Category: Best Short Film ARFF Amsterdam 2022

Original Film Title: Нарциси

Director’s Name: Andy Iva

Writer’s Name: Andy Iva

Producer: Andy Iva

Country of Origin: Ukraine

Country of Filming: Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 6 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

Ukraine. February 24, 2022. Morning 4:30. Two brothers meet to discuss a new scam. The younger brother wants to make business in a war. But the older brother thinks this idea awful. While they are arguing, they are informed that the bombing of the city has begun. They hide in the toilet and forget about their ideas of doing business in the war. Terrible destructive war begins.

Original Film Title: The Little Match Girl

Director’s Name: Kim Geldenhuys

Producer: Ashleigh Jarratt

Country of Origin: South Africa

Country of Filming: South Africa

Language: Afrikaans, English

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description:

An adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s famous short story by the same title, The Little Match Girl. A sad tale of a young girl who tries to sell matches to feed her homeless family, but neglected, dies alone on the cold streets of Cape Town.

Original Film Title: The wicked

Director’s Name: Jinghao Huang

Writer’s Name: Jinghao Huang, Song Li

Producer: Jinghao Huang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 29 minutes 56 seconds

Film Description:

A middle-aged man was on the verge of collapse, without being cared by anyone. He was debt-ridden and couldn’t pour out his heart, leaving him in pain. When he was desperate, he regarded his daughter he hadn’t seen for many years as his last support in the world. However, his daughter’s determination made him realize that he had really lost everything…tern.

Original Film Title: Los Sueños De Los Muertos

Director’s Name: Christopher Jorna

Writer’s Name: Christopher Jorna, Victor Moroianu, Emma Goddard

Producer: Christopher Jorna

Country of Origin: Belgium

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Runtime: 20 minutes

Film Description:

A bullied man escapes reality through lucid dreaming. In these dreams, he can be whoever he wants to be, for example a lone ranger in the wild west…
The city of Maastricht, Netherlands is shown in a unique way, namely as a Western.

Original Film Title: FACE

Director’s Name: Sophia Kyriacou

Writer’s Name: Sophia Kyriacou

Producer: Sophia Kyriacou

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Language: Other

Runtime: 2 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

FACE is a hyper-real CGI conceptual film driven by silent thought-provoking emotion where I open a window to my Autistic world.

I explore my own cultural identity opening with the Victory of Samothrace. A metaphor that even the strongest of figures within the Classical Greek world can have their wings broken.

FACE also covers aspects of isolation, the feeling of not fitting in despite the ability to weave in and out of situations with chameleon like qualities.

tory,” in which they film and record music and music videos in different parts of the country. They have currently received 121 global film festival selections for the first two videos of their project including 38 first place titles.

Original Film Title: Gaslighted

Director’s Name: Mayuri

Writer’s Name: Banjii & Mayuri

Producer: Kahani Records

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Runtime: 7 minutes 12 seconds

Film Description:

Banjii and Mayuri continue their tour of the US for their music video series project, “Uncommon Love Story,” in which they film and record music and music videos in different parts of the country. They have currently received 121 global film festival selections for the first two videos of their project including 38 first place titles.

Original Film Title: Littoral

Director’s Name: Sergey Irodov

Writer’s Name: Sergey Irodov

Producer: Sergey Irodov

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: Cyprus

Language: English

Runtime: 10 minutes 28 seconds

Film Description:

Two strangers end up ashore on a secluded beach looking for a way out.

Original Film Title: Ecstasy

Director’s Name: Grant Taylor

Writer’s Name: Grant Taylor

Producer: Emily Wylie

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 17 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

A comedy-drama about a disabled father, with Parkinson’s disease, and his son’s crazy attempt to buy drugs so the Dad can dance with his wife at her birthday party, one last time. What could possibly go wrong?

Original Film Title: Sjeemte

Director’s Name: Floris Ramaekers

Writer’s Name: Floris Ramaekers

Producer: Reinier Selen

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Language: Dutch

Runtime: 12 minutes 56 seconds

Film Description:

A benefits claim appointment spins out of control when Candide, 23, borrows her sister’s baby and strangely pretends like it’s her own child. A suspicious Martijn, the caseworker, attempts to unravel her lies accusing Candide of fraud. But behind her charade lies an unexpected secret.

Original Film Title: Several of myself

Director’s Name: Coi Belluzzo, Joaquim Haickel

Writer’s Name: Joaquim Haickel, Coi Belluzzo

Producer: Joaquim Haickel, Ney Bello

Country of Origin: Brazil

Country of Filming: Brazil

Language: Portuguese

Runtime: 11 minutes 7 seconds

Film Description:

A tormented man struggles to survive illnesses of body, mind and soul.