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18th International Festival Signs of the Night - Berlin (6th Edition) - September 16 - 20, 2020
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Thursday September 17th, 2020
24,15 h

Kino in der Königstadt
Berlin


 

The Present

Farah Nabulsi
Palestine / 2019 / 0:24:16


GERMAN PREMIERE

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his daughter, Yasmine, set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between the soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

 

Splash

Huang Weipeng
China / 2020 / 0:09:24

WORLD PREMIERE


An elegy composed of four sections, To the elderly who ended their lives peacefully and tragically in despair.
 

Sewing Box for My Daughter

Kieko Ikehata
Japan / 2020 / 0:15:53

EUROPE PREMIERE


2 mothers answer interview questions about their daughters. They took completely opposite actions to their own daughters. That was to relive their own lives over again... In Japan, women are bound to their homes. Discarding their own surnames to become a wife and take over the home. The husband is called the head of the family and the wife is called the one in the home. Although times may change, the oppression of women certainly exists. Freeing their unfulfilled wishes through their daughters. The everlasting stories of these women who keep dreaming.

 

 

Roqaia

Diana Saqeb Jamal
Afghanistan / 2019 / 0:11:00

BERLIN PREMIERE


After surviving a suicide bomb attack, 12-year-old Roqaia finds herself in the middle of a media frenzy, as she deals with her trauma all by herself.





 



Bedsore

Parin Intarasorn
Thailand / 2019 / 0:14:55

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE


"The Physics of Sorrow" tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.










 

The origin of the end of the world

Julien Guiol
France / 2019 / 0:14:14

GERMAN PREMIERE


A little girl and poachers cross the landscapes of a wild nature, native cradle of the painter Gustave Courbet. They attend the origin of the end of the world.