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AWARD CELEBRATION
9th International Festival Signes de Nuit Paris
Octobre 5th - 16th 2011
The Awards of the Section Documentaries
October 12th 2011 / 10 pm
Cité Universitaire / Maison du Brésil / Cité Universitaire / Paris
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The Main Award
(over 45 mn) :
Iraq: War, Love, God and Madness
Mohamed Al-Daradji |
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Iraq: War, Love, God and Madness (edition 2010)
Mohamed Al-Daradji
Irak, Great Britain
2010 | 35 mm | 1:25:00
Mohammad Al Darradji's documentary looks at the harrowing, perilous business of making a feature film in post-invasion Baghdad. "Iraq: War, Love, God and Madness" tells the story behind the making of Ahlaam, the second feature film shot in Iraq during the post-Saddam era. Caught between local militias, foreign fighters and suspicious American forces, Mohamed Al Darradji and his motley crew of volunteers face immense danger and huge hurdles as they try to make art in a war zone.
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The Main Award
(up 45 mn) :
Raul's World
Jessica Rodriguez Sanchez, Horizoe Garcia |
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Raul's World
Jessica Rodriguez Sanchez, Horizoe Garcia
Cuba
2010 | Digital | 0:22:00
A simple man has his secrets. The pleasure of observation can't be shared. Overwhelming phantasm spread out in daily circumstances. A study about solitude and emotional surviving.
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The Sign Award (over 45 mn) :
Just Shoot me
Claudia Nunes |
The Signs Award is attributed to films treating an important subject
in an original, convincing and surprising way. |
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Just Shoot me
Claudia Nunes
Brasil
2010 | Numerique | 1:07:00
Claudia Nunes captures the thoughts, impressions, histories, secrets and joys of abandonated street children. Her obsersavations, just following the youngsters, are quite surprising and don't fit in standardised pity models.
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The Sign Award Short Documentary
(over 45 mn) :
Mother
Jakub Piatek |
The Signs Award is attributed to films treating an important subject
in an original, convincing and surprising way. |
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Mother Matka
Jakub Piatek
Poland
2010 | Digital | 0:11:00
Tables screwed to the floor. One hour that must suffice for two weeks, sometimes even a month: the visiting room of a Polish jail. On one side: husbands, sons, fathers; on the opposite: children, wives, mothers. The film depicts the world of a mother who comes to visit her son: her devotion, her solitude, and her constant waiting.
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The Sign Award
Mention Speciale :
Outside the Court
Marc Isaac
Frammenti di altra quotidianita
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The Signs Award is attributed to films treating an important subject
in an original, convincing and surprising way. |
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Outside the Court
Marc Isaac
Great Britain
2010 | Numerique | 0:58:30
Inside a North London magistrates’ court, judges hear an endless litany of criminal cases, from the hapless to the horrifying. Outside the court, filmmaker Marc Isaacs waits with a camera. Over four seasons he speaks to people on their way in and out of the building, sympathetically documenting their stories. Frenchman Michel, who has been troubled most of his life, is up for carrying a weapon. He planned to use it against a security guard, but ended up remorsefully handing himself over to police before committing the crime. Alcoholic Mark has repeatedly breached his parole, by coming into contact with the son whom he desperately misses. Isaacs’ subjects are not big time criminals, but vulnerable repeat offenders who tell very candid, often moving stories. Not surprisingly, drug and alcohol abuse lay at the heart of much of these tales of woe, with addicts often looking to the justice system for more help than it can provide.
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Fragments d'un autre quotienneté
Frammenti di altra quotidianita
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Italie, Mozambique
2010 | Numerique | 1:00:00
A group of volunteers from an Italian ONLUS started up a laboratory at Mundzuku Ka Yina of photos, videos and digital elaborations of images. The students are able to talk about their work and their daily life without the pity with which we are used to regarding this type of reality, thus shattering the taboos of the politically correct thanks to the sincere and authentic vision of the authors. By the way the term “frammenti” means a “puzzle” announcing a collective work.
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The Night Award :
Phnom Penh Lullaby
Pawel Kloc |
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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Phnom Penh Lullaby
Pawel Kloc
Poland
2011 | Digital | 1:36:00
Phnom Penh Lullaby is an intimate story of a man looking for love and acceptance. Ilan Schickman left Israel dreaming of a new life. He now lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with his Khmer girlfriend Saran and daughters Marie, 2 years old, and Jasmine, 6 months, trying to make ends meet as a street fortune-teller.
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The Night Award Short Documentary :
At the Stairs
Rajesh S. Jala |
Le Prix de Nuit récompense des films doués d'ambiguïté et de complexité à la fois, qui procèdent par énigmes,
où la réflexion et l'esprit sont appelés à s'exerce. |
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A l'escalier
At the Stairs
Rajesh S. Jala
India
2011 | Numerique | 0:30:00
The compelling story of the widows of Banares. According to Hindu tradition, when a husband dies, the wife breaks her bangles and exchanges her colourful sari for a white one. Many of them end up in Banares, the city of widows and Radha followers. This powerful cinéma-vérité observes their silence, sadness and endurance.
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