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Focus
19 - 28 June
The Focus programs of the Festival Signes de Nuit are intending to account the social and psychical phenomena which characterise the specific emotional and intellectual aspects of a region or country. In this critical work, we have considered essential to prefer movies that refuse in the manner and means of expression, the use of standardized methods for returning the real. This, to avoid digestive practice by which a fairly widespread type of film, television content, newspapers, that with impunity represent reality as a mere product of consumption.es programmes. To the four focuses we presented on April, (1st part of the festival , Focus Moyen-Orient, Kazakhstan, Russia et Switzeland) we are going to add in this second phase Focus: l’Africa, la Finland and Ukraine.
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Program Focus Africa n°1 - Saturday 20 of June 16h
Mairie du Xème
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Aicha
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Newton I. Aduaka
Nigeria, Sénégal, France
2004 * 0:13:00
The story of a man in an African city. In the heat of the night he
meets a woman, unknown with a subjugating charm, who came back for just one night to haunt the world of the living!
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At the middle of the earth, wells and men
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Ingrid Patetta
Niger
2008 * 0:25:00
Standing on the edge of a well, a man has a rudimentary harness. Camera in hand, he dives and there began a dizzying descent,
joined two men who work at the center of the earth. We have to penetrate in the world of traditional puisatier in the lands of Niger. Filmed in the desert countryside of the country, the film reveals the expertise of these men who fight against the sand to reach water and the impact of
desertification on the pastoralist community.
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First Elections
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Sarah Vanagt
Belgique, Congo
2006 * 0:15:00
Democratic Republic of Congo. A group of children have fun anticipating the first democratic elections since the independence. They imitate political speech, violent and caricatural, with which they grew. This
game becomes a barometer of the political situation between the DRC and Rwanda.
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Kinshasa 2.0
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Teboho Edkins
Afrique du Sud
2007 * 0:11:00
The relationship between the internet, the virtual spaces of "Second Life" and democracy are explored in this short film inspired by the arrest of Marie-Thérèse Nlandu, a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Congo and leader of the Party for Peace in Congo. An investigation into the effects of the arrest on the family, with
Carine, Marie-Thérèse's niece.
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Le cri de la mer
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Aicha Thiam
Senegal, Belgium
2008 * 0:26:00
Le Cri de la Mer is the struggle of a mother Yaye Bayam Diouf, who lost his only son in a boat bound, destination: the Canary Islands. Today Thiaroye-sur-mer, her neighborhood, her life is devoted to the fight against illegal immigration
Le Cri de la Mer is also a cry from the heart, a singular light on a scourge that carried away more than 3000 young Senegalese.
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Nora
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David Hinton, Alla Kovgan
US, Mozambique, England
2008 * 0:36:00
An intense visual poem that tells the moving story of a young dancer
originally from Zimbabwe.
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Ra,The Réparatrice
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Mamadou Cissé
Mali
2007 * 0:25:00
BIn Bamako, Ra, a girl of twenty-five years, exercices a " man business": she repairs generators and works following the rithm of seasons. Ra grants
also great importance to social relations: she encapsulates young
girls from twelve to fifteen years old and participates to activities organized by the girls of the neighborhood. The young Kaba recycles generators to make crockery utensils. The wedding day of Ra,we will find the gifts given by her girl friend Kadi from recycling
parts of generators sold by the young Kaba.
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Above all, Smile
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Fatou Jupiter Touré
Senegal, Belgium
2006 * 0:08:00
It is by chance that I met Maymunah when I was lost
in a bus station. Her spontaneity and freedom made me curious.Gradually a real friendship is born between us. Thereafter, I
wanted to film the time of a day at the station in turmoil, as close as possible to reality, to try to capture what makes it so special and
appealing to my eyes. Unfortunately, it was a partyshe was gone.
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Program Focus Africa n°2 - Sunday 28 of June 14h
Galerie Talmart
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Bilim Bi Jam (Strange thing)
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Simon Pierre Bell
Cameroun
2007 * 0:26:00
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Genocide
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Stéphane Valentin
France
2008 * 0:25:10
This film is the outspoken and violent evidence of Révérien Rurangwa a Tutsi survivor of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
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Humanitarian!
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Adama Ruamba
Burkina Faso, France
2007 * 0:16:00
UA film that pays tribute to the work that these men and women perform each day in the field of hostilities. Men and women always together with death.
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Kempinski
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Neil Beloufa
France, Mali
2007 * 0:14:00
Confusion between reality and poetic myths overnight in Mali.
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Tear of hope
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Guy René Kenmegne
Cameroun
2007 * 0:25:00
An immigrant arrives in Yaounde Central thanks to a cultural festival.
Behind him, Bangui implodes, the town is flames and blood. This terrible situation has many repercussion on the young man's existence and force him to seek asylum in Cameroon.
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The red of Paradise
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Nantenaina Lova
Madagascar
2008 * 0:19:00
1982: Madagascar endures the consequences of an authoritarian regime that calls itself socialist-communist. When her husband gives her his rebel project, Jeanne, unable to reason, turns to his brother, a member of the party like many others.
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Papa
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Aicha Thiam
Senegal, Belgium
2006 * 0:08 :00
On a beach where I used to think, I speak to my father. In this
scenario made of sea, sky, sun, clouds and sand, I remember our
separation and his come-back
Photography Director: Ousseynou Ndiaye "Ouzina" / Artistic Sound director: Abdoulaye Gjèye / Editing: Aicha Thiam
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Soldier’s Voice
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Sarah Vanagt
Belgium, Congo
2007 * 0:30:00
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Start all over again
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Sadio Doucouré
France, Mali
2007 * 0:32:00
Mamad, 18 years old, born in Mali, lived in France for 15 years with his parents, brothers and sisters. Leaving for a moment his birthday party, he is arrested as he has no papers and is forced to leave France. He lands in Bamako with, as only reference he has a number and an adress, he knows nothing about Mali, barely understand le bamana (bambara) and does not know what to expect.
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Waramutseho
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Auguste Bernhard Kouémo Yanghu
France, Belgium, Cameroon
2008 * 0:21:00
Kabera and Uwamungu, Rwandan students, are two friends who live together in a suburb of Toulouse. One day, Kabera learns by telephone that is chaos in their country and that some family members participated in the massacre of the Uwamungu family. From that moment onwards, the feeling of guilt and Kabera and the sense of betrayal of Uwamungu fight one against the other, testing their friendship.
What to do when you are far from a country where two population kill one another?
Kill one another? Kill one another?
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