Category: AUDIENCE AWARDS – 2025 ARFF BERLIN

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JAKE – dir. Francisco Paco Carrascosa

(Honorable Mention)

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Original Film Title: JAKE

Director’s Name: Francisco Paco Carrascosa

Writer’s Name: Francisco Paco Carrascosa

Producer: Francisco Paco Carrascosa

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming: United States, Switzerland

Language: English, French, German, Swiss German

Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes

Film Description:

JAKE: A 16-year-old Appenzell (Switzerland) girl from a good family gives birth to a child after a language study trip to New York. The father: African-American, unknown. The child is immediately given up for adoption by the mother’s family. She is given the name Jacqueline and grows up in a rural, conservative, strictly Catholic environment. At the age of eight, she realizes that she was born into the wrong body. Jacqueline now knows that she is a boy. Three years later, the teenager discards the hated girl’s name and henceforth calls herself Jeremy. He embarks on a long journey of identity search and transformation, characterized by inner turmoil, drama and conflict.

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AN AMERICAN ABROAD Film – dir. Marcia Kimpton

(Finalist)

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Original Film Title: AN AMERICAN ABROAD Film

Director’s Name: Marcia Kimpton

Writer’s Name: Marcia Kimpton, Brian Gross

Producer: Marcia Kimpton, Justin McAleece

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: France, Greece, Mongolia, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Turkey

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes

Film Description:

Marcia, a former late-night show starlet known for her eccentricity and unpredictability, embarks on a journey around the world, hosting a travel show. While the concept sounds promising, it’s a big demotion and lacks substance for her. Deep down though, she knows this is her only chance to show off her skills and get back to her dream job. Through the eyes and voice of her new boyfriend, Arnold, we witness a tumultuous and ever-evolving example of what it takes to find love in 2025. There is eccentric humor, grounded drama, and tons of the unexpected in this new partnership, as they travel from Amsterdam to Istanbul, through the islands of Greece, to French wine country, and Lisbon, Portugal to finally end up not only in Cape Town, South Africa but to remote safari locations in the African savannah. Their trip is a whirlwind of fun and chaos, filled with excitement and uncertainty, but will they find love, and will Marcia finally realize her lifelong calling?

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FLOW – dir. Shoko Tamai

(Finalist)

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Original Film Title: FLOW

Director’s Name: Shoko Tamai

Writer’s Name: Shoko Tamai

Producer: Shoko Tamai

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

Renewal
Wild and pure,
A cycle of creation,
Through pain and strength.

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I’m Not Brilliant – dir. Julian Kerridge

(Honorable Mention)

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Original Film Title: I’m Not Brilliant

Director’s Name: Julian Kerridge

Writer’s Name: Cerys Knighton

Producer: Cerys Knighton

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

Elsie wants out. Donna, her overly keen carer, just wants to help. But when a final drink turns into a front-row seat at a hen do meltdown, Elsie’s final curtain call becomes more of an unexpected encore.

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Always And Forever – dir. Weronika Wójcik

(Audience Award Winner)

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Original Film Title: Always And Forever

Director’s Name: Weronika Wójcik

Writer’s Name: Weronika Wójcik

Producer: Maria Widajewicz

Country of Origin: Poland

Country of Filming: Poland

Language: Polish

Runtime: 6 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

The breakup of a toxic friendship in one evening. Short film explores the addiction to relationship and captures the feeling of being torn between suffering in the relationship or facing loneliness an unsettling emptiness.

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I’m Here to Help You – dir. Daniel Keith

(Finalist)

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Original Film Title: I’m Here to Help You

Director’s Name: Daniel Keith

Writer’s Name: Daniel Keith

Producer: Kendra Heywood

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 3 seconds

Film Description:

Fresh out of a traumatic divorce, a grief counselor with PTSD is brought in to comfort a group of people prone to triggering.