Category: ARFF Paris 2021

Original Film Title: Countdown to Year Zero

Directors Name: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Writers Name: Jeff Adams

Producer: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 52 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description: 

Countdown to Year Zero hones in on an unprecedented global disaster that is rapidly unfolding. If we don’t take meaningful action on climate change now we may soon reach a point of no return. This film offers a specific solution to reverse climate change that centers around the daily choices everyone makes. Be inspired by world renowned social media influencers, activists and celebrities! Learn what others are doing and how, together, we have the power to heal our planet.

Original Film Title: Con el Tango

Directors Name: Judith Albrecht

Writers Name: Judith Albrecht, Chiche Nunez, Ester Duarte

Producer: Urquiza Production

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Argentina, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel

Language: English, German, Hebrew, Spanish

Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes 7 seconds

Film Description: 

Con el Tango tells the story of the jewish tango couple Chiche Nunez and Ester Duarte and their Salon Urquiza in Berlin. What happens to yourself and to a dance when you leave your home country? This is the question that occupies them in their search for their personal home.
The Film follows the dance and love couple over 8 years in their life with tango. Chiche and Ester open the Salon Urquiza in Berlin and want to build a home for themselves, create a place to work and teach the Urquiza style.
The two continue to prove themselves as dancers on international concert stages, teach, run milongas, become parents, close the salon, lose and find each other again.

Original Film Title: THINGS THAT MOVE

Directors Name: Ben Kreibich

Producer: Baki Z. Porter, Roxanne Anderson,Anna Meyer

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 57 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description: 

feature length doc about a group of trans people and their incredible journey to Creating Change 2020 Conference in Dallas, Texas.

Original Film Title: CROWD

Directors Name: Recep Akar

Writer: Recep Akar

Director of Photography: Devrim Lüküslü

Producer: Merve Akar

Country of Origin: Turkey

Country of Filming: Turkey

Runtime: 5 minutes 21 seconds

Film Description: 

We construct our existence inside the void of space, surrounded by objects. Atoms, our bodies and the universe exist within this same construct. Both equally crowded and bare. “Crowd” is a single channel video that aims to perform the crowd with the void in the frame of this contrast.