Author: ARFF International

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réBIRTH – dir. Tope Alake

Original Film Title: réBIRTH

Director’s Name: Tope Alake

Writer’s Name: Sharafadeen Olabode

Producer: Akinbayo Morakinyo

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Country of Filming: Nigeria

Language: English, Other

Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

Life is an endless circle. Being born for a second time in a new body. A resented man named Bolingo comes back to life to settle scores that happened centuries before.

The movie is 40% English, the remaining 60% is mixture of Hausa & Yoruba (which are part of core Nigerian languages) used in frequent manner but the movie is fully subtitled in English.

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The future of living in nature – dir. Naoyuki Noda

Original Film Title: The future of living in nature

Director’s Name: Naoyuki Noda

Writer’s Name: Kazuki Ohtsubo

Producer: Naoyuki Noda

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

A relationship with nature that was originally taken for granted in a busy city life.
The “mountainous area” where even humans live as a part of nature has a lot of hardships, so it is a divine scene.
It is also a very attractive place, blessed with abundant fruits.
Wider appeal of “mountainous areas” that are in danger of survival, especially in rural areas
I want you to know! It is a movie made with such a feeling.

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Sign – dir. Nika Verdzadze

Original Film Title: Sign

Director’s Name: Nika Verdzadze

Writer’s Name: Nika Verdzadze

Producer: Nika Verdzadze

Country of Origin: Georgia

Country of Filming: Georgia

Language: Georgian

Runtime: 22 minutes 33 seconds

Film Description:

In order to avoid meeting an unwanted guest, Zaza goes out of the house to idle away time

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The enchanted mission – dir. Marta Torres

Original Film Title: La Mision Encantada

Director’s Name: Marta Torres

Writer’s Name: Marta Torres

Producer: Marta Torres

Country of Origin: Brazil

Country of Filming: Bolivia, Plurinational State of, Chile, Peru

Language: Portuguese, Spanish

Runtime: 11 minutes 45 seconds

Film Description:

With the water almost running out and the fridge empty, Farofeira receives an enchanted mission and embarks on an adventure made of dream, nightmare, prophecy, fiction, and reality through the paths and ancestral knowledge of the South American peoples.

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Nightline – dir. Robert Sedlacek

Original Film Title: Nightline

Director’s Name: Robert Sedlacek

Writer’s Name: Robert Sedlacek

Producer: Jiri Tucek

Country of Origin: Czech Republic

Country of Filming: Czech Republic

Language: Czech

Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes

Film Description:

A bittersweet tale around a live interview radio broadcast that changes the lives of several innocent people. After lying low in the USA for almost 20 years Radek makes a surprise visit to his home city of Prague. Tech savvy he manages to avoid revealing all forms of his identity and location to tell his story on a late night radio phone-in show hosted by ambitious young journalist Eva. Eva bends over backwards to accommodate him and becomes embroiled in his mission to track down a young mother called Eliska. Eva has no idea that she herself is part of his plot from an event two decades ago. Czech law gives a 20 year time limit for all crime, including murder. Detectives on the late shift hear the interview and start to build a case but they only have a few hours left before the crime is deemed unpunishable. A fierce struggle for time and justice begins.

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Dill Pickle – dir. Krzysztof Pietroszek

Original Film Title: Dill Pickle

Director’s Name: Krzysztof Pietroszek

Writer’s Name: Krzysztof Pietroszek

Producer: Krzysztof Pietroszek

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

When WWI is abiut to end, Robert finds the love of his life, Vera. But their meeting does not go as one may expect.

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Translate. Guān luò yīn – dir. Richer Hu

Original Film Title: 觀落陰

Director’s Name: Richer Hu

Writer’s Name: Richer Hu, Xiu Yu Han

Producer: Alexander Khachatryan, Amo Chang

Country of Origin: Taiwan

Country of Filming: Taiwan

Language: Chinese, Chinese – Min Nan

Runtime: 19 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

Guān luò yīn is a traditional Taiwanese necromancy.
The scenes of this short film switch between the living and the dead worlds. In the story, the father lost his son and has lived in a van as his home since then.
He constantly seeks help from a spirit medium to communicate with the spirit of his beloved son by Guān luò yīn. Sadly, the father still can’t let go of his hatred for the teen who killed his son.
The film is performed by Li Kang-Sheng, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor, and Nadow Lin, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Erek Lin, who was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best New Actor.
The story revolves around the interaction and resentment between the three.

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Extreme Cuisine – Natyamba – dir. Alyona Shitikova

Original Film Title: Extreme Cuisine – Natyamba

Director’s Name: Alyona Shitikova

Writer’s Name: Alyona Shitikova

Producer: Andrey Chelyadinov

Country of Origin: Germany

Runtime: 32 minutes 56 seconds

Film Description:

The TV host puts on a blindfold on the guest, and with his eyes closed, he must cook a dish. In order to prepare his “culinary masterpiece”, the guest has 60 minutes. As a result, the guest will have to eat everything that he has cooked. And most importantly, he must find all the ingredients in special jars, in which could be animals, insects, paints, glue, nails, cacti and other unexpected surprises that can be found instead of ingredients.

This time, the famous presenter, millionaire blogger, author of the popular Instagram channel Yulia Natyamba came to the show for the thrill.

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Floating Holidays -dir. Yumi Masuda

Original Film Title: Floating Holidays

Director’s Name: Yumi Masuda

Writer’s Name: Yumi Masuda

Producer: Daisuke Ito, Tetsuhide Mitsumine, Nobushige Urabe, Shinzo Matsuhashi

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes

Film Description:

Mika, who suffers from a mental disorder, suddenly has a visit from her young brother, Mah-chan who has always been a pain in her life. Meeting him after all these years after he was gone, gets her thrown around everywhere. However, by going to all kinds of places in Ukiha city, Japan with her brother, and talking things over, Mika regains her self back. Not just through medical treatment but also through her interactions with society and the people, also with the changes in her inner self, Mika’s mental health begins to improve within a few days without her even realizing it.

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A Haircut for the Hina Doll – dir. Minoru Mizoguchi

Original Film Title: お雛様のヘアカット

Director’s Name: Minoru Mizoguchi

Writer’s Name: Minoru Mizoguchi

Producer: Tomoyuki Sagawa

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 29 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

The man who is an assistant hairstylist makes an effort to keep his promise by cutting his first love’s hair as his first customer. But she has little time to live due to her severe illness.