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lnternational Festival Signes de Nuit - Bangkok |
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12th International Festival Signes de Nuit - Bangkok - August 14-23, 2026
24th International Festival Signs of the Night - Thailand
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Bangkok - The Spirit of Opening
The Festival Signs of the Night - The Spirit of Independence
Always Wanted to Be God, Never Wanted to do Good
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Marvin Merkel , Noa Epars |
Switzerland / 2025 / 0:21:00 |
In 2009, mountain guide Patrick Bussard sawed down a Christian cross in the Swiss Alps. He was severely punished by the courts. In our city, we see billboards displaying Bible verses everywhere.
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A Few Things Which Happening By a River
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Algumas coisas que aconntecem ao lado de um rio |
Daniel Soares |
Portugal, France / 2026 / 0:14:00 |
A group of teenagers floats down the river, pretending to be dead for social media. One of them drifts away.
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SIGNS AWARD
The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way
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Veerapong Soontornchattrawat |
Thailand / 2026 / 0:19:43 |
The Salween River is slowly losing her soul. Forced to carry minerals from upstream mining operations along her currents, she has become tainted by foreign substances that corrode her ancient memories. As illness spreads through her body, she drifts back through the winding memories of the mountains from which she came and recalls the tale of the Nya-Htee fish, a creature she has long cherished. The story reminds her of Lamnuetor, an Indigenous woman who left her village to work in the city. For more than two decades, she kept her beautiful singing voice hidden away. Only when the state finally recognised her existence through official documentation did she begin to sing again in the world beyond silence. Her voice becomes a fragile barrier between the river and the forces of change, sustained by a promise to return home with the rainy season. But the river's time is running out. The sickness spreads throughout the watershed. Fish, mollusks, soil and vegetation all suffer from the contaminants flowing through her body. And so the Salween River tells the story of the Nya-Htee fish again and again, cradling the scattered fragments of memory belonging to both the river and its people, so that they will not disappear into the silence that is slowly drawing near.
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MENTION FOR THE SIGNS AWARD
The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way
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Vermelhos do Asfalto |
João Niza Ribeiro |
Portugal / 2026 / 0:29:30 |
On the day of the violent crackdown on migrants in Melilla, Omar, a young Beninese illegal worker in Porto, gallops through the streets of the city on his motorbike, delivering parcels at the behest of the digital eye of the platforms.
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NIGHT AWARD
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The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,
which keeps mind and consideration moving
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Charlie Kaufman |
Grece, USA / 2025 / 0:23:00 |
Two newly-dead ghosts walk the streets of Athens, among the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of history. They were outsiders in life: he, a queer Lebanese translator; she a half-Irish photo- grapher. They wander the city together, finding consolation in the difficult beauty of life and its aftermath.
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MENTION FOR THE NIGHT AWARD
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The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,
which keeps mind and consideration moving
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Yuyan Wang |
South-Korea, China, France / 2024 / 0:10:00 |
A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.
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EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
The Edward Snowden Award honours films, which offer sensitive (mostly) unknown information, facts and phenomena of eminent importance, for which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.
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Adrian Flury |
Switzerland / 2024 / 0:28:00 |
Drifting through videoclips online easily leaves you distracted, lost, and back on square one. Imagine, you found a series clips organized by a sense of inchoate feeling of eclipse of time and end of the world, evoking a shared sense of fate...
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