Shorts Animation Competition 3

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Animation is the art of transformation, and this year's animation competition shorts again transform the personal and the familiar to the universal and the unpredictable.

Animation directors are more and more daring to mix styles and themes; a personal family album becomes an experimental memory trace, and overtourism is debated in a semi-fantastic, semi-real sea environment. Time and space change in animation (the number of experimental animation works here testify to that); but still, films and their directors don't shy away from contemporary, traumatic topics -whose news coverage is all over our screens. The old-time familiar issues (e.g. personal relationships, family) are here looked upon in a meticulously twisted angle. Exploitation in the work environment has risen to be the well-placed focus of a number of animation shorts in our programme. Whether in 2D, 3D, stop-motion, or any other technique variation, expect a welcome transformation of our ordinary world perception.

Screenings

Hall 2 Kino Artis
Screening062202 / Shorts anima võistlusprogramm 3
Screening duration

Films

Baltic premiere

Voiceless

Local title
Hääletu
Original title
Sans Voix
Director
Samuel Patthey
Country
Switzerland
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Dan is a young man who spends a lot of time in his flat. His routine is always accompanied by electronic music pumping through his headphones. But when he steps outside, he feels disconnected from the world around him and only finds solace in nightclubs. Techno music and drugs transport him to a world where he can be himself, where he feels free. One day, he catches the eye of a baby which will change his perception of the world around him.

Director
Samuel Patthey
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Estonian premiere

La Voix des Sirènes

Local title
Sireenide laul
Original title
La Voix des Sirènes
Director
Gianluigi Toccafondo
Country
France, Italy
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

In the heart of the seabed, between rocks and corals primitive seaweed ripples, cradled by the muffled sound of roiling currents. Up there, on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice. So soft and seductive that it's unlike anything we've heard before.

Director
Gianluigi Toccafondo
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

I Died in Irpin

Local title
Ma surin Irpinis
Original title
I Died in Irpin
Director
Anastasiia Falileieva
Country
Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

24 February 2022 my boyfriend and I fled from Kyiv to Irpin. We spent 10 days in blockaded city and managed to escape with the last evacuation convoy. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.

Director
Anastasiia Falileieva
Runtime
Language
Ukrainian
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Families' Albums

Local title
Perealbumid
Original title
Albums de familles
Director
Moïa Jobin-Paré
Country
Canada
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Photographic images, scenes of everyday life. Connected together, a new landscape emerges.

Director
Moïa Jobin-Paré
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Maybe Elephants

Local title
Äkki elevandid
Original title
Maybe Elephants
Director
Torill Kove
Country
Canada, Norway
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

In the ’70s, three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in bustling Nairobi. The family will never be the same.

The film is the creator Torill Kove's playful and loving autobiographical homage to family, adolescence and the therapeutic power of memories, however unreliable.

Director
Torill Kove
Runtime
Language
English
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