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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

November 24 - December 4, 2016

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Maison du Portugal
Maison du Mexique
Main d'oeuvres
 Bibliotheque Francois Truffaut


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Competition International
Short Films
# 9
Sunday 27, November / 8 pm
Mains d'Oeuvres
Paris

 

Beneath the Wide Wide Heaven
Beneath the Wide Wide Heaven


Hisham Bizri

USA

2015 | 0:15:00


Pier Paolo Pasolini plays the role of the director as conveyor of human experience. The director is constantly watching, thinking, feeling... all in hopes that the film, once it stands alone, will be sufficient and whole. And on him is the burden of describing through image and sound the human experience.






FRENCH PREMIERE
 

 

I Woke Up Before I Went To Sleep
I Woke Up Before I Went To Sleep


Tim Harrison

Great Britain, Netherlands

2015 | 0:03:00


A dreamer's dance with the arrow of time.

FRENCH PREMIERE
 

 

Solar Ring triptych
Solar Ring triptych


Valentina Lacmanovic

Croatia, Netherlands

2015 | 0:12:00


The artist films herself and develops the use of camera as an extension of the moving body. Three parts correspond to three phases in a transforming process from obsessive and complacent mind activity towards the abandon to the dance.

FRENCH PREMIERE
 

 

Birdy Jr.
Birdy Jr.


Serge Fenenko

Netherlands

2015 | 0:04:30


How do you tell your six years old child that you are going to die? Ask Birdy.

FRENCH PREMIERE
 

 

I Love your war
I love you war


Ariadna R. Alamo

Ecuador

2015 | 0:11:00


A Western man and a Palestinian arab woman who had a love affair in the past, get in touch again through letters written after the last Israeli military operation in Gaza. A young woman travels through the countryside.

FRENCH PREMIERE
 

 

A Day Will Come My Future Will Be Your Past
A Day Will Come My Future Will Be Your Past


Sarah Deboosere, Charles Blondeel

Belgium

2015 | 0:25:15


A day will come my future will be your past’ makes you experience time through a contemporary tale about the friendship between two middle-aged women. In the story they get trapped in a wormhole between the first and last moment they met. The film starts with the encounter of two young girls; Ona and Cecilia, in the serene setting of a park. They talk about Martin, a boy they are both in love with. However, what we hear next tells a different story. Their conversation, at first innocent and banal, shifts to contemplations about shared memories, present observations and future thoughts they have seemingly already experienced. This concept of time experience is also treated in the subject of their conversation "I wonder, why can I remember my past, but not remember my future?", one of the girls asks. Then, the film itself becomes part of the narrative. ‘The fourth wall', so to speak, is pulled away when the illusion, fed by an extensive stylizing (an idyllic setting, attractive young people, soft colours and delicate music) is shattered; the voices of the girls appear to be dubbed in a recording studio. The conversation feels unnatural and the directors do little effort to conceal this. Although the viewer chooses to forget, he is constantly reminded that everything is staged. With the three contrasting film genres; fiction, documentary and making of, handled in the film, the directors create an extensive web of layers. The viewer is invited to construct the storyline himself, shifting between these genres, giving significance and meaning to the story the protagonists move through.

 
 

 

The Burning Dance
El Bailes de los Ardientes
The Burning Dance


Mariano Leguizamon

Argentina

2016 | 0:17:00


Rosario counts and stashes the money she needs to get away from her alienating life while the TV constantly shows an unbelievable bolivian female wrestlers. Later on, Rosario is fired from her job. She’s tricked by her boss. She steals a car, with one thing in her mind: “The Burning Dance”. The fight is over, Rosario lights the fire. The Bolivian female wrestlers jump into the fire.

EUROPE PREMIERE
 

 

 


November 24 - December 4, 2016

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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