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Saarbrucken

The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Urbino
Italy

April 5-6-7, 2017

 
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AWARD CELEBRATION
Student Jury


Friday 7, April 2017
Sala degli Incisori, Piazza della Repubblica
Urbino / Italy

 

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Documentary Competition

Main Award


The War Show
Obaidah Zytoon , Andreas Dalsgaard

  

The War Show

 


The War Show
Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas Dalsgaard

USA, Danemark

2016 | 1:34:00


In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and her circle of friends join the street protests against President Bashar al-Assad, as the Arab Spring reaches Syria. Knowing their country would be changed forever, this group of artists and activists begin filming their lives and the events around them. But as the regime’s violent response spirals the country into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future will be tested by violence, imprisonment and death. Obaidah leaves Damascus and journeys around the country, from her hometown of Zabadani, to the centre of the rebellion in Homs, and to northern Syria where she witnesses the rise of extremism. A deeply personal road movie, the film captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends.

Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/185501557


Jury Statement :
Un'immersione in una forte realtà raccontata da un punto di vista molto personale e descrittivo.

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Documentary Competition

Special Mention


Dum Spiro Spero
Pero Kvesic



Dum Spiro Spero

 


Dum Spiro Spero
Pero Kvesic

Croatia
2016 | 0:50:00


"Dum spiro spero" is a Latin saying meaning ‘while I breathe, I hope’. Until this day it has remained the motto of those who refuse to quit until the very last breath. Intertwining daily life, books and death, the author speaks about losing strength and the strength to cope with the loss. Everybody die the moment they are born, which is the greatest reason why to understand the values of life and enjoy the joys it gives. The acclaimed writer after a series of book made his first film and his literatal experience spoke in a cinematic language that reaches the level of his literature. Details of ordinary surrounding and daily life fit in with the story they engender. This film is to a great extent a one-man show, because next to the script and directing, the author also filmed all the material and played the mouth harp.

Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/156003602

 



Jury Statement :
Una biografia difficile raccontata in prima persona in maniera spiritosa, suggestiva e originale.

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Documentary Competition

Signs Award


A 157
Behrouz Nouranipour
The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a surprising way sensible and perturbing aspects of reality.



A 157

ITALIAN PREMIERE

 


A 157
Behrouz Nouranipour

Iran

2015 | 1:13:00


One of the most horrifying Isis operations was the physical and cultural genocide of the Yezidi Kurds in Iraq. After conquering the Shingal region west of Mossul the terrorist militia began to systematically kill the male population while thousands of children, girls and women were kidnapped, enslaved, forced into marriage or raped. A157 is a filmmaker look at three pregnant girls recounting their stories of war, violence and sexist conquest in a land where people have no more dreams.


Jury Statement :
Il racconto attraverso un lungo lavoro di una dolorosa realtà in cui si trovano le donne-bambine siriane.
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Documentary Competition

Night Award


Two way Jesus
Jet Leyco

 The Night Award for Documentary honors films, which represent reality in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of representation and simple conclusions.



Two Way Jesus

 


Two Way Jesus
Jet Leyco

USA, Philippines
2016 | 0:12:00


In "Two Way Jesus", reality conquers fiction, and versa. The people of Cutud, Pampanga - celebrates the annual "Maleldo", the Crucifixation of Jesus Christ. This seemingly voyeurism approach tackles its participants and observer, religion and culture, and the power of new media in between.

 



Jury Statement :
Per l'utilizzo di una tecnica originale che trasmette la potenza della suggestione della fede.

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Short film Competition

Main Award


TEN TO THE MINUS FORTY THREE SECONDS
Francis

  

10 puissance moins 43 seconde

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

 


Ten to the minus forty three second
10 puissance moins 43 seconde
Francis

France
2016 | 0:12:00

An Instant in the universe: a few seconds above in space, a few minutes here below for a man, and how much for the plant staring at him… Little by little, these three journeys overlap, fuse with one another and plunge into the heart of matter.


Jury Statement :
Per essere riuscito a trattare in modo innovativo i temi della vita e della morte senza l'utilizzo della parola. Inoltre in corto va premiato per la fotografia, in sound e il video editing.

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Short film Competition

Special Mention


Limbo
Konstantina Kotzamani



Limbo

 


Limbo
Konstantina Kotzamani

Greece, France
2016 | 0:30:00


The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. Confrontation with the death, approachments with the unknown, exluding the stranger.

Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/165907333

 



Jury Statement :
Per la sceneggiatura e la fotografia.

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Short film Competition

Special Mention


The Provisional Death of Bees
Maryam Firuzi



The Provisional Death of Bees

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

 


The Provisional Death of Bees
Maryam Firuzi

Greece, France
2016 | 0:26:46


A poetic journey into the mind of a woman artist in Iran who is creatively blocked and can not finish her next film. The borders of reality and her dreams has faded away as she tries to cling to something in her isolation. Her gender seems the main obstacle she is facing. The only solution she finds is to let go her past, but in the most poetic way as her hair becomes the metaphor of her freedom

 



Jury Statement :
Per aver utilizzato una struttura narrativa originale e sperimentale.

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Short Film Competition

Signs Award


IL SILENZIO
Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari
 The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject o in an original, convincing and surprising way.



Il silencio

 


Il Silencio
Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari

Italy, France
2016 | 0:15:00

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees in Italy. On their visit to the doctor, Fatma has to translate what the doctor tells to her mother but she keeps silent.

Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/166347974



Jury Statement :
Film di forte impatto emotivo e di sensibilizzazione verso le situazioni alle quali sono sottoposti alcuni bambini posti in tristi realtà.
 

 

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Short Film Competition

Night Award


JAMAIS-VU
Werner Biedermann

 The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness, which keeps mind and consideration moving. 



Jamais-Vu

ITALIAN PREMIERE

 


Jamais-Vu
Werner Biedermann

Germany
2016 | 0:04:00

The found-footage film „Jamais-vu“ shows archetypical situations which, in this new montage, are perceived as different and strange. This panorama presents a gamut of emotional sensory impressions focussing on cinema as the means of expressing the condition of a culture. All about heart, skin and brains, eyes and genitalia, consciousness and sub-consciousness, in short, all about cinemastory – cinema stories: or, all about life, from birth to death.

 



Jury Statement :
Per essere riuscito a creare una narrazione in continuo crescendo di emozioni forti e contrastanti, utilizzando solo materiale d'archivio.

 
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Short Film Competition

Edward Snowden Award


Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez

 The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensible (mostly) unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.



Imago

GERMAN PREMIERE

 


Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez

Philippines
2016 | 0:15:00

Under the humid night within a lively slum in the center of Manila, Inday, a 54 year old single parent of a special child goes to her unusual work.

 



Jury Statement :
Per trattare con immagini crude una realtà a molti sconosciuta.

 

 

 


 

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