Night Cinema

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

In the legendary Night Cinema programme that fuels and recharges, you will find refreshing comedies, short horror stories and a lot of madness.

Screenings

Screening072221 / Öökino
Q&A duration
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Films

Feet Up

Local title
Tagurpidi
Original title
Feet Up
Director
Olli Ilpo Salonen
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

When gravity is flipped for all children and their world turns upside down, the ceiling becomes the floor and the floor becomes the ceiling!

Director
Olli Ilpo Salonen
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Al Fresco

Local title
Al fresco
Original title
Al Fresco
Director
Ignacio Rodó
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Large room in a dream apartment. Unbeatable location. Ready to move in. Plenty of light.

Director
Ignacio Rodó
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I Walked Through The Wall

Local title
Ma kõndisin läbi seina
Original title
I Walked Through The Wall
Director
Pablo Larcuen
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A wife and mother who feels trapped in a life of service to her family, accidentally discovers the power to walk through walls.

Director
Pablo Larcuen
Runtime
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Hero

Local title
Kangelane
Original title
Hero
Director
Andrew Cutcliffe
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A man stuck in traffic witnesses an altercation taking place on an apartment balcony, he decides to intervene.

Director
Andrew Cutcliffe
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Upper Current

Local title
Hoovusega kaasa
Original title
Upper Current
Director
Gregory O'Reilly
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A hit-and-run spirals into a nightmarish struggle against fate as a man’s desperate attempt to cover his crime leads him into the merciless grip of the open sea.

Director
Gregory O'Reilly
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Unusable Stock Footage

Local title
Kasutuskõlbmatud arhiivikaadrid
Original title
Det knallar och småspringer
Director
Mattias Engqvist
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A photographer is on a remote island to capture some stock footage. Behind the camera he has several interactions with the locals that leads him to reflect on himself.

Director
Mattias Engqvist
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Undeletable

Local title
Kustutamatu
Original title
Undeletable
Director
Benjamin Blaine, Christopher Blaine
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Emma has to inform her Dad's recently confessed lover that he has died but the painful mistakes she makes whilst recording this answerphone message confronts her with a brutal truth about the remorseless forward nature of time. A comedy.

Director
Benjamin Blaine, Christopher Blaine
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Whistle

Local title
Vile
Original title
Whistle
Director
Ainsley James Cannon
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A short, surreal comedy-horror film set to a heightened ASMR and abstract soundscape. A glimpse inside the working of a neurodiverse brain…trying to cope with life, having become gripped by their acute OCD, ADHD and Misophonia.

Director
Ainsley James Cannon
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Best Friends Forever

Local title
Parimad sõbrad igavesti
Original title
Amigas para siempre
Director
Alicia Marina, Anna Mitjà
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

On a Christmas night, Lili and Marleen are forced to reassess the nature of their friendship and the unwritten rules that define it.

Director
Alicia Marina, Anna Mitjà
Runtime
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1 in 5 Sheep

Local title
Üks viiest lambast
Original title
1 in 5 Sheep
Director
James Button
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

An artist in sheep's clothing.

Director
James Button
Runtime

Gilbert

Local title
Gilbert
Director
Arturo Lacal, Alex Salu, Jordi Jiménez
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Gilbert and Sullivan are inhabitants of a small archipelago in the middle of the ocean where Sullivan is a trumpeter and Gilbert distributes packages with his gondola. But one day Gilbert decides to keep a package that was intended for his neighbor.

Director
Arturo Lacal, Alex Salu, Jordi Jiménez
Runtime
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Apple Gatherers

Local title
Õunakorjajad
Original title
Apple Gatherers
Director
Danielle Rhoda Addae-Boateng
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

This short film is the loneliness and dissatisfaction in a labour-intensive world and the brief reprieve we have in moments of real human connection. The moment is fleeting, yet powerful. It can be interpreted as the single strand that binds us to our drudgery.

Director
Danielle Rhoda Addae-Boateng
Runtime
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Signal

Local title
Signaal
Original title
Signal
Director
Emma Carré, Mathilde Parquet
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Claudie is absolutely passionate about her rather unusual job: scanning the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial life, hoping to make contact.
Completely absorbed in her mission, she gradually loses touch with those around her. To the point that reality itself could fade away from her…

Director
Emma Carré, Mathilde Parquet
Runtime
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There is A Wolf

Local title
On üks hunt
Original title
There is A Wolf
Director
Saerom Seo
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

In a world where ordinary people are called wolves, persecuted as useless and dangerous beings. But in reality, they are just adorable cats living their everyday lives.

Director
Saerom Seo
Runtime
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Rabbits Have Red Eyes

Local title
Jänestel on punased silmad
Original title
Rabbits Have Red Eyes
Director
Yoonsun Lee, Jiwon Choi
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Caroline, who has a trauma about rabbits, experiences bizarre hallucinations in a mental hospital.

Director
Yoonsun Lee, Jiwon Choi
Runtime
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A Little More Action

Local title
Läheb löömaks
Original title
Un peu plus d’action
Director
Alexis Beaumont
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

During a protest, two law enforcement teams face off on the field.

