Category: BEST SHORT FILM – 2024 ARFF PARIS

Original Film Title: ROSE

Director’s Name: Honglin Zhou

Writer’s Name: Honglin Zhou

Producer: Arthur Liu, Woody Lin

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: Chinese, English

Runtime: 18 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

A girl falls in love with her father’s ex-boyfriend.

Original Film Title: Friend

Director’s Name: Marc Chackal

Writer’s Name: Hugo Muckenstum Muckenstum

Producer: Charlotte Ville

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming : France

Language: French

Runtime: 21 minutes

Film Description:

The day after a reckless night out, Raph declares to his friend Jules that he wants to be sober. Their debate about his decision sets off a disturbing recollection of the blurry night before.

Original Film Title: THE CURSE EFFECT

Director’s Name: Gregg Jaden

Writer’s Name: Jason Satterlund, Gregg Jaden

Producer: Gregg Jaden

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : Indonesia

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

Most replicas of famous oil painting are produced in an urban village in China. The industry is formed by several masters and some proteges of them. Most of them are just parts of the assembly line, however, some of them are finding their ways to true art. But art, is never an easy-to-catch substance.

Original Film Title: 凡高

Director’s Name: Ricky Chow

Writer’s Name: Ricky Chow

Producer: Ricky Chow, Sihao Lu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming : China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 7 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

Most replicas of famous oil painting are produced in an urban village in China. The industry is formed by several masters and some proteges of them. Most of them are just parts of the assembly line, however, some of them are finding their ways to true art. But art, is never an easy-to-catch substance.

Original Film Title: Little Lillith

Director’s Name: Jamison Forkenbrock

Writer’s Name: Jamison Forkenbrock

Producer: Christopher Rucinski

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

A high ranking senior officer is debriefed on a top secret program.

Original Film Title: SYMPHONY IN C-NOTE

Director’s Name: Antonio Weiss

Writer’s Name: Antonio Weiss

Producer: Antonio Weiss, McCreery Jordan, Jacqueline Murray Loring, Steven Olson

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 13 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

It’s the early eighties. A visitor enters a sleepy little town. He places a $100 bill and asks for a room. As he goes to check his room and make a phone call, his $100 makes the round of the town and people pay their debts. The bill returns to the hotel with Hope the favorite “working girl” in town. But the visitor changes his mind.

Original Film Title: Hummingbird

Director’s Name: Thibault Fotré

Writer’s Name: Thibault Fotré

Producer: Thibault Fotré, Tom Serin

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming : France

Language: French

Runtime: 8 minutes

Film Description:

Original Film Title: Shades

Director’s Name: Madeleine Karlsson

Writer’s Name: Madeleine Karlsson

Producer: Madeleine Karlsson, Olivia Hansson

Country of Origin: Sweden

Country of Filming : Sweden

Language: Swedish

Runtime: 14 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

In Shades we are invited to a place between light and dark. Embraced by dusk, perception changes and senses open up to the mysterious and unknown. Through movement of body and light interactions develop, shift, dissolve and reorganize; creating patterns that move in unpredictable and transformational ways. Stillness is overlapped by rhythmical vibrations, taking us from meditative to passionate states of being. Through touch we can start listening to the quiet, subtle inner voice of ourselves.

Original Film Title: Between The Words

Director’s Name: Farid Ismail

Writer’s Name: Farid Ismail

Producer: Farid Ismail

Country of Origin: Luxembourg

Country of Filming: Luxembourg

Language: French

Runtime: 14 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

Frédéric, a young law student afflicted with a stutter, must pass an oral exam for his last online assignment. His stutter threatens to get in his way, and so he attempts everything to get rid of it.

Original Film Title: Touched

Director’s Name: Cheryl Kow

Writer’s Name: Cheryl Kow

Producer: Kevin Keane

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 22 minutes 42 seconds

Film Description:

In recovery from an accident, Franny desperately seeks to regain some control of her life through flirtations with her physiotherapist, Kevin. She learns soon, that perception is not reality, through an encounter with a mysterious Tramp.