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AWARD CELEBRATION
The 7th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
June 17th - 28th, 2009
Short Film Competition
2009
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The Main Award :
Two Birds
Smáfuglar
Rúnar Rúnarsson |
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Two Birds
Smáfuglar
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Islande
2008 / 35 mm / 0:15:00
Two birds follow a group of young teenagers in a brillant summer night during a day that shifts from innocence to the tough reality of the adults' world.
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The Signs Award :
Unforgettable Memory
Weile Wangque de Jinian
Liu Wei |
| The Signs Award is attributed to films treating an important subject
in an original, convincing and surprising way. |
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Unforgettable Memory
Weile Wangque de Jinian
Liu Wei
China
2009 / DV / 0:13:00
A painful retourn on the recent events of the Chinese history: a photo evokes disturbing memories regarding the attempt to establish a democracy.
Extrait :
https://youtu.be/sqx040596Fs
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The Night Award :
The Wall
Muro
Tião |
| 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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The Wall
Muro
Tião
Brésil
2008 / 35 mm / 0:18:00
Soul in the vacuum, desert in expansion.
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Special Mention :
Macabre Dance
Pedro Pires
Paradise Coffee
Café Paraíso
Alonso Ruizpalacios
The Journey
Ashish Shukla
Majken
Andrea Östlund
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Macabre Dance
Pedro Pires
Canada, Québec
2008 / 35 mm / 0:08:00
Sometimes, when we think ourself perfectly inert, our
corpse becomes animated, express itself and dances a final macabre balley. The many spasms that shake our bodies are they only
erratic movements or do they echo the swirl and tumult of our past lives?
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Paradise Coffee
Café Paraíso
Alonso Ruizpalacios
Mexique
2008 / 35 mm / 0:10:00
Two Mexican immigrants are cooks at "Coffee Paradise". While preparing dishes, the youngest of the two also prepares his heroic resignation with which he hopes to recover his youth, his dignity and even the love of a waitress ..
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The Journey
Ashish Shukla
India
2008 / DV / 04:26
A man escorts his dead son, on a last journey down along the river Ganges.
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Majken
Andrea Östlund
Sweeden
2008 / 35 mm / 0:28:00
Dolly is fed up with manners of the store Konsum: they pack vegetables in some plastic and have the insolence to claim themselves "Green". sheTherefore, she picks up her telephone and, in the other end of the line, there is Majken.
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