Everything starts in Paris 16 years ago. The idea was, to bring forward another kind of cinema, strange, complex, surprising, independent and innovative, a cinema in the same time engaged in the urgent questions of our societies as in developing new ways to represent reality. Each year we are able to present national, but also international and world premiers during 10 screening days with around 250 films coming from around 50 countries.
Since 2003 the International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT is active
worldwide. In these last years we have presented some thousand films
from around 75 countries in our principal yearly festivals and on the
same time in around 140 programs in collaboration
with cultural institutions and festivals in up to now 34 countries,
among those Algeria, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Hungary, Indonesia,
Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Peru, Russia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey,
United States ...
Up from 2015 the festival has been transformed in a multinational festival
taking place in different countries and continents, with always
different festival structures, selections, juries etc.
The International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT (SIGNS OF THE NIGHT) is made up of films, which reflects new views, original imagery and critical approach to the
crucial points of the modern human existence. It is a place for cinema
that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing,
different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to
give itself to the unpredictable experimentation.
For each festival we compose new programs and invite a different jury.
* Short Films *
MAIN AWARD
Without restriction
SIGNES AWARD
The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an
original and convincing way.
NIGHT AWARD
The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and
complexity characterised by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,
which keeps mind and consideration moving.
EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD (Optional)
The Edward Snowden Award hounors films, which offer sensible (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.
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* Documentaries *
MAIN AWARD
Without restriction. Just the film you estimate as the most important one.
SIGNES AWARD
The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a
surprising way sensible and perturbing aspects of reality.
NIGHT AWARD
The Night Award for Documentary honors films, which represent reality
in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of
representation and simple conclusions.
EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD (Optional)
The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensible (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.