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3° Festival internacional Signos de la Noche - Tucumán - December 1-4, 2021

19th International Festival Signs of he Night- Argentina

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MAIN AWARD



The Meaning of August

Manos Papadakis
Greece / 2020 / 0:26:57


Andreas has to take care of the boss’s house and dog. The dog is mad. The house is luxurious. His co-workers are jealous. The neighbor is stalking close by. The dog is called Leben. The dog has its own plans.

ARGENTINA PREMIERE


 


Jury Declaration:

The story of two underdogs and their unlikely friendship. This film reminds us, there is difference between reacting or responding to a situation.








SIGNS AWARD


The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way



Everything We Know About You

Roland Denning
United Kingdom / 2021 / 0:06:50


"Everything We Know About You" examines 21st century issues of data control and the insidious power of social media using mid-20th century found footage and AI synthesised voices and characters. Digital corporations ensure us the information they harvest is used to deliver what we want, but is giving us what we want a form of control? Does telling us what we want to hear polarise society? Is freedom choice anything to do with freedom? And what is the secret of making your partner smile in the morning? The dominant model of propaganda and advertising was once that of insidious authorities brain-washing us to do something we previously wouldn't wanted to do. That model is now redundant; in the current era, the anonymous algorithms of transglobal business exploit us by giving us more of what we desire.

LATIN AMERICA PREMIERE


 


Jury Declaration:

Truth is a subject of humanity that has always been refuted. Everything We Know About You reminds us with impeccable assembly, that we are being an over-information machine and part of it. Truth is uncomfortable or like feeling truly ignored by a system that is hard to turn back.





NIGHT AWARD

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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



Revolykus

Victor Orozco Ramirez
Germany / 2020 / 0:12:00


Several years ago, I immigrated to Germany. Here, I live in a small old house, which urgently needs modernization and that only theoretically protects me from wind, rain and cold.


 


Jury Declaration:

Both, visually rich and intellectually stunning, Revolykus traces a series of ideas whose connections are not always entirely clear to the viewer. However, from its mysteries and ambiguities, Víctor Orozco Ramírez short film builds a powerful argument for the interconnectedness of geography, politics, history, nature, economics, culture and humanity. In twelve short minutes, the old, wretched German house where the Latin American narrator takes refuge becomes a powerful metaphor for a crumbling Earth, a metaphor whose contradictions and richness spark and come hitting us with the beautiful force of a lighting strike.


Director Statement:

While the world is running in the internet at super speed in real life a lot of thing seems to be stalled. And in this swamp, migrants and refugees are left behind in their solitude while the hate against them grows up thanks to social media.





 



JURY AWARD FOR PROVOKING IMAGINARY SPACES



Desert Lights

Luces del desierto
Félix Blume
Mexico / 2021 / 0:30:00


Some strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert. The residents tell us what they’ve seen: fire, a fireball, lights flying, lightning falling from the sky and a flash. The singularity of each experience builds a complete story narrated by a choir of people. An encounter with this strange phenomena can be surprising, dangerous or even fatal. The night isn’t as dark as it seems. The desert is full of all kinds of living beings. This emptiness is the place for everyone. Desert Lights invites us to open our eyes wide in the twilight and to listen to the sounds hidden in the blackness. A horror movie, in the darkness of the desert.


 


Jury Declaration:

The lights in the dark. The fictional in the real. We could see Desert Lights closing our eyes and even feel inside, feel that the fire burns us and that the light dazzles us. The work done between the assembly and the sound is impeccable. Suspense and the absence of guidance makes us enter a world from which it is difficult to get out later.



SPECIAL MENTION


Time Perspective

Line Klungseth Johansen
Norway / 2020 / 0:03:00

Time perspective theory is the idea that our perception of time influences our emotions, perceptions and actions. Time perspective models break down time into chronological categories, such as: Past. Present. Future.

LATIN AMERICA PREMIERE


 


Jury Declaration:

This wild and insanely thought-provoking short film in only three minutes manages to raise questions about life, the universe and time from an astronomical curiosity: Fast Radio Bursts. Graphic and meaningful, the experience of watching this short film is potent, gracious and disturbing. This line in the film: “There´s some sort of natural machine in the universe for pumping regular shrieks of radio energy across space”, could very well be describing Line Klungseth Johansen’s "Time Perspective".


SPECIAL MENTION


The Black Sheep

Vincent Zheng
China / 2021 / 0:34:10


On the grassland in the southeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a first-rate shepherd at the State-run Sheep Farm, Gyabo and his wife have been worried about his melancholy son Tenzin, but Tenzin grew up with the unexpected black sheep. More than three years passed peacefully. By the fall of 1999, Gyabo hoped to follow the tradition and complete the marriage for his 14-year-old son, Tenzin, and to train him to be his inheritor, as a shepherd, then he received notification from the government, his son must go to school. Tenzin and his black sheep run to their unknown destiny.

LATIN AMERICA PREMIERE

 


Jury Declaration:

Wherever in the world we look, we will find those people with power and those without, the good and the bad, as well as one truth: growing up is never easy.



MENTION FOR THE SIGNS AWARD


The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way


Good Girl

Merja Maijanen
Finland / 2019 / 00:11:56

After being awarded for being a good girl, a naive little girl learns what it really means to be one.

LATIN AMERICA PREMIERE




 


Jury Declaration:

Reality or just a nightmare? You better not ask. Don’t worry, everything is just fine in this little family.



MENTION FOR THE SIGNS AWARD


The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way


A Year in Exil

Malaz Usta
Turkey / 2020 / 0:19:00

This is the story of a lonely and young Syrian immigrant’s first year outside his small country in a metropolitan city, Istanbul. Through a collection of images and sounds, the film exhibits what he faces, the pictures that he sees, the crowded thoughts in his head, and the state of shock that he lives throughout this year.

ARGENTINA PREMIERE




 


Jury Declaration:

An ode to the search for identity. Malaz Usta opens his intimate diary that talks about the greatest feeling of hope and hopelessness that we have as people. In this continuous and daily contradiction A year in Exil catches us, with an impeccable edition, a sincere voice and a painful current history.


Director Statement:

It is my great pleasure to accept this mention for the Signs Award. I always find it amazing that such a personal story can touch that many people. I appreciate every time I get the chance to show it to a bigger number of people in different places around the world. Thanks to you and to the jury!