Category: BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM – 2025 WSXA AMSTERDAM

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The Last Poppy – dir. Emre Özkan

(Honorable Mention)

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Original Film Title: The Last Poppy

Director’s Name: Emre Özkan

Writer’s Name: Emre Özkan

Producer: Emre Özkan

Country of Origin: Turkey

Country of Filming: Turkey

Language: No Dialogue

Runtime: 2 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

“The Last Poppy” is a poetic AI-assisted short film that reflects on the fragility of peace and the lingering shadows of war. Through surreal imagery and symbolic storytelling, it reveals how innocence fades, how memories dissolve, and how even a single poppy can bear the weight of countless forgotten sacrifices. A cinematic elegy—immersive and timeless—that reminds us of both the beauty and the cost of being human.

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Denali – dir. Jiafan Lin

(Finalist)

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Original Film Title: Denali

Director’s Name: Jiafan Lin

Writer’s Name: Jiafan Lin

Producer: Haolang Li

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Chinese, English, Yue Chinese (Cantonese)

Runtime: 6 minutes 21 seconds

Film Description:

This is a music video. Denali means “of where” in Mandarin Chinese.
The lyrics are in Mandarin, English, and Cantonese, describing all the everyday moments the creator experienced with his partner.
The story of the video is about a man struck by Cupid’s arrow who meets a woman also struck by Cupid’s arrow in the bustling crowd of the city. However, the man tries to escape the control of fate, and in the end, the two meet again because of coincidence rather than destiny.
This is a story about a firm choice of love beneath the complexity of the city.

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Eight of Wands – dir. Cesare Bedogné

(Finalist)

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Original Film Title: Eight of Wands

Director’s Name: Cesare Bedogné

Writer’s Name: Cesare Bedogné

Producer: Cesare Bedogné

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal

Language: Italian

Runtime: 1 hour 5 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

An actress leaves for a journey together with a film-maker, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land and a deck of Tarots. The omens look
gloomy but she attempts to defy them through the very film they are shooting, improvising day by day, and little by little the frames start playing the role of cards in a cinematic deck of Tarots.
At the end the response will be a new one, perhaps even more
sibilline, her own.

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A LITTLE PRAYER – dir. Takashi Miwa

(Winner)

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Original Film Title: A LITTLE PRAYER

Director’s Name: Takashi Miwa

Writer’s Name: Takashi Miwa

Producer: Takashi Miwa

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 38 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

Break・・・Destroyed.
I just lose it. I don’t want to lose it.