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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Desterro
Calçada do Desterro 7
1150-241 Lisboa, Portugal


11 Outubro 2026
19 hs

All films are accessible by original languages and English subtitles

Spheres

Martin Gerigk
Germany / 2029 / 0:05:52

Spheres is an homage to life, a poetic essay that drifts through a series of expanding spheres, each revealing a different layer of our shared reality, from the microscopic to the mythical. The film is an exploration of how the smallest vibrations of existence echo outward into the vast architecture of being and cosmos, a breathing meditation designed to remind us of the wonders of our incomprehensibly beautiful world. Spheres invites viewers to look closely, to listen deeply, and to remember that every sphere - no matter how small or vast - is part of one continuous unfolding. The film is an invitation to see life not as a ladder but as a constellation of spheres: interdependent, fragile, and astonishing.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE

 

Organising Principles of Experience

Gabriela Tropia
United Kingdom / 2025 / 0:13:00

Organising Principles of Experience is an experimental short in which an AI model, tuned to the writings and sensibilities of Maya Deren, collaborates with the filmmaker to imagine new films. It explores memory, possession, and the digital afterlife, questioning what remains when the past becomes data and how an artist might lay claim to her absent hero.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE
 

Elegy for the Lost

William Hong-xiao Wei
France, Spain, United Kingdom / 2025 / 0:30:00

An essay film that adopts a lyrical and distinctly queering approach to sexual identity, social dynamics, and everyday life in contemporary China. Through the psychoanalytic and introspective voiceover of a young post-pandemic Chinese migrant in Europe, the film interweaves her private memories of intimacy with public narratives of resistance. As her reflections unfold, she and her community navigate secrecy, repression, survival, looming precarity, and displacement, confronting the personal cost of existing in the current age of turbulence and regression, in a world that dem





 

One day the sun will only shine for you

Gjert Rognli
Norway / 2026 / 0:07:00

In a world of perpetual change, the trilogy «One day the sun will only shine for you - Soames beaivvi beaivvas báitásse fal dutnje» takes us on a journey through our hedonistic and fragile contemporary age, where the shadows of our actions stretch far into the future. It is a mythological voyage through excess, unrest, noise, injustice, power, and pleasure, weaving the intangible cultural heritage of the indigenous Sámi people into the endless cycles of life.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE
 


Opera

Igor Zelic
Croatia / 2026 / 0:19:39

"Opera" is an experimental film that explores perception through a filmic collage constructed with the help of a sin- gle light source. Through layered manipulation of that sin- gle source, the frame gains the rhythm of multiple sources and a play of light that transforms space and perception. This is a film about how an image can conceal reality – and what happens when it can no longer do so.


 

 

Weegee's New York

Eric Weeks
France / 2024 / 0:04:13

Hi, my name is Weegee. I am a dog. On my license, it says I am a cockapoo, but I don’t know what that means. My parents adopted me five years ago and named me Weegee, after the famous photographer. They always tell me that I channel him, because I am a character, and hold my toys in my mouth like a cigar, just like the original Weegee. That guy called himself "Weegee the Famous", but I want to be famous-er....
Complementing our film is an original score by Alex C. Huddleston, who distills my energy and the City’s zeitgeist into a composition that compliments the film while offering an homage to the Leonard Bernstein music that accompanies the original "Weegee’s New York".
My film furthers the understanding of the daily life of urban dogs. You will see through my eyes and my perspective. I am not sure if humans understand how many tires we see on our daily walks. I sure do hope you like it. Eric Weeks

PORTUGAL PREMIERE

 

Hurricane Season

Michelle Trujillo
United States // 2026 / 0:06:22

Hurricane anxiety takes a visceral form as the image searches for an escape route. Inspired by true events. Created on 16mm film and developed with comfrey, mint, yerba mate and willow leaves.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE







 

The Word That Kills Death

Mike Hoolboom
Canada /2025 / 0:06:00

A reflection on maternity and violence using 43 black-and-white photographs that feature shadows, recalling the beautiful phrase by Victoria Chang: “I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case."

PORTUGAL PREMIERE

 

   

   

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