Category: Best Cinematography – 2025 ARFF Paris

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Heisenberg’s Bedroom – dir. Abigail – Deser

(HONORABLE MENTION)

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Original Film Title: Heisenberg’s Bedroom

Director’s Name: Abigail – Deser

Director of Photography: Samuel Gilbert

Writer’s Name: Abigail – Deser

Producer: Abigail – Deser

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description:

A May/December coupling seems headed up the tender path of intimacy but as the waves wash up vestiges of their individual histories, the sand under Alex and Georgie’s feet becomes littered with the emotional detritus of the past.

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Rattlesnake Point – dir. Alberto Diamante

(FINALIST)

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Original Film Title: Rattlesnake Point

Director’s Name: Alberto Diamante

Director of Photography: Ryan Darnell

Writer’s Name: Alberto Diamante

Producer: Alberto Diamante

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming : Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 90 minutes

Film Description:

After an art heist, the perpetrators start to betray, backstab and kill each other in order to secure the multi-million dollar payout that the painting will yield.

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四十九 – SEEK – dir. Shane Kosugi

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Original Film Title: 四十九 – SEEK

Director’s Name: Shane Kosugi

Director of Photography: Yoshikatsu Yasaki

Writer’s Name: Kansuke Asano

Producer: Shane Kosugi, Kansuke Asano, Misaki Ayano, Hirotaka Asano

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming : Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes

Film Description:

Kyohei Aizawa, an assassin for a covert non-governmental espionage group in Japan called “四十九” or “SEEK”, is grieving over the loss of his girlfriend from a tragic plane accident.
The leader of “SEEK”,Ryo Mikumo, contacts him for an emergency mission; save a fellow agent, recover a new highly explosive liquid called “RDX@“, stop a ruthless Yakuza leader, Sojiro Kotsuki, and his gang before they take over Japan.
Although the Ninjas were thought to have disappeared…the new breed of assassins live on helping to protect Japan and all that is right; the Ninjas are coming soon.

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Wildlife – dir. Giacomo Poli, Massimo Poli

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Original Film Title: Wildlife

Director’s Name: Giacomo Poli, Massimo Poli

Director of Photography: Rob O’Kelly

Writer’s Name: Giacomo Poli

Producer: Massimo Poli

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming : United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 34 minutes

Film Description:

In the confines of a secluded paradise, a grieving couple resort to extreme measures to save their broken marriage.

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Nothing happened in 2058 – dir. Charles Ritter

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Original Film Title: Nothing happened in 2058

Director’s Name: Charles Ritter

Director of Photography: François Szabowski,

Writer’s Name: Charles Ritter

Producer: Charles Ritter

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming : France

Language: French

Runtime: 30 minutes

Film Description:

2058. France is part of the Greater Reich, winner of the Second World War. All the world’s documents have been digitized by GAMOK, which has become the sole reference in History.
A group of independent bloggers are preparing an attack in Paris.Charles Ritter

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Bespoke ART – dir. Jingjing Chen

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Original Film Title: Bespoke ART

Director’s Name: Jingjing Chen

Director of Photography: Li Bo

Writer’s Name: MM, Jingjing Chen

Producer: Feiyu Li, Jingjing Chen

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming : China

Language: English, Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 72 minutes

Film Description:

When bespoke becomes a label for optimized service, the human race is no longer content with customizing things; it begins to customize humans. One by one, the perfect service, the perfect children, the intricate global fertility chains, and the women therein fade out from the documentary footage, while director Jingjing steps into the spotlight from behind the camera. She becomes a Thai surrogate in captivity, but also a surrogacy agent who achieved upward social mobility; she turns into a selfless and hypocritical American surrogate mother – a product of technology born through surrogacy herself; she even tries to play an elite black lesbian at the very top of the feminist chain of contempt, only to collapse in on herself.