Category: BEST STUDENT FILM ARFF Paris 2023

Original Film Title: 器官嬉戲

Director’s Name: 江峰 Jiang Feng

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Runtime: 6 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

What are sex and the sexual/sensual body? This work offers the audience empathic experiences of the tactile and aural sensation with the sensual choreography of the body and skin, re-imagining and re-defining human sexuality. What is dance? How can it be captured and appreciated in a different way?

Our body is a sexual organ.
Our body is our sex.

Original Film Title: Deviance

Director’s Name: Zou Yang

Writer’s Name: Xilin Zhang

Producer: Zhengyu Li

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 14 minutes

Film Description:

This is a story about a good man becoming bad, and eventually falling to destruction. Li Qiang was originally a soldier. After his retirement, he opened an air gun stall in the town. He fell in love with a married woman named Yang Hui. Yang Hui owes a lot of money. Li Qiang promises to help her pay back the money, but he finds that all this is a lie that Yang Hui lied to him. Li Qiang, who is inferiority complex, finds that Yang Hui is not love himself, so the violence is his only outlet. He rushed to Yang‘s home with a gun and finally killed them. （This film is based on real events.）

Original Film Title: TVC-15: The Return of Major Tom

Director’s Name: Alexsys Giraud, Matthew Wilson

Writer’s Name: Romeo Keyser

Producer: Zachery Grew, Calvin Johns, Meghan Martin, Noel Galeski, Joey Dagda, Steve Sholtes

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

David Bowie’s 1969 song “Space Oddity” that left Major Tom lost in space is revisited as the students of the Downriver Detroit Student Film Consortium bring Major Tom after 54 years in this original music video written & produced by the students of the DDSFC.

Original Film Title: Neverland

Director’s Name: Alyson Phillips, Daimein Parmelee

Writer’s Name: Megan Stone

Producer: Scott A Galeski, Noel Galeski, Calvin Johns, Zachery Grew, Meghan Martin, Joey Dagda

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 18 seconds

Film Description:

A music video of a young girl who does not fit in and who’s dreams come true.

Original Film Title: CUT

Director’s Name: Federico Napoleone

Writer’s Name: Federico Napoleone

Producer: Ben Szemerenyi

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 19 minutes 41 seconds

Film Description:

George Harrington, an exuberant fintech entrepreneur, runs online courses that promise success and wealth to its subscribers. However, behind a magnetic screen appeal, George is a high profile scammer and deceiver, using his courses to defraud the public instead of enriching them. Along with his three accomplices – Alisha Taylor, Josh Brown, and Brad Reynolds – George operates a millionary scheme against thousands of online fans for his benefit and that of a racketeer known as The Boss. After years of wild success, and with a feeling of invincibility, George is attacked in his own home by a stranger who is out for revenge. The derelict, having lost everything because of George, wants him to publicly confess his crimes, and has methods to ensure it. The day after the attack, George’s associates are exposed, and go on the run to escape the wrath of The Boss, but none of them is safe.

Original Film Title: The Lost Doll

Director’s Name: Zhuoqi Xie

Writer’s Name: Zhuoqi Xie

Producer: Zhuoqi Xie

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 7 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

Beijing girl nini when her favorite toy is grandma gave her old clockup doll, but as she grew up, the Hong Kong garrison mother to bring their children to read to school, and she also found his favorite toys broken by brother, grandma treat his attitude has changed in the eyes of girls, a misunderstanding with an inevitable arrival of parting initiation grow, flash for many years. Gradually growing up, Nini has not returned to Beijing for many years, and the clockwork doll has long been forgotten in her corner, and then back to her hometown, Beijing more than ten years has undergone tremendous changes, the only constant is grandma’s deep love for Nini, years of love was once again revealed by an old wind-up little baby toy…
Behind the change of a city and the gradual disappearance of a childhood toy lies the growth and memory of many individual people. We are changing, together with all the living environment around us, but there are always some small “constant” that become the eternal softness in the bottom of our heart and the journey of life.

Original Film Title: 1.i

Director’s Name: Colin James Wade

Writer’s Name: Colin James Wade

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Runtime: 5 minutes 37 seconds

Original Film Title: Gritenme Piedras Del Campo

Director’s Name: Alexsys Giraud

Writer’s Name: Cuco Sanchez, Alexsys Giraud

Producer: Scott A Galeski, Zachery Grew, Joey Dagda

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

The historic Gritenme Piedras Del Compo performed by Alexsys Giraud.

Original Film Title: FRAGMENT

Director’s Name: Daniel Jiaxuan Huang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China, Hong Kong

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

FRAGMENT is a short film about the trauma that children have endured in their families. Many teens in the world have family problems and this causes them stress. In this movie, each of the 3 main characters will react differently to the knock. The short film has 5 characters in total and 3 main characters with their own trauma from childhood. The first character is Daniel where his parents argue every day and he tends to find it very hard to listen to and thinks it’s his fault. The second character is Coco, and she has an abusive Dad that often gets drunk and comes home late, so she hides in the shower to show her true emotions. The third character is Ash where he has parents who owe people tons of money, so people would often show up and try to break.

Original Film Title: Death Jam

Director’s Name: Louis Mommeja

Writer’s Name: Louis Mommeja

Producer: Louis Mommeja

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes 1 second

Film Description:

Julie, a wannabe comedian, tries to escape her foster father’s funeral through her imaginary world.