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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Berlin
Germany
January 18 - 24, 2016
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Short Film
Competition
# 3 |
Tuesday 19, January 2016 / 5 pm
ACUDkino
Berlin / Germany
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Wayward |
Rodlos |
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Kira Richards Hansen
Danemark
2014 / 0:19:00
A coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old girl who works at a car
mechanic's and hangs out with her friends. She challenges boundaries
in her search for identity, but her behaviour has repercussions that
force her to acknowledge new aspects of who she is.
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A Random Act of Kindness
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Andrei Gruzniczki
Romania
2015 | 0:27:300
A couple tries to rescue a stray dog run over by a car, amidst
general indifference. A certain social understanding of what is good,
a certain model of social responsibility that is catching on now tugs
at them, and they respond. They collect the dog off the street and
take it to a private clinic. The dog is too badly hit and cannot be
saved. However, the two wannabe rescuers come to be involved, both
financially and emotionally, in euthanizing the dog. They feel abused.
Moreover, they have to also take care of the dog’s “funeral”, since
that is the law. In the end, they come to feel “punished” for the good
deed they attempted to do. Revolted, they throw the dog onto a heap of
garbage.
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Times in Competition |
Vestibular |
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Toti Loureiro, Ruy Prado
Brasil
2015 / 0:22:00
After Márcio lost his scholarship for the preparatory course, he faces his last chance to be admitted to Med school. As the qualification exam approaches, he dives into a universe of competition, paranoia, and violence.
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Symbolic Threats |
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Matthias Wermke, Lutz Henke, Mischa Leinkauf
Germany
2015 | 0:15:00
Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? These were the
theories that New York puzzled over last summer. How can one incident
be interpreted in so many ways? By means of press reports, Symbolic
Threats allows the public at large to express their extreme disparity
of interpretation. Inspired by the heated debate over the two „White
American Flags“ that suddenly appeared on the towers of New York
City’s iconic Brooklyn Bridge, the film asks what kind of societal
scope art has in the present day. What happens when threatened freedom
reinstates art with the element of danger? Who or what makes it into a
threat? Are we safe in the city? What is next?
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Circadian Rhythms |
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Tom Bailey
Great Britain
2015 | 00:08:15
A young man has to come to terms with a mysterious epileptic condition that compels him to run at night, experiencing feelings of deep depression and transcendent euphoria. As his everyday life begins to seem fickle in comparison to these
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January 18 - 24, 2016
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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