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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Berlin
Germany
January 18 - 24, 2016
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Short Film Competition
# 8 |
Wednesday 20, January 2016 / 10 pm
ACUDkino, Saal 2
Berlin / Germany
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Sleep |
Sommeil |
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Julien Gallée-Ferré
France
2015 / 0:16:00
Fifteen people, alone or in a couple, are filmed during their sleep.
Passing from one night to the next, these active sleepers reveal a
secret and unsuspected choreography, abandoning their bodies to the
bizarre dance invented by their dreams.
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Contra |
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Begona Colomar
United States
2015 / 0:20:00
"Contra" - as against - against the elements Xtian struggles with
the impossible. Man versus nature. The film presents the universal
question that emerges after the loss of a loved one, and its recurrent
challenge. Xtian is the one left behind who must reconcile his
overwhelming feelings of guilt, impotence and ire with his desire to
honor his love's (Clara's) decision to take her own life. This is
Xtians biggest predicament and the conflict that will bring him to
face an impossible challenge at the end of the film.
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Dovnqsnoan |
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John Manceau
Sweden
2015 / 0:03:25
A film mixing the heavy voice and of the Swedish poet Jörgen Lind, the
hypnotic music of Lard Falk and magnific images from archives. A rare
alchemy, which gives birth to an ephermel and powerful trance, which
seems to push us in the center of the mysteries of our origins, into
cognitive meanders of an common anchestral memory.
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Dream Reel |
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Sam Barnes
Australia
2015 / 0:11:15
Dream Reel is about the impassable yet ambiguous gulf between the world of dreams and the reality experienced in waking life. The short film is an insight into the conscious minds of three ordinary people and their interpretations of the unconscious realms experienced in their dreams. From recurring childhood dreams, nightmares, to dreams that are inherently absurd, Dream Reel explores how dreams can have a hermetically sealed existence of their own, while sometimes they can unearth the deepest parts of the soul.
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Fratelli |
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Luca Sironi
Italy
2015 / 0:19:15
Armando and Emma are part of a religious group. Their task is going
door to door, redeem sinners and convert faithless people. Every day
the same routine. Inside the walls of their house, they live a
rigorous and moderate life, no distractions are allowed.
Temptations exist only to be endured. Their life always flowed this
way. They know each other perfectly, and words have become useless in
their relationship. An unchangeable life. The only one they know.
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Betrayel |
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Susan Young
Great Britain
2015 / 0:05:40
Warning: Do Not take the stated dose.
A traumatised woman trusts her psychiatrist, but becomes imprisoned in
his web of psychological manipulation. A montage of medical records
and pulsing pills reveal their destructive, enmeshed relationship. At
its dark heart, The Betrayal is a twisted, deadly love affair.
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Cetaphobia |
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Erin Coates
Australia
2015 / 0:12:45
A ghostly remnant from the activities of an old whaling station is
awakened by a young scrimshander.
Set in the coastal town of Albany, Cetaphobia is a ghost story which
traces the haunting and ultimate misfortune of a married couple
troubled by a whale spirit. The obscure and ambiguous spirit is an
unsettling remnant of the Port City’s once viable whaling industry.
Its presence is awakened after the wife, who is a scrimshander, starts
inscribing on the only remaining evidence of its life: a tooth. This
action unleashes a dark and cetaceous force which possesses the
scrimshander and her husband and draws them back to the site of the
Cheynes II, the sunken wreck of the whale chaser, where they are
eventually overcome by a disconcerting and unknowable horror.
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Entrecorpos |
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Gustavo Raulino
Brazil
2015 / 0:12:00
We are in a timeless scenario where a dry damof crackled soil represents a disintegrated city. We are in a timeless 2015, in a scenario where a dry dam of crackled soil represents the city of São Paulo. An only couple, Mariana and Renan, indwells this desert, the disintegrated city. In recognizing themselves in that context, both start to investigate the causes of the drought. Mariana writes a text to which Renan gives voice. They communicate in silence, while the voice-over poem weaves primordial images that alternate between the serene intimacy of the inside of the house and the arid hostility of the outer space. Little by little, their consciousness awaken to the lack that causes the lack of water: the lack of betweens, the disconnection of all bodies, the spiritual body and the material body, the body of one and the body of the other, the human body and the Earth body. The lack of water, substance of life, would also be the lack of the oceanic feeling of being part of a whole. As they start to see themselves in the problem and as the problem, the borders between dry and wet, life and death, spirit and matter, voice and text, begin to dissolve in the dust.
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January 18 - 24, 2016
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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