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





18° Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa (6° Edição) - December 27-31, 2020

ONLINE EDITION
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Lisboa

December 31th, 2020 - January 2nd, 2021

Online

 

Take It and End It

Kirineos Papadimatos
Greece / 2020 / 0:21:20

A veal has to be slaughtered by a butcher. But this veal is different than the others. It’s his ‘child’. The moment he decides to refuse the slaughter, he will be left only with the inspiration he gets from his art, his bouzouki, the only thing left for him in the future anyway.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE


 

White Eye

Tomer Shushan
Israel / 2019 / 0:20:00

A man finds his stolen bicycle and it now belongs to a stranger. In his attempts to retrieve the bicycle, he struggles to remain human.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE


 

The Ferry
A Barca

Nilton Resende
Brazil / 2020 / 0:19:02

On Christmas Eve, two women engage in dialogue in a barge as it glides over the waters of a dark, icy pond. An unexpected event will leave its mark at the end of this crossing. The short film The Ferry (A Barca) is an adaptation of the short story "Natal na Barca"" (Christmas on the ferry, 1958), by Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles, who received the Camões Prize (the largest literary prize for Portuguese-speaking authors) in 2005. This tale is present in her book of short stories entitled Before the Green Ball (Antes do Baile Verde) (1970).

PORTUGAL PREMIERE


 

Cloud Tamer

Andreas Krohn
Denmark / 2020 / 0:29:00

When diagnosed with a serious disease, 16 year old Eigil puts his life on the line to change his mothers views on vaccination.

PORTUGAL PREMIERE


 


Pigs

Ana Maria Ferro Gomez
Colombia / 2020 / 0:20:00

For a long time Mercedes has been away from the house where she grew up, inside her there's still the scream of a girl who never spoke, now she has to make up front her past and get rid the whole plague fron those lands' roots and bury her pain.

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE