Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation 2

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

There is a heightened awareness these days, about boundaries. We are told to set them for our own good - they help us avoid discomfort, and create spaces through which we can contextualise the world. They also, however, can limit us.

In the 2024 New Talents selection, the limitless nature of animation is used to highlight and cut across the boundaries between creation and destruction, the concrete and the abstract, the past and the present, ourselves and other people.

Many films focus on the boundary between parent and child -will our parents understand our desire to bloom? Will they be alright without us? Will they ever stop braiding our hair so tightly?

Other films dwell on our bodies. The temples, prisons, and vessels that present a boundary between us and the world we live in, one which we often transcend. The line between real and unreal vanishes, the spaces around us break down and reform, we weave between memories, and buried desires get pulled to the surface like a carrot.

Screenings

Hall 2 Kino Artis
Screening062203 / Shorts New Talents võistlusprogramm: anima 2
Q&A duration
Screening duration

Competition presented by:

Films

Baltic premiere

Children of the Bird

Local title
Linnulapsed
Original title
A madár gyermekei
Director
Júlia Tudisco
Country
Hungary
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

A fictional mythological movie about the birth and death of our planet. The movie shows things happening on the planet through the eyes of two naive god figures; a wild girl who has the power of creation, and a shy boy who has the power of destruction. This is not a fight between “bad” and “good”, but a game between two equal parts to find harmony, which seems to work well until a new issue enters the story: the human race.

Director
Júlia Tudisco
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Moving Mountains

Local title
Liigutades mägesid
Original title
Moving Mountains
Director
Jessica Poon
Country
Germany
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

Tiny people wander across an endless waterscape and move mountains.

Director
Jessica Poon
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Searching for the 5th Direction

Local title
Viienda elemendi otsinguil
Original title
Searching for the 5th Direction
Director
Matthias Schüpbach
Country
Switzerland
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

The search for the self and the memories and emotions associated with it lead us through forgotten and dark places of an inner world. We move in an apparent interactivity, generated by the camera work, through spaces created from around 150 3D scans, torn between curiosity and resistance.

Director
Matthias Schüpbach
Runtime
Language
English

Baltic premiere

Adiós

Local title
Adiós
Original title
Adiós
Director
José Prats
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

During a hunting day in rural Spain, a father struggles to accept that his adult son is moving abroad, dealing with the feelings of being left alone.

Director
José Prats
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

In Loving Memories

Local title
Mälestamine
Original title
In Loving Memories
Director
John Eaton
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

A young boy tries to comfort his grieving mother.

Director
John Eaton
Runtime

Baltic premiere

The Announced Tragedy

Local title
Ettekuulutatud tragöödia
Original title
จงสวัสดิ์
Director
Rujitanont Thanut
Country
Finland, Belgium, Portugal, Australia, Thailand
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

A recollection of the director's fragmented memory he had at the time when his grandmother passed away. The film is a space-time conservation of his house in Bangkok, Thailand.

Director
Rujitanont Thanut
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Sphere Supreme

Local title
Kõrgeim sfäär
Original title
Sphere Supreme
Director
Hasan Pastaci
Country
Belgium, Turkey
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

Follow Arama, guided by a mystical pomegranate tree, meeting a mysterious man. Along the way, Arama faces parts of himself, slowly putting together the puzzle of his identity. But before he is able to put everything together, will he manage to keep himself in one piece?

Director
Hasan Pastaci
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Cherry, Passion Fruit

Local title
Kirss, granadill
Original title
Cherry, Passion Fruit
Director
Renato José Duque
Country
Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Brazil
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

Nature contains both the raging fire and the flowing waterfall. Inside a mysterious rainforest, lust takes shape between love and pain. Would you face your haunting desire?

Director
Renato José Duque
Runtime
Language
Portuguese
Subtitles
English

Estonian premiere

Carrotica

Local title
Carrotica
Original title
Carrotica
Director
Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Country
Germany
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

A mother and son navigate their lust and loneliness in the queerest of ways.

Director
Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Runtime
Language
English
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