Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa
International Festival Signs of the Night- Lisbon
 





18° Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa (6° Edição) - December 27-31, 2020

ONLINE EDITION
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Lisboa

December 28th - 30th, 2020

Online

 

Six Hours

Yana Chernukha
Russian Federation / 2020 / 0:20:00

A young woman, who has lost herself in the monotony of her prosperous life, decides to expierence an ancient slavic rite and to spent six hours , buried in the ground. She asks her youger sister to dig her in.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE


 

Centarium

Aleksander Johan Andreassen
Norway / 2020 / 0:22:00

Staged and filmed in chosen shopping centers during mostly normal opening hours, a chain of events is started by a mannequin coming to life. A cleaner glimpses this, and the film follows these two characters' meetings and movements in, at times, identical settings.

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE



 

Important Police Shit

Andrew T. Betzer
USA / 2019 / 0:12:18

A group of police cadets are mercilessly hazed as they suffer through the worst day of their training, their hell day.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE




 

Imprisoned Light

Chi Him Yuen
China, Hong Kong / 2019 / 0:10:45*

The story happen in the future of Hong Kong which the amendment of Fugitive Offenders Ordinance passed in Hong Kong, Hong Kong citizen can be extradite to mainland China according to China law without any trial in Hong Kong. A high school student Cheung Ching, her father is a journalist who work in Hong Kong and China, he was extradited to mainland China, a social worker Sin Yu who work in Ching's school try to help Cheng but facing many obstructions from school and social organization. But the obstruction mainly from practised self-censorship. Are we have to stop to help others?

PORTUGAL PREMIERE


 


Daffodil

Nicola Fan
China, Hong Kong / 2019 / 0:18:00

A trip through the psyche of an apathetic workaholic in the sudden wake of her estranged mother's suicide.

EUROPEAN PREMIERE


 

Kill the Boy
Mata al nino

Juan Pablo Villavicencio Borges
Mexico / 2019 / 0:11:00

Everything is a competition when two teens full of irresponsible bravado ride their motorcycles into the woods to shoot rifles. It isn’t long before their reckless actions have dire consequences, and their relationship takes a surprising turn.

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

 

Basurero

Eileen Cabiling
Philipppines / 2019 / 0:17:00

"Basurero" is about Bong, a Filipino fisherman, working in an urban fishing village on the outskirts of Manila. Desperate for cash, Bong dumps bodies into the ocean for the drug war’s faceless vigilantes. Guilt and tension rises when the killings’ hit close to home after he discovers his neighbor has been murdered for selling shabu (crystal meth).

PORTUGAL PREMIERE