Category: 2022 ARFF Amsterdam

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Belief – dir. Masud Akhond

Original Film Title: Belief

Director’s Name: Masud Akhond

Writer’s Name: Masud Akhond

Producer: Nicklas Karpaty

Country of Origin: Sweden

Country of Filming: Bangladesh

Language: Bengali

Runtime: 5 minutes

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 broken

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A Soldier’s Letter – dir. Calvin Yearsley

Original Film Title: A Soldier’s Letter

Director’s Name: Calvin Yearsley

Writer’s Name: Calvin Yearsley

Producer: Pierre Wintgens

Country of Origin: Belgium

Country of Filming: Belgium

Language: English, German

Runtime: 19 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

December 17th, 1944. After surviving the Malmedy massacre, Private Tommy Stewart must make it back to the allied frontline in order to tell the story of what happen

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Sojourn – dir. Lena Nerinckx

Original Film Title: Sojourn

Director’s Name: Lena Nerinckx

Writer’s Name: Lena Nerinckx

Producer: Luna Marie Bogaert, Contour Collective

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Belgium

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes 32 seconds

Film Description:

Witness the crumbling persona of a narcissist in this surrealistic love trip.

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Luca Primon from forest to concert hall – dir. Claudio Piovesana

Original Film Title: Luca Primon from forest to concert hall

Director’s Name: Claudio Piovesana

Writer’s Name: Claudio Piovesana

Producer: Claudio Piovesana

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: English, Italian

Runtime: 51 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

A journey into the master’s workshop, following step by step the birth of a master concert violin.
Experience, passion, technique and love are the ingredients of Luca Primon’s violins.
You will discover all the charm in the construction of a Primon concert violin, as you were close to him in the workshop.

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SHADOW OF THE NIGHT – dir. Radhakrishnan Parthiban

Original Film Title: Iravin Nizhal

Director’s Name: Radhakrishnan Parthiban

Writer’s Name: Radhakrishnan Parthiban

Producer: Radhakrishnan Parthiban

Country of Origin: India

Language: Tamil, Telugu

Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes 51 seconds

Film Description:

A tale about a dark, gloomy man, searching for a tiny speck of light, ignoring the shadow that walks behind him; not realising that the shadow is evidence of light’s existence.

A quiet place in the shadows, where time, thoughts and memories are foes….
Does the Night possess a shadow? Can the darkness that illuminates the shadow be perceived?

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The Desire To Live – dir. Mariam Avetisyan

Original Film Title: The Desire To Live

Director’s Name: Mariam Avetisyan

Writer’s Name: Mariam Avetisyan

Producer: Peter Bahlawanian

Country of Origin: Armenia

Country of Filming: Armenia

Language: Armenian

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

Stories of the indigenous people of Artsakh, after the recent 44 day war with Azerbaijan and suffering a devastating loss of lives and land. The desire to live is really a right to live on their lands and be protected by the threat of war, genocide and crimes against their humanity.

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Without Clemency – dir. Jorge Mauro Javier Mauad

Original Film Title: Sin Clemencia

Director’s Name: Jorge Mauro Javier Mauad

Writer’s Name: Jorge Mauro Javier Mauad

Producer: Alpataco Films

Country of Origin: Colombia

Country of Filming: Colombia

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Film Description:

Maria and Angel, two young people in love and engaged, see their dream of getting married postponed when their parents, when buying a field between them, start a dispute over a cow and a few meters of land.

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Not Too Late – dir. Thiago Maia

Original Film Title: Not Too Late

Director’s Name: Thiago Maia

Producer: Josephine Brown

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

Not Too Late was originally created for the OFFF Bogota 2020 main titles, which was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
This film centres around the animal kingdom, a world that we are destroying every day. Not Too Late looks at the impacts humans are having and hopefully inspiring them to make a change.

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Forest Zero – Rudolf Hoess’s Noose – dir. Michal Szprynger

Original Film Title: Forest Zero – Rudolf Hoess’s Noose

Director’s Name: Michal Szprynger

Writer’s Name: Michal Szprynger

Producer: Michal Szprynger

Country of Origin: Poland

Country of Filming: Poland

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 7 seconds

Film Description:

This music video is based on the true events of the interactions between the Jesuit Priest Wladyslaw Lohn and the commandant of Auschwitz – Rudolf Hoess.

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Phoenix 2021/A Survival Guide – dir. Stilvi Psilopoulou

Original Film Title: Phoenix 2021/A Survival Guide

Director’s Name:Stilvi Psilopoulou

Writer’s Name: Stilvi Psilopoulou

Producer: Stilvi Psilopoulou

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: Modern Greek (1453-)

Runtime: 8 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

Phoenix 2021/A Survival Guide revolves around depression and the struggle that a great deal of people undergo every single day in order to fight against it. The film identifies as the root of the problem the social taboos which entrap us into small boxes in which we all suffocate. The main character works at a very toxic environment that has nothing to do with what she wanted to be as a little girl. This leads her to antidepressants and the decision to put an end to her life. Will hope prevail in the end or it’s too late?