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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 / 10.30 pm
Espaço Espelho D'Agua
Lisboa / Portugal
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MAIN AWARD
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Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Belgium, France
2014 | 1:17:00
On the plateau of Mont Lozère, a sequence of strange images unfolds. Herds of sheep in winter are accompanied by a mysterious figure. Menhirs tower skywards. Savage nature imposes silence. The voices withdraw into themselves, becoming inaudible. A visionary and mystical film that evokes the compassion of the world.
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Jury Declaration:
The Jury decided to award “For the Lost” for it’s consistent structure and craft on an ephemeral and tellurium matter, done on a hostil environment.
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THE SIGNS AWARD
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The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a surprising way sensible and perturbing aspects of reality.
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Adnan Jetto
Syria
2014 | 0:04:22
When our normal daily life vanishes all out of the sudden against our will because of something falling from sky, or because of a moving plane in the sky. The spirit of that life we had reincarnates in little small details we used to live everyday, and got very used till we took it for granted. These little details become more than a scent of something we had in our past, and a picture wouldn’t only present a moment we captured in time, it recreates that time for us, it becomes alive again, present and constant.
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Jury Declaration:
This short film strikes you like a lightening bolt to the point in few minutes, leaving you on a state of commotion. |
Director's Comment :
My desire was to offer a glimpse into the humanity behind the crisis in Syria, a crisis which is all too often reduced to statistics and breaking news, and skewed narratives of the regime against terrorists. In the middle of these generalizations are we, the Syrian people. We asked for political representation, for basic rights and for dignity and in return for such commonplace demands have endured over four years of the regime’s detentions, sieges, aerial raids and barrel bombs, as the world watches on. My hope is that within the anguish of this simple father you will also witness the determination of the Syrian people who, despite unimaginable suffering, look to the future and to creating a better day for their children.
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THE NIGHT AWARD
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The Night Award for Documentary honors films, which represent reality in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of representation and simple conclusions.
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Ming of Harlem : Twenty one Storys in the Air
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Phillip Warnel
Great Britain, Belgium, USA
2014 | 1:11:00
Ming of Harlem is an only-in-New-York account of Ming, Al, and Antoine Yates, who cohabited in a high-rise social housing apartment at Drew-Hamilton complex in Harlem for several years until 2003, when news of their dwelling caused a public outcry and collective outpouring of disbelief. On the discovery that Ming was a 500-pound pound Tiger and Al a seven-foot alligator, their story took on an astonishing dimension. The film frames Yates’s recollections with a poetic study of Ming and Al, the predators’ presence combined with a text by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, reimagining the circumstances of the wild inside, animal names, strange territories, and human-animal relations.
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Jury Declaration:
The cohabitation of three predators (a tiger, an alligator and a man) in a suburban house in NY city is an uncanny fait divers that the filmmaker surpriseingly transforms into a filosophical enquire.
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE NIGHT AWARD
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Spell of Fever
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La Fièvre |
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Safia Benhaim
France, Marokko
2014 /
0:40:00
Morocco, 2011. On a feverish night, a child perceives a ghost, a woman who has come from the sea, coming home after a long political exile. A silent tale, a bodyless voice and visions mingle in the dark of the night and the fever. The child of the present and the political refugee are now one, travelling together to a strange building haunted by lost memories. History of decolonization and forgotten political fights appear and disappear. But a new struggle, the Arab Spring of Morocco, floods the past.
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Jury Declaration:
A special mention for a poetic essay on the untold stories of a country. |
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THE EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
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Judith Montell, Emmy Scharlatt
Israel / 2014
1:01:00
Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank who use video cameras as a means of non violent activism.
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Jury Declaration:
The film shows how the use of handy cameras by civilian Palestines (women and children) can empower them and how their footage can contribute to the complex picture of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
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Yotam Feldman
Israel, France, Belgium
2013 | 0:58:00
In the past decade, the Israeli military control over 3.75 million Palestinians has become an economic endeavour that is considered the key element to the Israeli wealth. The means used by the military against Gaza and in the West Bank are exported worldwide. The film shows how the military occupation is a national business enterprise so valuable that the State of Israel cannot afford to lose. Yotam Feldman: the Israeli economy has become dependent on the massive security market. Governments act in hypocrisy when they purchase Israeli arms used against Palestinians, but criticize Israeli violence.
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Jury Declaration:
A special mention of the Jury to this Israeli “Heart of Darkness”. |
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