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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Bangkok
Thaïland
February 27 - March 10, 2016
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Program
(Experiental) Documentary
# 3 |
Sunday 6, March, 2016 / 3 pm
The Reading Room
Bangkok |
Polding's Gun with no Gunpowder |
Ang Baril ni Polding nga walay pulbura
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Albert Egot
Philippines
2014 | 00:35:00
Polding is a homeless person with disability who only lives with his makeshift bicycle helping him to move around. Despite all the bullying and trials of life, Polding remains happy, contented and a fighter. He protects himself using the gun without gunpowder and his ability to infect others to be happy through his charming attitude.
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Our Terrible Country |
Baladna alraheeb |
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Mohammad Ali Atassi, Ziad Homsi
Syria
2014 | 01:25:00
This road movie portrays the perilous journey of well-known
intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh and young photographer Ziad Homsi
through Syria, at a time when the country edges towards the brink.
Yassin (53), who spent 16 years in prison for belonging to the Syrian
left, goes underground in 2011 to serve Syria’s popular uprising,
while Ziad (24) - occasionally fighting with the rebels - takes
photographs in his hometown Douma. In this Damascene suburb – where
Yassin and his wife Samira Khalil found shelter - the two men meet and
become friends.
Together, they embark on an adventurous journey through the desert to
al-Haj Saleh’s native town Raqqa in Northeast Syria. Upon their
arrival, Raqqa is occupied by the "Islamic State in Iraq and Levant"
(ISIS), which also kidnapped two brothers of Yassin.
Consequently, the thinker leaves for Istanbul to pursue his writing
for the revolution, hoping for a reunion with his wife Samira who
remained in Douma. Ziad – abducted by ISIS on his way back – rejoins
Yassin after his release, hoping to return home soon. All hopes are
shattered when Samira gets abducted jointly with human rights lawyer
Razan Zeitouneh. And the film ends while Syria tumbles into a yawning
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March 3 - 6, 2016
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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