NEW SIGNS COMPETITION

New Signs is the Lago Film Fest competition dedicated to the most iconoclastic, courageous and daring works from all over the world.

Nuovi Segni (New Signs) is conceived as a panorama of cinema that rethinks cinema, as the competition that brings experimental works to Lago Film Fest, as an opening to the multiple possibilities of today and a state of the art on the cinema to come.

In this edition, the competition focused on films that could reason about the medium, the device and the point of view, in order to refocus the art of cinema in 2022.

The works presented are animations, fictions and documentaries that speak and narrate stories and sensibilities that are indigenous and plural, peculiar and global. New Signs is a journey through the seventh art that rethinks itself, that wants to look forward but also backward, that observes itself trying to better understand its own boundaries.

The selection

Listen to the beat of our images – Audrey Jean-Baptiste & Maxim Jean-Baptiste

French Guyana / 16’ / 2021 / Doc / Italian Premiere

Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up – Stéphanie Lagarde

France / 15’ / 2021 / Doc / Italian Premiere

In the Jam Jar – Colin Nixon

Canada / 13’ / 2021 / Fiction / International Premiere

La sangre es blanca – Óscar Vincentelli

Spain/Venezuela / 13’ / 2021 / Doc / Italian Premiere

The Capacity for Adequate Anger – Vika Kirchenbauer

Germany / 15’ / 2021 / Doc / Italian Premiere

Open One’s Mouth – Akane Murata

Japan / 4’ / 2021 / Animation / Italian Premiere

The Last Name of John Cage – Margaux Guillemard

Netherlands/France / 5’ / 2020 / Doc / Italian Premiere

The Motorcyclist Happines Won’t Fit His Suit – Gabriel Herrera

Mexico / 10’ / 2021 / Doc

Romy & Laure… and The Mystery of Enchanted Plug – Roma Alizée & Laure Giappiconi

France / 12’ / 2021 / Fiction / Italian Premiere

Sad Cowboy Platonic Love – Ciel Sordeau

Switzerland / 16’ / 2021 / Fiction

Encapsulated Feast – Frédéric Lacroix-Loiselle

Canada / 21’ / 2021 / Animation / Italian Premiere

The Sunset Special – Nicolas Gebbe

Germany / 17’ / 2021 / Animation / Italian Premiere

The House in the North – Inês Lima

Portugal/Spain / 9’ / 2021 / Doc / Italian Premiere

Ursula – Eduardo Brito

Portugal / 6’ / 2020 / Fiction 

The Communion of my Cousin Andrea – Brandán Cervino

Spain / 12’ / 2021 / Doc

New Abnormal – Sorayos Prapapan

Thailand/South Korea / 14’ / 2021 / Fiction