Category: BEST DOCUMENTARY ARFF Paris 2022

Original Film Title: The Job of Songs

Director’s Name: Lila Schmitz

Writer’s Name: Lila Schmitz

Producer’s Name: Fengyi Xu

Country of Origin: USA

Country of Filming: Ireland

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

In Doolin, an isolated village teetering on the western edge of Ireland, a community of musicians seek joy and connections through music as they face a modernizing world.

Original Film Title: 할매레시피

Director’s Name: Sung Hoon Choi

Writer’s Name: Soo Young Sim

Producer’s Name: Youngrak Lee

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of

Language: Korean

Runtime: 24 minutes 46 seconds

Film Description:

How many recipes are there in the world? There are foods that represent the country, there are foods that symbolize culture, and there are foods that remind you of the region. Every house has its own food to be proud of. The recipes that create special foods are like countless stars in the universe. Being born and disappearing is perhaps a natural process. The process of how food is made tells a lot more than we think.

‘Grandma Recipe’ is a short documentary about the process of rebirth of Tteokbokki, a representative Korean food kept by a 92-year-old rural grandmother, with three young life style planners called ‘Local creators’. Although we are living in the age of 100, there is a recipe that shares the life and lifespan of a grandmother.

Shin Hae-in, a 92-year-old grandmother who appears in the documentary, provided a recipe for garlic Tteokbokki that she made for her three young children. Garlic, a staple in Korean traditional food, is surprisingly unusual because it is not often used in Korean traditional street food, Tteokbokki.

‘Grandma Recipe’ challenges the development of a unique menu in Korea, where there are many types of Tteokbokki. The three participating young people are entrepreneurs who create a business model based on the value of a region called ‘local creator’. They each have the titles of an agricultural expert, a cultural planner, and a cooking expert, and they have come together to bring out a different kind of food to the world by demonstrating their abilities in the ‘Grandma Recipe’ project.

The ‘Grandma Recipe’ project, which three young entrepreneurs collaborated with in support of Shin Hae-in’s lively life in old age, will be made into a meal kit. I smile when I imagine the moment when the story of my grandmother’s life is put on the public table.

Original Film Title: The Full Moon’s Selfie

Director’s Name: Natalia Girlina

Writer’s Name: Natalia Girlina

Producer’s Name: Natalia Girlina

Country of Origin: Russian Federation

Country of Filming: Russian Federation

Language: Russian

Runtime: 1 hour 1 minute 26 seconds

Film Description:

“Transformation of a woman during pregnancy. Actual answers of the present. Women’s tools and the process of self-identification.”

Original Film Title: Learco, La Locomotiva Umana

Director’s Name: Jacopo Pietrucci

Writer’s Name: Alessandro Soragna

Producer’s Name: Mauro Cavina

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 1 hour

Film Description:

An estranged mariner buys an old boat to live on, then seeks out liveaboards for advice on an epic voyage to rediscover what it means to be ‘home’.

Original Film Title: Liveaboard: an American Odyssey

Director’s Name: Christopher J. Brownfield

Writer’s Name: Christopher J. Brownfield

Producer’s Name: Christopher J. Brownfield

Country of Origin: USA

Country of Filming: USA

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

An estranged mariner buys an old boat to live on, then seeks out liveaboards for advice on an epic voyage to rediscover what it means to be ‘home’.

Original Film Title: Anamnesis – Gaea Latitudes, vol. I: Ecocide

Director’s Name: Ilkka Ilmari Levä

Writer’s Name: Ilkka Ilmari Levä

Producer’s Name: Ilkka Ilmari Levä

Country of Origin: Finland

Country of Filming: Finland

Language: Finnish

Runtime: 6 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

Short study of ecocide in Helsinki, Finland and in Amazonas, Brazil.

Original Film Title: Outside In

Director’s Name: Mark O’Toole

Writer’s Name: Mark O’Toole, Wang Ping

Producer’s Name: Mark O’Toole

Country of Origin: Ireland

Country of Filming: Ireland, USA

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

A city of eight million crushed by a pandemic finds hope in an immigrant family’s perspective during the worst of the COVID shutdown.
An immigrant recounts how he and his family survived during NYC’s historic pandemic shutdown during the spring of 2020 when 8 + million people disappeared from its streets. A personal diary of a unique and eerily empty & haunting metropolis captured while running through city streets, embalmed in a state of suspended animation.

This short documentary captures the surreal experience of a teeming city laid bare and the hope for its future.

Original Film Title: Alors Tu Trouves ?

Director’s Name: Hugo Dayan

Writer’s Name: Léo Dayan, Hugo Dayan

Producer’s Name: Hugo Dayan, APREIS

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: China, France, French Polynesia, Mali

Language: Bambara, English, French

Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

Camille, a young French climatologist, has a string of research contracts at the French National Center for Scientific Research. But understanding how the climate itself works and only drawing curves announcing future catastrophes on a screen are no longer enough for her. She decides to get closer to the lands and the peoples, all as far away as close to her research laboratory. The journey she undertakes in China, Polynesia, Mali, and Ile de France where her laboratory is located, will allow her to discover that solutions to the climate crisis already exist. She will then be led to make a personal decision, unexpected but logical.

Original Film Title: America Boxed In

Director’s Name: Casey G. Williams, Ian S. Williams

Writer’s Name: Casey G. Williams, Ian S. Williams, Lance E. Hoovestal

Producer’s Name: Casey G. Williams, Ian S. Williams

Country of Origin: USA

Country of Filming: China, USA

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes

Film Description:

America Boxed In is a story that examines a world where globalization reigns supreme. It explores the consequences of the “heart of the global economy”—the freight container. By greatly lowering the cost of moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, and the time it takes to do so, this mere metal box has delivered unprecedented prosperity, served as an agent of momentous political shifts, and forged a 21st century borderless age where insecurity prevails.

Original Film Title: Tout Ce Qui était Proche S’éloigne

Director’s Name: Yunyi ZHU

Writer’s Name: Yunyi ZHU

Producer’s Name: Katell Paillard

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: China, France

Language: Chinese, French

Runtime: 22 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description:

My friend Xiaoxin contracted eye disease. He gradually lost his eyesight from that point on. By 2015, he had gone completely blind. He told me that complete black scared him. I felt my friend was on his way to somewhere.