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





10° Festival Internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa / Outubro 5-11, 2026

24th International Festival Signs of the Night - Portugal

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Cinema in Transgression Jury


Andreas Taubner
Brazil / Italy

Dr. Andreas Trautner is a theoretical physicist specializing in high-energy particle physics, astroparticle physics, and cosmology. He earned his PhD from the Technical University of Munich in 2016, and held postdoctoral research positions at the Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics at Bonn University and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. Currently he serves as an FCT Associate Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon. His core research aims to solve major cosmic mysteries, focusing on the origin of matter anti-matter asymmetry, neutrino properties, and the fundamental "flavor puzzle" of elementary particles.


 

João Pedro Afonso
Portugal

Born at 1964, January 31, João Pedro Afonso is a sixty year's old street philosopher by choice, and a physicist by heart.

He has a degree in Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Physics engineering) and dabbled many years in the academy. He is the author of an algorithm for SAT solvers to find short-circuits in very large logic circuits presented at DATE 2017, which some thought to be a serious contender for a Ig Nobel award, and a current moderator in a Facebook group of quantum physics with 300 thousand members. He likes science, mathematics, puzzles, chess and other games, books, animation, science fiction and fantasy, children, to debate, to program, to swim, to draw, and much much more. He dislikes conflicts, mosquitoes and yellow soup. His most recent project is to grow a beard and see how the facial hair self-organizes. He wants to learn how to read Inca Quipus to see if there is an hidden meaning in the knots formed but so far, he only got a new understanding for the difficulties of long hair users like women.

I define culture not only as the flavor of our way of life but also as our main tool to prepares us to life. Open societies demand openess to ideas, discussions, contexts, and freedom to discuss alternatives. Cinema is one of the major arts to do that.




Manuel Halpern
Portugal

Manuel Halpern is a Lisbon-based writer, journalist and film critic whose work has appeared in publications including Jornal de Letras and Visão. A long-standing member of FIPRESCI, he has served on juries at international film festivals. He is the founder and editor of Wild at Heart, an independent webzine exploring cinema across borders.