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19e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris / 1-10 octobre 2021

Online Edition
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October 1st, 2021- 9 pm -
October 3rd, 2021 - 9 pm

ONLINE SCREENING


 

Masters of the Land

Jan Locus
Belgium (Mongolia) / 2021 / 0:14:00


The rise of mining made post-communist Mongolia the fastest growing economy in the world in 2012. However, the poor were not profiting from this booming industry, and climate change plus overgrazing were leading to vast desertification. According to Mongolian shamanistic belief violation of nature by men provokes the anger of the ruling spirits or the ‘masters of the land’. Texts by shamaness Kyrgys Khurak and Hungarian poet Ferenc Juhasz, who experienced the painful initiation of a shaman in 1957, cut the medium long shots. Interweaving the rich spiritual Mongol tradition with a visual portrait of the country, Masters of the Land submerges the viewer in an intoxicating finale.

 

In Campania, in the Winter

Théo Verprat
France / 2020 / 0:15:30


When I left Naples, I knew it was for ever. I would never come back. Though I left a part of myself there : in those streets, on that beach, beneath the ruins.

PARIS PREMIERE


 

Requiem for Wind & Water

Amalie Atkins
Canada / 2019 / 0:25:16


Hovering between the physical and spirit world, twin sisters seek retribution. Through the unseen help of their ancestors and unusual coincidences, the twins learn the secret weakness of the witch.

FRENCH PREMIERE




 

 

Æon

Emmanuel Fraisse
France (Japon) / 2021 / 0:33:29


While an unprecedented cataclysm leads to the evacuation of Japan, Lyra plunges into her memories. Who was Rey, the fascinating girl she followed all across the country? Why was she obsessed with the myth of Atlantis, the civilization punished by the gods 10,000 years ago? And most importantly: why did she too suddenly disappear too?

FRENCH PREMIERE