Category: Best Student Film WSXA Barcelona 2023

Original Film Title: 刘子骥

Director’s Name: Yanqing Jin

Writer’s Name: Yanqing Jin

Producer: Zhiran Guo, Xinghuan Wang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 5 minutes 19 seconds

Original Film Title: Back to Apirol

Director’s Name: Luoxi Liu

Writer’s Name: Luoxi Liu

Producer: Quyao Zhi

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 5 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

A lonely woman digs her head into her lover’s jean jacket and has an intensive experience in her imagination.

Original Film Title: Qué pasó?

Director’s Name: Nuria Rojas Castañeda

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Ecuador

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 7 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

The film aims to raise awareness of the lack of information in areas not affected by disasters resulting from the extractivist economy, both nationally and internationally, and to question governmental reporting of frequent oil spills and other disasters. Disinformation is a political mechanism to avoid confronting the responsibility of the private economy in the Amazon. In the end many know that there is a lack of information – can’t you show solidarity if you don’t know?
The film calls for solidarity.

Original Film Title: L’ART DE L’ANTÍDOT

Director’s Name: Aina Palomer Sitjà

Writer’s Name: Aina Palomer Sitjà

Producer: Jane Claudine Cantor

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: Catalan, English, Spanish

Runtime: 23 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description:

Agus begins to regain mobility after receiving a heavy blow to the head. The first thing he does has asked for a camera, and that’s how art becomes his antidote. Through photography, he learns to show his most unknown self and to manage the trauma of staying in a wheelchair. A form of self-care that leads us to consider how images are a reflection of ourselves and help us to connect with our memory and identity.

Original Film Title: Residence Book Mom

Director’s Name: Fujie Huang

Writer’s Name: Yuran Li, Jingkai Sun

Producer: Fujie Huang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 25 minutes 9 seconds

Film Description:

Xiao Pan smuggled in the school, and causing his younger brother to take the blame. After trouble, mother in order to calm little pan father’s anger, determined to send small pan to the registered mother to participate in the college entrance examination, small Pan in order to avoid the threat of rich second generation boyfriend Measure to marry her, she was sold to human traffickers, finally criminals were brought to justice, and small Pan’s registered back to his biological parents.

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: Dark Sea

Director’s Name: Nic Pistorino

Writer’s Name: Elena Housni

Producer: Ed Talavera

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: Modern Greek (1453-)

Runtime: 15 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

A child’s shoe washes ashore on the island of Samos, Greece. Two Greek soldiers find an immigrant boy. A couple confronts the loss of their son.

Original Film Title: Cold Blood

Director’s Name: Navn Michael Diem

Writer’s Name: Navn Michael Diem, Justin McMann, Debayudh Joardar

Producer: Christopher Fernandes

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

Set in the future, a corrupt and cold-blooded sheriff misuses an inmate for personal purpose.