The 18° Festival Internacional Signes da Noite will take place in from December 27-31, 2020.

This years edition will be for well known security reasons an ONLINE EDITION.
The selected films will be presented during two days. They will be password and download protected.

Since 2003 the International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT is active in
Paris and world wide. In these last years we have presented some
thousand films from around 70 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 38 countries,
among those Algeria, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Hungary, Indonesia,
Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Peru, Russia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey,
United States ...

Also the festival has been transformed in a multinational one and actually actually is performed wit competition and focus programs in Berlin, Lisbon, Bangkok, Tucuman (Argentina) and Urbino (Italy).

Each festival offers new selected programs and invite each time a different jury.

The Festival presents films, which reflect new views, original imagery, and a critical approach to the crucial elements of modern aand actual 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 over to unpredictable experimentation. New aesthetics are welcome.

Awards & Prizes

* * * AWARDS * * *

* 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 honors films, which offer sensitive (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD (optional)
Every international jury can declare one Special Award for a special aspect or capacity of a film.

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* Documentaries *

MAIN AWARD
Without restriction.

SIGNES AWARD
The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a surprising and sensitive way the 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 sensitive (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD (optional)
Every international jury can declare one Special Award for a special aspect or capacity of a film.

Rules & Terms

This years edition will be for well known security reasons an ONLINE EDITION.

The selected films will be presented during two days. They will be password and download protected.

You can submit for the Documentary Competition films with no time limitation (short and long).

For the Short Film competition max length is 30 min.

For the Focus programs (thematic, regional) no time limitation

For the competition programs the production year should not be older
as 2019, for the focus programs not older as 2015.

In the case your film is chooses, we will contact you asking for a
screening copy.

Also if your film is not chosen immediately, it can be chosen later
for another upcoming festival during the year (in another
country/town). In this case we will ask for your permission again.

With the submission on this platform you give automatically the
screening permission of your film to the festival for this actual
edition in Lisboa. The festival can integrate your film in its actual
edition without further permissions from your side. You also can't add
further condition for the screening permission (for example fee
requests etc.). In the case we will not receive a screening copy in
better technical quality, we will screen the submission file
version.

We can't send back dvds, blu rays, usb keys, hard disc ect.

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Festival international Signes de Nuit
Direction: Dieter Wieczorek
18, rue Bude
75004 Paris
cell. 00 33 6 84 40 84 38
tel. 00 33 1 40 46 92 25
www.signesdenuit.com

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  • Craig Rutter

    Very well communicated and run festival. The calibre of film on display was once again very high, and it was a pleasure to have a piece involved in the festival.

    January 2021
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  • Ana Gomez

    Fantástico muchas gracias por todo. Una gran oportunidad

    January 2021
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  • Alberto Baroni

    I'm so glad my short "Temperance" has been selected to screen in the FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL SIGNOS DA NOITE. Thank you very much!

    January 2021
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  • Alita Graziano

    I'm glad my film 'HARD RUBBISH - A Collection Of Memories' could be a part of your festival this year. Many thanks!

    January 2021
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  • Beatrice Aliné

    It was a great honor for us that our short film was part of four Signs of the night festivals, given the opportunity to present the film in different countries some in person and some online due to the pandemic. It was also very nice to be able to watch the films of others :) Really nice festival! - Hope one day to be able to attend in person!!

    January 2021
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