Category: Best Feature Documentary ARFF Amsterdam 2022 –

Original Film Title: Cape to Cape

Director’s Name: Pasi Sauna-aho

Writer’s Name: Pasi Sauna-aho

Producer: Pasi Sauna-aho

Country of Origin: Finland

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 11 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

A thrilling documentary of a record breaking adventure. Adventurer Jonas Deichmann, multiple ultracycling world record holder, teams up with ultra cyclist and photographer Philipp Hympendahl. When they set off, the current record for the Cape to Cape challenge stands at 102 days. This 18,000 km long bicycle ride is self-supported, so they have to pack light and stay on the move. Jonas and Philipp want to crush the record by more than 30 days. This means riding 250 km every day, no rest days allowed.

Original Film Title: Still Stoked

Director’s Name: Paul Surety

Writer’s Namer: Paul Surety, Barney Ashton

Producer: Paul Surety

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 60 minutes

Film Description:

Still Stoked follows Sean Goff a 55 -year-old a British skateboard legend who pushes his ageing body beyond its limits to compete in one last skate competition, , despite concerns from his surgeon that another injury could permanently disable him.

Original Film Title: CHINA ON THE MOVE

Director’s Name: Yinan Chen

Producer: Xue Ao

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: English

Runtime: 60 minutes

Film Description:

CHINA ON THE MOVE explores two fascinating questions from China, both with global significance – how can China fight against poverty and what are the economic solutions to enable recovery from Covid-19? The presenters, Cameron Andersen and Jenny Cortes Ybañez, travel across the country to meet people overcoming the exceptional challenges that are mirrored across the world – from local farmers to international entrepreneurs.

Original Film Title: Positivə

Director’s Name: Alessandro Redaelli

Writer’s Name: Elena Comoglio, Ruggero Melis, Francesco Maddaloni

Producer: Salvatore De Martino

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Film Description:

4 HIV+ people take a greater risk than infection: being
the first ones in italy to tell their side of the story and put their name on it. To do that, they go back 40 years, to the very beginning of this disease, only to find out that something does not add up. Why, as HIV treatments progress, social stigma persists?
A journey through past and presents, fears and hopes of a new
generation of HIV+ people.

Original Film Title: Venezia e Musica

Director’s Name: Claudio Piovesana

Writer’s Name: Claudio Piovesana

Producer: Claudio Piovesana

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes

Film Description:

The history of Venetian music through the centuries from the end of the 14th century to the contemporary age: the author guides us through the city and its architecture explaining the music performed with the testimonies and interpretations of famous musicians.
The narration is enriched by the image of places related to the history of music and precious collections of old musical intruments which have played an important role in creating Venetian music.

Original Film Title: صرة الصيف

Director’s Name: Ballal Salem

Writer’s Name: Lamghayfri Nayma

Producer: Said Zribiaa

Country of Origin: Morocco

Country of Filming: Morocco

Language: Arabic

Runtime: 1 hour 3 minutes

Film Description:

“In the desert of Morocco… the characters of this film chose to live in isolation from the city and its society; Harmonious with difficult environmental conditions, they take pleasure in speaking to the Creator far from creation in boundless spaces…”

Original Film Title: Gemeinsam Nüchtern

Director’s Name: Fabian Schmalenbach

Producer: Matthias Greving

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes 44 seconds

Film Description:

Near Cölbe, a small town near Marburg, idyllically secluded between fields, lies the Fleckenbühl farm – a self-help facility where addicted people have the opportunity to start a drug-free life.

Original Film Title: Ms. Leyla

Director’s Name: Ilke Işisağ

Writer’s Name: Ilke Işisağ

Producer: İzmit Belediyesi

Country of Origin: Turkey

Country of Filming: Turkey

Language: Turkish

Runtime: 50 minutes

Original Film Title: Dimitris Skyllas: AFTERPOP

Director’s Name: Dimitrios Zivopoulos

Writer’s Name: Dimitrios Zivopoulos

Producer: Elena Choremi

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece, United Kingdom

Language: English, Modern Greek (1453-)

Runtime: 54 minutes

Film Description:

Who is more pop, Madonna or Beethoven?

From the Greek mountains to BBC’s grand stages, the 35-year-old provocative composer Dimitrios Skyllas reveals the secrets of today’s music-making. The sacred musician, the party freak, and all the life in-between. A visionary gesture to break the stereotypes of classical music in our fast, pop-consuming universe.

Original Film Title: Circus of the Scars

Director’s Name: Chicory Wees

Writer’s Name: Chicory Wees, Jan Gregor

Producer: Jan Gregor

Country of Origin: United States

Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes