The 9° Festival Internacional Signes da Noite will take place in from October 6-12, 2025. It's also the 23nd edition of the International Signs of the Night festival .

Since 2003 the International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT is active in
Paris and worldwide. In these last years we have presented some
a 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 is performed with competition and focus programs in Paris, 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 and actual human existence. It is a place for a cinema which one one side ask the urgent questions of our time word wide in different ways, and on the other side expands esthetical boundaries, opens up to astonishing, and resisting views.

Awards & Prizes

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* Short Films *

MAIN AWARD
Without restriction

SIGNS 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 information, 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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* Cinema in Transgression ("experimental") *

MAIN AWARD
Without restriction

SIGNS 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 information, 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.

SIGNS AWARD
The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in an original, convincing 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 information, 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

You can submit for the Documentary Competition and the Cinema in Transgression 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) there is no time limitation

For the competition programs, the production year should not be older
as 2023, for the focus programs, not older than 2020

In the case your film is chosen, 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 Lisbon. 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

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18, rue Bude
75004 Paris
cell. 00 33 6 84 40 84 38
tel. 00 33 1 40 46 92 25
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  • Ron Chiers

    Signes de Nuit is a festival with a rich history. We are proud that our experimental short film Emperica may be part of it. Highly recommended for independent filmmakers!

    December 2024
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  • Antonio Arango

    I appreciate the festival's perspective, an incentive to find works that explore other possibilities; thank you!

    November 2024
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  • CHANG GI LEE

    It is an honor to be part of the Festival Internacional Signos da Noite, filled with artistic experimentation. Above all, I would like to thank the organizers for making this wonderful festival possible.

    November 2024
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  • Navid Nikkhah Azad

    'The Recess,' inspired by the tragic story of Sahar Khodayari, won the Edward Snowden award at the Signes de Nuit Festival. It was a great honor, and wonderful experience. Thank you for this great honor.

    March 2022
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  • Jerry King Musser

    They genuinely love film and video.

    January 2022
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