Category: Best Short Film ARFF Amsterdam 2022

Original Film Title: להשיב את הרוח

Director’s Name: Guy Gazit

Writer’s Name: Guy Gazit

Producer: Noa Sagi

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Language: Hebrew

Runtime: 15 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description:

Max and Dundi are childhood friends.
Their relationship changes completely following a car accident where Max was the driver, leaving Dundi completely blind.
Six months after the accident, they are living together in their hometown. Max, suffering from deep post trauma and guilt, is taking extra care of Dundi, helping with every facet of his life, even when it’s not necessary.
As time goes on, Dundi gets fed up with Max’s excessive intrusiveness, desperate for the return of his freedom and independence.

Original Film Title: 2 Psychos in a Pod

Director’s Name: Kurt Collins

Writer’s Name: Kurt Collins

Producer: Kurt Collins, Claire Leahy

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 17 minutes 29 seconds

Film Description:

An apartment handyman and tenant share a dark insatiable need and become best friends.

Original Film Title: JAKOB & MARIA

Director’s Name: Christian Schiesser

Writer’s Name: Christian Schiesser

Producer: Christian Schiesser, Gabriele Gruber

Country of Origin: Austria

Country of Filming: Austria

Language: German

Runtime: 17 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

Jakob & Maria is a film by Christian Schiesser, partly shot on Super-8 analog film. The film is meant to animate people to think big, to dream big, to have big visions – but also to realize them.
We follow the story of Jakob, a perpetual student, who wanders dreamily through life until one day, with the help of his Super-8 camera, he gets a different view of the world. In a museum, a mysterious woman suddenly speaks to him while he is filming with his Super-8 camera… Who is this woman? Jakob sets out to find her. Her message won’t let Jacob go….” Think big, dream big…

Original Film Title: Small World

Director’s Name: Alex Child

Writer’s Name: Alex Child

Producer: Hiram Bleetman, Sam Duckett

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 56 seconds

Film Description:

Lifelong friends Ted and Harold go fishing for the last time.

Original Film Title: Le Pain

Director’s Name: Pepijn Tebrunsvelt

Writer’s Name: Pepijn Tebrunsvelt

Producer: Pepijn Tebrunsvelt, Klaas Bies, Louise Buysschaert, Joep van Uden, Leontine Poulussen, Thijs Schnater

Country of Filming: French, German

Language: Russian

Runtime: 10 minutes

Film Description:

‘Le Pain’ is a historical short film that follows a house search during the 2nd World War. A German soldier investigates wether a jewish family is hiding in a dilapidated farmhouse that only seems to be inhabited by a French speaking Belgian gi

Original Film Title: Кража

Director’s Name: Roman Sotnikov

Writer’s Name: Roman Sotnikov

Producer: Roman Sotnikov

Country of Origin: Russian Federation

Country of Filming: Russian Federation

Language: Russian

Runtime: 8 minutes 57 seconds

Film Description:

In order to get money for an operation and return to big sports, a girl boxer incites her young man to steal a valuable artifact from a warehouse that she temporarily guards. But life makes its own adjustments to a clear plan. Girl boxer receives money, but in a completely different way – now her life will no longer be the same.

Original Film Title: Yellowstone 88 – Song of Fire

Director’s Name: Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries

Writer’s Name: Betsy De Fries

Producer: Betsy De Fries

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 44 seconds

Film Description:

In the summer of 1988 dry lightning sparked a fire in the parched and drought ridden landscape of Yellowstone Park, igniting a blaze that would scorch over 1.5 million perimeter acres of the park.

Original Film Title: NATZRAT “The Beginning”

Director’s Name: Cristian Calabrese, Jacopo Andreoli

Writer’s Name: Cristian Calabrese

Producer: GENCO FILM, KM0 PRODUCTIONS

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Runtime: 17 minutes 26 seconds

Film Description:

No one can say what really happened that night, nine months before Year Zero.
A look at Nazareth show us the fragility of Mariam and Yosef discovering their intimacy.
Timeless feelings changing slowly until they become devotion and awareness of being the chosen ones.

Original Film Title: Kunu (Vloek)

Director’s Name: Onias Landveld

Writer’s Name: Onias Landveld

Producer: Productiehuis Wosu

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Runtime: 23 minutes 33 seconds

Film Description:

Kunu means curse. In the Marroon tradition of Surinam, people believe, that you can suffer from curses because of actions of your ancestors. Those curses come in different shapes and forms. Poverty, difficult family relationships, internal and mental struggle etc. Eight poetic texts and poems, written and voiced by Onias Landveld, Spoken word artist, playwright and former Poet Laureate of the city of Tilburg, formed the guideline for six POC composers and animators, to shape a special story of human struggle and growth. A struggle because of the consequences of trans- and intergenerational transmission, the modern day effects of historic slavery, family relationships, the escape of sectarian religion, and the search for identity.

Original Film Title: Piken med Svovelstikkene

Director’s Name: Selma Indine Strønen Damm

Writer’s Name: Selma Indine Strønen Damm

Producer: Magic Productions, Øren Film

Country of Origin: Norway

Country of Filming: Norway

Language: Norwegian

Runtime: 12 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

Coming of age of the circumcision ceremony in rural Bangladesh, 7 year old Topu faces the horror of not being able to decide faith for himself. Running away from the ceremony, Topu is captured and lectured by his uncle and taken back against his own will. The trust in his immediate family is suddenly brokenA musical film adaptation of the fairy-tale “The Little Match Girl” by H.C. Andersen. In the film, we meet the poor girl Ella who goes from door to door selling matches on New Year’s Eve