Category: BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM – 2024 ARFF BARCELONA

Original Film Title: Brave Steps

Director’s Name: Wilma Casal

Writer’s Name: Wilma Casal

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

The park is desolate, the lake filthy. No sound of joy is to be heard. Optimistic and determined to put an end to the gloom, Duckfoot leaves his pond and sets off.
But the gloom soon infects him. He meets friendly gestures with skepticism and the lines “it’s in your hand” tempt him to take a hopeless step.
Courage has left him.
But from a distance he realizes: every deed can have a great effect. He sees his chance to change the world, to gradually transform it into a sunny place.

Original Film Title: Salt In Our Blood, In Our Sweat, In Our Tears

Director’s Name: Nastja Säde Rönkkö

Writer’s Name: Nastja Säde Rönkkö

Producer: Nastja Säde Rönkkö

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 13 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

From the personification of a tear drop, a drop of Golden blood and a droplet of sweat, emerges a tragic tale of lost love and its chaotic emotional fallout. The HD-video (13:59) is driven by Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s poetic text: intimate verse with an ambiguity that delivers a metanarrative for lost and found identity, a scarred planet and our ever-changing world.

Original Film Title: Findings

Director’s Name: Kristina Schippling

Writer’s Name: Kristina Schippling, Marie-Louise Müller

Producer: Kristina Schippling, Marie-Louise Müller

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: No Dialogue

Runtime: 7 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

Findings is a film about a young woman’s process of finding herself. She no longer fits into her own home, she literally grows out of it. But she cannot find a new home and loses herself in the search for it …

Original Film Title: Beyond

Director’s Name: Shubhangi Acharya, Sugandh Lamba

Writer’s Name: Shubhangi Acharya, Sugandh Lamba

Producer: Shubhangi Acharya, Sugandh Lamba

Country of Origin: India

Country of Filming: India

Language: No Dialogue

Runtime: 7 minutes 22 seconds

Film Description:

In ‘Beyond’, the filmmakers lend the expression of dance and movement to a common urban phenomenon. The film showcases how one person’s trash can be another’s treasure through a waste paper’s journey as it is tossed around by the winds and carried through the city, with an uncertain destination.