Category: 2023 WSXA Amsterdam

Original Film Title: COMMONHEART. From a childish mind.

Director’s Name: Arild Remmereit

Writer’s Name: Arild Remmereit

Producer: Arild Remmereit

Country of Origin: Norway

Country of Filming: Norway

Language: Norwegian

Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes 33 seconds

Film Description:

The main character is a boy child filmed at stages in his life, aged 6-8. He dreams, observes, walks and lives in nature. He sees and draws parallels in ways mature individuals mostly have lost the ability to observe.  
As a symbol of this pure observation, the ability to see the big and the tiny, a parallel story, represented by a fly, a bumblebee and a spider, is presented.

Once upon a time, he claims, we lived in harmony with our planet; a time when mother earth hummed children to sleep. 
There came a time when nobody heard the song anymore.

Far north, where fjords meet forests and mountains, he’s on his own, having walked far before and were searched for (by family, others?). Only one girl, age 12-13, was ever able to find him. He has walked far before but his time he will walk farther than ever before. 
He falls and is hurt. A boy, age 14-15 rescues him deep in the snowy forests and takes him to a cave. 
He wakes up in a bed and sees a note (with a map/code) stating: “Find the Walley of the Wolves if you can”.

The boy has again been found by the girl and together they endeavour on the search for the Walley of the Wolves.

Original Film Title: Asema

Director’s Name: Loelle Monsanto

Writer’s Name: Loelle Monsanto

Producer: Kenzo Soemodihardjo

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Suriname

Language: Dutch, English, Other

Runtime: 34 minutes 17 seconds

Film Description:

As Deon spends his summer vacation at his grandma’s, he has an encounter with a mysterious elderly woman who has recently moved into the neighborhood. She alerts the local children of an “asema” haunting the vicinity. Driven by curiosity, Deon and his best friend Jimmy go on a quest to uncover the truth about this legendary creature. Are the warnings merely the ramblings of a crazy old woman, or could she herself be the “asema”?

Original Film Title: Us.Together.Alone

Director’s Name: Gregg Prosser

Writer’s Name: Luke Edward Smith

Producer: Gregg Prosser, Dustin Williams

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description:

Milo and Ollie, half brothers, realize that loyalty and devotion can have horrendous results.

Original Film Title: El Hijo de… la Santa Tele

Director’s Name: Jose Carlos Gorritti

Writer’s Name: Jose Carlos Gorritti

Producer: Jose Carlos Gorritti, Miguel Alvarez Calderón, Juan Manuel Olivera

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Peru, United States

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

Unsure of whether the American dream is worth pursuing, an eccentric aspiring filmmaker sets out on a journey back to his country, where he decides to explore, with cynicism and humor, the roots of a series of protests against that which Peruvians are calling… “trash TV”; the television that raised him and his entire generation.