International Festival Signs of the Night - Paris
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20e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris / 1-10 octobre 2022

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October 2nd, 2022 - 7 pm
Fondation Hellénique - Cité universitaire
47b, Bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris



 

Joy

 

Alexandra Brodski
United Kingdom, England / 2021 / 0:20:00


A teenage inmate in juvenile detention finds himself drawn to a magnetic 10-year-old girl who wields an intoxicating power over her peers - and perhaps even the adults watching over them.











 

Manta Ray

Raie Manta

Anton Bialas
France / 2022 / 0:30:00


Three characters in search of poetic and liberating breaches in a gradually authoritarian Paris, on the verge of implosion. Each in their own way, crafts a situation, where, alternately, a sense of lightness can be found, suffocated screams can uprise and reality be distorted into new horizons.


FRENCH PREMIERE




 

Night Light

Lux nocturna

Kim Torres
Costa Rica / 2022/ 0:14:00


Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, lives in rural Costa Rica with her two younger siblings. Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale will try to protect them from the seething truth, their mother has left them and is not coming back.


PARIS PREMIERE




 

It's Too Loud

 

David Tzach
Israel / 2022 / 0:20:47


David is about to leave his home. on his last day he is torn between the desire to leave, and the need to protect his father, a violinist who is in the midst of rehearsals for a concert, disturbing the peace of his neighbors which are fighting back.




 

Free as a Bird

 

Annelies Kruk
Netherlands / 2021 / 00:15:17


Ariana (12) loves to dance with her hairy friend, Mikey her dog. Sadly, she has a ticking bomb inside of her: two kidneys that are not working. If the kidneys won’t get better, she needs to get a dialysis where a tube will be placed in her stomach. For Ariana, this sounds like a terrible idea because that means that she won’t be able to dance anymore. Because there is not much time left, she decides to look for a donor herself by posting an online video. Despite her determination, it’s not an easy task because she much more prefers to direct the camera to the fun stuff in her life. Her dog Mikey for example or to show how good she is at dancing. But how should you make a video about something that you’re actually so scared of?



 

1056 Metres

Yi Ling Wu Liu Mi

Edwin Ho
Singapore, USA / 2020 / 0:17:00


Ling needs a kidney. She leaves Malaysia and crosses the 1056 metres long causeway at the border to Singapore to see her younger brother who now lives there to seek this desperate favour. Will her last hope eventually save her?

EUROPEAN PREMIERE