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The 13th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
at Lisboa
June 2 - 7, 2015
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Program
Short Films
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Wednesday June 3, 2015 / 6 pm
Espaço Espelho D'Agua
Lisboa / Portugal
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Thin Arms
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Sandeep Ray
India
2014 | 0:09:20
A woman in her eighties undergoes debilitating medical treatment. This short, intimate film lingers on her isolation, hospital visits, growing fatigue and an obsession with the mango tree outside her window.
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The Shadow's Share
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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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Noah
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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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Firnis
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Yannick Mosimann
Switzerland
2014 | 0:06:00
Fleeing the stifling order and subordination of modern society, a man escapes into wilderness.
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Hotel Kalifornia
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Frederick Paxton
Great Britain
2013 | 0:09:25
The film explores the hotel as a container for hidden memories. A single actress endures the loss of innocence, trauma, and finally redemption as the reverberations of these dark events create an endlessly repeating, claustrophobic experience.
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Porcelain
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Betzabé García
Mexico
2014 | 0:12:00
Between childhood fantasy and reality, Marian stumbles with family life, death and sexuality, all in a day's work.
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A Hole in the Sky
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Álex Lora, Antonio Tibaldi
Somalia, France
2013 | 0:10:00
It will focus on Alifa, Sahra, and Faadumo, three shepherdesses of different generations. We will follow their daily lives, their plights and struggles as they deal with analphabetism, shortage of wáter, and Female Genital Cutting… |
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June 2-7, 2015
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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