Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino





6° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - November 28th - December 4th, 2022

20th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy









 
Sala Serpieri
Urbino
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
16 h




Tsutsué

Amartei Armar ni
France, Ghana / 0:15:00

Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition. Haunted by his demise, Okai believes their brother is still out there…



 

Griot

Pedro Dantas
Brazil / 2020 / 0:30:00

Griot: Storyteller, who does it as a poet. It is a living expression of popular culture. Who must also have the ability to improvise about current events. Afro tradition inherited by Afro-Brazilian culture. This audiovisual essay is based on orality, recorded with poets from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco, who express resistance, wisdom and criticism in the face of episodes of contemporary Brazilian history.

ITALIAN PREMIERE


 

There are Fish in the Water and Rice in the Fields

Tanakit Kitsanayunyong
Thailand / 2021 / 0:18:22

A Thai proverb, “there is fish in the water and rice in the fields.” mean people who live in a land where both fish and rice are abundant, will never go hungry. A journey from the past to the future simulated through memories about the land. Barren and lifeless as it is, people here only want to survive.


EUROPEAN PREMIERE

 

 

Urania Leilus

Andrew Serban
USA / 2021 / 0:21:17

A young female journalist is subjected to death threats and intimidation after witnessing human rights abuses at an ICE detention center for undocumented immigrant children.


ITALIAN PREMIERE