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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
# 8
Thursday 8th april 2010 / 8.30 pm
Maison de l'Europe
Paris


Rotten Apple
 
Sundown


Spinath Ravlilapalli
India
2009 / HD / 0:16:00

In the suburbs two marginal persons, a silent man and a woman who suffers from an enormous inner pain, meet and try to communicate. They spend some time together, but it seems impossible to escape from the rotten past. For the man it gets impossible to stand helpless the permanent anguish.


 

 


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Sofía
 
Sofía


Elise DuRant
Mexico
2009 / HD / 0:21:00

When 18-year-old Sofia puts her studies on hold and takes up waiting tables in order to care for her ailing father, she encounters a few odd characters who initiate her down a path from which there is no way home.




 


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Seer's Catalogue
 
Seer's Catalogue


Dave Griffiths
Great Britain
2009 / DV / 0:07:40

An investigator decodes the Universe through fiery entrails of film, recounting a myth of primal origins, worldly corruption and ultimate fate. His shuffling archive of movie cue-dots hovers between stillness and motion, the result of observing and recording barely visible matter on the screen's margins. Energy escapes these orbital fetishes, displaced from their usual microscopic scale to mix with scenery and bodies; while their collector recounts a life of fruitless research. Seer's Catalogue marks International Year of Astronomy 2009 by colliding pseudo-cosmology with materialist flicker.


 


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Where I am going
Para onde vou  
Para onde vou


Bruno Ramos
Portugal
2009 / 16mm / 0:13 :00

Mother and daughter in a farewell process. In several nocturnal exists they burn every object that the mother,who is very hill, as accumulated along the years. At the beginning of the process the daughter faces it with resistance and suffering. But in time she realizes that it's the best way to reconnect with her mother, to say goodbye to her and help her get free of all the memories that hold her back. After her mother dies, she decides to carry on with the process. Burning everything that she owns, so that herself can start a new life.

 

 


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Clouds fly West
Olatsite letiat na zapad  
Olatsite letiat na zapad


Vesselin Cholakov
Bulgaria
2009 / DV / 0:21:40

Face global issues like Urbanization, Growing World Population and Migration raised by local conflicts. A film based on a true story about a man in unknown city, with no friend to talk to, with nothing to do for a living but to play the accordion...

 

 


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Strange Lights
 
Strange Lights


Joe King, Rosie Pedlow
Royaume Uni
2009 / Digi Beta / 0:08:00

On a winter's night in 1980, American servicemen stationed at an RAF base, witnessed some 'unexplained lights'in Rendlesham Forest. The incident has since become Britain's most famous UFO mystery with abounding rumours of conspiracies and cover-ups. Some argue that the incident was a hoax whilst others believe that the forest is a doorway to another dimension. Maintaining a balance between celebration and criticality, this film revisits the forest, thirty years later, in search of similarly 'inexplicable' events.


 


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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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