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19th International Festival Signs of the Night - Berlin (7th Edition) / August 4-8, 2021

ONLINE EDITION
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Berlin

August 5th, 2021 - 16 h -
August 7th, 2021 - 16 h

Online



 

Belgrade Forest Incident…and What Happened to Mr. K?

Jan Ijäs
Finland / 2020 / 0:30:00


October 2018, Mr K. goes to the consulate in Istanbul in order to obtain a divorce certificate so he can remarry with Mrs C. Upon entering the building, he disappears definitively. The macabre and mysterious affair of journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination leads to a gripping cinematographical investigation.

GERMAN PREMIERE



 

A Man in Chain

Alireza Mirasadollah
United Kingdom / 2021 / 0:22:23


Issa is a 29 year old man held by chains. In the past 14 years, through winter and summer, rainy seasons and drought, he has been tethered around a thick, solid tree root within the sight of the family hut. He cannot move beyond the earthen circle allowed by his two-meter-thick metal chain.

BERLIN PREMIERE


 

The Wheel

Nomin Lkhagvasuren
Mongolia /2020 / 0:52:00


Why are there so many suicide attempts among the inhabitants of Mongolia today? The reasons may vary, but most often people are pushed to the brink by poverty and lack of prospects. Showing different stories the film focuses on experiences and emotions that accompanied such desperate gestures. They are reported by the protagonists themselves or evoked by images of specific places or landscapes. In most cases it is impossible to reverse the tragic course of events. Both the lives of those who survived and of the mourning families must go on.

GERMAN PREMIERE