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The 13th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
at Lisboa
June 2 - 7, 2015
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The Awards of the Short Film and Documentary Sections |
AWARD CEREMONY
Sunday 7, June 2015 / 6 pm
Espaço Espelho D'Agua
Lisboa / Portugal
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THE MAIN AWARD
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Sarah Wood
Great Britain
2015 | 0:22:20
In a diaristic film that reflects on archives, surveillance and history making, Sarah Wood asks, 'We invented cinema, but in an age when we can move more and see more than any other point in history, why have we become so watchful and so performative?
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Jury Declaration:
I am a spy brings us to the important question of the future of data and information, throught analogies between, nature and the machine, freedom and ownership, in the past and in the present.
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Director's Comment:
'Thank you so much for this wonderful honour. I'm not only excited for myself but also that the ideas in I Am A Spy made a difference to the audiences who watch the film. We live in difficult times here in the UK. The government is about to pass another law that will permit the state to watch us even more closely than they do already and which will enable the authorities to intervene when we think and discuss ideas, before any action has actually been made. Watching this watchfulness is vital. Film festivals are some of the only freed up spaces left to us and it's great to be honoured by Signes de Nuit whose inspiring project is to open up cross border dialogue. Thank you so much and I hope you have a great night in Lisboa. I'm sorry not to be with you.'
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE MAIN AWARD
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Lukasz Konopa
Great Britain
2013 | 0:25:00
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, a city of neon shimmers like a mirage. But the closer you get, the more you see through the false image. The glitz, glamour and gambling are all just smoke and mirrors. At the peak of the economic crisis, three Las Vegas residents find their luck has run dry and struggle just to get by.
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Jury Declaration:
Through a superb casting of characters "Vegas" shows us the hiden crisis of the most representative city of the American Dream.
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE MAIN AWARD
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Paul Meschùh
Germany
2014 | 0:22:00
The young afghan woman „Nabilah“ is injured in an accident. While her brother is trying to get help, german soldiers take her to a military base. Since the residents of nabilahs home town must not find out about her physical contact with forgein men, her life is in risc. Based on a true story.
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Jury Declaration:
“Nabilah” takes us to a true story were Afghan traditions clash with occidental way of living in a tragic but elucidating way of showing differences between cultures.
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THE SIGNS AWARD
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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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Seven Times a Day we bemoan our lot and at night we get up to avoid dreaming
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Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und Nachts stehen wir auf,
um nicht zu träumen |
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Susann Maria Hempel
Germany
2014 | 0:18:00
A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his fellows), living in the East German countryside, who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up into several nightmares.
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Jury Declaration:
Seven times a day it is a fantastic visual and poetic way throught mutilated puppets to express controversial aspects of childhood abuse, revealing traumatic experiences. |
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE SIGNS AWARD
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When there is nothing but Water
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Chant des sirènes |
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Mahamed Sabbah
Lebanon | 2014
0:25:00
A cancer, a lost memory, desire, and a lot of imagination.. Under the hypnoses of the mermaids voices, a family gets apart.
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Jury Declaration:
"When there is anything but Water" joins subjects that seem to be unconnected but make sense in this narrative with balanced characters and ambience.
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Director's Comment:
This film come from the heart and im happy and glad it touched you in a way or another.
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE SIGNS AWARD
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Patrick Cederberg & Walter Woodman
Canada
2013 | 0:17:00
NOAH captures the romantic perils of being a teenager online.
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Jury Declaration:
“Nabilah” takes us to a true story were Afghan traditions clash with occidental way of living in a tragic but elucidating way of showing differences between cultures. |
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THE NIGHT AWARD
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The Night Award honours films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterised by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness, which keeps mind and consideration moving.
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Olivier Smolders
Belgium
2014 | 0:28:00
On 7 February 1944, the opening day of a large exhibition of his work, young, Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek disappears. More than 60 years later, an investigation uncovers his strange fate.
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Jury Declaration:
The Shadow Shame shows the controversial and unknown work of an artist that brings to us a disconcerting way of registering obscur realities that make us realize where the human mind can go.
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Director's Comment:
Merci pour ce prix. Je suis heureux que mon film circule avec succès grâce au Festival Signes de Nuit. Je souhaite encore beaucoup de découvertes et de films étranges pour votre festival qui ouvre si grandes ses portes aux films singuliers.
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE NIGHT AWARD
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Manel Raga
Spain
2013 | 0:15:00
A child who is not a child anymore, a mother who is gone forever and a father who never stops to possessing her, beyond life. The Hen is a desire that persists over time, it is a devastating routine that gets sick until become death.
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Jury Declaration:
“The Hen” leaves us in a place were abuse and death lead a man to a shocking alternative.
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Director's Comment:
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EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
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The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which treat hidden realities and offer sensible (mostly) unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future. |
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Simon Gillard
Belgium
2013 | 0:20:00
Yaar, in the heart of the bush where the gravel is hollowed, a stubborn civilisation hunts out its future below the earth's surface. Blind, or perhaps all too seeing, they dig away, night and day, spurred on by the madness that drives man to his death.
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Jury Declaration:
Yaar registers the manual mining of gold in a coherent manner with strong colorful images and an immersive narrative. |
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, André Turpin
Canada
2014 | 0:12:00
A male nurse is asked to assist a couple of partly paralised couple to make love. The irritaded man look for conseil by his superior, but quickly understands,, that this was only the first step to accept the rules of another world, marked by other rules.
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Jury Declaration:
“Take me” shows in a not commonly known scenario on how people with disabilities can live their sexual life.
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Director's Comment:
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
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Annelie Boros, Vera Brueckner
Germany | 2015
0:16:00
In 2024 a private organisation plans to send humans to Mars. Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins are shortlisted candidates for the first human settlement on Mars. Theirs is a one-way trip. They will leave behind everything they have known. “We have made our peace with the fact that we are not coming back. We are real, true pioneers. The first ever people on another planet. We are now interplanetary”.
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Jury Declaration:
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Director's Comment:
We feel deeply honored to be recognized with a Special Mention for the Edward Snowden Award of the FISDN! While MARS CLOSER tries to shed light on two human beings with a very special mission that can possibly change the way how life on earth is seen, this award really encourages us to keep on spreading this important message!
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