Category: 2023 ARFF Barcelona

Original Film Title: The Ghost Under My Bed

Director’s Name: Sara Caldwell

Writer’s Name: Sara Caldwell

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 13 minutes 28 seconds

Film Description:

On the brink of the civil war, a lonely young girl moves to a southern plantation. She befriends a ghost under her bed, only to discover there are much greater human horrors in store.

Original Film Title: A Boy of May

Director’s Name: Seung-il Chon

Writer’s Name: Seung-il Chon

Producer: Seung-il Chon

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of

Language: Korean

Runtime: 16 minutes 23 seconds

Film Description:

Jeong Sae-nal, the young boy in Gwang-ju City, receives new sneakers as a 12th birthday gift, but he is shot by martial law forces while playing with his friends in a mountain reservoir in the back of the town. Sae-nal wakes up to the moonlight and the scent of wild roses, and flies to downtown of Gwang-ju City on a sneaker plane. He meets countless people who fought for democracy against the soldier’s guns and flies high in a sneaker plane.

Original Film Title: 无二

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

The background of the stop-motion animation short film Innermost is set in the future featured by highly advanced technologies but collapsed society and civilization system. The cyberpunk-style science fiction world coexists fantastically with the traditional oriental martial arts world. The story follows the emotional entanglement between a long-lost chivalrous couple and a person with regenerated organs starting from a fight for a mystic magic lyre. From the perspective of what regeneration technologies are able of, the short film will arouse the audience to think of how the value of emotions can be magnified or dissolved.

Original Film Title: Milk

Director’s Name: Ashley Reed (CG lead)

Writer’s Name: Ed Winters

Producer: Surge Campaigning C.I.C.

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: Sweden

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 5 seconds

Film Description:

Blood is thicker than milk.
Milk gives a short insight into dairy farming, yet, as soon we view what happens from the perspective of the mother cow, it becomes clear that this is an industry that runs on the exploitation and suffering of animals. Via animation, the film shows a unique perspective and tells the story of the mother cow in a way that cannot be done from investigative footage alone. Milk centres the cow as the protagonist of her own story and allows us to view what is happening to her from an up close and personal perspective.

Organic, free-range, high-welfare, humanely raised. It doesn’t matter what label we put on dairy products, all dairy cows are victims of an industry that forcibly impregnates them, takes their babies from them, exploits their bodies and then sends them to a slaughterhouse to cut their throats. It’s time to end the dairy industry.

Original Film Title: “Artist, Formerly Known as Varona”.”Ginji” series, Episode 4

Director’s Name: Slava Ushakov

Writer’s Name: Slava Ushakov, Kristina Nazarevskaia, Ivan Odoevskii

Producer: Liliya Belaya, Michael Bely

Country of Origin: Cyprus

Country of Filming: Armenia, Cyprus, Ukraine

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

Ginji and Varona encounter the Mushrooms, a vast underground garbage collecting monopoly that is also the city’s criminal network. Varona, in her new persona of a contemporary conceptual artist, gets herself in trouble with the head of the Family forcing Ginji and UB7 to save her.

Original Film Title: ORKESTRA LURTARRA

Director’s Name: Imanol Zinkunegi, Joseba Ponce

Writer’s Name: Harkaitz Cano, Eneko Olasagasti

Producer: Miren Berasategi

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: Basque

Runtime: 1 hour 14 minutes

Film Description:

The Terrestrial Orchestra is the surreal and exciting story of a group of eccentric musicians who dream of putting together an orchestra and touring world.

Original Film Title: FLÂNEUR

Director’s Name: Ruiming Wu

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: China, United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

The film Flâneur is a process-driven experimental animation, it’s
about a journey through the conflict between the freedom of one’s spiritual world and those boundaries of reality, it’s also an animated psychogeography of everyday experiences from the director’s personal observations of living in the metropolis of London.

Original Film Title: Pizza Knights

Director’s Name: Amelia Jane Vaughan

Writer’s Name: Amelia Jane Vaughan

Producer: Ringling College of Art & Design

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minute 35 seconds

Film Description:

Arthur the Pizza Delivery Knight demonstrates just how far he will go to do his job and deliver delicious, steaming hot pizza. He’ll retrieve a magical, prophetic sword, brave a barrage of arrows, overcome inclement weather, plague, and even death itself to fulfill his oath to deliver pizza.