Category: Best Director ARFF Berlin 2022

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PSYCHOPOMP – dir. Yue Mao

Original Film Title: PSYCHOPOMP

Director’s Name: Yue Mao

Writer’s Name: Marina Kaye

Producer: Jake W. Frank

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 33 seconds

Film Description:

Candace and Henry are a very affectionate couple. They plan to see the movie together. However, accidents always happened unexpectedly. Candance suffered a car accident. Candace’s nostalgia for Henry seems to have made The Reaper give her a chance to say goodbye to Henry. This is the beginning of a farewell between the two people who love each other before the gap between yin and yang.

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My Friend Alpaca – dir. Maxim Balter

Original Film Title: My Friend Alpaca

Director’s Name: Maxim Balter

Writer’s Name: Oleksii Dorychevskyi

Producer: Serhii Kastornykh, Alexander Avsharov, Maxim Balter

Country of Origin: Ukraine

Country of Filming: Ukraine

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

On the eve of the new year, nine-year-old daughter Anya tries to make peace between her parents.

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Umbilical Cord – dir. Boris Pophristov

Original Film Title: Пъпна връв

Director’s Name: Boris Pophristov

Writer’s Name: Boris Pophristov

Producer: Boris Pophristov

Country of Origin: Bulgaria

Country of Filming: Bulgaria

Language: Bulgarian

Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes 5 seconds

Film Description:

A glimpse at the edge of human consciousness’ evolution through the prism of Natural agriculture. Millenia ago agriculture had spawned the profound change of humankind towards civilization. Could it be the key again for the next leap forward? Four natural food gardens, seven natural food growers meeting the old ways with the new values and a father who wished for a better world for his son share their wisdom of life in symbiosis with Nature through visual narrative and uncontrolled single-take interviewing.