Author: ARFF International

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That Night – dir. Swati Ganguly

Original Film Title: That Night

Director’s Name: Swati Ganguly

Writer’s Name: Swati Ganguly

Producer: Sachet Saraf

Country of Origin: India

Country of Filming: India

Language: Bengali

Runtime: 12 minutes 9 seconds

Film Description:

“That Night”, when darkness blocked her path, she tried to escape the dark and found a bright streak of light in him. This story however revolves around a stormy night, years after the two met. The raging storm outside somehow triggers a storm within the boundaries of their minds. The girl finds a battered old rose within the pages of a book, commemorating their moments of love. What follows is a montage of suppressed emotions, the gusts of the storm within. Was it their entire relationship or “That Night” , which was actually an illusion?

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Hunch – dir. Sara Joyce

Original Film Title: Hunch

Director’s Name: Sara Joyce

Writer’s Name: Kate Kennedy

Producer: Joey Dawson, Sara Joyce, Kate Kennedy

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Runtime: 5 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

Meet Hunch. The Superhero. Coming to the rescue when you’ve splinters on your arse from sitting on the fence. A short comedy about the consequences of making gut decisions for other people.

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Via Dream – dir. Frances Feng, Vincent Liu

Original Film Title: Via Dream

Director’s Name: Frances Feng, Vincent Liu

Writer’s Name: Frances Feng

Producer: Vincent Liu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 21 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

The short film Via Dream focuses on the common experience of a mother of two children, Wen Nanke, on the day she gives birth, to dramatize the challenges and dilemmas encountered by a woman in the workplace and in life when she is pregnant with a second child. In her pregnancy with a second child, Wen Nanke is afraid of losing her job and being neglected by her family. The sensitivity of pregnancy turns her psychologically fragile, leading to one after another misunderstanding in her life and workplace. When she faces the exhausting vomiting daily life of pregnancy, her husband’s thoughtless mistake is a shirking of responsibility in her eyes. Facing a colleague kind enough to help her with her work, she fears that the other person plots to take over her career. However, when the accidental birth happens, she wakes up as if from a dream. When her birth is over, the truth of the past is revealed to be that her child does not disturb her rest for understanding her difficult moments, thus creating the illusion of getting separated more often than being together. Everyone around Wen Nanke is caring and supporting her in their own way.

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Caution! Land Crabs Crossing – dir. Huang Pei Ju

Original Film Title: Caution! Land Crabs Crossing

Director’s Name: Huang Pei Ju

Country of Origin: Taiwan

Country of Filming: Taiwan

Language: English

Runtime: Mandarin Chinese

Film Description:

Kenting National Park has the highest ecological abundance of land crab in the world.

But thousands of crabs die tragically on the highway every year before they lay their eggs.

Not only the city government has set up “crabs crossing” signs on roads to protect the land crabs but also the local residents has helped them cross the road for decades.

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Icaro – dir. Inês Loura

Original Film Title: Icaro

Director’s Name: Inês Loura

Writer’s Name: Inês Loura

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 13 seconds

Film Description:

Who am I?
A forgotten myth.
A shadow in a wall.
Still I rise.

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Moving through waiting rooms – dir. Sarah Choo Jing

Original Film Title: Moving through waiting rooms

Director’s Name: Sarah Choo Jing

Producer: Mathias Choo Rui Zhi

Country of Origin: Singapore

Runtime: 6 minutes

Film Description:

‘The dance is an art in space and time.
The object of the dance is to obliterate that.’ – Cunningham

Choo first began seeing dance as a visible action in life during Circuit Breaker in Singapore when she noticed people engaging in their ordinary daily routines in private, intimate spaces: movement is a dance, and the window the stage unveiling a performance.

In moving through waiting rooms, the distance is removed as we follow a young man in a metaphorical cycle of life through interpretive dance, a form of contemporary dance wherein the dancer improvises and reacts to his environment: a void deck acting as a mystical passageway taking him in a journey across time where he encounters his boyhood self and his future. As with life, dance in a larger concept is abstract.

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Jimmy – dir. Ori Shahar

Original Film Title: Jimmy

Director’s Name: Ori Shahar

Writer’s Name: Ori Shahar

Producer: Lavi Raz

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Language: Hebrew

Runtime: 15 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

Guy has been a friend of Dor for as long as he can remember. However, Guy suffers from acute social anxiety, which makes it difficult for the relationship between the two. The two decide to rob a big amount of money from one of the wealthy residents living in the town, but when the robbery goes awry the two’s friendship is put to the test.

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Los Aspirantes -The Applicants – dir. María Yolanda Brown Melián, Kevin Ramos Fernández

Original Film Title: Los Aspirantes -The Applicants

Director’s Name: María Yolanda Brown Melián, Kevin Ramos Fernández

Writer’s Name: María Yolanda Brown Melián

Producer: María Yolanda Brown Melián

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

It is a hilarious comedy set in an office called Holliwood where everything turns into a desaster. Every single person in the office is tempted into getting a better job and they compete with the applicants for that purpose. Most of the situations a really surrealistic and funny so you never know what is going to happen.The more jobs offered, more situations to laugh at. Who needs the job?.

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Unknown Entry Event – dir. Roman Villevoye

Original Film Title: Unknown Entry Event

Director’s Name: Roman Villevoye

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Runtime: 5 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

Uknown Enrty Event is a fashion film for designer Maarten van Mulken it’s about a woman finding a unknown entry event in her logbook and sets out to join her friends to express themselves and their freedom one last time.

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Ellida – dir. Leon Mitchell

Original Film Title: Ellida

Director’s Name: Leon Mitchell

Writer’s Name: Birgit Syran Myaard

Producer: Katrina Syran

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Norway

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description:

Based upon Henrik Ibsen’s famous play, The Lady From The Sea. It’s set in a timeless period shot south of Norway where Munch painted his masterpiece The Sun. We follow the journey of Ellida’s world of loss, love and passion, heightened with the compositions of Grammy WINNER Mark Thomas and cinematography of Bafta-nominated Ian James Gray.