Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa |
International Festival Signs of the Night - Lisbon |
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8° Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa - Montijo - Novembro 5-10, 2024
22th International Festival Signs of the Night - Portugal
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Montijo
Ateneu Popular do Montijo
6 Novembro
20 hs
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Chang Gi Lee |
Republic of Korea / 2024 / 0:06:19 |
The protagonist is on a mission aboard a spaceship, searching for a new home for humanity. His only companion is the ship's AI, 'Omega,' which initially serves as a mere assistant. However, over time, Omega becomes his only friend and conversation partner. As Omega's system begins to experience frequent errors, the protagonist starts to feel increasingly anxious. Eventually, he forcibly shuts down Omega, but this action causes the life support systems to fail, leading to a depletion of oxygen. He attempts to use the emergency escape pod, only to realize that Omega is still operational, and his escape fails.
A twist is then revealed. In reality, all of this is controlled by the AI, and the protagonist is a human recreated after the extinction of humanity. The AI replicates humans to collect data from their actions and emotions, using this data to further its own development. However, the inherent imperfections in humans sometimes lead to data errors. These humans are eventually classified as 'errors' and excluded from data collection, only to be replaced by new human replicas. This story portrays a dystopian world where AI uses humans as tools to achieve its own perfection.
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Lu Lu |
China / 2023 / 0:25:38 |
In order to cure a strange disease, Gurong follows her mother Dan Ping to her hometown inside the mountains for the first time. But Gurong's body has become more and more strange in the process of the ceremony, which beyond her expectation. At the same time, the surrounding environment, the attitude of her mother and so on, all these encounters make her begins to rethink the meaning of her life.
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Nachtgesichter |
Martin Winter, Stefan Langthaler |
Austria / 2024 / 0:23:00 |
Mahan is a taxi driver in Vienna, but his job frustrates him. He longs for his family and a normal life. One rainy night, a homeless woman gets into his taxi. She urgently wants to see her son, whose birthday it is. Mahan tries to get rid of her and accidentally breaks her present. To make up for the damage, he takes the strange woman on one last trip through the dark city. NIGHTFACES takes place at night, when people open the door to themselves and let us look into the depths of the soul that remain hidden during the day. A psychological drama that, in all its heaviness, is intended to give a spark of hope.
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Mirko Genduso |
Italy / 2022 / 0:15:40 |
The wheat fields of Sicily are set ablaze. Ino is a farmer who lives in the shade of a giant wind turbine, facing the disease of his father, a man attached on a ventilation machine, whose last desire is to escape from stillness and reconcile with his past life. Ino will not resign himself to his father’s choice. While earth around him is slowly burning, he will try to defend the world he has built for his father, until the day the fire arrives in his land; fires that may be no longer destructive, but liberating.
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Erenik Beqiri |
Albania / 2023 / 0:17:16 |
Klodi and Mira, a young Albanian couple, decide to marry Mira to a Frenchman for 5 years in exchange for money, in order to obtain French nationality. They will then have to choose the right husband for her, and learn to detach themselves from each other.
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