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The 13th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Saarbrücken
Germany
June 25 - July 1, 2015
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Filmhaus
Kino Achteinhalb
Universität des Saarlandes
Hochschule der bildenden
Künste Saar
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Program
Short Films
# 4 |
Monday, June 29, 2015 / 8.30 pm
Filmhaus
Saarbrücken
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I am a Spy
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Sarah Wood
Great Britain
2015 | 0:22:20
In a diaristic film that reflects on archives, surveillance and history making, Sarah Wood asks, 'We invented cinema, but in an age when we can move more and see more than any other point in history, why have we become so watchful and so performative?'
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Angelus Novus
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Aboozar Amini
Neatherland, Great Britain, Afghanistan
2014 | 0:25:00
Afghani refugee Ali and his brother have just arrived in Turkey where, surrounded by many other refugees, his family tries to build a new life. The boys earn their living shining shoes. When one day their spot has been taken, their fragile existence and dreams of a better future hang by a thread. |
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Kamakshi
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Satinar Singh Bedi alter Woodman
India
2014 | 0:25:00
In Hindu mythology, Kamakshi is the goddess of compassion. She fulfils all wishes and embodies serenity and peace. Sita, Rama’s wife, after suffering a long journey full of deprivations and false accusations levelled against her by her beloved husband, pleads to be swallowed up by her mother, the earth.
In black-and-white and on 35mm, we follow an old woman who digs for water in a dry and barren region. She digs and digs, and the furrows in the dry soil are mirrored in the wrinkles of her spirited face. Almost disappearing in the ditch, a girl suddenly appears at its edge. They exchange looks. The old woman distributes coins from a water-filled boat. The water carriers wield torches in the night. Associative and hallucinatory imagery is interspersed by narrative moments. Towards the end, colour takes charge of the direction and the desire for water is fulfilled at a high price.
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Swallowed Whole
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Heidi Kumao
USA
2014 | 0:04:00
“Swallowed Whole” is a somber, animated, experimental film about surviving extreme isolation and physical limitations as a result of traumatic injury. After breaking my back in a sledding accident, I was forced to lie supine on the couch for an extended period of time during which my mind often descended into a desolate, disorienting dreamscape. Feeling stifled, I imagined that I was trapped under a frozen lake; life continued on above me while I looked up from below. This sensation became the kernel from which I created this film.
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reCuiem
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Valentina Carnelutti
Italia
2015 | 0:20:00
Als ihre Mutter für eine verdächtig lange Zeit auf dem Bett liegt, bemerken Leo und Annetta, dass etwas nicht in Ordnung ist. Aber verstehen sie wirklich, dass sie nie wieder aufstehen wird? Die Kinder beginnen ihr Morgenritual ohne sie.. Einige Träne, viele unterdrückte Gefühe und deine überzeugende schauspielerische Leistung der Kinder kennzeichnen diese Ode an eine Mutter.
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June 25 - July 1, 2015
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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