Category: Staff Picks ARFF Barcelona 2023

Original Film Title: Just Influencer Things

Director’s Name: Arden DiManno

Writer’s Name: Arden DiManno

Producer: Arden DiManno

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description:

The film plays with the non-tangible spaces on the topic of “body positivity in the modern-day.” The lead is a female online influencer who is tossed between their self-image and their online persona.

The struggle to find love within herself grows when she looks in the mirror and only sees what she is not. Giving so much of yourself for social media makes perfection a top priority, which is a dangerous mental game.

Original Film Title: “Meet Cute”

Director’s Name: Shawn Patrick Tilling

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: China, United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 43 seconds

Film Description:

Inspired by the silent films of the 1920s, Meet Cute tells the story of a fateful day between two people waiting for the bus.

Original Film Title: We just EXTRAS

Director’s Name: Weerasak Saengdee

Writer’s Name: Weerasak Saengdee

Producer: Weerasak Saengdee

Country of Origin: Thailand

Country of Filming: Thailand

Language: Thai

Runtime: 4 minutes 3 seconds

Original Film Title: Raw Materials

Director’s Name: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly

Writer’s Name: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly

Producer: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly

Country of Origin: Jamaica

Country of Filming: Jamaica

Language: English

Runtime: 32 minutes

Film Description:

A fashion prodigy who is struggling to find his direction must overcome and abusive community to fully embrace his talent and identity.

Original Film Title: ПОКРИВ

Director’s Name: Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov

Writer’s Name: Nevena Nikolova

Producer: Nevena Nikolova, Milen Manev

Country of Origin: Bulgaria

Country of Filming: Bulgaria

Language: Bulgarian

Runtime: 15 minutes 45 seconds

Film Description:

Two strangers meet at the rooftop of a 20-story hotel building, both with the intention to commit suicide.

Original Film Title: 无二

Director’s Name: Maing Caochong

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.