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




7° Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa - December 26-31, 2021

19th International Festival Signs of the Night - Portugal

ONLINE EDITION
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Lisboa
December 27th / 4 pm -
29th / 4 pm, 2021

Online

Like the Ones I Used to Know

Taakse vuosie
Annie St-Pierre
Canada / 2020 / 0:18:00

December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, Santa Claus is late and Denis, alone in his car, is anxious at the idea of setting foot in his ex-in-law’s house to pick up his children. The film is an early coming-of-age that is as squeaky as it is poetic.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE


 

The Black Sheep

Vincent Zheng
China / 2021 / 0:34:10

On the grassland in the southeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a first-rate shepherd at the State-run Sheep Farm, Gyabo and his wife have been worried about his melancholy son Tenzin, but Tenzin grew up with the unexpected black sheep. More than three years passed peacefully. By the fall of 1999, Gyabo hoped to follow the tradition and complete the marriage for his 14-year-old son, Tenzin, and to train him to be his inheritor, as a shepherd, then he received notification from the government, his son must go to school. Tenzin and his black sheep run to their unknown destiny.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE



 

Everything We Know About You

Roland Denning
United Kingdom / 2021 / 0:06:50

"Everything We Know About You" examines 21st century issues of data control and the insidious power of social media using mid-20th century found footage and AI synthesised voices and characters. Digital corporations ensure us the information they harvest is used to deliver what we want, but is giving us what we want a form of control? Does telling us what we want to hear polarise society? Is freedom choice anything to do with freedom? And what is the secret of making your partner smile in the morning? The dominant model of propaganda and advertising was once that of insidious authorities brain-washing us to do something we previously wouldn't wanted to do. That model is now redundant; in the current era, the anonymous algorithms of transglobal business exploit us by giving us more of what we desire.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE

 

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.



 


Good Girl

Merja Maijanen
Finland / 2019 / 00:11:56

After being awarded for being a good girl, a naive little girl learns what it really means to be one.

LISBON PREMIERE