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The 16th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbon
16. Festival Internacional
Signos Da Noite
January 4 - 7, 2019
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International Competition
Documentary
# 1 |
Sunday, January 6 / 3 pm
DARC, Desterro
Lisbon, Portugal
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Narrating Hebron |
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PORTUGAL PREMIER
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Viktoria Bayer
Palestinian Territories, Israel,
Austria
2017 / 0:21:00
History is created by the person who tells it. And there are many
different ways of telling it. Biases shift, details are left out or
emphasised. In Hebron, a city in West Jordan divided into zones and
inhabited by both Israelis and Palestinians, convictions about history
and truth intersect with and are superimposed upon each other. The
film collects the different narratives, told by Israeli and
Palestinian city guides.
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Hiatus |
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PORTUGAL PREMIER
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Vivian Ostrovsky
USA
2018 / 0:06:20
The protagonist of this film is the reclusive, introspective Ukranian
- Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920 - 1977). It is based on a
single TV interview broadcast only after her death. What she says in
the 1977 interview is still very pertinent and corresponds to a
feeling of ‘in-betweenness’ which I myself feel today.
POR PRE
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My Moon |
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PORTUGAL PREMIER
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Bahador Shahidi
Sweden
2017 / 0:28:25
A documentary about the artist, poet, musician and hippie Bengt O
Björklund who was sentenced to 12 years and three months in prison in
Istanbul for the possession of 30 grams of hash. The character Erich
in the cult movie ‘Midnight Express’ by Alan Parker from 1978 is
partly based on Bengt’s story.
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A Life from Death |
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PORTUGAL PREMIER
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Elämä Kuolemasta
Sweden
2017 / 0:20:00
Sound seeps away from the piano, breath from life, focus from the
film. A mimesis of dying, stylised, but tangible. Death from the
perspective of the attending carers: changing the sheets, holding back
tears, having a coffee break, holding fading hands, lighting candles.
And once more: changing the sheets, holding back tears, the coffee …
life cycles.
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Mon amour, mon ami |
Elämä kuolemasta |
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Adriano Valerio
Italy, France
2017 / 0:16:00
Daniela and Fouad live in Gubbio, but they both come from by the sea:
she's from Bari; he's from Casablanca. Their bodies have suffered
hardship and alcoholism. They met by chance and a deep, healing
friendship was born. Now that Fouad needs a permit to remain, marriage
seems to be the easiest solution. But can you enter into a sham
marriage with someone who really loves you?
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January 4 - 7 , 2019
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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