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9. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht / Berlin Edition
22th International Festival Signs of the Night / Worldwide

December 10 - 15, 2024

Kino & Bar in der Königsstadt - - - Straßburger Straße 55 - - - 10405 Berlin (Prenzelberg)

 




Berlin

Bar und Kino in der Königsstadt
Strassburger Str. 55

Wednesday December 11th
20 h (8 pm)



 

Bye Bye Turtle

Adieu Tortue
Selin Öksüzoglu
France, Turkey / 2024 / 0:24:00

Inci’s mother died during the night. The five-year-old wanders alone through the vast hilly landscape by the Black Sea. She meets a young woman in a red sweater and is fascinated by her. Zeynep, who grew up here as well, has returned after many years away. Her luggage is heavy and the journey is long. Together, they walk through the sunshine and the clouds, from one father to another, from dawn until darkness.




 

Donkeyland

Bahar Pars
Sweden / 2023 / 0:10:00


One day Indra starts to gear what's inside her head. The other voice of her stress to be a minority woman. Is it her or the others? and who is the Donkey?

GERMAN PREMIERE





 

Error

Chang Gi Lee
Republic of Korea / 2024 / 0:06:19

The protagonist is on a mission aboard a spaceship, searching for a new home for humanity. His only companion is the ship's AI, 'Omega,' which initially serves as a mere assistant. However, over time, Omega becomes his only friend and conversation partner. As Omega's system begins to experience frequent errors, the protagonist starts to feel increasingly anxious. Eventually, he forcibly shuts down Omega, but this action causes the life support systems to fail, leading to a depletion of oxygen. He attempts to use the emergency escape pod, only to realize that Omega is still operational, and his escape fails. A twist is then revealed. In reality, all of this is controlled by the AI, and the protagonist is a human recreated after the extinction of humanity. The AI replicates humans to collect data from their actions and emotions, using this data to further its own development. However, the inherent imperfections in humans sometimes lead to data errors. These humans are eventually classified as 'errors' and excluded from data collection, only to be replaced by new human replicas. This story portrays a dystopian world where AI uses humans as tools to achieve its own perfection.


GERMAN PREMIERE


 

Invocation

Lu Lu
China / 2023 / 0:25:38

In order to cure a strange disease, Gurong follows her mother Dan Ping to her hometown inside the mountains for the first time. But Gurong's body has become more and more strange in the process of the ceremony, which beyond her expectation. At the same time, the surrounding environment, the attitude of her mother and so on, all these encounters make her begins to rethink the meaning of her life.

GERMAN PREMIERE




 


The Ghost Lullaby

Jihyeong Lee
Republic of Korea / 2023 / 0:24:59


Soonok, a senior living alone, reunites with her daughter Eunryeong who lost contact with Soonok for a long time and her granddaughter, Yeonji. With all the emotions built up after all this time, for whom the lullaby from someone's mouth was sung that night?

GERMAN PREMIERE