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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris
November 24 - December 4, 2016
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AWARD CELEBRATION
Documentary Competition
Sunday, December 4, 2016 / 10 pm
Maison du Portugal
André de Gouveia
Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris
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Documentary Competition
Main Award
Resplandor
Fernando Priego Ruiz
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Resplandor
Fernando Priego Ruiz
Argentina
2016 | 0:50:00
Camilo Peña an old gaucho from Patagonia decides to remain taking care of his animals in the wild side of the river, isolated, at the foot of los Andes in spite of knowing that the illness that affects his eyes, sooner or later will transform his world in a blinding radiance.
Trailer :
https://youtu.be/fHDzzloMrZE
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Jury Statement :
For its humanity, its sensibility, its expression and its context.
Pour son humanité, sa sensibilité, sa puissance expressive et la force
de son contenu.
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Documentary Competition
Signs Award
A157
Behrouz Nouranipour |
| The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a surprising way sensible and perturbing aspects of reality. |
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A 157
Behrouz Nouranipour
Iran
2015 | 1:13:00
Peace and equality are poems expressing certain dreams of nations; but the literature of peace and equality seekers hasn’t succeeded so far and the situation is taking a turn for the worse. War, genocide, discrimination and rape are becoming widespread and global. In the past century, the accumulated time during which the world has been pure of war has been less than an hour. And that is a fact we must face. Why all this criticism and ado have been so futile and fruitless? What is the problem of these self-proclaimed righteous uprisings that they all tend to dry? 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…
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Jury Statement :
For its way to represent the war without showing it, by using the
stories of 3 young girls, stories that are hard to tell but needs to
be heard.
Pour sa facon de représenter la guerre sans la montrer et pour les
témoignages des trois jeunes filles qui doivent être entendus.
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Documentary Competition
Special Mention for the Sign Award
Pulse
Robin Petré |
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Pulse
Robin Petré
Hungary, Portugal, Belgium
2015 | 0:26:00
One of Europe’s largest deer farms lies hidden in the hills of southern Hungary and is home to more than 1,500 strong red deer. The animals are essentially still wild. They were first caught in the forest and brought to the farm only 25 years ago – and the handling of them is still a physical conflict between man and animal. ‘Pulse’ is a poetic, creative documentary playing on the line between raw reality and dreamy, sensorial experience. Through the deer farm, the film gives a close look at human-animal relations and the imperialistic way we deal with nature. The film interweaves present day footage with archive photographs from the beginning of deer farming in Hungary in the 1980s. The story follows the beat of the rhythmic pulses transcending the deer farm: from the skittish deer, to the farmers who keep them, to the electric pulsation running through the fences separating the farm deer from the wild.
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/138109153
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Jury Statement :
Pulse shows us how fear brings submission. The allegory of power.
Pulse nous montre comment la peur mène à la soumission. Une allégorie
du pouvoir que l’on peut voir.
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Director Statement :
"I made PULSE as a reflection on our collective relation to animals both today and in the past. We are not alone on this planet, and the way humans relate to other species is defining for who we are. All the animals that we have closest to us today were domesticated at one point in history, often thousands of years ago, much like the deer in PULSE were brought in from the wild just recently. With the environment now under historic pressure from innumerable threats such as global warming, I think we all need to reconsider our relation to nature in all its forms."
Robin Petré
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Documentary Competition
Night Award
Brothers
Wojciech Staron
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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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Brothers
Bracia
Wojciech Staron
Poland
2015 | 1:11:00
Two old Polish brothers come back to their homeland after having been deported to Siberia. The first one is an artist, the other a pragmatic engineer: despite their differences they love and support each other, and together they face the passage of time and the hardships of life. To tell their story, Wojciech Staron paid recurring visits to the two brothers and took plenty of time to become a part of their daily lives. He captured the passing of time in the old men’s lives and reveals the deep bound that unites them.
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/156541463
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Jury Statement :
Through “tableaux” shots, Brothers depicts a subtle representation of
2 people so close but in the same time so different.
Par ses plans épurés Brothers dépeint une representation subtile de
deux êtres proches et différents .
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Director Statement :
Great news!
I'm thankful for such a prize.
It's a honour for me and my team.
I'm happy that Brothers touched the hearts of audiences in France!
My warm regards!
Wojciech Staron
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Documentary Competition
Special Mention for the Night Award
Holy God
Svyatyi Bozhe
Vladlena Sandu
Kings of Nowhere
Los Reyes del Pueblo que no Existe
Garcia Betzabé
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Holy God
Svyatyi Bozhe
Vladlena Sandu
Russia
2016 | 0:25:00
Self-portrait. In 1998 our family came under armed attack. We were able to escape and we fled Grozny. We have been silent about it since.
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Jury Statement :
By its audacity of its narration, Holy god invites us in an oppressing reality.
Par son audacité de sa narration, Holy god nous invite dans une
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Kings of Nowhere
Los Reyes del Pueblo que no Existe
Garcia Betzabé
Mexico
2015 | 1:23:00
Three families live in a village partially submerged by water in Northwestern Mexico: Pani and Paula do not want to close their tortilleria and spend their spare time rescuing the town from ruins; Miro and his parents dream of leaving but can’t; Yoya and Jaimito live in fear but have everything they need.
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Jury Statement :
For its paradoxes narration that invites us in a place and situation
that is in the same time regrettable and appreciable.
Pour son récit paradoxal d’une situation à la fois regrettable at appréciable.
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