Category: Globe Award ARFF Amsterdam 2022

Original Film Title: Why On Earth

Director’s Name: Katie Cleary

Writer’s Name: Kristin Rizzo

Producer: Katie Cleary

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes

Film Description:

Based on the romantic photonovela “Singing to Love” (Amazon / books) this musical was born. As in silent movies, a narrator has been incorporated who sings the love story with the help of romantic images. His songs and dances reinforce the story. Altogether it is a beautiful entertainment for the senses where the spectator can interact singing in Spanish / English.

Original Film Title: CANTANDO AL AMOR – SINGING TO LOVE

Director’s Name: Antonio Bellido Marin

Writer’s Name: Antonio Bellido Marin

Producer: Antonio Bellido Marin

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: Other

Runtime: 45 minutes

Film Description:

Based on the romantic photonovela “Singing to Love” (Amazon / books) this musical was born. As in silent movies, a narrator has been incorporated who sings the love story with the help of romantic images. His songs and dances reinforce the story. Altogether it is a beautiful entertainment for the senses where the spectator can interact singing in Spanish / English.

Original Film Title: 纸骑兵

Director’s Name: Xiaotian Fan, Juzhi Chen

Writer’s Name: Xiaotian Fan, Huan Jiao

Producer: Cheng Jiang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes

Film Description:

A Zebra-Riding Boy is an exploration of the combination of literature and commerce. Also it is the first film of the impressionism-southern author films, based on Su Tong’s novels Cavalryman and Paper.
Poor bowlegged teenager Zuo Lin has a little dream to ride a horse in the most prosperous place of the city: the sad wooden horse cavalry, the happy zebra cavalry, the bleak and sad iron cavalry, the brilliant paper cavalry all melt into one.

Original Film Title: 好些了吗

Director’s Name: Agree Ye

Writer’s Name: Agree Ye

Producer: Alice Zhang, Fangchen SI

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description:

In times of war, in times of peace, there is always life to be taken care of.
An assistant doctor who has just returned from his studies dares to face doubts and deal with them calmly at critical moments, thus saving a war hero; A doctor who has returned from his studies chooses to face death with the patient in the face of his wife who is about to have a child in a special period, but gives hope for a new life; In the face of the epidemic situation, the couple consider more who should be the pioneer first and who should face the epidemic situation first.