Author: ARFF International

Original Film Title: Das Kulturgespräch im Radio

Director’s Name: Errkaa

Writer’s Name: Errkaa

Producer: Errkaa, Michael Flume

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 27 minutes

Film Description:

“Culture Talk on the Radio” is a hybrid, narrative and documentary, a road movie and also an art film and for the most part affectively a silent movie with some music. Then we only hear the conversation between the art critic Christoph Tannert and the well-known artist René Schoemakers coming from the speakers of a car radio. As for the road movie it is about a lonely truck driver who works for a company that specializes in the delivery of fruit and art. When the truck driver picks up a hitchhiker this interrupts his daily routine. For almost the whole time they listen to a radio program that just happens to be broadcast. Tannert is the presenter of the culture and arts program. The conversation is real and has not been scripted. Some of the things referred to during this conversation are taken up in the fictive part of the film. The film sequences become a silent movie once the radio has been turned on, allowing the content of the conversation about art to creep into the narrative and eventually gain equal footing with the power of the moving pictures.

Original Film Title: CHARLOTTE

Director’s Name: Freddie Paull

Writer’s Name: Paul Oakley Stovall

Producer: Paul Oakley Stovall

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes 58 seconds

Film Description:

A mysterious man shows kindness to a drunkard by giving him shelter, but as the evening progresses, there is more that ties them together than meets the eye.

Original Film Title: A day in the life of a Russian Mafia Boss

Director’s Name: Artyom Novokshonov

Country of Origin: Russian Federation

Country of Filming: Indonesia

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 54 seconds

Film Description:

Satirical take on a regular day of life of a Russian Mafia Boss: Workout routine, diet, “work”, russian banya, solving troubles.

Original Film Title: The Black Altar

Director’s Name: Sean Breitkreutz, Brent Worden

Writer’s Name: Sean Breitkreutz, Brent Jorden

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 36 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

Inspired by the Weird works of Robert Aickman and Shirley Jackson, The Black Altar is an uneasy, fragmented collection of stories in the tradition of the portmanteau film.

Original Film Title: tRuth

Director’s Name: Sylvie Zaidman, Nic Shake

Writer’s Name: Sylvie Zaidman, Chloé von Arx

Producer: Sylvie Zaidman, Nic Shake

Country of Origin: Belgium

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 49 seconds

Film Description:

In a hyper-technological society, a couple lives their own utopia. But what happens when a glitch compromises all this idyllic interface?

Original Film Title: Mamita

Director’s Name: Carlo D’Amore

Writer’s Name: Carlo D’Amore

Producer: LIT Interactive LLC, Phoebe Dunn,

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English, Spanish

Runtime: 10 minutes 35 seconds

Film Description:

Based on an incredible true story, Mamita is an Almodóvar-esque film set in 1975 Peru. Personifying the delicate love between a mother and her son, Carlito. As Mamita breathes in heartbreak, she exhales her son’s true father to be none other than Spanish megastar Camilo Sesto “The King of Love”! And now… Carlito must make the biggest choice of his life!

Original Film Title: LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

Director’s Name: Nikolay Bogomilov

Writer’s Name: Nikolay Bogomilov, Vincent Molli

Producer: Nikolay Bogomilov, Marika Tosheva, Angel Stavrev

Country of Origin: Bulgaria

Country of Filming: Bulgaria

Language: French, Russian

Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes

Film Description:

Synopsis: 
Medieval France. The main character studies at the in France in university. Together with other students, he studies Latin, sometimes likes to fool around. But he is different from others because he writes poetry and is very religious. 
He has close friends. One day they break into the public bathhouse together for it being hosting vice. In retaliation, he is attacked at night. He kills one of the attackers. He has to run, and he ends up in a fairy kingdom. The King welcomes him, but the Queen falls in love with him. In the fairy forest, they talk about their love. Sometimes Instead of the Queen, the poet sees Death in the image of an Oriental beauty. The queen is dying. The poet remains in tragic loneliness.