Category: Best Student Film ARFF Barcelona 2023

Original Film Title: My Tower

Director’s Name: Ziqing Ran

Producer: Ziqing Ran

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 8 seconds

Film Description:

My tower is inspired by the Tarot. My film is a surrealist narrative film. Talking about the very sensitive person who wants to go out of his tower and get a relationship with others. The tower for him is not only the shelter but also the cage. It is as well as the uterus, and the tower broke like a subconscious delivery.

My film split the two worlds, inside and outside parts. These two parts are connected through the theater in the tower, which will affect each other. The red ball, which symbolizes the protagonist’s emotion, is the medium of transmission. As more and more complex emotions appear, they became the snake, its body makes the protagonist lose his breath. The inner world was invaded by the red line. The protagonist was thrown into the water by the red line, and the tower collapsed, the red umbilical cord protected him. Finally, He left the tower and a new road appeared in front of him.

Original Film Title: The Truth Within

Director’s Name: Gaby Soto, Juan Camilo Rincon

Writer’s Name: Gaby Soto, Juan Camilo Rincon

Producer: Ringling College of Art + Design

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

In a Make-a-Bear Store, a hard-boiled teddy bear detective is alerted by his lover of a dead body that has been found. Upon arriving at the crime scene, he starts unveiling clues which set him on a path to discovering the truth: Danger lurks closer than he thinks.

Original Film Title: ASUKA

Director’s Name: Xupeng Feng

Writer’s Name: Xupeng Feng

Producer: Xupeng Feng

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

A “coming of age” cosplayer is drowned in the fantasy of being the “Asuka”, lingering between reality and anime.

Original Film Title: Kingdom

Director’s Name: Pol Oliveras Paris

Writer’s Name: Pol Oliveras Paris, Will Maskell

Producer: Jordi Heppell Torrens

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English, French

Runtime: 25 minutes 17 seconds

Film Description:

Marco is a lonely immigrant living in the UK, he works as a kitchen porter until late and in his spare time, he trains and plays video games. He meets Mariela, another Immigrant from France who is temporally cleaning in the building he lives in. They meet and spend some time together in search of connection and meaning, despite things might become a bit complicated…

Original Film Title: POST TENEBRAS

Director’s Name: Jorge Closa Benítez

Writer’s Name: Jorge Closa Benítez

Producer: Andrei Stanescu, Szilard Pusztai

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 8 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

When his beloved teenage son comes back from the dead, a run-down grieving father must follow him on a spiritual journey before he commits suicide, finding the value in life by learning to dwell on his mistakes.