9th International Festival Signes de Nuit

Florian Riegel
Germany
2010 | Digital | 0:28:00

Janice was paralysed at the age of 22 and has spent the following twenty years in bed. She looks at the world via surveillance cameras connected to her laptop. We look at her hometown, seaside, once the location of the feature film The Truman Show, through her eyes.

Ice Flowers (Eisblumen)

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Susan Gordanshekan
Germany
2011 | Digital | 0:30:00

Amir has no residence permit. When he loses his cleaning job, he takes on work as a carer. His new job entails looking after Mrs Osterloh, who is suffering from dementia. Mrs Osterloh’s illness presents Amir with an opportunity to toy with self-made realities. An encounter between two people on the edge who cling to each other for a moment, before losing themselves once more.

Two Brothers

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Steve Bache
Germany
2010 | Digital | 0:29:00

The young soldier Robert return home from war in Afghanistan. But after the death of his mother he had to move to his brother Joshua. They don't really like each other, but everything went well, until the memories of war return to Roberts mind.

FISDN 2011 : Honoring the (different) Worlds : Pointing Outs

October 5th to 16th 2011

We present film series focused on 16 different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition, as an act of resistance in the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes.