Festival Signes de Nuit

Le festival propose des films et créations audio-visuelles de tous horizons, et de formes multiples. Ceux-ci ont le mérite d’expérimenter de nouveaux langages esthétiques, tout en s’intéressant à des thématiques différentes et aux problèmes de nos sociétés contemporaines. L’objectif du festival et des films qu’il promeut, est de mettre en place une communication globale qui échappe aux effets simplificateurs des médias de masse.

Les créations proposées présentent un travail original dans plusieurs domaines artistiques : son, composition musicale, image, mouvement, rythme, texte, espace et éclairage. Leur but est non seulement esthétique, mais vise aussi à permettre communication et compréhension des spectateurs de différentes origines, en les sensibilisant aux espaces culturels divers et parfois étranges. Nous dirons que cela peut être du «cinéma engagé» .

Informations sur le festival : http://www.signesdenuit.com/paris/P17/E_H.htm

Pour la première fois, le Centre tchèque est partenaire du Festival et accueille pendant deux jours plusieurs projections.

Programme au Centre tchèque de Paris

Focus Czech 1

En présence et Q&A avec Damián Vondrášek

Together (Spolu) / Damián Vondrášek / Republic Czech / 2015 / 0:07:00

He decides to rob a car to prove her love. A romance from the suburbs

on the edge of society.

Imprisoned (Vĕzení) / Damián Vondrášek/ Republic Czeck / 2016 / 0:27:00

An offer of a job as a prison educator could help unemployed teacher

Jakub resolve a difficult family situation. His father-in-law

exacerbates his already low self-confidence, and the man most

certainly imagined a different kind of son-in-law. The claustrophobic

feelings Jakub experiences at the prison, however, lead him to a

single question: Does he want to control others the rest of his life

or be controlled by them?

Focus Czech 2

Sugar (Cukr) / Tereza Vejdová / Czech Republic / 2019 0:25:00

Eighteen year old Maria strives to stand on her own feet. She lives

with her boyfriend but secretly works as a sugarbaby, providing

company to older men. The film explores the theme of closeness as a

commodity, in a society where capitalist principles rub off onto

personal relationships.

Reconstruction (Rekontrukce) / Ondrej Novak / Czech Republic / 2017 / 00:15:52 /

Olda is waiting for his trial in a detention centre for juveniles. He

tries to fill the void and forget about the recent past. The monotone

prison life is slowly intertwined with testimonies about his brutal

assault of a homeless man.

Easter (Lễ Phųc Sinh) / Chih Chieh Wu / Czech Republic / 2017 / 00:10:23 /

In order to offer a better future to her daughter, a Vietnamese mother

migrated to Czech Republic. She even hired a Czech nanny to help her

daughter fit in better in Czech society. However, she starts to feel

alienated from her daughter.

Autism as a gift / Josef Dvorak / Czech Rep. / 2017 / 00:26:00 /

The documentary AUTISM AS A GIFT is a sensitive testimony from the

parents of a nine-year-old autistic boy Ángel. They look at their

son's "disability" or "peculiarity" from a different perspective than

most of the society: to them it is a gift. Opportunity for

self-knowledge and self-education.

Waves (Vlnění) / Vojtěch Domlátil / Czech Rep. / 2017 / 00:03:00 /

An observer, who clears his mind to work with time and space. He not

only reaches certain pixilation ecstasy, but also, if he joins "the

wave", his way absorbs him completely. Non-narrative pixilation of the

Czech landscape.

Nabbin / Kat Tolkovsky / Czech Republic / 2018 / 00:30:00 /

The documentary is my coming of age among a community of Gypsies in

Nabbin, a small village in the Czech Republic. In the film I portray

the uninhibited and inspiring friendship with my wild friends.

Although this community is socially unprivileged, I’ve come to know

people full of generosity.