Director
Alexis Beaumont
Runtime
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Opto Optics

Local title
Opto Optics
Original title
Opto Optics
Director
Pearl Seemann
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A man enters a corner store trying to obtain ingredients for his dinner. On his way home, creatures follow him - even invading his food. They then invite him on a journey that takes him apart and reassembles him completely.

Director
Pearl Seemann
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Almost There or a Weenie

Local title
Peaaegu nagu mere ääres ehk Vinku
Original title
Prawie nad morzem czyli Parówa
Director
Alicja Jasina
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Twenty-year-old Lotar feels like a failure, hei s living with his grandma, no plan, no courage, no inspiration. His only escape is imagination, where he's a beloved rap star. In real life, he dreams of making an album but can't write two lines. Then he meets a sharp-tongued sausage in a supermarket. She challenges him to freestyle battles and doesn’t back down. With each freestyle battle, Lotar grows bolder – and bit by bit, starts to find his voice.

Director
Alicja Jasina
Runtime
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Atom & Void

Local title
Aatom ja tühjus
Original title
Atom & Void
Director
Gonçalo Almeida
Country
Year
2024

A science fiction film starring a real spider. In the depths of Valya´s burrow, a persistent rumble disrupts her life, thrusting her into uncharted territory.

Director
Gonçalo Almeida
Screenwriter
Gonçalo Almeida
Cast
Valya
Producer
Gonçalo Almeida, Francisco de Assis Vieira, Sara Marques Moita, Vasco Esteves
Cinematographer
Alex Grigoras
Production Design
Gonçalo Almeida, Alex Grigoras, Margarida Caetano Dias
Editing
Ricardo Saraiva
Music
André Carvalho
Production
Ghostsong
World sales
Portugal Film - Portuguese Film Agency
Runtime
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A Drive at Dawn

Local title
Sõit koidikul
Director
Joe D'Ovidio
Year
2024

Three men drive into the desert at night to wrestle with an unspeakable evil.

Director
Joe D'Ovidio
Screenwriter
Joe D'Ovidio
Cast
Eric Lampaert, Joseph Williams, Rich Sands, Jim Piazza, Maggie Loy
Producer
Erika N Ewing, Catherine Taylor
Cinematographer
Robert Nachman
Production Design
Kimberly Romo
Editing
Anna Meller
Composer
Hollie Buhagiar
Production
Car Park Pictures
Sound
Wave Studios
Runtime
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Cosmic Crash

Local title
Kosmiline kokkupõrge
Director
James Smith
Country
Year
2025

When an otherworldly being crashes near a lab, chaos is unleashed.

Director
James Smith
Screenwriter
James Smith
Cast
James Smith
Producer
James Smith
Cinematographer
James Smith
Production Design
James Smith
Editing
James Smith
Composer
James Smith
Music
James Smith
Runtime
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Blood Ties

Local title
Veresidemed
Original title
Les liens du sang
Director
Hakim Atoui
Country
Year
2024

A brother and a sister unable to confess a secret.
A mother who blames them for their ingratitude and absence.
A dysfunctional medical-assistance robot.
Lunch is served, bon appétit!

Director
Hakim Atoui
Screenwriter
Hakim Atoui
Cast
Myriem Akheddiou, Saadia Bentaïeb, Djanis Bouzyani, Adrien Dantou
Producer
Stéphane Marchal, Nelson Ghrénassia, Thibaut Amri, Laurent Denis
Cinematographer
Dino Franco Berguglia
Editing
John Pirard
Music
Noé Bailleux
Production
Yukunkun Productions, Avant la Nuit, Cookies Films
World sales
Manifest
Distribution
Manifest
Runtime
Language
Subtitles
Trailer

Berta

Local title
Berta
Director
Lucía Forner Segarra
Country
Year
2024

Berta tells the story of a woman called Berta who seeks understanding from a man that hurt her in the past. Despite her methods might be seen as unorthodox, she’ll make her point.

Director
Lucía Forner Segarra
Screenwriter
Lucía Forner Segarra
Cast
Nerea Barros, Elías González, Thais Blume
Producer
Lucía Forner Segarra / Patricia Chica
Cinematographer
Claudia Rodríguez Sánchez
Production Design
Leonor Díaz
Editing
Fany Fernández Morales
Music
Joan Vilà
Production
Lucía Forner Segarra (Productions)
Distribution
Yaq Distribución (Spain)
Runtime
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Paradise Buffet

Local title
Paradiisi Buffet
Original title
Buffet Paraiso
Director
Santi Amézqueta, Héctor Zafra
Country
Year
2024

In a buffet restaurant, a diverse group of characters access a wide variety of exquisite delicacies without being aware of the serious sin that gluttony represents.

Director
Santi Amézqueta, Héctor Zafra
Screenwriter
Júlia Francino, Elena Gobernado
Producer
Álex Cervantes, Roger Torras, Fabrice Otaño, Álvaro García
Art director
Héctor Zafra Matos
Editing
Alba Ruiz-Castizo
Music
Luc Suarez, Vicente Chust
Sound
Cora Delgado
Production
Hampa Studio, WKND, DISNOSC
Runtime
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