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8th International Festival Signes de Nuit - Bangkok - July 23-31, 2022

20th International Festival Signs of the Night - Thailand



 







Sunday, July 24th, 2022

Thai Archive / 12,30 h





 

Fragrance

Khushboo
Vikrant Sidhu
India / 2021 / 0:14:59


Punjab, a province in India, has witnessed conflicts throughout history. In Punjab a mainly agrarian-based economy shapes everything, from politics to society. The film tries to capture the ethos of this region through the eyes of an old man.

ASIA PREMIERE



 

A Sunday in Portsmouth

Sigurd Kølster
Denemark / 2022 / 0:24:00


A Sunday in Portsmouth’ is a journey through a quiet night in the harbour town. Football agent Thorsten meets Matilda who is half his age while traveling on a ferry from France to England. Matilda is in distress and Thorsten wants to help, but really it is just as much himself who is in pain.

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE


 

An Island Drifts

Vivian Ip
Singapore / 2021 / 0:18:32


Set in Singapore, a young teacher presses for the truth from a maladjusted student, the act leads to devastating results and they suffer the ignominy of losing everything that matters to them. The story holds a mirror up to society, where a mistake can derail a life in an overly pressurized world.


 

The Black Sheep

Vincent Zheng
China / 2021 / 0:34:10


On the grassland in the southeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a first-rate shepherd at the State-run Sheep Farm, Gyabo and his wife have been worried about his melancholy son Tenzin, but Tenzin grew up with the unexpected black sheep. More than three years passed peacefully. By the fall of 1999, Gyabo hoped to follow the tradition and complete the marriage for his 14-year-old son, Tenzin, and to train him to be his inheritor, as a shepherd, then he received notification from the government, his son must go to school. Tenzin and his black sheep run to their unknown destiny.


SOUTH EST ASIAN PREMIERE