Rebels With Their Shorts I

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

These films will take part in Rebels With A Cause, a competition section of the Black Nights Film Festival dedicated to films that defy the traditional modes of filmmaking. The selection provides a mixture of new filmmakers who will lead the way in cinema over the coming years and more established talent. Each short will be eligible for the honorific prize of Best Rebels Short chosen by the Rebels With A Cause jury members.

Screenings

5th Lux Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening120503 / Lühikesed mässajad 1
Q&A duration
Screening duration

Films

Baltic premiere

OCCHIO

Local title
Silm
Original title
OCCHIO
Director
Giulia Falciani
Country
Germany
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery.

Director
Giulia Falciani
Runtime
Subtitles
English

Estonian premiere

A Visualization of a Cut

Local title
Kaadrivahetuse visualiseerimine
Original title
A Visualization of a Cut
Director
Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist
Country
Denmark
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

It is an experimental animated short film in three chapters exploring the connection between the cinematic cut and human relations extracted from home movies. The film is a meditation on life, love and loss explored through montage editing in home movies from six Scandinavian families, the materiality of paper and the thread that joins them together. The film is alternating between analysis and emotion and invites you to rethink the traditional conception of film and film narrative.

Director
Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Madwoman In The Attic

Local title
Hull naine pööningul
Original title
Locas del ático
Director
Tamara García Iglesias
Country
Spain
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

Can Marguerite Duras cure us of madness? Can that woman who is mute in soul be crazy? This film, through analog casting, explores the representations of madness in silent films of the 20s and 30s.

Director
Tamara García Iglesias
Runtime

International premiere

Additional Scenes

Local title
Lisastseenid
Original title
Additional Scenes
Director
Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk
Country
Ukraine
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

On Day 377 of the Russian-Ukrainian War, in Kyiv, a man debates with his wife about the pillows — which one is for sleeping and which one is not. And why should we make a film about the war, anyway?

Director
Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk
Runtime
Language
Ukrainian
Subtitles
English

Estonian premiere

Claudia (Working Title)

Local title
Claudia (tööpealkiri)
Original title
Claudia (Working Title)
Director
Adrian Sitaru
Country
Romania
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

An improvised fiction about a film crew wanting to make a movie with a homeless woman as an actress, end up under the guise of goodwill to tarnish the woman's image and do not truly give her a role.

Director
Adrian Sitaru
Runtime
Language
Romanian
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Being John Smith

Local title
Olla John Smith
Original title
Being John Smith
Director
John Smith
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the artist finally admits to the negative impact that possessing the commonest name in the English-speaking world has had on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, ‘Being John Smith’ takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.

Director
John Smith
Runtime
Language
English

World premiere

Ada

Local title
Ada
Original title
阿达
Director
Pahriya Ghalip
Country
China
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

During their stay in Beijing, two Uyghur girls attempt to navigate reality through their fantasies. Drinking, dancing, binge-watching classic rom-coms—these activities help them forget the cruelness of the world. Just when they're searching for the meaning of love, they meet an angel in their dreams, but the rendezvous doesn't go as expected.

Director
Pahriya Ghalip
Runtime
Language
Chinese
Subtitles
English
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