Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action 3

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

This year's New Talents Live Action collection offers a remarkable showcase of young artists exploring connection, separation, loss, and redemption with surprising sincerity. These new voices seek that "aha" moment, piecing together fragments of broken lives into a coherent whole. Whether through the recognition of one’s fragility, the sweeping vortex of first love, or a nostalgia for something lost that seemed to be the stock of air in your lungs, these short films capture raw emotions that make life worth living. With unique cinematic styles, the films tell profoundly human stories of heroes searching for meaning and connection, revealing raw, heartfelt moments of clarity.

Screenings

5th Lux Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening070502 / Shorts New Talents võistlusprogramm: lühifilm 3
Q&A duration
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Films

Baltic premiere

The Bride

Local title
Pruut
Original title
Brúðurin
Director
Hjördís Jóhannsdóttir
Country
Iceland
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

On her wedding day in Iceland, a young Estonian bride's world is turned upside down by the arrival of an unexpected guest.

Director
Hjördís Jóhannsdóttir
Runtime
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Take Me To Her

Local title
Lahtine haav
Original title
Złamanie otwarte
Director
Bartłomiej Błaszczyński
Country
Poland
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Basia hides her struggles from her husband. During acting school audition, she meets Ala and cares for her new born baby. After a tough performance and a confrontation with her husband, Basia kidnap Ala's baby, unknowingly endangering it. This shock makes Basia ready for process her grief and start healing.

Director
Bartłomiej Błaszczyński
Runtime
Language
Polish
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Little God

Local title
Väike jumal
Original title
小神明
Director
Zongjie Deng
Country
China
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

At the tender age of ten, ZiLin found faith, conjuring a Little God of her own. Throughout the bloom of her youth, she was steadfast in her promise to this divine companion, striving to be a mother of virtue. Yet, when matrimony beckoned, life's harsh realities and familial pressures compelled her to relinquish the life of a second child they could not provide for.

Director
Zongjie Deng
Runtime
Language
Chinese
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

A Good Start

Local title
Hea algus
Original title
A Good Start
Director
Sarah Blok
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

After a rave, two boys assist a new mom in changing her baby at a petrol station in the early morning.

Director
Sarah Blok
Runtime
Language
English

Baltic premiere

Trains passing by

Local title
Mööduvad rongid
Original title
Kugellager
Director
Artemisia Stella Refle
Country
Austria
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Anne is in her late thirties and has moved back to her mothers home to care for her after an operation. The monotony of her days is broken only by the snapping sound of assembling a ballpoint pen and by the constant ringing of the phone. "You've dialed the wrong number," Anne repeats over and over. Meanwhile her mother has settled in front of the TV. Then one day, in the midst of all the hopelessness and gloom, the phone rings again.

Director
Artemisia Stella Refle
Runtime
Language
German
Subtitles
English

Cura Sana

Local title
Varesele valu
Original title
Cura Sana
Director
Lucía G. Romero
Country
Spain
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Jessica and Alma are two sisters who live a situation of domestic violence at home and therefore treat each other with violence. That will begin to change through one of his routine trips to food stamps on the night of San Juan.

Director
Lucía G. Romero
Runtime
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English
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