Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino |
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino |
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10° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - April 13 - 19, 2026
24th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy
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Sala del Maniscalco
Urbino
Sunday April 18, 2026
22 h
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Eleonore de Montesquiou |
Estonia / 2023 / 0:05:42 |
February 2015, Vladimir Putin’s opponent, Boris Nemtsov, was assassinated not far from the Kremlin in Moscow. Images of pain and protest, texts by Pablo Neruda are an open call for reflection in this short film.
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Malaz Usta |
Netherlands / 2024 / 0:11:00 |
Exiles are asked questions concerning their life, (plans), and reasons for (their choices). The film tries to communicate the feelings of the displaced when being confronted with such questions which are drawn from the director's memory. A parody of misinformation and of broken systems, and an exploration of feelings of confusion, loneliness, and uncertainty.
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Michelle Trujillo |
USA / 2026 / 0:06:22 |
Hurricane anxiety takes a visceral form as the image searches for an escape route. Inspired by true events. Created on 16mm film and developed with comfrey, mint, yerba mate and willow leaves.
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Like Dew Before a Thunderbolt Vol.1
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Benjamin Poumey |
Switzerland /2025 / 0:04:50 |
1st volume of a collection of shorts films shot on Super 8 in Geneva, inspired by Jiseiku (farewell poems) written by Samurais in the 16th and 17th centuries. I was touched by these texts, and furthermore by this concept of 'writing a last poem before dying’.
Thus, in spite of the huge difference in cultures and eras, something has passed from these samurai to me.
Let's say that it's this ‘passage’ that I'm trying to find with the films. It could be likened to an exercise in ‘drifting’ or psychogeography. Between contemplation, thought flows and other visual wandering experiences, I'm shooting images in Geneva to share/recapture/transmit the impressions and emotions conveyed by the texts.
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Unas bolitas de mercurio |
Andrea Marquez |
Argentina / 2025 / 0:08:02 |
Through the recounting of a dream—an image from the past that insists on reappearing—the film dissects and displays the very materials it’s made of: still photography, moving image, narration, as if these cinematic elements were minerals and gems in a museum showcase. In doing so, it transforms them into an evocative exploration of what is preserved and what is lost. An archive of broken and silent images? A mausoleum of time?
By weaving together fragments of memory and cinematic form, the film not only examines the nature of preservation but also invites reflection on cinema itself. What became of its promises, its potentials, or, to borrow from Gilles Deleuze and Thom Andersen, the thoughts we once had?
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You're not a Fool, Grandpa
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Tu n'es pas fou Papi |
Adrien Lhoste |
France / 2024 / 0:04:13 |
A little girl, now a woman, writes to her grandfather, wounded by a mental disorder. She watches him as he seethes inwardly, pondering the place of childhood in suffering.
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Hiroya Sakurai |
Japan /2025 / 0:08:16 08 |
I focused on how the landscape is transformed when the wind as a weather phenomenon streams through the rice paddies cultivated by humans. It also portrays the lives of the farmers who cultivate these paddies and the local residents who share this environment.
Weather such as wind, rainfall and sunshine are important elements in cultivation, and humans cultivate and harvest while anticipating these elements, and in this way they sustain human life. Rice paddies are not protected like a greenhouse, and they are cultivated under harsh conditions such as typhoons, droughts, and cold weather.
I observed the constantly changing and transforming appearance of the rice paddies through the process of cultivation and weather.
I expressed the changing landscape by connecting the sound of wind chimes, which reflect the weather, with the cultivation process.
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Ron Chiers |
Belgium / 2025 / 0:02:45 |
"A Robot of Me" is a short AI-generated film that plays out like a virtual reincarnation of Andy Warhol in the age of artificial intelligence. In an apparently mundane scene - Andy buying soup in a supermarket - a philosophical daydream begins to unfold.
The film echoes his famous quote: “Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?” and raises the question of how Warhol might engage today with social media, AI, deepfakes, and prompts. their silence.
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Agnieszka Chojnacka |
Poland / 2024 / 0:30:00 |
In a world without humans, a visitor finds himself exploring the remnants of Earth's culture. Polish museums become a mysterious land of conjecture and fantasy, where artworks gain new life after the end of mankind. Pathos, comedy and melancholy are present in equal measure. Constructivism wanders with romanticism to the to the rhythm of the opera "Twilight of the Gods".
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