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The 5th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

June 11th - 16th, 2007

Cinéma Archipel
Cinéma Archipel
Centre Culturel Irlandais
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Fondation Suisse
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International Competition
Short Film
# 2
Monday, June 11th, 2007 / 8 pm
Cinéma Archipel
Paris


L’autre matin, en attendant
 
lautre matin


Mario Rigoni Stern, de Jean-François Neplaz et Elisa Zurli
France
2006 / 35 mm / 0:13:00 / VO

A walker takes a rough walk through the winter landscapes around Asiago where everything evokes the experiences, the landscapes and the men narrated by the writer Mario Rigoni Stern. There, the monologue against the war from the one who began writing “A Sergeant in the snow” on the Russian front, gives the advance its entire metaphorical dimension.


 


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Monkeylove
 
monkeylove


Tan Royston
Japon, Singapore
2005 / Beta SP / 0:09:00 / VOSTA

In the winter landscape of Hokkaido, a guy in a monkey suit is searching for lost love. A meditation on life and art, love and longing, , lyrical, enigmatic, pensive, whimsical and spare - like a haiku.


 


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Impending Doom
 
calamité menaçante


Egdar Pêra
Portugal
2006 / DV / 0:07:00 / Without dialog

Shot in super 8 Impending doom and is a visual testimony and a sonic interpretation of two ceremonies of communion that took place in Rome and in Lisbon in the year of 2005. Both communities with different kind of beliefs and ideologies shared a sense of pain, grief and peace in a world at war.

 

 

 


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Black Rain
 
pluies noirs


George Barbakdze

Australia
2006 / Digi Beta / 0:06:30 / Without dialog

Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster Masha is still suffering from traumatising recollections, which the catastrophe and its aftermath have seared into her memory. Pain and fear are materialised in the form of rain for Masha, as it unlocks the most dramatic and horrifying images of her childhood. This particular night Masha decides to fight her childhood nightmares and attempts to make her first emphatic connection with the rain.

 


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Hello?
 
Allo ?


Gavin Lim
Singapore
2006 / Beta SP / 0:15:00 / VOSTA

The 1970's, Naomi Wong is a phone cleaner in Singapour. When a employee falls in love with her, she applies her far-fechted philosophy of love to him.

 


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A Man’s got to do what a man’s go to do
 
A man's got to do


Harald Schleicher
Germany
2006 / Beta SP / 0:09:00 / Without dialog

What does it take to become a man, to be a man, to stay a man? Heroes of the silver screen show us the way. Icons of the movies speak out on male identity, friendship and love.

 


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Dead End
 
dead end


Imri Matalon
Israel
2006 / 16mm / 0:13:00 / VOSTA

A forbidden journey around border shapens the differences between Eran, an Israeli musician, and Ali, a young Palestinian. Eran´s naivety and Ali´s fears meet on their joint journey to a wedding...

 


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Green
Verde  
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Matias Meyer

Mexico
2006 / 35 mm / 0:17:00 / VOSTF

Juan and Matita are two kids who came from different social backgrounds.


 


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June 11th - 16th, 2007

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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