É com prazer que o DARC se volta a associar ao Festival Signos da Noite. Em destaque na 16ª edição do festival estão as competições para Melhor Curta e Melhor Documentário, bem como secções dedicadas a filmes de Portugal, Balcãs, Ásia e Curdistão. Muitos dos trabalhos aqui presentes são estreias em Portugal, e em alguns casos estreias internacionais. O programa completo pode ser consultado aqui: www.signesdenuit.com The "16° Internacional Festival Signos de la Noite" will present short film and documentary competitions programs, as also four Focus programs with recent films from Portugal, Balkan, Asia and Kurdistan. The closing film "Where there is Darkness" is an astonishing documentary about death penalty and resistance in the United States. Timetable: FR JAN 4 15 h Short Film Competition 1 17 h Short Film Competition 2 19 h Focus Portugal (Directors are present) 21 h Short Film Competition 3 SA JAN 5 15 h Short Film Competition 4 17 h Short Film Competition 5 19 h Focus Balkan 21 h Short Film Competition 6 SU JAN 6 15 h Documentary Competition 1 17 h Documentary Competition 2 19 h Focus Asia 21 h Documentary Competition 3 23 h Documentary Competition 4 01.00 Focus Asia MO JAN 7 15 h Documentary Competition 5 17 h Documentary Competition 6 19 h Focus Kurdistan 21 h Documentary Competition 7 23 h Documentary Competition 8 01 h AWARD Declarations and Closing Film Small selection of Documenaries in competition: Portugal Premier: SU 6 JAN - 23h The Last Ice Hunters Jure Breceljnik, Rozle Bregar / Slovenia / 2017 / 1:12:00 The movie The Last Ice Hunters tells a story of the present generation of hunters in the Inuit community of Eastern Greenland, the final chapter in their 4000-year-old history. A film about the destruction of a sustainable live form and the painful consequences of civilisation loosing its roots. World Premier: MO 7 JAN - 17 h The Way Olesya Shigina / Veronica Ponomarev, Federation Russia / 2017 / 1:27:00 The Trans-Siberian Railway, boundless Russia … Two friends set off to find answers to simple and complicated questions talking to different people. They stay overnight with strangers and their families, visit monasteries, strike up conversations with fellow travelers on the train. What makes Russia tick? What are the main concerns of common people? How do dwellers of this huge country perceive its past and present? What or who will save Russia? What is the secret of the Russian soul? If you follow your heart and trust your hunches, you won't doubt the answer... It's a long way from Moscow to Russky Island... Will you ever hit a boundary? A large panorama of Russian people today, their hopes and fears, their disappointments and loves... Portugal Premier: MO 7 Jan - 21 h Combat Obscura Miles Lagoze / USA / 2018 / 1:08:00 You've seen war documentaries from civilian journalists, reporters, and independent filmmakers. Now, for the first time, is a look at war from inside the military, filmed exclusively by Marine combat cameramen. For years, Miles Lagoze served in Afghanistan as a Combat Camera, shooting footage and editing videos for Marine Corps recruiting purposes. In this devastating film, Lagoze assembles his own footage and that of his fellow combat cameramen into a never-before-seen look at the daily life of Marines from the ultimate insider's point of view. More than a mere compilation of violence, the edit ingeniously repurposes the original footage to reveal the intensity and paradoxes of war in an age of ubiquitous cameras, when all soldiers can record themselves with helmet-cams and cellphones. Combat Obscura revels in the chasm separating civilian from military life and questions the psychological toll war exacts on all that it touches. Portugal Premier : SU 6 Jan - 21 h Doctor Co Lysander Wiering / Netherlands / 2017 / 0:24:00 * Lysander Wiering will be present Eighty-year old Doctor Co cycles all over Amsterdam to visit refugees in run-down garages and empty buildings. They stay here illegally and aren't eligible for professional medical care. Doctor Co tends to them and listens to their stories. They live in wretched circumstances; alcohol abuse and conflicts among themselves are regular occurrences. What motivates the old doctor to stick up for them unconditionally? Small selection of short films in competition: International Premier : FR 4 Jan. - 17 h Water (Neer) Dipendra Vasistha / India / 2017 / 0:33:00 After the death of his mother, a melancholic man is in the middle of a deal to sell his ancestral place in Varanasi and wants to return back to the United States for good. The night before the date of his departure, he's given a bag of food by a sadhu (a holy man) to feed a hungry soul. International Premier : FR 4 Jan - 17 h Hide and Seek Venera Kaizhanova / Kazakhstan / 2018 / 0:29:00 Two little girls’ light childhood goes dark every time it contacts with the world of adults. Can they hide in the sunny world or the clouds of the stark realities of life will find them? Lisboa Premier, Cannes etc. : SA 5 JAN - 17 h Animal (Heyvan) Bahram Ark / Iran / 2017 / 0:15:15 A man who wants to pass the border, disguises himself as a ram. Tampere Film Festival etc. : SA 5 JAN - 15 h Kampung Tapir Aw See Wee / Malaysia / 2017 / 0:17:10 A Sunday afternoon, migrant worker Anne and her husband leave their five years old daughter from Kampung Tapir (Tapir Village), Malaysia.On the way to Singapore, the bus their ride hit a wild Malayan tapir which wanted to cross the road, but no one is eager to save it.In the struggling of choosing a country to settle down, Anne founds that she is like this endangered species, still drifting places to find their own better life. In the Focus Programs we want to point out : Kurdistan Portugal Premier : MO 7 Jan - 19 h Wind (Bir) Veysi Altay / Kurdistan / 2018 / 1:03:00 In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated under torture; their killers disposed of the bodies by throwing them out of helicopters, or burying them in acid-filled wells. Thousands were murdered/disappeared by paramilitary forces—such as Jitem and Hizbul-Kontra—that were financed and supported by the state, though they have always stuck to the line: “We didn’t do it.” The documentary ‘BÎR’ looks at the case of seven people, including four children, who were disappeared from the town of Kerboran [Dargeçit] in 1995, and tells the story of their families’ tireless search for their bones. The Closing Film: Closing Film TU 8 Jan : 01 h (Night) Were there is Darkness Sean Bloomfield, Cimela Kidonakis / USA / 2018 / 1:39:00 Fr. Rene Robert devoted his life to helping the less fortunate in and around the tight-knit community of St. Augustine, Florida. But, in 2016, he was kidnapped and murdered by 28-year-old Steven Murray—an ex-felon he had been trying to help. Just as prosecutors began seeking a death sentence for Murray, Fr. Rene’s friends discovered a document he had signed 20 years earlier which stated, in part, “Should I die as a result of a violent crime, I request that the person responsible for my killing not be subject to the death penalty, no matter how heinous their crime.” Although prosecutors dismissed the document as having no legal standing, the discovery ignited a grassroots movement led by residents of St. Augustine who wanted the courts to accept Fr. Rene’s wishes and spare his killer's life. For further informations, fotos etc. please contact Festival international Signes de Nuit Direction: Dieter Wieczorek 18, rue Bude www.signesdenuit.com The detailed film lists you can find soon here: www.signesdenuit.com -- A entrada no DARC é exclusiva a sócios. A inscrição pode ser feita na hora.
