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AWARD CELEBRATION
The 6th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
March 31th - April 5th 2008
Paris |
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The Main Award :
Three of Us
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarmi |
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Three of Us
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarmi
India
2008 /
35 mm /
0:14:00 /
VOSTE
An observation without sentimen-tality of the everyday life of a very unusual family. The mother cooks, the father distributes the newspaper, the son reads it with the help of a magnifying glass that he holds with his foot.
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Jury statement:
The film proves the importance of the documentary medium. With a very humanistic approach and love for the world this film shows us the life of the phisicaly handicapted and underprivilidged and teach us of the importance of compassion, family and acceptance. |
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The Signs Award :
Plot Point
Nicolas Provost |
| The Signs Award is attributed to films treating an important subject
in an original, convincing and surprising way. |
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Plot Point
Nicolas Provost
Belgium
2007 /
HD /
0:15:15 /
Sans dialogue
Partly made with a hidden camera "Plot Poit" captures a symphony of movements in New York and creates on the same time possible stories and a permanent tention of somethin which can arrive... |
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Jury statement:
This film is a sophisticated comment on our society, it´s state of mind and affairs, and the paranoya of being watched and observed. |
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The Night Award :
Rapsódia do Absurdo
Rapsodie de l´absurde
Claudia Nunes |
| The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and
complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,
which keeps mind and consideration moving. |
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Rapsódia do Absurdo
Rapsodie de l´absurde
Claudia Nunes
Brésil / Brazil
2006 /
DV /
0:16:00
Experimental documentary showing scenes of two outstanding episodes of the fight for the land in the countryside and in the city in Brazil. Santa Luzia’s Farm and Parque Oeste Industrial, in Goiás state.
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Jury statement:
We must never underestimate the power of the cinema medium and its possibility to inform, discover, critic political and social aspects of our reality. |
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Jury Award :
K
Piers Thompson |
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K
Piers Thompson
Grande Bretagne / Great Britain
2008 /
35 mm /
020:00
The 15-year-old Kaylee K lives with her father on a caravan camp situated at the border of an industrial town in the middle of a marsh. Between dancing tea parties and wild horses K meets an extrem outsider, who fascinate her.
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Jury statement:
With its musterful use and practice of cinematic language this film reminds us that cinema is a visual medium after all. |
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Special Mention :
Morbus Bechterew
Lola Randl et Reiner Egger
René
Tobias Nölle
Re: Commandments
Guli Silberstein
Acasá
A la Maison
Paul Negoescu
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Morbus Bechterew
Lola Randl et Reiner Egger
Germany
2007 /
Beta SP /
0:11:00 /
VOSTA
Le portrait d’un personnage très détendu.
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René
Tobias Nölle
Switzerland
2007 /
Beta digital /
0:29:00
A man tries desparatly to overcome his loneliness. But his attemps are in vain...
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Re: Commandments
Guli Silberstein
Israel
2007 /
DV /
0:05:00 /
sans dialogue
A rapid stream of looped images sampled from the epic Hollywood film “The Ten Commandments”, TV news broadcasts depicting the summer 2006 war in Lebanon, and a lively belly dancer, all synced up to a hardcore techno track - an apocalyptic Middle East horror rave party unfolds, unveiling contradictions and pathologies in human behavior and beliefs.
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Acasá
A la Maison
Paul Negoescu
Roumanie / Romania
2007 /
DV /
0:14:00 /
VOSTA
A taxi driver on Christmas Eve in Bucharest picks up a customer who works in Spain and has now come home to celebrate Christmas. This man has an eager audience to listen to the stories about working abroad. When the taxi driver drops him off at his home, he realises that emigration also has ist down side.
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