Vitamins

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025

PÖFF Shorts Vitamin Pills! Your yearly dose of shorts that will perk you up no end, a delightful concoction of suspense and silliness that will get you through the year ahead. And even better, there’s no reason to consult a Doctor – just buy yourself a ticket and come and enjoy the ultra-short shorts that will fill you full of energy.

Screenings

Screening101720 / Vitamiinilaks
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Films

Feet Up

Local title
Tagurpidi
Original title
Feet Up
Director
Olli Ilpo Salonen
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

When gravity is flipped for all children and their world turns upside down, the ceiling becomes the floor and the floor becomes the ceiling!

Director
Olli Ilpo Salonen
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Al Fresco

Local title
Al fresco
Original title
Al Fresco
Director
Ignacio Rodó
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Large room in a dream apartment. Unbeatable location. Ready to move in. Plenty of light.

Director
Ignacio Rodó
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I Walked Through The Wall

Local title
Ma kõndisin läbi seina
Original title
I Walked Through The Wall
Director
Pablo Larcuen
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A wife and mother who feels trapped in a life of service to her family, accidentally discovers the power to walk through walls.

Director
Pablo Larcuen
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Hero

Local title
Kangelane
Original title
Hero
Director
Andrew Cutcliffe
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A man stuck in traffic witnesses an altercation taking place on an apartment balcony, he decides to intervene.

Director
Andrew Cutcliffe
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Upper Current

Local title
Hoovusega kaasa
Original title
Upper Current
Director
Gregory O'Reilly
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A hit-and-run spirals into a nightmarish struggle against fate as a man’s desperate attempt to cover his crime leads him into the merciless grip of the open sea.

Director
Gregory O'Reilly
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Unusable Stock Footage

Local title
Kasutuskõlbmatud arhiivikaadrid
Original title
Det knallar och småspringer
Director
Mattias Engqvist
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A photographer is on a remote island to capture some stock footage. Behind the camera he has several interactions with the locals that leads him to reflect on himself.

Director
Mattias Engqvist
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Undeletable

Local title
Kustutamatu
Original title
Undeletable
Director
Benjamin Blaine, Christopher Blaine
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Emma has to inform her Dad's recently confessed lover that he has died but the painful mistakes she makes whilst recording this answerphone message confronts her with a brutal truth about the remorseless forward nature of time. A comedy.

Director
Benjamin Blaine, Christopher Blaine
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Whistle

Local title
Vile
Original title
Whistle
Director
Ainsley James Cannon
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A short, surreal comedy-horror film set to a heightened ASMR and abstract soundscape. A glimpse inside the working of a neurodiverse brain…trying to cope with life, having become gripped by their acute OCD, ADHD and Misophonia.

Director
Ainsley James Cannon
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Best Friends Forever

Local title
Parimad sõbrad igavesti
Original title
Amigas para siempre
Director
Alicia Marina, Anna Mitjà
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

On a Christmas night, Lili and Marleen are forced to reassess the nature of their friendship and the unwritten rules that define it.

Director
Alicia Marina, Anna Mitjà
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1 in 5 Sheep

Local title
Üks viiest lambast
Original title
1 in 5 Sheep
Director
James Button
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

An artist in sheep's clothing.

Director
James Button
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