Category: 2022 ARFF BERLIN

Original Film Title: Finding the Line – An Exploration of Structural Integration

Director’s Name: Aleš Urbanczik, Grzegorz Oleksa

Writer’s Name: Aleš Urbanczik

Producer: Aleš Oleksa

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming: Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Switzerland

Language: Czech, English, Italian, Polish

Runtime: 58 minutes

Film Description:

Boulder Colorado and Esalen Institute USA 1960’s & 1970’s:
Resulting from her studies Dr. Ida Rolf developed a program of postural re-patterning using fascial manipulation and movement education which she called Structural Integration and which is nowadays known in the public at large as ‘rolfing’.
Milano, Prague, Warszaw 2018 – 2022
This movie tells the story of an adventure – an adventure that will take the viewer into Ida Rolf’s world of Structural Integration. At the heart of the movie are 8 students and their quest to understand Ida Rolf’s philosophy during their 3 year Basic Trainings in Milano, Prague and Warsaw.
The movie also explains the basic ideas behind Structural Integration and discusses the most recent research into fascia.

Original Film Title: 44 LIGHTS: Music From Ground Zero

Director’s Name: Barbara Blackburn Tuttle

Writer’s Name: Barbara Blackburn Tuttle, Tim Tuttle

Producer: Joe Romeo, David Wakefield

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 7 minutes

Film Description:

On September 11th, 2001, Tim Tuttle walked out of the World Trade Center in New York City at 830 am. Ten minutes later the world changed forever. Tim lost 35 friends and neighbors that tragic Tuesday morning. That night he wrote a song to try and explain the unimaginable loss he had witnessed. He wasn’t a professional musician but he went into the studio to record it 3 weeks later. One song turned into 2 CDs. On the first anniversary of the tragedy Tim and a few real musicians got together to commemorate the day. One concert turned into 20 annual music memorials as “Music From Ground Zero” rose up from the ashes. Healing though music.

Original Film Title: Awaiting Trial

Director’s Name: Chude Jideonwo

Writer’s Name: Chude Jideonwo, Damola Morenikeji, Biola Olaore, Mfon Ekpo, AMA Psalmist Visuals

Producer: Chude Jideonwo, Gbolahan Gafar, Otito Wilfred Aso

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes

Film Description:

The 2020 #EndSARs protests in Nigeria got the attention of the world and the support of everyone from Beyoncé to President Biden, putting the spotlight on the worst symptom of the country’s mass incarceration problem: Awaiting Trial.

That social movement grew against the backdrop of #BlackLivesMatter putting violent criminal justice systems, rising incarceration rates, and police brutality on the front burner of global conversation.

With the Awaiting Trial system, citizens who are caught for crimes – even for the smallest of crimes – are incarcerated without a charge for months, and years – some up to 20 years for victimless crimes and minor misdemeanours. Many of them die or disappear in prison and police custody. This is a story not just about systems and inequality, but about the people whose lives are destroyed. It presents the devastating ramifications not just in terms of social justice, and fairness, but in terms of decimating families, terrorizing communities, and creating a culture of fear. The terror has not ended with two protests.

Original Film Title: 《上场吧！女孩》

Director’s Name: Xiaolan Xu

Writer’s Name: Xiaolan Xu

Producer: Xiaolan Xu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes

Film Description:

A group of girls in Jinshan District, an outer suburb of Shanghai City, started playing football under the guidance of a senior coach when they were in Grade 1. As children of migrant workers, they come from poor families.Their families have their own difficulties.
As they are now about to graduate from primary school, they will attend their last league match: Shanghai Decathlon Championship.
They will face an old enemy:Pu Tuo football team.Jia Ding football team is also hot on its heels.
They will meet a fierce challenge, and are about to usher in a new stage of life.