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AWARD CELEBRATION
Short Film Competition
The 15th International Festival Signes de Nuit
5 - 15 october 2017, Paris
Sunday, October 8, 2017 / 10 pm
Maison du Portugal
André de Gouveia
Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris
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Short film Competition
Main Award
Greetings from Kropsdam
In Kropsdam is iedereen gelukkig
Joren Molter
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Greetings from Kropsdam
In Kropsdam is iedereen gelukkig
Joren Molter
Netherlands
2016 | 0:24:00
Lammert has no mischief, but he becomes the victim of the stifling
effect of a community that has already chosen its scapegoat.
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Jury Statement :
The film deals with important topics, which are nature and human relationships
in a witty way and with an expressive film language.In this story of
small community in the village in the Netherlands humor and tragic
goes side by side with a good performance of actors.
The images of the landscape make the camera work equally important as
the story itself.
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Director Statement :
It means a lot to me to winning this award. It's a huge stimulans for me as a director to work further on new films. For me Korpsdam shows the human mechanism how a whole group is turning against one individual. It's very nice to hear that the jury also liked the performance of the actors. They never played in a movie before, and I think that they did a great job. I'll pop a bottle of champagne to celebrate the fact that we won this award. But I'll watch out with eating some cake because we all know what happends then. |
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Short Film Competition
Signs Award
Import
Ena Sendijarevic |
| The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an
original, convincing and surprising way.
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Import
Ena Sendijarevic
Netherlands
2016 | 0:16:55
A young Bosnian refugee family ends up in a small village in the
Netherlands after getting a residence permit in 1994. Absurd
situations arise as they are trying to make this new world their home.
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Jury Statement :
The film “Import” by Ena Sendijarevic deals with an important
subject, which is integrity in the new society in an original and
convincing way.I n only 16 minutes 55 seconds the film tells the story
of the Bosnian refugee family in the Netherlands, where perspective of
each family member gives us a glimpse of the reality they live
in.Strong and touching film on both:dramatic and visual level-a
cinematic experience in a short film form.
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Short Film Competition
Night Award
Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
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| 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. |
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Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Philipines
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.
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Jury Statement :
The internal conflict of the main character is presented in an
ambiguous and mysterious way. The moments where we follow the
protagonist through the streets of Manila by night are marked by
tention. She is earning money in an unconventional way, putting
herself on risk. The visual language of the film makes images stay in
viewer's mind for a long time.
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Short Film Competition
Night Award Special Mention
Retract
Retrett
Itonje Soimer Guttormsen |
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Retract
Retrett
Itonje Soimer Guttormsen
Norway
2016 | 0:30:00
The roving Gritt (Birgitte Larsen) fights the exhausting battle of
establishing her ideas into practice as a autodidact performing artist
arriving the capital of the self acclaimed winners of the world
lottery. We follow her during her first weeks in Oslo, and through a
philosophical but rather dissociative voice we find a person with a
huge gap between her inner and outer world.
Retrett deals with alienation, dignety and courage of dreams, in a
poetic and humerous way.
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Jury Statement :
How it is to deal with your dreams in the real life for such young,
ambitious women as a hero of this Norway film and to keep them in
spite of all difficulties. The good performing, dancing and stomping,
of the actress leads truth her life drama and gives a courage to keep
a safe mind.
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Short Film Competition
Edward Snowden
Black Hours
Les Heures Encres
Wendy Pillonel
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| 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. |
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Black Hours
Les Heures Encres
Wendy Pillonel
Switzerland
2017 / 0:28:46
Frank burns himself to death at his job in protest against the
inhumane working conditions. Two stories emerge from this tragic
incident. Léa, Frank’s wife, who is searching for the truth. Igor, an
employee who finds the dead body and steals the letter of protest for
fear of losing his job.
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Jury Statement :
Pour avoir abordé le sujet difficile du suicide au travail, qui touche
les fondements mêmes de l’organisation du travail dans ses nouvelles
formes d’exploitation et de domination, transformant les travailleurs
en victimes et bourreaux, nous discernons le prix Snowden à Black
hours de Wendy Pillonel.
For having treated the difficult topic of suicide at work, that
concerns the working organisation’s bases in its new forms of
exploitation and domination, transforming workers in victims and
executioner, we give the Snowden price to Black hours by Wendy
Pilonel.
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Director Statement :
Cette récompense signifie beaucoup. Les Heures-Encre m'a été inspiré
par un fait réel qui s'est déroulé à Lucerne, en Suisse, en juin 2015.
Un homme s'est immolé par le feu sur son lieu de travail. Personne
n'en a entendu parler.
J'en ai eu vent par hasard, par une amie proche de la fille de cet
homme. Sans elle, jamais je n'aurais su ce qui s'était passé. Deux
journaux locaux ont brièvement relaté l'affaire, les pompiers ayant dû
intervenir. Et à part ça, rien. Le silence.
L'immolation par le feu est la forme de suicide la plus violente.
C'est un signe de protestation fort, une volonté d'attirer l'attention
sur une défaillance du système qui engendre la souffrance des
employés.
Je suis en colère de savoir que tout le monde connait quelqu'un qui a
fait un burn out. Que parfois même on connait quelqu'un qui est mort à
cause du travail. Parce que la pression est trop élevée, parce qu'on
demande du rendement, de l'efficacité, que les employés deviennent des
numéros, invisibles, obligés de se taire, parce que "des comme toi, il
y en des dizaines qui se pressent au portillon".
Je suis heureuse que mon film ait gagné ce prix. Je le destine à cet
homme de Lucerne qui espérait faire changer les choses et qui n'a pas
été entendu. Et à tous les autres qui souffrent en silence.
Merci d'avoir donné cette reconnaissance aux "Heures-Encre". |
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Short Film Competition
Special Mention
High Grounds
Les Hauts-Pays
Jérémy van der Haegen
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High Grounds
Les Hauts-Pays
Jérémy van der Haegen
Belgium
2016 / 0:29:54
A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take
over a retiring doctor’s medical practice in the Belgian countryside.
He moves to a house not far from an old mining pit, in a region
undergoing profound changes caused by a crumbling mining economy and
agricultural crises. During the winter, a meteorite disintegrates in
the sky, a phenomenon that will leave an old man mute. The young
doctor is called to his aid.
Trailer :
http://www.jeremyvdh.com/les-hauts-pays/
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Jury Statement :
Pour avoir su habilement noué une intrigue insolite et mystérieuse
entre un jeune médecin dépassé, un vieux paysan frappé de mutisme par
l’apparition d’un phénomène extraordinaire, la désintégration d’une
météorite, nous donnons une mention spéciale à High grounds de Jeremy
van der Haegen.
For having built up an unusual and mysterious story with a young
doctor overwhelmed, an old Farmer became mute after the appearing of an
extraordinary event, the disintegration of a meteorite, we give a
special mention to High ground by Jérémy van der Haegen..
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