9th International Festival Signes de Nuit

Smuggled across borders, cheated by immoral intermediaries, trailed by police, at the mercy of foreigners – such is the fate of illegal immigrants from Vietnam who try to settle in Poland. Among them is young Mai Anh, whose boyfriend now works at a bazaar in Warsaw. Their meeting in a foreign country will not transpire as they had imagined.

Descrescendo

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Maria Minorowicz
Poland
2011 | Digital | 0:27:00

Decrescendo tells the story of the blossoming friendships that take place between the young psychologist Tomek and his patients from an old persons home, each of who bears their own touching and tragic story. Each day Tomek's fascination with beauty and youth clashes not only with the aging and the dying but also with their emphatic will to life. In this context the musical term Decrescendo takes on a new meaning.

Frozen Stories

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Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Poland
2011 | Digital | 0:27:00

The film tells the story of young girl and boy who work together in the supermarket. As the worst employees of the supermarket they have been ordered to find a purpose of their lives. To realise it they have only two days. The popular television show aims to help them to achive that goal.

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

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.