Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino |
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino |
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10° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - April 13 - 19, 2026 24th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy 9 |
ITALY COMPETITION |
Sala del Maniscalco Urbino Saturday April 18, 2026 20 h |
In a near future, an artificial being awakens with no memory or identity, in an unfamiliar place. As it follows fragmented clues, it uncovers the remnants of a failed experiment on the origins of life. But behind every sealed door lies a deeper truth: humanity’s attempt to replace God may have given birth to something irreversible.
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In a coastal town in Calabria, southern Italy, a woman who prefers to remain anonymous breaks the silence surrounding the issue of abortion in the region. Denouncing the abuses of medical institutions through a poetic and experimental lens, Il silenzio dei melograni is a creative short documentary that attempts to highlight the privileges and inequalities women face in accessing their own reproductive rights . |
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The short film recounts the most serious tragedy in the central Mediterranean, in which over a hundred people lost their lives. A real event, almost removed from the collective imagination, which we wanted to reconstruct through a symbolic, intimate and suspended language. Humanity does not show, it evokes. It focuses on absence, on waiting, on the voices of those who have not been heard. A small film to remember, to question, to restore dignity.
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Aura, a judoka who refuses any kind of emotional connection, tries to teach the art of judo to Miriam, a girl traumatized with haphephobia and afraid of being touched.
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Year 2039. The jobs of the twenty-first century no longer exist. UPDATE, a revolutionary AI, has replaced the entire human workforce, giving people back the time they have always wished for — time to do whatever they want. And yet, for many, that time feels empty. Without a role in society, people feel lost. To solve this growing existential crisis, ADAPTiQ™, the company behind UPDATE, launched the Career Recovery Program: a promise of reintegration for those who want to return to work, feel useful again, and find a renewed sense of purpose. Among them is Mark Erwin, a seasoned expert in his field, who agrees to join the program. But what Mark discovers inside ADAPTiQ™ is something no one was meant to know. A secret that could upend not only his future — but the very idea of humanity.
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"Comizi d’odio" is an essay film, a stream of consciousness composed of images, voices, and silences. Through a sensory drift, it probes the anatomy of antagonism and the emotional architecture of hatred—not to condemn, but to understand its potential: is conflict merely divisive, or can it carry the seed of awakening? In the dark, we listen. Memory, rupture, and contradiction surface like fragments. Until, at the end of the spiral, a return: children, a park, the echo of a beginning.
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Mamoon forces Laura out of the house at night. She wakes her up, drags her out of bed and out of the house. She needs her to leave. Then Laura can go straight home, no one will notice anything. Laura wants someone to notice: her mother Marta. She goes after Mamoon, without knowing her destination. Mamoon does not know it either, while following the directions sent to her on her phone. They are in a suspended place and time. It is in this moment that the two girls are forced to discover and get to know each other and learn that by taking care of someone else, even someone you thought was very different from you, can change your outlook on life.
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