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The 8th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

March 29th - April 11th 2010

Cinéma Archipel
Centre Culturel Irlandais
Goethe Institut
Maison de l'amerique Latine
Maison de l'Europe
Mairie de Paris
cite universitaire
Fondation Suisse
Maison Heinrich Heine
Maison de Brésil
 

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International Competition
Short Film
# 4
Tuesday 6th April 2010 / 9 pm
Maison de l'Europe
Paris


Way Fire
 
Way Fire


Sylvia Schedelbauer
Germany
2009 / DV / 0:06:20

A layered tone poem of found images and woven soundscapes renders a shifting psychogram; a nomadic passage across spaces in and out of time.









 


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The Illusion
 
The Illusion


Susana Barriga
Cuba
2008 / HD / 0:24:00

After having spent the past 26 years imagining what her father is like Susana sets out from Cuba to England to meet him for the first time. She tries to conjure up memories of his face, but all she has left are the few blurred photographs she took clandestinely – and the desire to reconstruct the illusion she had before their meeting.








 


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Oli’s Wedding
Nunta lui oli  
Nunta lui oli


Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Roumanie
2009 / 35 mm / 0:22:00

Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in the USA. Dorel is going to watch the wedding through a webcam toghether with two of his son’s friends. On the small display they are going to meet the bride, her father and will witness the ceremony. A bitter-sweet story about scattered families and lonely parents.











 


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La Bohème
 
La Bohème


Werner Herzog
Great Britain
2009 / 35 mm / 0:04:00

Herzog takes the love duet "O Soave Fanciulla" ("Oh Gentle Angel") from Act One of the opera and sets it to images of the Mursi people in southwest Ethiopia. The film is part of a project sponsored by the English National Opera and the satellite channel Sky Arts in which directors were asked to reimagine an operatic number in purely visual terms.

 


 


 


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Exodus
 
Exodus


Almagul Menlibayeva
Kazaksthan
2009 / DV / 0:11:00

„Exodus“ is showing a weared off tradition in the present Kazakhstan, like a strange and powerful tale. Men and women are in the process of packing up their Yurtas (nomadic tents). An ancient shamanistic normad ritual „The Closing Road“ is persecuted, only perceived by a girl, who is icaptivated by what is ment to be left behind. Exodus is on the same time evoking the global uprooting.

 


 

 

 


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To the Dead To The Dying
A chi è già morto A chi sta per morire  
A chi è già morto A chi sta per morire


Fulvio Pepe
Italy
2008 /Beta SP / 0 :18 :00

In a village in Lucania, during the night somebody is walking alone, filming himself and telling a story throughthe camera. His account of the four suicides seauentially occurred in Lucania fradually shifts in an analysis of Italy's current condition. It is a solitary meditation in which two words are ruthlessly repeated: "Mediocrity! Mediocrity!"

 

 

 


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Droopy Eyes
Olhos de Ressaca  
Simple presence


Petra Costa
Brazil
2009 / 35 mm / 0:20:00

In Undertow Eyes, Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from family archives that confound themselves with images of the present, suggests a personal diary on love and death.





 


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March 29th - April 11th 2010

 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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