Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa |
International Festival Signs of the Night - Lisbon |
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10° Festival Internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa / Outubro 5-11, 2026
24th International Festival Signs of the Night - Portugal
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Desterro
Calçada do Desterro 7
1150-241 Lisboa, Portugal
5 Outubro 2026
19 hs
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All films are accesible by orgininal languages and English subtitles
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Yuyan Wang |
South-Korea, China, France / 2024 / 0:10.00 |
A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.
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Veerapong Soontornchattrawat |
Thailand / 2026 / 0:19:43 |
The Salween River is slowly losing her soul. Forced to carry minerals from upstream mining operations along her currents, she has become tainted by foreign substances that corrode her ancient memories. As illness spreads through her body, she drifts back through the winding memories of the mountains from which she came and recalls the tale of the Nya-Htee fish, a creature she has long cherished. The story reminds her of Lamnuetor, an Indigenous woman who left her village to work in the city. For more than two decades, she kept her beautiful singing voice hidden away. Only when the state finally recognised her existence through official documentation did she begin to sing again in the world beyond silence. Her voice becomes a fragile barrier between the river and the forces of change, sustained by a promise to return home with the rainy season. But the river's time is running out. The sickness spreads throughout the watershed. Fish, mollusks, soil and vegetation all suffer from the contaminants flowing through her body. And so the Salween River tells the story of the Nya-Htee fish again and again, cradling the scattered fragments of memory belonging to both the river and its people, so that they will not disappear into the silence that is slowly drawing near.
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Susann Maria Hempel |
Germany / 2025 / 0:12:30 |
"Hope Road" reflects the filmmaker’s artistic journey in a world shaken by crises and wars, as the mother of a small child whose existence seems to demand something dif- ferent from her than the production of art. While the ‘old world’ of the artist founders, she escapes from the dysto- pian scenarios of the present by taking up the child’s point of view.
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Adrian Flury |
Switzerland / 2024 / 0:28:00 |
Drifting through videoclips online easily leaves you distracted, lost, and back on square one. Imagine, you found a series clips organized by a sense of inchoate feeling of eclipse of time and end of the world, evoking a shared sense of fate...
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Always Wanted to Be God, Never Wanted to do Good
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Marvin Merkelm Noa Epars |
Switzerland / 2025 / 0:21:00 |
In 2009, mountain guide Patrick Bussard sawed down a Christian cross in the Swiss Alps. He was severely punished by the courts. In our city, we see billboards displaying Bible verses everywhere.
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