20e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris / 1-10 octobre 2022

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FRENCH TOUCH COMPETITION



MAIN AWARD



The Queens of The Palace

Les Reines du Palace
Karine Morales
France / 2021 / 01:03:00


La plupart de ces femmes de chambres n'avait aucune culture militante et n'aurait jamais imaginé faire la grève un jour. Ce combat les a changées. Rue de la Paix, devant les portes d’un palace parisien, des femmes de chambre mènent une guerre d’usure contre un géant du luxe. Elles s’appellent Bijoux, Jessica, Nora… Armées de casseroles et de bâtons, elles installent chaque jour un joyeux vacarme sous les fenêtres des clients, pour faire entendre leur voix. Employées par une société de nettoyage externe, ces femmes de chambre revendiquent leur intégration au palace, pour lequel nombre d’entre elles travaillent depuis des années. « Pour la reconnaissance » comme elles disent, pour leur contribution à cette appellation. La direction ne souhaitant pas ouvrir les négociations, elles ont décidé de faire l’inverse de ce que l’on exige d’elles habituellement : désobéir, se mettre en grève, laisser trace de leur passage, se rendre visibles aux yeux des clients, aux yeux du monde extérieur. Et finalement, sous la poussière des humiliations accumulées qu’un vent de révolte a brusquement soulevée, se découvrir elles-mêmes : reines du palace.

WORLD PREMIERE



 


Jury Declaration:


Un très beau film qui suit des femmes fortes et inspirantes, en rendant visible leur combat. Un film bien realisé qui nous empli d’espoir.

A really beautiful film that follows strong women by empowering their fight and stories, making them visible. A very well directed film that uplifts us.








SIGNS AWARD


The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way



Claudette's Death

Gaspard Patoureau
France / 2021 / 0:12:21


It's summer. A old artist tell us her painfull chilhood - or how Claudette became Claude - to two young moviemakers. This last ones decides to illustrate this storie by stopmotion.

PARIS PREMIERE

 


 


Jury Declaration:

Le film raconte l’histoire d’une artiste, de son enfance et de ses monstres, utilisant de façon originale et intelligente le stop-motion et l’image documentaire.

The film tells the story of an artist of her childhood and her monsters in an original and clever way using stop motion and real footage.




NIGHT AWARD


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



Manta Ray

Anton Bialas
France / 2022/ 0:29:38


"Manta Ray" is a fragmented portrayal of three characters in search of poetic and liberating openings in a muzzled and gradually authoritarian Paris of the 2020’s. United under the sign of the MANTA RAY, Kamilya, Ghost Rider and Gilles, each in their own way, organizes his secret melody, crafts a situation, where, alternately, a sense of lightness can be found, suffocated screams can uprise and reality be distorted into new horizons.




 

Jury Declaration:

Un film comme une énigme, qui avance par symboles, plein d’ambiguités, de mystères, et qui mélange et questionne sa forme elle-m
ême.

A film like an enigma, that moves forward through symbols, full of ambiguity and mystery that mix and question the form itself.

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EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD


The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensitive (mostly) unknown information, facts and phenomena of eminent importance, for which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future


Heredity

Hérédité
Emanuele Gaetano Forte
France / 2020 / 1:00:00


Flora, 30, is a French geneticist. She analyzes what is transmitted or not between people's generations. She no longer has her parents who were fervent Maoists within the proletarian Left from the end of the 1960s. She must now sort through her parents' apartment: what to choose to keep or not from their memory?

 

PARIS PREMIERE
 



Jury Declaration
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Un film personnel sur un passé plus vaste qu’on ne le croyait, qui dévoile des aspects du passé souvent méconnus des générations d’aujourd’hui.

A personal film about a past larger than we thought. The film highlights aspects from the past that are mostly unknown to today generations.



SPECIAL MENTION


Class Action

Guillaume Creton
France / 2021 / 0:15:00


A teacher killed herself a few weeks before high school diploma exams and her colleagues go on a strike. An emergency meeting is organized between the education officer and the teachers who accused the Ministry of Education of being responsible for this tragedy.




 



Jury Declaration:

Un film maîtrisé, capable de devoiler un personnage mort et invisible. Ainsi que de mettre en lumière le sujet de la santé mentale des professeurs souvent laissée pour compte.

A well done film. It was able to illuminate a dead character into life and highlight the mental health issues of teachers that are often overlooked.