Category: 2022 ARFF BARCELONA

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OLMA DJON – dp. Iskander Narymbet – dir. Victoria Yakubov

Original Film Title: OLMA DJON

Director’s Name: Victoria Yakubov

Cinematography: Iskander Narymbetov

Writer’s Name: Victoria Yakubov, Yerkebulan Bekturov

Producer’s Name: Herve Schneid, Victoria Yakubov

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: Kazakhstan

Language: Russian

Runtime: 1 hour 12 minutes

Film Description:

OLMA DJON tells the journey of BOLOT, a father who, despite his efforts, doesn’t succeed to communicate with his daughter SHOLPAN (7) who refuses to speak, as a result of communication problems in their family: He is desperate when a Shaman Woman comes to help. Seduced by her gentle singing, he goes over the fence of his own yard. He finds himself in a snowy apple tree orchard, his secret garden, frozen for so many years. Following the singing shamanic voice, BOLOT crosses his own unconsciousness, he meets his ancestors and finally, his Mother who is waiting for him under the Apple Tree. This reconciliation gives him the capacity to communicate to his Daugher – Love.

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Without Clemency – dp. Nelson Saavedra – dir. Jorge Mauro Javier Mauad

Original Film Title:Sin Clemencia

Director of Photography: Nelson Saavedra

Director’s Name: Jorge Mauro Javier Mauad

Writer’s Name: Jorge Mauro Javier Mauad

Producer’s Name: 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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Bi-2 — We don’t need a hero – dir. Max Shishkin

Original Film Title: Би-2 – Нам не нужен герой

Director’s Name: Max Shishkin

Writer’s Name: Max Shishkin

Producer’s Name: Vitaly Kapitonov, Kirill Borisov

Country of Origin: Russian Federation

Country of Filming: Russian Federation

Language: Russian

Runtime: 4 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

An Ancient organization throughout human history killed the heroes to keep a society under uncompromising control.
“Nowadays” members of the organization create the illusion of fighting for freedom’s sake: they kill national hero and then resurrect him. He assembles followers to take the organization’s headquarters by storm, but intentional punishment is waiting for them. Will evil prevails or is there still hope for freedom?

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NOMANKIND – dir. Mehdi Hadi

Original Film Title: NOMANKIND

Director’s Name: Mehdi Hadi

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Runtime: 2 minutes 23 seconds

Film Description:

“NOMANKIND is a short film that represents the vision of a machine-dominated society in a near future where humanity is on the verge of extinction due to its own self-destructive nature.”

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Serious Cat Talk – dp: Jaryl Lim – dir. Arifin Ajib

Original Film Title: Serious Cat Talk

Director of Photography: Jaryl Lim

Director’s Name: Arifin Ajib

Writer’s Name: Wall Fish

Producer’s Name: Foo Hui Yin

Country of Origin:Malaysia

Country of Filming: Malaysia

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 13 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

1980’s: An angsty youth influenced by a bygone era, where cultural associations act as a front for illegal martial-art gangs, now seeks to defend the legacy. However the association does not share his vision of violent showmanship in Lion Dance. Inspired by the “theatre of the mind” of Lion Dance practitioners.

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Crabs in a Bucket – dir. Alex Hashim

Original Film Title: Crabs in a Bucket

Director’s Name: Alex Hashim

Writer’s Name: Alex Hashim

Producer’s Name: Alex Hashim

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

Nelson, an ambitious recent graduate living in New York City, struggles to cope with his two dysfunctional roommates while attempting an impossible job search during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Enclosed – dir. Yi Yang

Original Film Title: Enclosed

Director’s Name: Yi Yang

Writer’s Name: Yi Yang

Producer’s Name: Jialiman Sun

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English, Spanish

Runtime: 18 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

On a dry shining day, the bu father is out of home, Julio, a 14-year-old precocious boy, could no longer contain himself to longing for an echo of affection from April, the cleaning lady who comes to his home every week. Everything is seemingly peaceful, yet the emotion, restlessness, and epinephrine are rising as their eye contacts impending something to happen in the noisy sound of the vacuum cleaner working. However, this young boy doesn’t know what to do. He hides back in his bedroom and plays with the puzzle with the pattern of Oedipus, expecting April to come in. She does, following the housework routine but in a mood of repression, and does not notice and understand the puzzles’ message, which is an obscure love letter speaking for Julio. Coming back and forth from the laundry room, April, having the bruise on her wrist caused by her boyfriend, reminisces about the domestic violence scene and cannot suppress her feelings anymore. She wants to abreact her grievances and transfer them to the boy when he takes the courage to kiss and hug her. After a tender but baffling “intimacy” between them, April leaves the scene right away but comes across the father arriving home unexpectedly early. Julio hasn’t recovered from this first-time experience and doesn’t notice this life-changing moment. He stands there listening to the two adults talking, confused and being ignored as always.

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Filled Vacuum – dir. Yotam Giustizia

Original Film Title: Filled Vacuum

Director’s Name: Yotam Giustizia

Writer’s Name: Yotam Giustizia

Producer’s Name: Yotam Giustizia

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Language: English, Hebrew

Runtime: 16 minutes 57 seconds

Film Description:

A son in his 30’s returns home in order to interview his mother about her life choices for the final project of his academic degree.
His goal is to try and “assemble”, through the art of cinema, the human puzzle that is his mother’s traumatic past, ever-changing present, and a future he must deal with.
In this experimental journal, he constructs his mother’s life story while trying to answer his deep-rooted questions and worrying thoughts that are driven by the aging process of his mother.