Category: BEST STUDENT FILM – 2024 ARFF BERLIN

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Original Film Title: After The Rain

Director’s Name: Xu Yan

Writer’s Name: Xu Yan

Producer: Binqi Zhai, Xuan Chen, Shanzheng Liu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 19 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

As her father’s first birthday after his death approaches, Ruo Ruo writes a letter to him. Ruo Ruo doesn’t believe that her father will receive the letter just by burning it, so she decides to send the letter to the other world by her own means. Meanwhile, on her way home from school, Ruo Ruo accidentally encounters what her friends call a “ghost”. ……

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Original Film Title: The Sailor

Director’s Name: Akash Manuel Ercolini-Bhatia

Writer’s Name: Akash Manuel Ercolini-Bhatia

Producer: Joey Scott, Andrew Christopher

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 21 minutes 45 seconds

Film Description:

The story of a strongly willed son with grand ambitions of a music career and a strict father who has convinced himself that his son is not doing what God wants him to do. Through their feud, they reveal the nuances of God’s love.

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Original Film Title: The 3rd

Director’s Name: Sheldon Armstrong

Writer’s Name: Sheldon Armstrong

Producer: Sheldon Armstrong

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: English

Runtime: 45 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

Four criminals attempt to rob an art gallery but mistrust, deceit, and ambition threaten to destroy them all.

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Original Film Title: Journey On

Director’s Name: Yu Shen

Writer’s Name:

Producer:

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 13 minutes

Film Description:

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Original Film Title: What Is Left Of Us

Director’s Name: Victoria Wilcox

Writer’s Name: Victoria Wilcox

Producer: Victoria Wilcox

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 10 minutes 13 seconds

Film Description:

The night before finals, Deborah Wallace hosts the habitual get-together with her tight college friend group. With the chaos of the closing months of their college career (leaving them a distant semester), this night is aimed to be a last supper before they graduate to catch up. As the fun of the night settles, Sena reveals her engagement to her long time boyfriend. This reveal pulls a loose thread, as the remainder of the friend group begins to discuss their post grad plans that nowhere close to home (as Deb thought).

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Original Film Title: The Sirens

Director’s Name: Stephen Cullina

Writer’s Name: Stephen Cullina

Producer: Matthew Cadieux

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 10 minutes 26 seconds

Film Description:

Deep in the stars, a woman copes with flashbacks of the brother she abandoned while on a winding mission for the deceptive leader of a space cult.

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Original Film Title: Wet

Director’s Name: Giovana Chiconelli

Writer’s Name: Giovana Chiconelli

Producer: Giovana Chiconelli

Country of Origin: Portugal

Country of Filming: Portugal

Language: Portuguese

Runtime: 3 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

Experimental video that explores female sexuality in all its complexity, grossness and sensuality based on mouth performances by friends, housemates and acquaintances of the director.

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Original Film Title: Cry Already

Director’s Name: Tamar Schwarz

Writer’s Name: Noy Emilia Efrati

Producer: Noy Emilia Efrati

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Language: Hebrew

Runtime: 5 minutes 9 seconds

Film Description:

Gaya realizes that she actually hasn’t cried once since the start of the war, which is highly unacceptable. What is her problem? Why can’t she just cry? The struggle of being on the home front in the Gaza war, Israel 2024.

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Original Film Title: The mime

Director’s Name: Veronika Hermann

Writer’s Name: Veronika Hermann

Producer: Manuel Zopiyaxtle

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 9 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

A mime tries his best to spread joy and make people happy, but he gets ignored and mistreated repeatedly. After a while, he is sick and tired of people. He decides to change.

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Original Film Title: Little Deaths

Director’s Name: Mack Flynn

Writer’s Name: Mack Flynn

Producer: Gianluca Umana

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 17 minutes 19 seconds

Film Description:

One Soul separated physically in the forms of the opposite sexes encounters itself after lives altered by the experiences of its gendered anatomy. When the bodies enter an intimate relationship, the one mind undergoes a metamorphosis of the flesh, leading them on a journey down the rabbit hole that transcends reality.