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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne
23 November - 3 December, 2017
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Special View
Xavier Christiaens # 3 |
November 25, 2017 / 8:30 pm
KINO-DOC
Lisbonne, Portugal
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Xavier Christiaens |
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Belgian filmmaker Xavier Christiaens (1963) started out as an actor and assistant director. His debut film The Taste of Koumiz (2003 Jihlava IDFF) was followed by The White She-Camel (2006, shown at Jihlava in 2006) a Beyond Icebergland (2013, Jihlava 2014). |
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White She-Camel |
la Chamelle blanche |
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Xavier Christiaens
Belgium
2006 / 0:52:00
This beautiful and mysterious film is by one of Belgium's most
talented and peculiar directors. It is a poetic journey into the
border areas of the disbanded Soviet Union where imperial power is
still intact, if only as an accompaniment to the dream-like soundtrack
that is a backdrop to the film's mix of fiction and strange,
documentational moments. Christiaens has described his film in terms
of Odysseus returning home after his exile and finding a completely
new world where nothing is as it was before he left. |
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