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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
# 5 |
Tuesday 19, January 2016 / 10 pm
ACUDkino, Saal 2
Berlin / Germany
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Catalina and the Sun
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Catalina y el Sol |
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Anna Paula Hönig
Argentina, France, Germany
2015 | 0:16:00
Once upon a time there was a girl named Catalina. Every day she
offered a tale to the Sun Tata Inti for he would always shine in the
sky. Old legend from Jujuy, Argentina.
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2183 Days |
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Natasha De Betak
India
2015 | 0:25:15
Rare and unique cinematic observation by artist and award winning
filmmaker Natasha De Betak; She has been filming a Holy man Nagnath
Baba since last five years who has been on a hunger strike to save the
sacred river Ganga. Year after year, his body crumbles. He is haunted
by both dreams and nightmares. His sacred existence takes surreal
shape. Life continues to flow around his body; temple, prayers,
rituals… Then one day his hunger strike reaches climax and he dies.
Expressionism and poetry meet to create a sublime journey of an
unusual soul.
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Luz |
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Jacqueline Lentzou
Greece
2015 | 0:14:30
An early Autumn morning, a blind teenager is given her sight, among
fire and steaming pots. In order to maintain her newfound gift she has
to complete a mission: recognize her mother. She roams around
independent for the first time ever, playfully indulged in her private
discoveries, while her mother is silently waiting. An impressionist
tale discussing the strongest emotional bond, that of mother.
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Unavoidable |
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Ina Jaakkola
Finland
2015 | 0:09:10
Unavoidable -video describes a symbolic way of adversities, which
we all meet with on the road of life. When an adversity is
unparalleled, such as death, we behave according to a certain formula:
first, we feel the bewilderment and fear, after that we begin to fight
and, finally, we have to approve the adversity I have taken to my
video elements from the medieval idea of dance with death, "dance
macabre"
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Most of Us don't Live There |
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Laura Marie Wayne
Canada, Cuba
2015 | 0:25:00
Most of Us Don’t Live There is a memoir, both visually stunning and
heartbreakingly sincere; a young woman wanders the landscapes of her
childhood and explores a life coloured by bipolar depression. Set in
the powerful Canadian Rockies, the film draws a link between nature
and the human mind and calls for a re-visioning of what we understand
as mental illness.
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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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