9th FISDN

The INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL SIGNES DE NUIT (FISDN) started its activities in 2003 in Paris. In 2011 the FISDN will present in its 9th edition about 200 films coming from around 50 countries. It can be considered as on of the largest festivals of "difference work" and diversity of cinematographic and audio visual creation, not only in Europe, but also concering the five continents.

Attentiv for innovations, the FISDN is featuring a "Cinéma différent" which is interrogating its time. It's a free cultural space, open for experimentation an for a critical view. In the actual state of globalisation, the festival wants to bring forward new views from all over the world.

For this reason the FISDN isn't limited on Paris and is engaged in meetings with the international public. Up to now the festival has realized screenings in 28 countries: Algeria, Australie, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Germany, Hongary, Italy, Indonasia, Japon, Lebanon, Turkey, Peru, Slovenia, Tunesia, Russia, United States et al..

The FISDN is an unnusual festival, showings films, which present deranging and perturbating observations, new, essencial and sublim visions, astonishing flight lines, a cinema resisting against standarisation and full of joyful overpassings.

The Program

The FISDN takes place from October 5th to 16th presenting a wide spectrum of rare cinematographies and films of experimentation. In this 9th edition a new section for (experimental) documentaies in competition is inaugurated.

Three spaces assure the performance of the 9th editionn: The Cité Universitaire, the Cinéma La Clef and the ’Institut Finlandais.

Cité Universitaire

From October 5th to 12th 13 program of documentary films in competitoon will be presented at the Cité Universitaire. The (experimental) documentaries are screened at the Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre, the Fondation Suisse, the Maison du Brésil, the Maison Heinrich Heine, at the Residence Andre de Gouveia and the Residence Lucien Paye. The program at the Cité includes night screenings, October 7th and 8th from midnight up to the morning and also programs coming from Africa, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovia, China, Finland, France, Germany, Iran, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Tunesia et al.. It is the festival of the largest spectrum ever taken place at the at the Cité universitaire.

Cinema La Clef

The progams in the Cinema La Clef from October 13th to 16th includs the competiton of short films focused on a " Cinéma différent" , a cinema and audio visual production open for new languages .The competition is subdivided in 10 parts and is accompanied by special screenings of films coming from Norway, Portugal and Romania.

Institut Finlandais

Rendez-vous for short recent films coming from Finland. The Institut Finlandais wellcomes also a special screening of the extraordinary Chinese documentary film "Karamay" by Xu Xin. The 356 minutes long work will be screened integraly with a little break in the middle.

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HONORING THE ("DIFFERENT") WOLDS

In the frame of the 16 programs focused on contries and regions we would like to point out the Iranian programfocused on female film makers . Concering Tunesia we have choosen mostly films wghich testified the relevant role of internet, facebook and new media communications for the developing and consolidation of the tunesian revolution. Concering China we choose emostly films showing the daily life in all its difficulties, testimonies and observations of very conflictual conditions.

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EUROPEAN COLLABORATION

The FISDN founded in 2009 CINE TRANS EUROPE, a collaboration between European festivalsdefending a different and alternativ cinema. This collaboration continues in Paris and in the places of the partner festivals, in 2011 at the ARES Film & Media Festival (Syracus), the Festival International La Boca del Lobo (Madrid) and the Busho Festival (Budapest).

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SPECIAL GUEST : CUBA

Le Festival invites the «Muestra de Nuevos Realizadores» coming from Havana, a festival focused on young creators and film makers.

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NIGHT PROJECTIONS

From Midnight to the morning October the 7/8 et 8/9