Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action 4

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
Screening070503 / Shorts New Talents võistlusprogramm: lühifilm 4
Q&A duration
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Films

World premiere

The Bull

Local title
Pull
Original title
The Bull
Director
Victor Nauwynck
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Cyriel and Marie, a childless married couple, live on an isolated farm. Their laborious, monotonous lives are turned upside down when a highly virile bull is brought onto their farm. While Cyriel is determined to impregnate their cows, Marie develops an unlikely attraction to the bull.

Director
Victor Nauwynck
Runtime
Language
Dutch
Subtitles
English

World premiere

Crawlies

Local title
Putukad
Original title
Gusarapos
Director
Ulysse de Maximy
Country
Mexico
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Crawlies is a soliloquy based on voice recordings of my schizophrenic uncle. An audiovisual exercise of mise en abyme that weaves a patchwork of memories from my childhood, of madness and desire.

Director
Ulysse de Maximy
Runtime
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

The Sea In Between

Local title
Meri meie vahel
Original title
Morje med nama
Director
Lun Sevnik
Country
Slovenia
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

While helping his father with the family business, a disgruntled teenage boy is stuck on a small boat with an older tourist.
As the boy anxiously waits for his father to return with the daily catch, the tourist starts making lewd suggestions.

Director
Lun Sevnik
Runtime
Language
Slovenian
Subtitles
English

Estonian premiere

Hubble's Law

Local title
Hubble'i seadus
Original title
Hablo dėsnis
Director
Arnas Balčiūnas
Country
Lithuania
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

A mute guy starts working at a construction site and struggles to fit in. Tensions rise among the workers, when a colleague gets badly injured.

Director
Arnas Balčiūnas
Runtime
Language
Lithuanian
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Baby Brother

Local title
Väikevend
Original title
Sensibelchen
Director
Berthold Wahjudi
Country
Germany
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Eleven-year-old Benni always has to take crap from his older brother Pascal. But when Pascal has a moment of weakness on New Year's Eve, Benni senses his chance to finally get even - a decision with fatal consequences.

Director
Berthold Wahjudi
Runtime
Language
German
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

When Big People Lie

Local title
Kui suured inimesed valetavad
Original title
When Big People Lie
Director
Gianfranco Fernandez-Ruiz
Country
USA
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Elvis just turned eight and his birthday wish has sort of come true. His single mother Lola has invited an immigrant stranger, Mohammed to live with them for money. The arrangement takes a turn when Lola and Mohammed suddenly marry. Spiraling into a sea of confusion, Elvis navigates his new stepfather while remembering his biological one in flits of collapsing memory and make-believe. A visit from authorities surprises the family, complicating his world and risking everything he knows.

Director
Gianfranco Fernandez-Ruiz
Runtime
Language
English
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