Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris

The 23° Festival International Signes de Nuit will take place in from October 4-13, 2024

The; festival will take place at the Cité universitaire, Paris.

There will be competition for Documentaries, Cinema in Transgression and Short Films, beside regional and thematic focus programs.

Everything starts in Paris 23 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 70 countries.

Founded in 2003 in Paris the International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT had become a multinational meeting place and is today active in form of competition and focus programs in Berlin, Lisbon, Bangkok, Urbino and Tucuman. 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 35 countries, among those Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Peru, Russia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey, United States ...

The intention of the festival is to search and present films, which reflects new views, original imagery and critical approach to the crucial points of the modern human existence. It looks for astonishing, strange, surprising and sometimes provocative works. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, celebrating confrontations, tolerance and sensitivity for cultural differences, independence and individuality, ready to open up for unpredictable experimentation.

At the same tome the intention of the festival is to give the audience the opportunity to gain insight into the social, political, and cultural situations in various countries around the world. We therefore offer a necessary, complementary source of knowledge to the daily news, enabling the audience to sharpen their political and social awareness. We seek to address the key issues of our time. The filmmakers, on the other hand, risk great things in their own countries, sometimes even their lives, to be able to offer these films to the public, films that often cannot be shown in their own countries.

The festival also offers a wide variety of audiovisual productions to draw attention to the diverse, sometimes misleading or suggestive, forms of representation of reality. This, too, is a contribution to the emancipation of the responsible citizen.

For each festival, we compose new programs and invite a different jury.

The Festival presents films, which reflect new views, original imagery, and a critical approach to the crucial elements of modern and 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.