The 9th International Festival Signes de Nuit / Paris / 2011

The 9th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

October 5th - 16th 2011

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International Competition
Documentaries
# 10

October 8th, 2011 / 11 pm
Maison Heinrich Heine
Cité Universitaire / Paris

A letter from Germany

Ein Brief aus Deutschland

Sebastian Mez
Germany
2011 | Numerique | 0:50:00

Three women from Eastern Europe read letters addressed to their relatives. The screen shows the places they have left in hopes of finding a better life in Germany. Little by little they confess their slow descent into hell, trapped in the vice of prostitution. Interchangeable hotel rooms run along the anonymous geography of their stories. An unrelenting,exceptionally powerful narration.

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October 5th - 16th 2011

An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.