Category: Best Short Documentary ARFF Amsterdam 2022

Original Film Title: Two Kinds of Water

Director’s Name: Dan McDougall

Producer: Navdip Dhariwal, Nina Ross

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: Senegal

Language: English, Wolof

Runtime: 22 minutes 29 seconds

Film Description:

‘Two Kinds of Water’, explores the lives of a family living in the Guet Ndar fishing community on Senegal’s north coast – a country whose name literally means ‘our boat’. The 5,500km coastline of West Africa, is home to some of the most diverse and dangerous fishing grounds in the world. It provides a livelihood to eight million people as skills are handed down from generation to generation, yet climate change, over-fishing and contested waters are producing new and deadly threats every day. “Two Kinds of Water” charts the unbreakable bond between a fisherman and his wife as they face unbearable challenges, fighting to keep their young family afloat in one of Africa’s most vulnerable fishing communities. A combination of deeply poetic voices and lyrical journeys vividly render the lives of ocean communities on the frontline of the climate crisis and the fishermen whose lives lay on the line each time they leave the shore.

Original Film Title: 할매레시피

Director’s Name: Sung Hoon Choi

Writer’s Name: Sung Hoon Choi

Producer: Youngrak Lee

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of

Language: Korean

Runtime: 24 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

How many recipes are there in the world? There are foods that represent the country, there are foods that symbolize culture, and there are foods that remind you of the region. Every house has its own food to be proud of. The recipes that create special foods are like countless stars in the universe. Being born and disappearing is perhaps a natural process. The process of how food is made tells a lot more than we think.

Original Film Title: Strong Hearts: An Indigenous Love Letter To My Sons

Director’s Name: Gary “Litefoot” Davis

Writer’s Name: Gary “Litefoot” Davis

Producer: Gary “Litefoot” Davis, Carmen Davis

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

’Strong Hearts’, a short film by actor, writer and director Gary “Litefoot” Davis, overflows with a father’s wisdom and indigenous world view, poetically expressed as a love letter to his three sons. Through its raw and vulnerable narration, a message of strength, beauty and power is conveyed to the young men, imploring them to live a life of purpose. Shot on location at actual sites of decisive Indigenous victories over the U.S. military, historical happenings become teaching moments and majestic natural landscapes provide an epic visual backdrop for delivering a message meant to give the boys the impetus to reclaim their Native American narrative.

Original Film Title: Earth to Art: Basketmaker

Director’s Name: David Zurick

Writer’s Name: David Zurick

Producer: David Zurick

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes

Film Description:

Jennifer Zurick harvests bark from willow trees that grow along Kentucky waterways and weaves it into world-acclaimed baskets

Original Film Title: In het donker gezien

Director’s Name: Juliëtte Dominicus

Writer’s Name: Juliëtte Dominicus

Producer: Fabiënne Jongenburger

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Language: Dutch

Runtime: 25 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

What if you lose sight, how do you experience the world around you? Seeing in the dark examines the sensory experience of being blind, with a focus on being blind as a strength: how you can perceive more as a blind person and how the other senses become even more important when your sight is lost. The documentary tells the story of four powerful, blind characters: the couple Yany and Tinah and the sisters Sandra and Marjoke.

Original Film Title: Korean GENOCIDE

Director’s Name: Seung-il Chon

Writer’s Name: Seung-il Chon

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of

Language: Korean

Runtime: 18 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

Geumjeonggul in Goyang City, South Korea, was built for the purpose of mining gold during Japanese colonial period and was closed. In October 1950, during the Korean War, in Geumjeonggul, the police massacred hundreds of residents of Goyang without any legal procedures, and buried them deep in layers. And 71 years later, the bereaved families are still suffering and struggling in trauma.

Original Film Title: Husker du din mors hænder

Director’s Name: Barbra Coco Laurré

Writer’s Name: Barbra Coco Laurré

Producer: Barbra Coco Laurré

Country of Origin: Denmark

Country of Filming: Denmark, Norway

Language: Danish, Norwegian

Runtime: 18 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR MOTHERS HANDS

A poetic and strong documentary about our mothers.
About the threads of life that are tied and woven,
and about carrying the weight of our own lives for better or worse.

Original Film Title: A Brief Inquiry

Director’s Name: Efrat Kashai

Producer: Efrat Kashai

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 18 seconds

Film Description:

Three days before Covid shut down the music industry, a group of UK teens see their favorite pop band, The 1975, on tour. Brutally aware that pop-star obsessed teens are a tired trope of modern culture, they delve into why their musical choices are a reflection of so much more than meets the eye. Through an intimate and honest lens, the film captures a glimpse of what teen culture means today, challenging those who are quick to dismiss it.

Original Film Title: Planet Earth – a brief history

Director’s Name: Bruce Currie

Writer’s Name: Bruce Currie

Producer: Bruce Currie

Country of Origin: Australia

Country of Filming: Australia

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

Planet Earth – a brief history – depicting the evolution of the planet from the Hadean period to the Anthropocene period. An evolutionary history of life on Earth.

The Earth has undergone constant change in its 4.54 Billion year history with life evolving in response to those changes – in particular to the changing atmospheric compositions of carbon dioxide and oxygen. Species extinction has been a natural part of the evolutionary process of the planet however there are now thought to have been at least 8 mass extinction events in the history of the Earth – each of major consequence to life on the planet and of import to our modern understandings of climate change.

Original Film Title: Long Haul: A Pulmonary Wellness Foundation Film

Director’s Name: Noah Greenspan, Michael Dantuono

Producer: Noah Greenspan, Sean Moloney

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 38 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

It was initially believed that Covid-19 was “a respiratory virus,” that “lasts for 10-14 days.”  

Long Haul is the untold story of hundreds of thousands of people still suffering from Covid’s devastating impact months and for many, more than a year after getting over their acute illness; as told by the only people who can truly understand its impact…Long Haulers!