Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action 2

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

In the 2023 New Talents selection, young auteurs from across borders speak of loss and the search for identity, taking us on a wild ride of different approaches to committing events to memory and challenging familiar modes of storytelling. This programme is about finding a way for the filmmaker's story to disrupt the status quo and remind viewers that the real power of change lies within them.

The common thread in all the selected works by emerging filmmakers is the ambiguity of choice. Stand up or remain a silent witness. Rebel or submit to reality. It is about the choices that manifest as individual acts of courage, but also those that are thrust upon us against our will. The beauty of all these creative visions lies in their balance of sympathy and hostility toward a world on fire, and in their shared, unyielding hope that the humanity in us always has a chance to have its last say.

Screenings

4th Lux Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening060401 / Shorts New Talents võistlusprogramm: lühifilm 2
Q&A duration
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Trailer

Films

World premiere

The Ghost Lullaby

Local title
Kummituse unelaul
Original title
The Ghost Lullaby
Director
Jihyeong Lee
Country
South Korea
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Soonok, a senior living alone, reunites with her daughter Eunryeong who lost contact with Soonok for a long time and her granddaughter, Yeonji. With all the emotions built up after all this time, for whom the lullaby from someone's mouth was sung that night?

Director
Jihyeong Lee
Runtime
Language
Korean
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Dún Laoghaire

Local title
Dún Laoghaire
Original title
Dún Laoghaire
Director
William Lancaster
Country
Ireland
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

A dance of death between a mother and daughter ignites when the daughter attempts to install a new stove in her mother’s house in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.

Director
William Lancaster
Runtime
Language
English
Trailer

European premiere

So They Say

Local title
Nii nad räägivad
Original title
Asi Dicen
Director
Natalia Luque
Country
USA
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Rumors spread like wildfire in a small Chilean town as an aborted fetus is found floating on a lake. A single mother and saleswoman’s values and morals are put to test when she discovers the culprit to be one of her young female clients.

Director
Natalia Luque
Runtime
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English
Trailer

Baltic premiere

An Example

Local title
Näide
Original title
Et Exempel
Director
Selma Sunniva
Country
Denmark
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

In twenty fast paced minutes set in real time, we follow nurse Emma as she arrives for her evening shift at a closed psychiatric facility. It’s a day like any other. Colleagues are out sick, patients are dealing with acute problems and Emma and her co-workers must be creative to get through the shift in the best possible way, but with too many patients and not enough hands, Emma soon realizes that things can go horribly wrong in a blink of an eye.

Director
Selma Sunniva
Runtime
Language
Danish
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Others Remained Silent

Local title
Kõik teised vaikisid
Original title
Drugi so molčali
Director
Matic Štamcar
Country
Slovenia
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

A couple is waiting in the hallway of the veterinary clinic with a dog. Non-verbal communication begins between the visibly frightened woman and the receptionist.

Director
Matic Štamcar
Runtime
Language
Slovenian
Subtitles
English