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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
at Lisboa
October 1st - 9, 2016
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Competition International Short Films
# 6 |
Sunday, October 2, 2016 / 2 pm
DARC Desterro
Lisboa / Portugal |
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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The Light side
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Isiq gelen teref |
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Khayyam Abdullayev
Azerbaijan 2015 | 00:07:30
The story of a miserable family living in oil country is depicted in the film. The oil which endows light to the world doesn`t shed light to this family.
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A Random Act of Kindness
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Andrei Gruzniczki
Romania 2015 | 0:27:30
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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Luz
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Jacqueline Lentzou
Greece 2015 | 00:14:30
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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Solium
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Michaem Hunter
Great Britain 2015 | 00:16:00
Work and every day life can get you down. Solium is a film that follows one mans journey through his mind in search of enlightenment. Using his bath tub as a vessel to travel to various stunning locations around the Scottish wilderness, the character overcomes struggles and tasks to reach his final goal at the top of a mountain. Peace.
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The Scarecrow
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Phillip Rhys
USA 2015 | 00:12:15
A recently divorced man confronts the rocky shores of loneliness after a day spent with his adolescent son and an encounter with his ex-wife.
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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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