Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino |
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino |
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8° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - Aprile 10-14, 2024
22th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy
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Schlafende Pferde |
Julius Weigel |
Switzerland / 2023 / 0:20:00 |
A young employee of a marketing agency seems to slowly burn out. Her meditation app is commenting her office life through a tantalizing lens of escapism.
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JURY DECLARATION
"All the Tired Horses" deftly portrays the struggles of a young marketing employee grappling with the demands of modern work life, employing narrative and imagination with outlook and humor. Through irony, it offers insightful commentary on our societal norms, urging us to reconsider the balance between professional ambition and personal well-being in an era where productivity often eclipses happiness.
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SIGNS AWARD
The Signs Award honours films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way
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Na Marei |
Lea-Jade Horlier |
France / 2023 / 0:21:54 |
Zaid, a 15-year-old, lives near Kabul with his mother and sister. Between school, his friends and his hobbies, he seems to be flourishing in a city in ruins after the war. But when his mother tells him it's time to get married, his ambitions crumble and the heavy secret of his freedom must come to an end.
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JURY DECLARATION
A social topic of great importance, " Unseen" / "Na Marei" is a very specific and powerful example showing the position of a woman striving for freedom. We are following the life of a passionate writer, an ambitious young girl Zaid who is struggling to express herself and find her place in the world not finding support first from her family, but also from the society in which she lives. Imposed principles and rules destroy her dreams and future.
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NIGHT AWARD
The Night Award honours films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness
and subtleness, which keeps mind and consideration moving
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Eron Sheean |
| Netherlands / 2023 / 0:20:15 |
Inexplicably abandoned by his parents on a windswept, empty beach, a young boy embarks on a surreal journey through time – and a contemplation of ageing and his own mortality.
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JURY DECLARATION
The jury were impressed by the space the movie creates by choosing an own rhythm allowing the the audience to fill in associations, reflections and thoughts. Where ever water touches land impulses are created about life , about time, with which the movie also experiments . Obviously choosing not to be a classical narrative movie , somehow enrolls a lot of thoughts resonating with us.
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JURY DECLARATION
The Shore is a film that I made with my son, Walter, over an entire year to coincide with the changing seasons, which was necessary for the themes of ageing, growth, and separation. To make it feasible to shoot over such a long time, it was mostly just Walt and myself with a small camera shooting in the National Park on the coast of North Holland. I planned the film carefully based on the location I knew so I could use available light and create a visually bold image.
I wanted the film to feel like a dream, but not at the expense of making the film impenetrable or too obscure. My hope is that it touches people emotionally because the themes cut through the film's strangeness with a universal resonance. I'm honoured to have received THE NIGHT AWARD, which perfectly encapsulates what I wanted to achieve with The Shorex
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JURY AWARD FOR THE UNCOMFORTABLE JOURNEY OF GUILD
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Thank You For Your Patience!
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Merci pour votre patience!! |
Simon van der Zande |
Belgium /2022 / 0:17:10 |
From a fixed point of view, we witness a tense bus ride in Brussels, when Samuel – a Congolese immigrant – gets on to voice his discontent with Europe.
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JURY DECLARATION
In "Thank You For Your Patience", viewers find themselves literally seated inside the bus, experiencing the tension of a Brussels journey firsthand as Samuel, a Congolese immigrant, confronts colonialism and prompts uncomfortable reckonings with white guilt. The film challenges audiences to confront their own political stances and complicity in systems of oppression.
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