Category: 2024 ARFF BERLIN

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: Mourning

Director’s Name: Jackie Walsh

Writer’s Name: Jackie Walsh

Producer: Jackie Walsh, Cathal O’Friel

Country of Origin: Ireland

Country of Filming : Ireland

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

A YOUNG WOMAN’S SEARCH FOR HER MISSING DOG LEADS TO A SHOCKING DISCOVERY

a story about violence against women

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: TALKING TO MOON AND BAEK

Director’s Name: Francheska Dyne Hong

Writer’s Name: Francheska Dyne Hong

Producer: Francheska Dyne Hong, Haneul Nancy Lee

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming : Korea, Republic of

Language: Korean

Runtime: 38 minutes

Film Description:

“Only four calls,” He says. “Starts at 11:11 ending exactly at midnight. Just 49 minutes. No more, no less.” And they say, be very careful what you wish for.

Once upon a time, there lived an orphaned girl named Moon Su-Bin in the pulsating heart of Seoul city. At first glance, she seems like a fine young lady – that is, until you discover her gadgets and costumes. What on earth are those for?

She roleplays for 3D clients. Now, before your mind wanders into places we shouldn’t, her clients are Daily, Decent, and emotionally Desperate, grasping for a “lifeline” through her landline. Yet, beneath her empathetic façade for fast cash, she too has desperately latched onto her fairytale dream of escaping to Denmark, her Copen-“heaven” (which she proudly mispronounces) – the “happily-ever-after”.

One exhaustive day, her wish finally seems to come true. Her knight in shining armor in a form of huge cash from a destined-to-die young man with terminal cancer who desires to rehearse unsaid goodbyes to his lover as the end nears.

Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, even life and death, so begins the most unlikely union of the two: the emotionally impaired and the emotionally exhausted, talking talk to Moon and Baek, through the four phone calls.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: MANAGE THIS!

Director’s Name: Michael Monks, Tara OReilly

Writer’s Name: Michael Monks, Richard Waterhouse, Tara OReilly

Producer: Tara Arielle OReilly, Mary Scripps

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 19 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

Mia Foreman has held sway in Vermont for many decades discovering and managing such bands as Phish and Grace Potter, she has finally hit a wall on all levels. Her managing career has dwindled to two, unstable clients as she struggles to care for her father’s failing health. Ever hopeful, and focused on making her career work, Mia searches for the next Musical Star among a heap of eccentric artists in a valiant effort to secure her life, business and status as an ace of a music manager.