Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino





6° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - November 28th - December 4th, 2022

20th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy





Screening of the awarded films from the
6° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte

Short Film Section
 
Palazzo Ducale
Urbino
Sunday Dec 4, 2022
16 h


MAIN AWARD


Tsutsué
Amartei Armar
France, Ghana / 2022 / 0:15:00

Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition. Haunted by his demise, Okai believes their brother is still out there…


  


SIGNS AWARD

The Signs Award honours films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way

Get Ready, Off to the Feast

Lamara Sogomonian
Russia / 2021 / 0:20:08

Having arrived at a small clinic in Northern Caucasus to mentor the local physicians, Maya, a gynecologist from Moscow, encounters atrocious operations of female genital mutilation conducted behind her back.



  




NIGHT AWARD

The Night Award honours films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousnes
and subtleness, which keeps mind and consideration moving

Farewell to the Wind

Mirko Rucnov
Ghana / 2021 / 0:15:00

Kwame, an artist who explores the revolutionary past of Ghana and the legacy of the Non- Alignment Movement that defined his father’s generation undertakes a dangerous journey leaving the unsettling question for those who stay behind.


 





JURY AWARD

White Snow

Snjeguljica
Lana Baric
Croatia / 2021 / 0:14:40

Željka is a 40-year-old woman, living a quiet life in an isolated village. An unexpected visit will take her back to the past, shaking up her daily routine.

  




SPECIAL MENTION

1056 Metres

Yi Ling Wu Liu Mi
Edwin Ho
Singapore, USA / 2020 / 0:17:00

Ling needs a kidney. She leaves Malaysia and crosses the 1056 metres long causeway at the border to Singapore to see her younger brother who now lives there to seek this desperate favour. Will her last hope eventually save her?


 




SPECIAL MENTION

Phlegm

Jan-David Bolt
Switzerland / 2021 / 0:07:00

Ling needs a kidney. She leaves Malaysia and crosses the 1056 metres long Oscar's late. In the surrounding skyscrapers hands are shaken and contracts are signed. That's the last thing he needs right now. Where do these damned snails come from?