17° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino (3° Editione) - November 26-30, 2019
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Lovemobil |
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Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss |
Germany / 2019 / 1:45:00 |
Beside the dark highway roads of rural Germany, prostitutes from foreign countries work in old VW-Buses in the forest. ln this uncanny world a murder of one of the women takes place, forcing the women to take action.
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Jury Statement:
For the equilibrium between the argument and the style, between documentary and fiction. Woman prostitution in Germany is considered away from stereotypes. Different viewpoints, represented by different individuals engaged in the business of woman prostitution, are put in dialogue.
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Birds of Paradise |
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Aline Suter, Céline Carridroit |
Switzerland / 2019 / 0:15:00 |
A woman talks about her life with HIV. A story of motherhood and resurrection.
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Jury Statement:
For the courage to overcome difficulties that in’80 years were insurmountable. Autobiographic photos build a story of relationships and affects for love to life and maternity.
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Onironauta |
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Valerie-Malin Schmid |
Germany, Cuba / 2019 / 0:21:00 |
"Onironauta" is a painfully beautiful approach to the Republic of Cuba. The face of the afro-cuban poet Omar reflects on humanity. As he wanders through Havana, he reminisces about farewells, memory, patriotism, and censorship. His mythical poetry takes us through a dimension in which past, present, and dream interweave into an immersive journey. The poetry of the local, Omar, combined with the observational 16 mm images of Cuban everyday life, create a deep feeling of the complexity of life on an isolated island, the feeling of mortality and the fear of a human of being invisible.
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Jury Statement:
For the lyric stream that connects poetry and Cuban rhythm. Life of the poet and life of society join in the images. Film photography is accurate and capturing.
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SIGNS AWARD
The Signs Award for Documentary honours films, which express in a
surprising and sensitive way the perturbing aspects of reality
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Deep Waters |
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Alice Heit |
France / 2019 / 0:53:00 |
Plunging into the mysterious territory of feminine sexual pleasure, Deep Waters concerns the ‘fountains’ which sometimes gush forth at the moment of sexual climax. Little is known about this phenomenon, even by women themselves... Disconnected from our bodies and our desires by centuries of patriarchal oppression, the land of feminine pleasures has remained very much ‘terra incognita’. Deep Waters opens the door on rare and precious spaces where words are freed and shared... Travelling through our imagination, we allow ourselves to explore, to play; and thus to nourish and re-establish a rich and joyful feminine sexuality, rediscovering it’s full depth.
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Jury Statement:
For an engaging documentary about feminine orgasm. With an appreciable level of irony, the documentary never declines to provocation or exhibition. Great poetry of film footage and animation characterizes the documentary. Feminine performances of dance, chant, and stone painting traverse different themes as sexual behaviours, social conventions, woman anthropology, and religious rituals.
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NIGHT AWARD
The Night Award for Documentary honours films, which represent reality
in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of
representation and simple conclusions
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Marlène Rabaud |
Belgium, Congo / 2018 / 1:24:00 |
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a group of Congolese youths has stood up without arms against their President who was determined to cling to power. As they fought, they have learned that success comes with a price. They are called La Lucha.
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Jury Statement:
For the courage to testimony and documenting methods of pacific political fights in Africa. The documentary uses first-hand footage, sometimes captured in real time within hazardous situations.
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EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensitive (mostly) unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.
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Genesis 2.0 |
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Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev |
Switzerland / 2018 / 01:53:00 |
On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price for white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost not only releases precious ivory. The tusk hunters find a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets for high-tech genetic scientists. They want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life à la “Jurassic Park”. Resurrecting the mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution. Man becomes Creator. Genesis two point zero. |
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Jury Statement:
For the engagement in the investigation about genetic engineering and its ethical impact on the future of humanity and Earth life. The documentary offers three different perspectives: from the search of mammoth tusks in New Siberian Islands, to genetic scientific research, to the recreation of a living mammoth through genetic technology. Great photography brings strength to narration and story.
