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The 10th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

October 11th - 16th 2012

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International Competition
Short Film
# 6
October 13th 2012 / 4 pm
Cinéma Action Christine
Paris


Not Now But When
 
Not now but when


Chi Him Yuen

Hong Kong

2011 | 00:22:40

A young girl who believes that the world will end in 2012 lives only for the present. Working in a bookstore, she spends her days on menial day-to-day tasks and sitting on a roof to anticipate the end of all things. One day, the bookstore owner tells the young girl that she can do more than just simply wait. In a world where the future appears bleak and hopeless, should we prepare for a painless end, or it possible for us to stand up and make a change?



EUROPEAN PREMIERE

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Dance of Ganesha
 
Dance of Ganesha


Bikas Ranjan Mishra

India

2011 | 00:14:30

A tribal dancer is caught in his daily struggle of survival in an automobile factory. The burden to earn a living for his family and preserve his family tradition of ritual Ganesha dancing is humongous. His two roles, as a bread winner for his two kids, a wife and an ailing father and as the magnificent elephant god Ganesha, is so diverse that his journey from factory to village looks almost like time travel and his existence schizophrenic! Ganesha, the dancer lives in the perpetual fear of the day when he will have to make a choice between livelihood and art/tradition.

 
Extrait :
https://youtu.be/yG7SgjSWf6s
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A Place where life was captured
 
A place where life was captured


Arjen De Leeuw

Netherlands

2011 | 0:12:40

Starting point for this work was the fact that with the melting of the polar ice a lot of data about the history of the climate melt away too. The earth, in that way, suffers from a kind of memory loss. The films shows a female scientist with a complete memory loss who tries to understand who she is and what her life was like. A group of scientists found her back, standing on an icefloat. The melting polar ice and her mental state run paralel in the film.

 

 

Extrait :
https://vimeo.com/32466653

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Oblivion
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Oblivion


Majid Lashkar

Iran

2012 | 00:12:10

An eighty-year-old man is suffering from oblivion before his death. He reflects on his life in a kind of bittersweet melancholy, thinking about the lost.

WORLD PREMIERE
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Chimeras
 
Chimeras


Ragnar Chacin

France, Mexico

2011 | 0:08:00

Illusion, a little crazy musing, wandering through a phantasmatic city. A naked and proud walk passing working places, empty streets, parks and other divers enviroments.

PARISIAN PREMIERE
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October 11th - 16th 2012

 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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