Category: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – 2024 ARFF BARCELONA

Original Film Title: SANG

Director’s Name: Ruqing Li

Director of Photography: Branko Avramovski

Writer’s Name: Ruqing Li

Producer: Nela Beislová

Country of Origin: Czech Republic

Country of Filming: Czech Republic

Language: English, Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 16 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

SANG is a coming-of-age drama about a Chinese mother and daughter, Sang, who lives in Prague. Sang’s life is strictly controlled by her mother. In order to meet the boy she adores, Sang fights against her mother and runs away from home. What will happen to Sang and her mother in this evening?

Original Film Title: TÍZPERTÍZ

Director’s Name: Imre Mazlo

Writer’s Name: Imre Mazlo

Producer: Imre Mazlo

Country of Origin: Hungary

Country of Filming: Hungary

Language: Hungarian

Runtime: 7 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

Original Film Title: PRITHIBI

Director’s Name: Joy Peter Halder

Director of Photography: Joy Peter Halder

Writer’s Name: Joy Peter Halder

Producer: Joy Peter Halder

Country of Origin: Bangladesh

Country of Filming: Bangladesh

Language: Bengali, English

Runtime: 37 minutes 35 seconds

Film Description:

A film maker bump in to a writer who lives away from any kind technology in a distant village. The film maker convinces the writer to visit his place with a motive of millions of views online. Things take a different turn once the film maker reaches the village.

Original Film Title: Huzi’s Summer Wish

Director’s Name: Zero Zhele Lin

Director of Photography: Raquel Fernandez Nuñez

Writer’s Name: Guanglei Liu, Zero Zhele Lin

Producer: AJ Wenjun Li, Make Youjun Tsang, Make Youjun Tsang, Dana Yanran Dai

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 7 minutes 22 seconds

Film Description:

Huzi, a 9-year-old village boy, who always wants a mobile phone. One day, he is ridiculed by his classmates for not having a mobile phone on the way home from school. He’s very upset and pacing alone by the river. While he’s kicking the pebbles, he finds a lost phone by accident. This unexpected surprise makes the boy very excited. But how would he handle with this surprise…

Original Film Title: L’ombre de la Bête

Director’s Name: Frederic Raynaud

Writer’s Name: Frederic Raynaud, Cyril Estevenin

Producer: Fabien Quesada, Frederic Raynaud, Nicolas Jacques, Isabelle Raynaud

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 24 minutes 13 seconds

Film Description:

In a remote village in Provence in the early 1940s, 9-year-old Louis, accompanied by his faithful wooden dog Pégase, investigates the emergence of a danger that is gradually surrounding the locality.
Shot in the first person, Louis’ gaze is the only point of view in the story that highlights the confrontation between innocence, imagination and reality.

Original Film Title: Tea

Director’s Name: Eva Wu

Director of Photography: Yijun Wang

Writer’s Name: Eva Wu

Producer: Eva Wu, Yijun Wang, Yu Zhang

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Chinese, English

Runtime: 4 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

Josh, an arrogant man, arrives at an ancient temple to challenge the world’s greatest martial artist. Upon meeting Lin, a young woman, he underestimates her abilities, leading to unexpected and deadly consequences. Lin marks his defeat in a unique way, adding to a long list of fallen challengers.