Category: Best Director 2022 WSXA Amsterdam

Original Film Title: Grief Rider

Director’s Name: Alec Uittenbosch

Writer’s Name: Alec Uittenbosch

Producer: Isaac Chen, Alec Uittenbosch

Country of Origin: Australia

Country of Filming: Australia

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description:

We follow two siblings to the wake of their younger brother, Charlie. It’s there, in a backyard riddled with poisoned youth, where the audience discover the truth, that the lonely mother so desperately wants to know. What happened to Charlie?

Original Film Title: Sand Castle Tapes

Director’s Name: Heleen Declercq

Producer: Maud Van Parys, Jeroen Berx, Thomas Cassiers, Yannick Verdonck

Country of Origin: Belgium

Country of Filming: Belgium

Language: Dutch, English

Runtime: 52 minutes 41 seconds

Film Description:

Sand Castle Tapes captures the band’s stay during a few nights at a beautiful old castle near Brussels. Having been in lockdown until this stay, the band came together for the first time to interpret the songs from their latest album SAND.

Original Film Title: Tigerlilly

Director’s Name: Kati Rausch

Writer’s Name: Kati Rausch

Producer: Kati Rausch

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 10 minutes

Film Description:

A young woman enters the lobby of a five-star-hotel in Los Angeles, and tries to check in with her imaginary cat, Tigerlilly. This drives the receptionist crazy, especially since the imaginary cat is big heavy metal fan.

Original Film Title: The Game The Doubt

Director’s Name: Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi

Writer’s Name: Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi

Producer: Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi

Country of Origin: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Country of Filming: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Language: Persian

Runtime: 24 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

After a couple of years of effective efforts, Reza became a writer of the artist. He had to leave his country due to a lot of restrictions, which were an obstacle to achieve his dreams and his goals. Therefore, he made a pivotal decision which led to unexpected events and a lot of problems for him….(The end of the story has a conceptual puzzle, which you will understand carefully and thoughtfully from the meaning of the film)