Category: Best Feature Film ARFF Berlin 2022

Original Film Title: Գարուն ա…

Director’s Name: Roman Musheghyan

Writer’s Name: Harout Ghukassian

Producer: Alexander Khachatryan

Country of Origin: Armenia

Country of Filming: Armenia

Language: Armenian

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

Aram Amatuni is a retired special forces spy who has devoted his entire life to serving and protecting his country and to creating a lawful government. His son, Gnel, is a successful businessman who to this day hasn’t forgiven his father for putting the needs of his country before the needs of his own family. This conflict between father and son reaches its climax when Amatuni’s grandson, a talented violinist who has the opportunity to study in one of the best European music academies, inspired by his grandfather’s ideology goes against his own father’s wishes and enlists in the mandatory military service from which his father has freed him using all of his connections.
The unexpected war further severs the father-son relationship, leading Amatuni to take a road of no return.

Original Film Title: Inside a funeral hall

Director’s Name: Ho-hyun Lee

Writer’s Name: Ho-hyun Lee

Producer: Ho-hyun Lee

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 2 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

Sang Eun, who’s been fighting cancer secretly behind his family’s back, goes to his grandmother’s funeral. There he sees his family members focusing more on how much money they’ll be inherited instead of remembering his grandmother. That makes him imagine what his funeral would be like. He meets his old friend Eunkyu’s uncle at the funeral and hears that Eunkyu is also getting treated for his pancreatic cancer at the same hospital and that he’s in stage 4. Sang Eun pays a visit to Eunkyu after the funeral and he immediately gets the feeling that his friend doesn’t have much time left. As he walks out of the room, he’s met with Eunkyu’s mother who’s in total despair and he sees that death could mean desperation beyond sadness to someone.

Original Film Title: 狭山市下水野の化け地蔵

Director’s Name: Mitsuo Kurihara

Writer’s Name: Yuta Takahashi

Producer: Mitsuo Kurihara

Country of Filming: Japan

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

A story surrounding a statue built in 1600 called the Haunted Jizo.
An evil ghost is eliminated by the power of the Haunted Jizo.

Original Film Title: Tom et luce

Director’s Name: Muxel Paule

Writer’s Name: Muxel Paule

Producer: Kando

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English, Japanese

Runtime: 1 hour 2 minutes

Film Description:

A couple in crisis is about to renovate an apartment. The state of the walls is like the state of their relationship.