The 7th International Festival Signes de Nuit will be divided in two parts.The first part will take place in the:
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Fondation Suisse
7, Bd. Jourdan
75014 Paris
(Campus Cité universitaire)
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Thursday the 2 until Sunday the 5 APRIL 2009
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Signes de Nuit invites you to discover for the first time a selection of astounding documentaries. Some handle the most problematic and conflictual subjects, whereas others offer a new perception of our relation to the world by mixing experimental with reality.
This year, among suggested themes, you will find the Israelo-Palestinian conflict, the actual Russia as well as the Kazakhstan through the fantasies of a new capitalist world still in construction.
First view of the documentary program:
| Välkommen till Helbron (Bienvenue à Hébron/Welcome to Hebron) |
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Terje Carlsson
Israël / Palestine / Sweden * 2007 *
0:55:00
In this film Leila is chatting on MSN, discussing Jimi Hendrix with her mother and sharing her vision of a middle east of coexistence and peace.
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| The Taste of Koumiz (Le Goût du Koumiz) |
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Xavier Christiaens
Belgium * 2003 *
0:55:00
An experimental documentary about nomad of Kirghizistan. X.Christiaens contemplates the steppes of central Asia whereas a voice-over speaks about soviet domination.
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| White She-Camel (La Chamelle Blanche) |
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Xavier Christiaens
Belgium * 2006 *
0:52:00
A planetary futur.. Dryness threats from all sides.. the seas disappear.. A time traveller watches the signs of a civilisation in distress. A documentary about the Aral (Kazakhstan).
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| Kazakhstan, naissance d’une nation (Kazakhstan, birth of a nation) |
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Christian Barani, Guillaume Reynard
France * 2008 *
1:04:00
A starting point, the speach of President Noursoultan Nazarbaiev that sets the becoming of Kazakhstan.
A new capitalist world, groundless, is being built on fantasies and appropriations.
Soviet’s referents are denied. All is re-invented. The reality is transformed. A veil covers it.
The political fiction takes form with the new post-modern city, Astana, dream of the President…
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| Nedoverie (Incrédulité / Disbelief) |
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Russia * 2004 *
1:45:00
A feature-long documentary about the mysterious bombings of appartment buildings in Moscow in September 1999.
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Le système Poutine (The Poutine system)
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Jean-Michel Carré et Jill Emery
France * 2007 *
1:38:00
The controversal portrait of Poutine. In the form of a political investigation, we discover the origins of the rising of the russian president from his adolescence until his acquisition of power. His ascent covers thirthy years of russian history.
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And a Suiss program to discover on Sunday.
Some of the presented films:
| I don’t dream in German (Je ne rêve pas en allemand) |
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Ivana Lalovic
Switzerland * 2008 *
0:15:00
Separated by war they meet again, without recognizing themselves, only to lose each other forever.
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| Monsieur Sélavy (Mister Sélavy) |
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Peter Volkart
Switzerland * 2008 *
0:10:00
A film diary about the vicissitudes of existence and how to encounter them with dignity. A journey, in which space and time coordinate, become a bit tangled.
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| Fanthom |
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Vladimír Jedlicka
Switzerland * 2007 *
0:07:00
A lonely beachcomber searching for treasure on a deserted beach, finds more than he bargained for. Parable of a modern life style, too much concentrated to reach an aim.
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The Giant Buddhas
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Christian Frei
Switzerland * 2005 *
1:35:00
After the destruction of Bamiyan’s buddhas in Afghanistan, blown up with dynamites in march 2001, the director questions the relation of man to history, to art and to spirituality.
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