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THE AWARDS OF THE STUDENT JURY |
32 km - 60 Years |
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Laha Mebow |
Taiwan / 2018 / 0:25:00 |
After being abandoned for nearly seven decades, the old tribal village is difficult to reach, with almost no roads leading to it. The only guide on our journey in search of our roots is Wilang, who drags his octogenarian body up the mountain. As we follow Wilang’s footsteps, we travel a tunnel back in time.
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Jury Statement:
This modest documentary gives the viewer a complete and exahustive analisys of the social issues it investigates. With a respectful eye it has circumnavigated intimate characteristics both of the subjects and the society without falling in any fakeness or bending.
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SIGNS AWARD
The Signs Award for Documentary honours films, which express in a
surprising and sensitive way the perturbing aspects of reality
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Genesis 2.0 |
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Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev |
Switzerland / 2018 / 01:53:00 |
On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Oce"an, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price for white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost not only releases precious ivory. The tusk hunters find a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets for high-tech genetic scientists. They want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life à la “Jurassic Park”. Resurrecting the mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution. Man becomes Creator. Genesis two point zero. |
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Jury Statement:
"Genesis 2.0" explores ethically problematic subjects. The jury has highly appreciated the connection between the ethical issues of the ancient times compared to the ones of the near future. A documentary that will be able to help us to understand the conception of biological research of the firts decades of the 21th century.
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NIGHT AWARD
The Night Award for Documentary honours films, which represent reality
in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of
representation and simple conclusions
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Deep Waters |
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Alice Heit |
France / 2019 / 0:53:00 |
Plunging into the mysterious territory of feminine sexual pleasure, Deep Waters concerns the ‘fountains’ which sometimes gush forth at the moment of sexual climax. Little is known about this phenomenon, even by women themselves... Disconnected from our bodies and our desires by centuries of patriarchal oppression, the land of feminine pleasures has remained very much ‘terra incognita’. Deep Waters opens the door on rare and precious spaces where words are freed and shared... Travelling through our imagination, we allow ourselves to explore, to play; and thus to nourish and re-establish a rich and joyful feminine sexuality, rediscovering it’s full depth.
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Jury Statement:
Deep Waters Even if the subject of this french film appears chamaleontic and difficult to explain whith clear words, it has been given with total intimacy and honesty. By a playful simpleness of the visual research, the 1st conception of the feminine cosmology has touched the right spots, without any intimidation.
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MENTION FOR THE NIGHT AWARD |
Onironauta |
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Valerie-Malin Schmid |
Germany, Cuba / 2019 / 0:21:00 |
"Onironauta" is a painfully beautiful approach to the Republic of Cuba. The face of the afro-cuban poet Omar reflects on humanity. As he wanders through Havana, he reminisces about farewells, memory, patriotism, and censorship. His mythical poetry takes us through a dimension in which past, present, and dream interweave into an immersive journey. The poetry of the local, Omar, combined with the observational 16 mm images of Cuban everyday life, create a deep feeling of the complexity of life on an isolated island, the feeling of mortality and the fear of a human of being invisible.
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Jury Statement:
This incredible cuban documentary appears to have shocked with its decisions on visual narration combined with the naturalness of spoken poetry. Rare both in the subjects and the technical decisions.
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EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensitive (mostly) unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.
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Marlène Rabaud |
Belgium, Congo / 2018 / 1:24:00 |
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a group of Congolese youths has stood up without arms against their President who was determined to cling to power. As they fought, they have learned that success comes with a price. They are called La Lucha. |
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Jury Statement:
Thanks to the variety of the information given, relating to censored realities of the world, apart from the public domine, the Edward Snowden price has been given to Congo Lucha. The crucial capability of the makers was to show different ways of thinking and acting without using the pathos of the images direct the opinion of the public.
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Glow Worm in a Jungle |
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Ramana Dumpala |
India / 2018 / 0:12:00 |
"Glow worm in a jungle" is about Hema Sane, a retired Botany professor, who has never used electricity ever in her life. Living surrounded by nature, amidst a concrete jungle, she shares her philosophy of life with doses of humor and wisdom
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Jury Statement:
This short film accords to one of the most important characteristics a documentary should have: telling a story that without it could be lost, without any uselees speculation.
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