Category: Best Short Film ARFF Berlin 2023

Original Film Title: Smrt i Staniša

Director’s Name: Filip Prelević

Writer’s Name: Filip Prelević, John Sinak

Producer: Mirko Prelević

Country of Origin: Montenegro

Country of Filming: Montenegro

Language: Montenegrin, Serbian

Runtime: 38 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

Young ostentatious intellectual, Stanisa (Stan), leaves his family and girlfriend due to their cognitive immaturity, as he sees it. He finds a new home in an abandoned house in the wilderness where other intellectuals such as him live.

Original Film Title: Ruby

Director’s Name: Katja Roberts

Writer’s Name: Katja Roberts

Producer: Magnus Dennison

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 18 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

RUBY is a 17-year-old girl who has left home to live with an older man. Enigmatic Frank is on a spiritual quest, rejecting society to live freely – an alluring prospect for a restless young girl looking for adventure.When Frank’s thin façade of enlightenment starts to crumble Ruby finds herself deep in the woods far from anywhere. Hope and excitement turn into confusion and fear as subtle coercion begins to undermine Ruby’s hold on reality.With the sand shifting beneath her feet only one thing is certain – this will become a defining moment in her life.

Original Film Title: PANT

Director’s Name: Ramadan Huseini

Writer’s Name: Ramadan Huseini

Producer: Mathias Seneca

Country of Origin: Denmark

Country of Filming: Denmark

Language: No Dialogue

Runtime: 9 minutes 58 seconds

Film Description:

True story about a man that lives in Copenhagen collecting bottles

Original Film Title: Son of the Sea

Director’s Name: Ping Wang

Writer’s Name: Ping Wang

Producer: Ping Wang, Rui Wang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 24 minutes

Film Description:

A coming-of-age story about a teenage boy, Yangyang, who reconciles with his father and learns about himself during a free diving trip just before his 14th birthday.

Original Film Title: A Gota Mias Sútil

Director’s Name: Vinícius de Araujo Damasceno

Writer’s Name: Vinícius de Araujo Damasceno

Producer: Rodrigo Trevisan

Country of Origin: Brazil

Country of Filming: Brazil

Language: Portuguese

Runtime: 29 minutes 42 seconds

Film Description:

“The Subtlest Drop” is an emotional short film that tells the story of Mayara, an unemployed woman who faces difficulties in her daily life. 
One day, while walking through the streets of the city, Mayara comes across a lonely and helpless boy. She devotes herself to taking care of the boy, finding the strength to face her own challenges because of the love she shares with him. Together, they create moments of joy and complicity.

Mayara’s happiness, however, is shattered when the boy mysteriously disappears from her life. She finds herself once again facing loneliness and adversity that seemed to have been overcome. Until another encounter takes place that changes her destiny forever.

Original Film Title: Dante, el prisionero de la torre

Director’s Name: Frank Reyes

Writer’s Name: Frank Reyes

Producer: Frank Reyes

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 39 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

Dante, is a young vampire who lock himself in a tower efter a trauma. Sol, a vampire girl comes to rescue him.

Original Film Title: A Hundred Times More

Director’s Name: Linn Hansen

Writer’s Name: Linn Hansen

Producer: Linn Hansen, Sofia Maddalena Tomasin

Country of Origin: Ireland

Country of Filming: Ireland

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 23 seconds

Film Description:

Non-smoking in style. Panicking in style.

Original Film Title: IU

Director’s Name: Lavinia Angiolini

Writer’s Name: Lavinia Angiolini

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 5 minutes 44 seconds

Film Description:

This short movie try to represent what happen in my head when I have a panic attack. I think we’re made of many parts that are in opposite with each other, through this they cooperate, sometimes in good, sometimes not.

Original Film Title: The Mushroom

Director’s Name: Nicholas Keil

Writer’s Name: Nicholas Keil

Producer: Nicholas Keil, Sam Cowan, Gabriel Galvez, Teresa Mae Lafferty

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish

Runtime: 14 minutes 6 seconds

Film Description:

Told in a looping-narrative, a couple topples through a surreal free-fall where foraged mushrooms hold the macabre connection between life and death.

Original Film Title: 《告别夏天的前夜》

Director’s Name: Zhenyu Li

Writer’s Name: Zhenyu Li

Producer: Sayu Di

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Runtime: 25 minutes

Film Description:

Yang Xiaohai and Xia Tian is a young couple having been in love for many years. As time goes by, their passion and longings for tomorrow has been disappearing. 
On the eve of saying goodbye, they divided tickets of films they watched together before, due to which they met each other. Inadvertently, a “Fantastic Journey”about memory has been departure……