Category: Best Actress & Actors Award ARFF Berlin 2023

Original Film Title: Repudiation

Director’s Name: Nader Mohandesi

Writer’s Name: Nader Mohandesi

Producer: Nader Mohandesi

Country of Origin: India

Country of Filming: India

Language: English

Runtime: 23 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

It seems that most of us human beings are entangled in the many events surrounding us. At the same time, we have been facing countless happenings and have been bombarded by an overwhelming amount of information. By encountering these many events, we go through numerous emotional experiences. At some point in time, amid all the chaos, incidents, joy and sorrow, many of us come to a realisation…

Original Film Title: Conficted

Director’s Name: Ginita Sunaina

Writer’s Name: G S S

Producer: Global Tara Entertainment

Country of Origin: India

Country of Filming: India

Language: English, Hindi

Runtime: 23 minutes 2 seconds

Film Description:

A young couple facing some problems as the man called Surat somehow seems to be always restless and can’t find peace, the girl called Soni is trying to help him out and finds finally a solution at least thats what it seems like. Will it help Surat? Or will it end up in a crime scene, wait, what? whom will be convicted? Or are we all somehow convicted? Convicted to survive.

A story which will make your minds imagination run around. While being a story with a message.

Convicted: having been declared guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge.

Fiction: literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people. 
– this is where the Title Conficted stands for.

A young couple facing some problems as the man called Surat somehow seems to be always restless and can’t find peace, the girl called Soni is trying to help him out and finds finally a solution at least thats what it seems like. Will it help Surat? Or will it end up in a crime scene, wait, what? whom will be convicted? Or are we all somehow convicted? Convicted to survive. 

A story which will make your mind’s imagination run around. While being a story with a message.

Convicted: having been declared guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge.

Fiction: literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people. 
– this is where the Title Conficted stands for.

Original Film Title: Das Schicksal von Cysalion

Director’s Name: Marc Blasweiler

Writer’s Name: Marc Blasweiler

Producer: Marc Blasweiler

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 3 hours 8 minutes 58 seconds

Film Description:

The Fate of Cysalion is a three-hour live-action musical that blurs the line between film and theatre. It is the centrepiece of a fantasy saga that tells an epochal story of heroes, villains and ancient powers. The story takes place in a distant place called Cysalion. In 1898, the boy Tayen Knightway is sent on a risky mission by the last living Vartori and ponders seminal events that took place some two hundred years earlier. An epic adventure unfolds before the viewer’s eyes as two young girls embark on a breathtaking journey amidst kingdoms and empires.

Original Film Title: Revamped

Director’s Name: Patrick Norris

Writer’s Name: Patrick Norris, Lincoln Rzonca, Alyssa Alvarez

Producer: Patrick Norris, Alyssa Alvarez, Lincoln Rzonca, JP Mandelbaum

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 35 minutes 18 seconds

Film Description:

LUCIAN SANTORO (LUKE) , is a vampire living in a community of recovering addicts to keep his sobriety and abstinence from feeding off the blood of humans.

Original Film Title: Bestia

Director’s Name: Niklas Hermansson

Producer: Niklas Hermansson

Country of Origin: Sweden

Country of Filming: Sweden

Runtime: 7 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

A woman wakes up in a cave and flees for her life when she realizes she`s not alone.

Original Film Title: Wake Up Mijita!

Director’s Name: Daniel E. Kennedy

Writer’s Name: Daniel E. Kennedy, Kara Long

Producer: Daniel E. Kennedy, Jocelyne Ventura, Ana Karehn Nieva

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 6 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

When a Latina teen is depressed and suicidal, her parents struggle to know how to support her and two scenarios are played out of how they respond and each have very different outcomes.

Original Film Title: Play House

Director’s Name: YanHong Liu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

The discussion and polling meeting regarding the feasibility of labor education on primary and secondary school students is going to have today.The vice president of Education Science Guo Feng has already prepared for a few years to push the bill through.But The president Liu Da qiang and the other vice president Li Shengjin try to against the bill because of the profit from education institutions. Guo Feng overcome all the difficulties and expose the corruption in education system. Finally the bill will decide to be implemented ,however schools won’t carry out labor educated course as the bill,because it has no advantage to eleven-examination. Follow the lens zoom out,all the people on the meeting are LEGO toys played by a kid who is gong to have labor educated course. 
This is a story about criticizing education bills are not on-the-ground,just like play house.In the short film we create a virtual sense and a virtual country therefore this story is fit with all countries around the world.And I wish this short film would stimulate audios reflect our education system.