Category: ARFF Paris 2021

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Why We Are Unhappy in Cities – dir. Zhao Gang

Original Film Title: 我们在城市不快乐原因分析

English Film Title: Why We Are Unhappy in Cities

Directors Name: Zhao Gang

Writers Name: Zhao Gang

Producer: Zhao Gang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 26 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description: 

This is a film that explores the relationship between modern people and objects. When people create objects (commodities), they also become slaves of the objects, and even alienate themselves into the objects themselves-the plot where the heroine plays the model in the window accurately interprets this idea. And the actor finally disappeared in the chase of the items …
So this movie is also a parable about the city.

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Catcher in the Rye – dir. Ryan Cassata

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Original Film Title: Catcher in the Rye

Directors Name: Ryan Cassata

Writers Name: Ryan Cassata, Jeni McKenna

Producer: Avery Holliday

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 18 seconds

Film Description: 

A transgender man revisits and reclaims his hometown after leaving due to homophobia/transphobia.

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Fractals – dir. Jean Kinsella

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Original Film Title: Fractals

Directors Name: Jean Kinsella

Writers Name: Jean Kinsella

Producers: Glynden Kenzie, François Rousies

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Runtime: 10 minutes 35 seconds

Film Description: 

Separated by time, four characters face choices during the pivotal hours that are about to change their lives and the society they live in. Whether they resist or chose to comply, it will impact everybody. Confronted with impossible circumstances, who will they chose to be? Who will we choose to be?

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Essence – dir. Baptiste Chabot

Original Film Title: L’essence

English Film Title: Essence

Directors Name: Baptiste Chabot

Country of Origin: France

Language: French

Runtime: 25 minutes

Film Description: 

Denis, 77, former member of a Vespa Club, suffers from Charcot’s disease. With the help of his grandson, who he no longer saw, he is going to repair his old Vespa for one last ride. A new bond will be created between the two men.

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Rage- dir. Aurelien Matheieu & Samir Mokeddem

Original Film Title: La Rage

English Film Title: Rage

Directors Name: Aurelien Matheieu, Samir Mokeddem

Writers Name: Aurelien Matheieu

Country of Origin: France

Language: French

Runtime: 11 minutes

Film Description: 

Akmal struggles against his guiltiness and the memories of his life with Sarah, who he lost brutally after a police control has gone wrong.

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械化/Mechamorphosis – dir. Bowen Tan

Original Film Title: 械化/Mechamorphosis (国际版)

Directors Name: Bowen Tan

Writers Name: Bowen Tan, Roderick Rascoe

Producer: Ben Clerveaux

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 14 minutes 2 seconds

Film Description: 

At the dawn of Chinese Robotic era, in a world where robot-human symbiosis and educational pressures collide, Yining, a young schoolboy learns to cope with the rigors of family pressure and mechanical success.

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The women who came from the Lotus Field – dir. Weerasak Saengdee

Original Film Title: อีบัวแล้งน้ำ

English Film Title: The women who came from the Lotus Field

Directors Name: Weerasak Saengdee

Writers Name: Weerasak Saengdee

Country of Origin: Thailand

Country of Filming: Thailand

Language: Thai

Runtime: 8 minutes 42 seconds

Film Description: 

The story of a young masseuse who is released from prison in a drug case. And the striped young man who has been pardoned.

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Timonia – dir. Alexey Belkin & Vsevolod Aljokhin

Original Film Title: Тимоня

English Film Title: Timonia

Directors Name: Alexey Belkin, Vsevolod Aljokhin

Writers Name: Alexey Belkin, Vsevolod Aljokhin

Producer: Alexey Belkin

Country of Origin: Russian Federation

Country of Filming: Russian Federation

Language: Russian

Runtime: 8 minutes 23 seconds

Film Description: 

In one summer day, the “enlightened” lord of the village decides to wash in a bathhouse, but he cannot, since all the peasants have gone to the prohibited village dances.
The lord is indignant and calls his efficient worker Timonia to resolve the issue with the bathhouse. During the bath procedures, the lord has poisoned by fumes in the bathhouse to death. But during the funeral, it turned out that the lord pretended to be dead in order to see who would grieve for him and who does not. Timonia exposes the lord’s pretense and dips him in a font of ice water to revive him. After that, everyone, including the lord, goes to the village dances.

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Something in the Air – dir. Andrew Rothschild

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Original Film Title: Something in the Air

Directors Name: Andrew Rothschild

Writers Name: Andrew Rothschild

Producer: Chloe Mina

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description: 

A spellbound basketball summons a break with reality as three high school girlfriends make their way home from school.