Category: 2025 ARFF Paris

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Asouless – dir. Tsz Yan Lo

(FINALIST)

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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.

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SILK – dir. Sylvie Kay Staf

(Audience Award Winner)

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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.

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ANIMA EX MACHINA – dir. Nico Mastorakis

(FINALIST)

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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.

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We Dream of Electric Humans – dir. Evo Evonne HEYNING

(FINALIST)

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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

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The Encarne Trilogy – dir. SI Reasoning

(HONORABLE MENTION)

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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”

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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

(FINALIST)

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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

(WINNER)

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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