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The 7th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

April 2th - 5th, 2009
June 17th - 28th, 2009

MK2 Beaubourg
Cinéma Archipel
Centre Culturel Irlandais
Goethe Institut
Fondation Suisse
Goethe Institut
Goethe Institut
Maison de l'amerique Latine
Maison de Brésil
Mairie de Paris
Mairie de Paris
 

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AWARD CELEBRATION

The 7th International Festival Signes de Nuit

June 17th - 28th, 2009

Short Film Competition

2009
Paris

 

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The Main Award :

Two Birds
Smáfuglar
Rúnar Rúnarsson



Two Birds

Two Birds
Smáfuglar
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Islande
2008 / 35 mm / 0:15:00

Two birds follow a group of young teenagers in a brillant summer night during a day that shifts from innocence to the tough reality of the adults' world.

 

 


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The Signs Award :

Unforgettable Memory
Weile Wangque de Jinian
Liu Wei
The Signs Award is attributed to films treating an important subject in an original, convincing and surprising way.


Unforgettable Memory

 

 


Unforgettable Memory
Weile Wangque de Jinian
Liu Wei
China
2009 / DV / 0:13:00

A painful retourn on the recent events of the Chinese history: a photo evokes disturbing memories regarding the attempt to establish a democracy.

Extrait :
https://youtu.be/sqx040596Fs

 
 
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The Night Award :

The Wall
Muro
Tião
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.



The Wall

 


The Wall
Muro
Tião
Brésil
2008 / 35 mm / 0:18:00

Soul in the vacuum, desert in expansion.

 





 

Special Mention :


Macabre Dance
Pedro Pires

Paradise Coffee
Café Paraíso
Alonso Ruizpalacios

The Journey
Ashish Shukla

Majken
Andrea Östlund


Macabre Dance

 

Macabre Dance
Pedro Pires
Canada, Québec
2008 / 35 mm / 0:08:00

Sometimes, when we think ourself perfectly inert, our
corpse becomes animated, express itself and dances a final macabre balley. The many spasms that shake our bodies are they only
erratic movements or do they echo the swirl and tumult of our past lives?

 

 




Paradise Coffee

 

Paradise Coffee
Café Paraíso
Alonso Ruizpalacios
Mexique
2008 / 35 mm / 0:10:00

Two Mexican immigrants are cooks at "Coffee Paradise". While preparing dishes, the youngest of the two also prepares his heroic resignation with which he hopes to recover his youth, his dignity and even the love of a waitress ..

 




The Journey

 

The Journey
Ashish Shukla
India
2008 / DV / 04:26

A man escorts his dead son, on a last journey down along the river Ganges.

 

 




Majken

 

Majken
Andrea Östlund
Sweeden
2008 / 35 mm / 0:28:00

Dolly is fed up with manners of the store Konsum: they pack vegetables in some plastic and have the insolence to claim themselves "Green". sheTherefore, she picks up her telephone and, in the other end of the line, there is Majken.

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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