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Lisboa
The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
at Lisboa

October 1st - 9, 2016

Lisboa
Lisboa
Darc Desterro
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Competition International
Short Films
# 2
Saturday, October 1, 2016 / 2 pm
DARC Desterro
Lisboa / Portugal

 

Memento Mori
Memento Mori


Nina Schiena

Germany
2015 | 00:13:15

Do you fear death? Don´t be frightened...´ A boy spends hours on a busy holiday-beach. His impressions and thoughts intertwine to a current perception, that is concerned with transience. The cinematic essay `Memento Mori´ aims to understand life and death as a unit and questions the fear of death.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE


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Behemoth - or the Game of God Lemohang
Behemoth - or the Game of God Lemohang


Jeremih Mosese

Lesotho, Germany
2015 / 0:13:00

An itinerant preacher proclaims to people that their god is in the very coffin he is dragging along.

 


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Jamais-Vu
Jamais vu


Werner Biedermann

Germany
2016 / 0:04:00

The found-footage film „Jamais-vu“ shows archetypical situations which, in this new montage, are perceived as different and strange. This panorama presents a gamut of emotional sensory impressions focussing on cinema as the means of expressing the condition of a culture. All about heart, skin and brains, eyes and genitalia, consciousness and sub-consciousness, in short, all about cinemastory – cinema stories: or, all about life, from birth to death.



PORTUGAL PREMIERE


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New Moon
Luna Nova
New moon


Andréa Prado

Brasilien
2015 / 0:13:00

The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. Mother and daughter share their routines with love on a deserted beach. The adolescence comes to the daughter with a confusion of feelings of loss and fear in this new phase of life.



PORTUGAL PREMIERE


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Lost Exile

lost exile


Fisnik Maxhuni

Switzerland
2016 / 0:29:00

To pay his debts, Emir, a husband and father, works for the local mafia, engaged in smuggling between Serbia and Hungary. One day, he gets to know Hana, who is fleeing Kosovo and an arranged marriage, and who asks him to help her cross the border. But Ince, Emir’s gang boss, sees this as an opportunity to make money by selling her into prostitution.



PORTUGAL PREMIERE
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/182851849
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3 Years 3 Month Retreat
Lo sum choe sum
3 years


Dechen Roder

Bhutan
2015 0:20:00

The “Three Years and three Months Retreat” or “Lo-Sum-Choe-Sum” is a Buddhist practice used to reach a higher state of clarity by removing oneself from the world. Will Lhamo, a young and wounded woman, be able to find her own form of retreat and redemption?



PORTUGAL PREMIERE
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/118012144
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October 1 - 9, 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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