Category: Best Experimental Film – 2025 ARFF Paris

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: Asouless

Director’s Name: Tsz Yan Lo

Writer’s Name: Tsz Yan Lo

Producer: Tsz Yan Lo

Country of Origin: Hong Kong

Country of Filming : Hong Kong

Language: Yue Chinese (Cantonese)

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

Ocean is like a beautiful legend. Many people may have passed by it. But in the end no one got it, no one saw it, no one touched it. Hearings about the ocean spread in the rivers and lakes It is so valuable that it has caused endless competition for the prefix from all over the world. Among them, “Lung Hing Wo” and “Hung Yi” Bear the brunt of it and turn against each other. It happened that he/she was found in a relationship, two people, the relationship between the two triad…is pushed to the edge of love and pain.

(Audience Award Winner)

Original Film Title: SILK

Director’s Name: Sylvie Kay Staf

Writer’s Name: Sylvie Kay Staf

Producer: Sylvie Kay Staf

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming : France

Language: English, French

Runtime: 9 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

Created by Sylvie Kay.Standing by herself in a large and white rehearsal studio, similar to a blank page, she creates this intimate story.
This particular atmosphere drives her to play with imagination, fantasy, supported and captivated by Igor Dvorkin musical compositions.
Both in front and behind the camera, she becomes «Woman Conductor» using all the simplest tools at her disposal. Between modernity and reminiscence, she tells us a very personal story both offbeat, unusual and poetic.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: ANIMA EX MACHINA

Director’s Name: Nico Mastorakis

Writer’s Name: Nico Mastorakis

Producer: Nico Mastorakis

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: Greece

Runtime: 29 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

Τhe film has already six awards (as of March 8, 2025.) It’s a visual love poem to the beauty of classic cars, between fantasy and reality. Thousands of the most amazing AI images, created by the director, set on the magical music of Stamatis Spanoudakis, one of Greece’s top composers, with passionate narration by Ari Gerontakis. The film is a stunning display of beauty, colors, feelings, drama, humor and one of the rare examples of AI integrated in the story of rare class cars. The stills are just a sample of how AI has been used to portray the dedication and passion of historic, vintage and classic car lovers all over the globe. If you need more info, please email us via Filmfreeway or to production@sincinemafilms.com. All submissions will be completed through Filmfreeway.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: We Dream of Electric Humans

Director’s Name: Evo Evonne HEYNING

Writer’s Name: Evo Evonne HEYNING

Producer: Evo Evonne HEYNING

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

Digital short on resilience, experimental with AI – part of a docuseries on our relationships with nature and each other

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: The Encarne Trilogy

Director’s Name: SI Reasoning

Writer’s Name: SI Reasoning

Producer: SI Reasoning

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 16 minutes 5 seconds

Film Description:

The Encarne Trilogy is a series of no-budget shorts regarding the creation of my son and his entrance into the physical plane. These shorts were part of the official selection of Echoes Surrealiste Contemporaines 2024 and presented at the Summer home of Andre Breton in Saint Cirq LaPopie, France, on the 100th Anniversary of “Manifesto of Surrealism”

Original Film Title: The Eve of Nothing La vigilia di niente

Director’s Name: Marco Cucurnia

Writer’s Name: Marco Cucurnia

Producer: Marco Cucurnia

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming : France, Italy

Language: Inuktitut, Italian

Runtime: 35 minutes

Film Description:

The life of a woman, an unjustified wait and the body of a woman that becomes a cinema screen….in a theater.

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: The Night of the Bears

Director’s Name: Antoine Binet

Writer’s Name: Antoine Binet

Producer: Antoine Binet

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming : France

Language: French

Runtime: 25 minutes

Film Description:

One winter night, we discover four young people wandering the bars and streets. They don’t seem to know each other, and yet they all seem to stand out in the background. And then it seems as if a strange creature has decided to follow them. What do they have in common?

(WINNER)

Original Film Title: Reason To Fight

Director’s Name: Hiram L. Johnson

Writer’s Name: Hiram L. Johnson

Producer: Hiram L. Johnson

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

It was a double injustice, Bernice was wrongly imprisoned, then wronged in prison.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: The Heidelberg Story

Director’s Name: Jeffrey A Brick

Writer’s Name: Jeffrey A Brick

Producer: Jeffrey A Brick

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 31 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

A rhythmic blend of repurposed percussion, soft harmonica tones, and nostalgic acoustic guitar, inspired by Detroit’s resilience and the Heidelberg Project’s artistry.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: AUDIOQUATROSCOPY Arc de Triomphe & Chopin

Director’s Name: Hans Thierstein

Writer’s Name: Hans Thierstein

Producer: Hans Thierstein

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming : Switzerland

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

This audioquatroscopy makes a colored Google Earth view of the Arc de Triomphe dance to the tune of Frédéric Chopin‘s Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 24, No. 3. Chopin composed it in 1836, the same year the Arc de Triomphe was inaugurated. Construction of hat monument, located at the Place de l’Etoile, was initiated in 1806 to honour those, who fought and died in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Its location is very special, because it stands at the center of 12 radiating avenues. For more information about Audioquatroscopy go to http://www.audioquatroscopy.com.