Category: Best Director ARFF Amsterdam 2022

Original Film Title: Not Too Late

Director’s Name: Thiago Maia

Producer: Josephine Brown

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

Not Too Late was originally created for the OFFF Bogota 2020 main titles, which was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
This film centres around the animal kingdom, a world that we are destroying every day. Not Too Late looks at the impacts humans are having and hopefully inspiring them to make a change.

Original Film Title: Forest Zero – Rudolf Hoess’s Noose

Director’s Name: Michal Szprynger

Writer’s Name: Michal Szprynger

Producer: Michal Szprynger

Country of Origin: Poland

Country of Filming: Poland

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 7 seconds

Film Description:

This music video is based on the true events of the interactions between the Jesuit Priest Wladyslaw Lohn and the commandant of Auschwitz – Rudolf Hoess.

Original Film Title: Phoenix 2021/A Survival Guide

Director’s Name:Stilvi Psilopoulou

Writer’s Name: Stilvi Psilopoulou

Producer: Stilvi Psilopoulou

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: Modern Greek (1453-)

Runtime: 8 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

Phoenix 2021/A Survival Guide revolves around depression and the struggle that a great deal of people undergo every single day in order to fight against it. The film identifies as the root of the problem the social taboos which entrap us into small boxes in which we all suffocate. The main character works at a very toxic environment that has nothing to do with what she wanted to be as a little girl. This leads her to antidepressants and the decision to put an end to her life. Will hope prevail in the end or it’s too late?

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.