The 8th International Festival Signes de Nuit / Paris / 2010

The 8th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

March 29th - April 11th 2010

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Program
Focus Malaysia
Closing Film

April 10th, 2010 / 8 pm
Maison Heinrich Heine
Paris

15 Malaysia

15 Malaysian Artists
Malaysia
2009 | 0:80:00

15 young Malaysians photographers, artists and filmmakers filmed their society with their feelings, perspectives and engagements. The need of liberty and transformation is coming through. The medium film combine...d with the platform of the web space had let to the most high perception of a film in the history of Malaysia, up to now 15 Millions spectators, 440 000 downloads, and 94 000 fans on facebook has shown up. Even the Minster of culture of Malaysia and a High Islamic leader has participated in the work.

Directors & Films :

Ho Yuhang - Potong Saga
Yasmin Ahmad - Chocolate
James Lee - James Lee
Woo Ming Jin - Slovak Sling
Amir Muhammad - The Tree
Tan Chui Mui - One Future
Liew Seng Tat - Halal
Johan John - Duit Kecil
Khairil Bahar -Healthy Paranoia
Kamal Sabran - Lumpur
Desmond Ng - The Son
Linus Chung - House
Benji Lim & Bahir Yeusuff- Meter
Nam Ron - Lollipop
Suleiman Brothers- Rojak!

infos

March 29th - April 11th 2010

We present film series focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition, as an act of resistance in the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes..