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18th International Festival Signs of the Night - Berlin (6th Edition) - September 16 - 20, 2020
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Program 7


Friday September 18th, 2020
22.00 h

Kino in der Königstadt
Berlin


 

Electric Swan

Konstantina Kotzamani
France, Greece, Argentina / 2019 / 0:40:00

BERLIN PREMIERE

Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea.

 

The Universe According to Dan Buckley

Roberto Santaguida
Canada / 2019 / 0:09:30

GERMAN PREMIERE


Dan Buckley parts the veil on the origins and future of the universe. He investigates the disorder and delight that proliferates in between; the worlds and ideas that rub up against each other and, at times, collide. A reflection on assigning meaning and shedding preconceptions while in free fall.
 

Six Hours

Yana Chernukha
Russian Federation / 2020 / 0:20:00

EUROPE PREMIERE


A young woman, who has lost herself in the monotony of her prosperous life, decides to expierence an ancient slavic rite and to spent six hours , buried in the ground. She asks her youger sister to dig her in.





 

Cracking Sounds
Hanna Kaihlanen
Finland / 2019 / 0:11:06

GERMAN PREMIERE


A dreamlike ride through an apocalyptic northern landscape. A man is tracking elk by the side of a field. In the distance a harvester glides among the trees like a great iron beast. The landscape awakens as we ride through it half asleep. Cracking Sound is a frenzied journey to the heart of the end times, to man’s need to control nature and rise above it.






 



War of Perception

Bo Choy
Hong Kong / 2020 / 0:19:47

GERMAN PREMIERE


The film follows the journey of a spirit medium through the streets of Hong Kong. In a society where lies and rumours abound, she is on a quest to search for the truth, by collecting messages from the spirits. Weaving through political events that occurred in Hong Kong in 2019/20 with cityscapes, the personal and domestic everyday, War of Perception is a cinematic poetry that reflects on the relationship between the city’s colonial past and present.