Category: Best Director 2023 WSXA Amsterdam

Original Film Title: ALICE

Director’s Name: Brendan Dacey

Writer’s Name: Brendan Dacey

Producer: Brendan Dacey, Brian Hoff, Laura Luchetti

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

During a long night in downtown Manhattan, Simon, a middle-aged married man and expecting father attempts to end a relationship with his twenty-something mistress, Alice. Both are unwilling to confront the end of their relationship and spend the late hours escaping through drink, drugs, music, and memory.

Original Film Title: Flyktdjur

Director’s Name: Mikael Palm

Writer’s Name: Mikael Palm, Henrik Vikander

Producer: Mikael Palm, Pontus Wicksell, Simon Settergren

Country of Origin: Sweden

Country of Filming: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

Flight Animals is an existentialist Swedish full length feature film in the classic Bergman style, about a couple who participate in a silence retreat as a last attempt to save their crumbling relationship. We follow estate owner Karl and his pregnant girlfriend Nathalie during silent meditation, where the boundary between fantasy and reality slowly dissolves. Could this new form of communication force the couple to confront each other anew?

Original Film Title: HUMAN WELFARE COMMITTEE

Director’s Name: Julian Sonntag

Writer’s Name: Julian Sonntag

Producer: Julian Sonntag

Country of Origin: Nepal

Country of Filming: Nepal

Language: English, Nepali

Runtime: 41 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

In Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, a former buddhist monk runs a small children and women empowerment programme. A magical project in a magical world.

Original Film Title: Luzes nos Submersos Mundos

Director’s Name: Fabio Canale

Writer’s Name: Mariana Savioli

Producer: Fabio Canale

Country of Origin: Brazil

Country of Filming: Brazil

Language: Portuguese

Runtime: 15 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

An actress goes on a journey into the memoirs of Zé Kleber, an important artist from Paraty, Brazil, mixing fiction, documentary, poetry and music