Shorts Animation Competition 5

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
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Q&A duration
Screening duration

Films

Estonian premiere

Flatastic

Local title
Flatastic
Original title
Flatastic
Director
Alice Saey
Country
France, Netherlands
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Pushed to their limit, the Manta Rays rise up against Man to take control of the Earth; it is the dawning of a new Flat era.

Director
Alice Saey
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

O/S

Local title
O/S
Original title
O/S
Director
Max Hattler
Country
Germany, Hong Kong
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image of the movie functions as an optical soundtrack. Abstract motion becomes sound. What you hear is exactly what you see.

Director
Max Hattler
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

The Great Annual Party of the Creatures of the Moon

Local title
Suur kuuolendite aastapidu
Original title
Le grand party annuel des créatures de la Lune
Director
Francis Desharnais
Country
Canada
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Humans have finally left the moon! LET'S PARTY! A cheerful film created on a pinscreen.

Director
Francis Desharnais
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Tako Tsubo

Local title
Takotsubo
Original title
Tako Tsubo
Director
Eva Pedroza, Fanny Sorgo
Country
Germany, Austria
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed in order to be relieved of his complicated feelings. After its removal, however, he keeps the heart for a while, thinking that perhaps he can understand it better after all.
Takotsubo syndrome, also known as stress cardiomyopathy or broken-heart syndrome, is a rare, acute and often serious dysfunction of the heart muscle that usually arises from extraordinary emotional or physical stress.

Director
Eva Pedroza, Fanny Sorgo
Runtime
Language
German
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow

Local title
Homme vist ei saja
Original title
It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow
Director
Maria Trigo Teixeira
Country
Portugal, Germany
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Feeling that her mother may no longer be able to live on her own, a woman moves back to her childhood home.
As she tries to adapt to the new situation, her mother continues to drift away.

Director
Maria Trigo Teixeira
Runtime
Language
Portuguese
Subtitles
English

Estonian premiere

The Car That Came Back From the Sea

Local title
Auto, mis tuli merelt tagasi
Original title
The Car That Came Back From the Sea
Director
Jadwiga Kowalska
Country
Switzerland
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Full of exuberance and frivolousness, six friends drive to the Polish Baltic coast and back in a small, dented car. During their trip, their car and their country fall apart. Nevertheless, life goes on. Their journey is interfused with memories and snapshots from the past.

Director
Jadwiga Kowalska
Runtime
Language
English

Baltic premiere

Joko

Local title
Joko
Original title
Joko
Director
Izabela Plucińska
Country
Poland, Germany, Czechia
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Joko is a young man, supporting his entire family from his tanker job. On the second anniversary of his employment, Joko and his fellow workers are surprised by a meeting with unspecified foreign delegates who order...him to carry himself on his back. At first, Joko rebels against this humiliating practice, but he relents under peer pressure and the desire to earn a good salary.

Director
Izabela Plucińska
Runtime
Language
Polish
Subtitles
English
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