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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

5 - 15 October, 2017

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Maison du Portugal
Maison de l'Argentine
Maison du Mexique
Maison du Japon
Maison des étudiants canadiens

Maison Danoise


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AWARD CELEBRATION

Short Film Competition

The 15th International Festival Signes de Nuit
5 - 15 october 2017, Paris

Sunday, October 8, 2017 / 10 pm
Maison du Portugal André de Gouveia
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

 

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Short film Competition

Main Award


Greetings from Kropsdam
In Kropsdam is iedereen gelukkig
Joren Molter

  
In Kropsdam


Greetings from Kropsdam
In Kropsdam is iedereen gelukkig
Joren Molter

Netherlands

2016 | 0:24:00


Lammert has no mischief, but he becomes the victim of the stifling effect of a community that has already chosen its scapegoat.





PARIS PREMIERE
 

Jury Statement :
The film deals with important topics, which are nature and human relationships in a witty way and with an expressive film language.In this story of small community in the village in the Netherlands humor and tragic goes side by side with a good performance of actors. The images of the landscape make the camera work equally important as the story itself.

Director Statement :
It means a lot to me to winning this award. It's a huge stimulans for me as a director to work further on new films. For me Korpsdam shows the human mechanism how a whole group is turning against one individual. It's very nice to hear that the jury also liked the performance of the actors. They never played in a movie before, and I think that they did a great job. I'll pop a bottle of champagne to celebrate the fact that we won this award. But I'll watch out with eating some cake because we all know what happends then.

 

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Short Film Competition

Signs Award


Import
Ena Sendijarevic
The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original, convincing and surprising way.



Import


Import
Ena Sendijarevic

Netherlands

2016 | 0:16:55


A young Bosnian refugee family ends up in a small village in the Netherlands after getting a residence permit in 1994. Absurd situations arise as they are trying to make this new world their home.





 
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/161663267

Jury Statement :
The film “Import” by Ena Sendijarevic deals with an important subject, which is integrity in the new society in an original and convincing way.I n only 16 minutes 55 seconds the film tells the story of the Bosnian refugee family in the Netherlands, where perspective of each family member gives us a glimpse of the reality they live in.Strong and touching film on both:dramatic and visual level-a cinematic experience in a short film form.
 

 

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Short Film Competition

Night Award


Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez

 The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness, which keeps mind and consideration moving. 



Imago


Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez

Philipines

2016 / 0:15:00

Under the humid night within a lively slum in the center of Manila, Inday, a 54 year old single parent of a special child goes to her unusual work.


 
 

Jury Statement :
The internal conflict of the main character is presented in an ambiguous and mysterious way. The moments where we follow the protagonist through the streets of Manila by night are marked by tention. She is earning money in an unconventional way, putting herself on risk. The visual language of the film makes images stay in viewer's mind for a long time.

 

 

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Short Film Competition

Night Award Special Mention


Retract
Retrett
Itonje Soimer Guttormsen



Retract


Retract
Retrett
Itonje Soimer
Guttormsen
Norway

2016 | 0:30:00


The roving Gritt (Birgitte Larsen) fights the exhausting battle of establishing her ideas into practice as a autodidact performing artist arriving the capital of the self acclaimed winners of the world lottery. We follow her during her first weeks in Oslo, and through a philosophical but rather dissociative voice we find a person with a huge gap between her inner and outer world. Retrett deals with alienation, dignety and courage of dreams, in a poetic and humerous way.

FRENCHE PREMIERE
Trailer :
https://vimeo.com/235541272

Jury Statement :
How it is to deal with your dreams in the real life for such young, ambitious women as a hero of this Norway film and to keep them in spite of all difficulties. The good performing, dancing and stomping, of the actress leads truth her life drama and gives a courage to keep a safe mind.

 
 
 
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Short Film Competition

Edward Snowden


Black Hours
Les Heures Encres
Wendy Pillonel

The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensible (mostly) unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future. 



heures noires


Black Hours
Les Heures Encres
Wendy Pillonel

Switzerland
2017 / 0:28:46

Frank burns himself to death at his job in protest against the inhumane working conditions. Two stories emerge from this tragic incident. Léa, Frank’s wife, who is searching for the truth. Igor, an employee who finds the dead body and steals the letter of protest for fear of losing his job.


 
 

Jury Statement :
Pour avoir abordé le sujet difficile du suicide au travail, qui touche les fondements mêmes de l’organisation du travail dans ses nouvelles formes d’exploitation et de domination, transformant les travailleurs en victimes et bourreaux, nous discernons le prix Snowden à Black hours de Wendy Pillonel.

For having treated the difficult topic of suicide at work, that concerns the working organisation’s bases in its new forms of exploitation and domination, transforming workers in victims and executioner, we give the Snowden price to Black hours by Wendy Pilonel.


Director Statement :
Cette récompense signifie beaucoup. Les Heures-Encre m'a été inspiré par un fait réel qui s'est déroulé à Lucerne, en Suisse, en juin 2015. Un homme s'est immolé par le feu sur son lieu de travail. Personne n'en a entendu parler. J'en ai eu vent par hasard, par une amie proche de la fille de cet homme. Sans elle, jamais je n'aurais su ce qui s'était passé. Deux journaux locaux ont brièvement relaté l'affaire, les pompiers ayant dû intervenir. Et à part ça, rien. Le silence. L'immolation par le feu est la forme de suicide la plus violente. C'est un signe de protestation fort, une volonté d'attirer l'attention sur une défaillance du système qui engendre la souffrance des employés. Je suis en colère de savoir que tout le monde connait quelqu'un qui a fait un burn out. Que parfois même on connait quelqu'un qui est mort à cause du travail. Parce que la pression est trop élevée, parce qu'on demande du rendement, de l'efficacité, que les employés deviennent des numéros, invisibles, obligés de se taire, parce que "des comme toi, il y en des dizaines qui se pressent au portillon". Je suis heureuse que mon film ait gagné ce prix. Je le destine à cet homme de Lucerne qui espérait faire changer les choses et qui n'a pas été entendu. Et à tous les autres qui souffrent en silence. Merci d'avoir donné cette reconnaissance aux "Heures-Encre".
 

 

 
Short Film Competition

Special Mention


High Grounds
Les Hauts-Pays
Jérémy van der Haegen



Les hauts pays


High Grounds
Les Hauts-Pays
Jérémy van der Haegen

Belgium

2016 / 0:29:54


A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take over a retiring doctor’s medical practice in the Belgian countryside. He moves to a house not far from an old mining pit, in a region undergoing profound changes caused by a crumbling mining economy and agricultural crises. During the winter, a meteorite disintegrates in the sky, a phenomenon that will leave an old man mute. The young doctor is called to his aid.



Trailer :
http://www.jeremyvdh.com/les-hauts-pays/



 
 

Jury Statement :
Pour avoir su habilement noué une intrigue insolite et mystérieuse entre un jeune médecin dépassé, un vieux paysan frappé de mutisme par l’apparition d’un phénomène extraordinaire, la désintégration d’une météorite, nous donnons une mention spéciale à High grounds de Jeremy van der Haegen.

For having built up an unusual and mysterious story with a young doctor overwhelmed, an old Farmer became mute after the appearing of an extraordinary event, the disintegration of a meteorite, we give a special mention to High ground by Jérémy van der Haegen..
 

 

 


 

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