Category: Best Student Film ARFF Berlin 2022

Original Film Title: Jimmy

Director’s Name: Ori Shahar

Writer’s Name: Ori Shahar

Producer: Lavi Raz

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Language: Hebrew

Runtime: 15 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

Guy has been a friend of Dor for as long as he can remember. However, Guy suffers from acute social anxiety, which makes it difficult for the relationship between the two. The two decide to rob a big amount of money from one of the wealthy residents living in the town, but when the robbery goes awry the two’s friendship is put to the test.

Original Film Title: The Mythology of Fire

Director’s Name: Haoyue Wang, Jiaxuan Zhang

Writer’s Name: Haoyue Wang, Jiaxuan Zhang

Producer: Nicole Ho

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 18 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

” The Mythology of Fire ” is a short romantic film with the theme of magical realism. In another world, the abducted crazy woman named Axi meets the man known as Gan Ge, a patient with ALS who committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea. During their relationship, Axi helped Gan Ge unravel his problems and unlock his heart, then Gan Ge was determined to help Axi find a way back home. But on the way the two were looking for their relatives, Gan Ge’s condition became more and more worse. The indifference of Axi’s relatives made Axi finally choose to go back to Gan Ge’s original residence with Gan Ge and spend the rest of his life with him.

Original Film Title: Rise To Your Childhood

Director’s Name: Zehra Karahan

Writer’s Name: Esra Kaya

Producer: Zehra Karahan

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: English

Runtime: 9 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

Original Film Title: 零点壹

Director’s Name: Xinman Li

Writer’s Name: Xinman Li

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 16 minutes 41 seconds

Film Description:

One day, there is a stern and obsessive antique shop owner that he received a couple in the shop on his birthday. The couple picked out a clock that the old man had just confirmed was broken, but he refused to sell it and got trapped in this one-hour time loop. After he realising the situation, the old man tried to sell an item to break the time loop, but he failed each time.
Until he begins to look at the unnoticed derails about birthday…

Original Film Title: Poulaphouca

Director’s Name: Ellen Bytyqi

Writer’s Name: Ellen Bytyqi

Producer: Joanne Heffernan

Country of Origin: Ireland

Country of Filming: Ireland

Language: English

Runtime: 15 minutes 18 seconds

Film Description:

While a young and in-love photographer explores the flooded village of her ancestors, she re-lives the past but realises the harsh truth of the present.

Original Film Title: 你知道，鸟儿飞走了还会回来

Director’s Name: Sihe Qiu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 14 minutes 49 seconds

Film Description:

In the summer of 2018, a truck driver Lu Fuxin and his wife Wan Shouyu are on the road to deliver goods as usual, and a fashion advertising video evokes their personal memories of the past. The sudden blow makes them at a loss in such a big city. The effect of emotion and illusion makes them decide to make a show by using the past experiences. However, can the rotten end building under the dusk take them from illusion to reality? Anyway, they are already on their way to the Paris of their dreams…

Original Film Title: The Last Piece

Director’s Name: Xinmao Jiang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 9 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

A girl who named Tianshan is unable to continue playing the erhu, because she is hard to accept the death of her grandfather. Meanwhile, Tianshan’s relatives want her to perform the last piece which she’s learned from her grandfather at her cousin’s wedding ceremony. Tianshan plans to take her grandmother on a trip to Tianshan Mountains, which has the same name with Tianshan as a landscape in the northwest of China. But Tianshan’s grandmother is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and be with limited mobility, also her mother can’t understand the mood of her. Tianshan twists and twists during puberty, then after trying to compromise, her thought about family, obsession and death education changes.

Original Film Title: The Ugly Duckling

Director’s Name: Lexin Zheng

Producer: Lizhao Xuan, Marianne Du

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 9 minutes 8 seconds

Film Description:

On her way to school camp, a fifth-grade girl accidentally finds out that she is adopted. She quietly hides in the school gym and meets another little boy who also sneaks into the gym, they decide to share their secret after talking to each other. The Ugly Duckling is a story based on my own experience. Through this story, I want to tell everyone that every child has his own little secret. By the time when you are brave enough to speak out your secret, you will find it no longer fearful and you are not alone.

Original Film Title: PLAY!

Director’s Name: Zimeng Li

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minute 22 seconds

Film Description:

A little girl Lea is playing with Leo the lion. By accident, Leo pushed the ball into the audience. This is not just a normal frolic, this is a Play for the audience! As professional actors, they solved this small accident calmly and waved their hands to express their thanks.

Original Film Title: FRAGMENT

Director’s Name: Daniel Jiaxuan Huang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China, Hong Kong

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

FRAGMENT is a short film about the trauma that children have endured in their families. Many teens in the world have family problems and this causes them stress. In this movie, each of the 3 main characters will react differently to the knock. The short film has 5 characters in total and 3 main characters with their own trauma from childhood. The first character is Daniel where his parents argue every day and he tends to find it very hard to listen to and thinks it’s his fault. The second character is Coco, and she has an abusive Dad that often gets drunk and comes home late, so she hides in the shower to show her true emotions. The third character is Ash where he has parents who owe people tons of money, so people would often show up and try to break.