Late Night Sci-Fi

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Panorama

Robots used to be great hulking things: all made up of metal, diodes and beeping beeps. Let’s just say that you’d probably notice one if they were walking down the street (and before you ask, those little trundling delivery robots that roam the streets of Tallinn don’t count).
But our view of robots (or androids or replicants or whatever you want to call them) has changed enormously over the past few years. No longer the obvious hunks of metals that stick out in a crowd, our robots now have begun to resemble us with ‘more human than human’ being the mantra as leaps in technology and AI make the division between human and artificial all the more hard to define.
The films here explore the new worlds being created and the new people we’ll be sharing said worlds with. Will we learn to love the machines? And will they learn to love us?

Screenings

Hall Electric Cinema, TARTU
Screening024104 / Late Night Sci-Fi
Screening duration
5th Lux Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening040503 / Late Night Sci-Fi
Q&A duration
Screening duration
5th Lux Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening110503 / Late Night Sci-Fi
Q&A duration
Screening duration

Films

Todos los futuros

Local title
Kõik tulevikud
Original title
Todos los futuros
Director
Bárbara Cerro
Country
France
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Panorama

On the planet Gasto, night is eternal. Todos los futuros chronicles the arrival and evolution of humanity on this fictional planet.

Director
Bárbara Cerro
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

S/N:05

Local title
S/N:05
Original title
S/N:05
Director
Hans Jakob Harms
Country
Germany
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Panorama

A twenty-centimeter tall robot has to compete against its competitor, a cat, and save a young girl from the attack of a monstrous machine.

Director
Hans Jakob Harms
Runtime
Language
German
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Diffusion Pilot

Local title
Diffusion Pilot
Original title
Diffusion Pilot
Director
Aurelijus Čiupas
Country
Estonia
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Panorama

A journey and exploration of generative AI.

Director
Aurelijus Čiupas
Runtime
Language
English

World premiere

Society

Local title
Ühiskond
Original title
Society
Director
Adrian Replanski
Country
Spain
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Panorama

In a world ravished by climate catastrophe, a jaded writer seeks to escape her body through an extreme procedure, reserved for the ultra-rich – but she is struck by doubts at a borderland, questioning whether the journey is worth continuing.

Director
Adrian Replanski
Runtime
Language
French
Subtitles
English

International premiere

Us & Them

Local title
Meie ja nemad
Original title
Mauvais Coton
Director
Nicolas Dumaret
Country
France
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Panorama

One wandering night, Chris meets Sissi. A cohabitation is born between these two disaffected beings.

Director
Nicolas Dumaret
Runtime
Language
French
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

A Love Code

Local title
Armastuse kood
Original title
A Love Code
Director
Akseli Leppänen
Country
Estonia
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Panorama

In a post-apocalyptic world, in an abandoned overgrown bunker a robot lives a lonely life. One day a mysterious hole appears, from which a cockroach crawls through. The robot ends up making friends with the bug, but all changes when the bug leaves, sending the robot into hopeless despair.

Director
Akseli Leppänen
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Marvelous Gift

Local title
Võrratu kingitus
Original title
Marvelous Gift
Director
Danna Galeano, German Acuña
Country
Colombia
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Panorama

In a world where humanity has gained the gift of eternal life, you are invited to a journey where fatal accidents aren’t fatal and aging never ceases. Dive into the paradox of immortality and explore the raw reality of life when the end is taken off the table. This is not just a story; it’s a journey that tests the very concept of life itself.

Director
Danna Galeano, German Acuña
Runtime
Language
English
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