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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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International Competition
Short Film
# 1
Monday June 22th, 2009 / 6 pm
Cinéma l’Archipel
Paris


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Ammar Al Fakhuri
Jordan
2008 / DV / 0:04:00

Touches a simple human behavior to take the audience in simple short sequence of scenes that shows the fast life that people live and a one behavior..


 


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Maesmak
 
Maesmak


Georges Salameh
Greece, Italy
2008 / 0:20:20

A meditative exploration of one day spent in Rutba in late 2002, just before the invasion of Iraq. A Greek traveller, an English doctor and an Iraqi storyteller cross paths, their starting point the same
question: “Maesmak?” the Arabic phrase for ‘what is your name?’

 

 


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Edouard Salier
France
2008 / Beta SP / 0:16:30

Four letters. 400, 000. A single code.

 

 


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One day and Nothing
Un Dia y nada  
Un Dia y nada


Lorenz Merz
Swirtzeland
2008 / 35 mm / 0:21:00

A place in the middle of nowhere, under a burning sun. Two old men waiting for a sign that comes from the sea. Children running around to discover themselves and the world. A young man fights desperately for the earth. A man takes an emotional boat ride on the Ganges river..Life fragments of three generations.

 

 


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The Journey
 
Un Dia y nada


Ashish Shukla
India
2008 / DV / 04:26

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

 





 


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Herstory
 
Herstory


Angelika Wang Ken-Yu
Taiwan
2008 / DV / 0:08:00

Made with a great deal female pleasure. With plenty of giggling, one could imagine. Almost tearingly. Three women of different ages talk about sex. They also visibly enjoy it. And in the free talking and laughters, there is much hidden reality.






 


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Berlun
 
Herstory


Ezgi Kilinçaslan
Germany
2008 / 0:06:30

This video montage of more than 250 camera phone snapshots illustrates an Istanbul student`s confrontation with the strangely provincial and orientalistic projections of Berlin`s inhabitants.





 


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June 22th - 27th, 2009

 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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