazil is guided by dreams and issues that native
populations face in a day-by-day basis while living in the modernized
world.
"Nhamandu first real father! Is in this land that Nhamandu Big Heart,
divine mirror of wisdom, cheers up. You that make those whom you
provided the bow cheer up, here: again we cheer.
Things being that way: As the indestructible words, the ones nothing,
ever, will weaken, we, the few numerous divine things’ orphans, will
repeat them, cheering ourselves. So that we can cheer up and cheer us
up again. Nhamandu first real father!"
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Srbenka |
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Nebojsa Slijepcevic
Croatia
2018 | 01:12:00
During the winter of 1991, Croatia defended itself against the military aggression of neighbouring Serbia. Among the innocent victims of this conflict was Aleksandra Zec, a teenager of Serbian origin, who was hatefully lynched in Zagreb. A generation later, while in Croatian schools, Serbian pupils continue to be taken for the “enemies” of yesterday, Oliver Frlji? adapts “the Zec affair” at the theatre, with Nina, a Serbian, born in 2001, in the title role. In front of Nebojša Slijep?evi?’s camera, the troupe’s rehearsals turn into collective psychotherapy, interspersed by shots of an empty stage haunted by personal accounts that build up in voiceover. Through skilful metatheatre that involves both the troupe’s acting and sense of self as they work on their own memories, distanced by the theatrical device, Srbenka delineates a public space likely to break the cycle of vengeance. Slijep?evi?’s film also constitutes a powerful reflection on one of the possible functions of art: to dry out, metre by metre, the cesspool of hatred fed by the entrepreneurs of ethnic cleansing who continue to act today.
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October 4 - 14, 2018
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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