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11th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

October 10th - 20th 2013
Cité Universitaire
Bd. Jourdan, 75014 Paris

Résidence Lucien Paye
Maison du Portugal
Maison de l'Italie

Maison Heinrich Heine
College de l'Espagne
Maison du Japon
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International Competition
Short Films
Program n° 8



Day: Sunday October 13th
Time: 8 pm
Place : Résidence Lucien Paye at the Cité Universitaire / Paris
October 11th - 15th 2013

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.


Storia

Gérard Cairaschi
France
2013 / 0:07:00


Carried by a song, images and fragments of narration intertwine. Simulacrum, magical or religious ritual, ritual of death or rite of passage, nothing is explicit in the action that deploys amongst the characters, between the extreme proximity and, at the same time, the absolute distance expressed by the gestures and bodies.

Film:
http://www.heure-exquise.org/video.php?id=8776&l=uk

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Sirocco

Mikko Kuparinen
Finland
2012 | 0:15:00

A shy, lonely woman finds a baby in the garbage. She takes the baby home with her and starts pretending it's her child. Directed by Mikko Kuparinen, produced by Elina Pohjola. Based on Tuuve Aro's short story Merkki.

Trailer
http://vimeo.com/41003494

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Man on Earth

Yianni Warnock
Australia
2012 | 0:06:00

Man confronts his greatest challenge: how to deal with loneliness and the separateness of living entities? Will a pet help? Or maybe laughter is the cure?

Trailer:
http://vimeo.com/71196168

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Pandora's Box

Paula Santos, Lucas Sander
Brazil
2012 | 0:15:00

Inside a box, shutters capture wandering lights, creating a phantasmagoric universe.


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Imaginarium (Imaginario)

Jeymer Gamboa
Argentina, Costa Rica
2013 | 0:07:30

Imaginario explores the idea of visual memory linked to public space in Buenos Aires by filming its main sights and sculptures.

FRENCH PREMIERE

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José Pigs Combustion (José Combustão dos Porcos)

José Magro
Portugal
2012 | 0:18:00

Everyone remembers well that night of the burning pigs. José was born the morning after, and some say that he came from that fire, and became man out of the pigs. Since he was born, in the village, people called him José Combustão dos Porcos


WORLD PREMIERE

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Hide and Seek (Sum ba kol jil)

Choeun Ma
South Korea
2012 | 0:15:00


Hide and seek A girl has a retarded brother. She plays hide and seek in an unfamiliar place with him and returns home alone.

Film:
http://kinodot.com/eng/Dot_Shorts_Film_Program/id/318

WORLD PREMIERE

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Nobody Special (Nadie especial)

Juan Alejandro Raminez
Peru
2013 | 0:23:00


A woman fights a losing battle: one can't be poor and still want to stay among the familiar everyday. Born and raised, only to watch with confusion and rage her surroundings become deserted, transfomed to bleak places. Rear children disperse to faraway, to ugly cities. Told with great lyricism, Nadie Especial is about anyplace where the cards will always seem to be stacked against the powerless. On he same time it's about resolve, showing the challenge of a perhaps inevitable fate of hoping to restore the pieces of a long-eroded dignity. Even if that decision caused isolation.

Trailer:

http://vimeo.com/88401100

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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