Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival sub-festival announces 115 titles across five different competition as PÖFF Shorts (17th-25h November 2020) celebrates its first year of being an Academy Award qualifying festival.
The 2020 edition of PÖFF Shorts, an official sub-festival of the A-List Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, has revealed the films which will be part of its six competitions. More than 110 short films and animations will be screened between 17th and 25th November both online and in cinemas.
Alongside giving all the films the chance to win the Grand Prix in their respective programmes, PÖFF Shorts is also a qualifying festival for BAFTA, the European Film Awards and – for the first time, beginning this year in – the Academy Awards.
Grete Nellis, the Head of PÖFF Shorts:
“The world´s struggles emanate from the authors´ stories as they always do, allowing us to look at the world in a different way. This year we perhaps see it more than ever. But whether it is despite of or due to the global circumstances, we are in it together. With this year being the first year of PÖFF Shorts being an Academy Award qualifying festival, we are proud to be a part of this diverse community."
In the PÖFF Shorts Live Action section, 58 films will give audience the chance to see brand new work alongside films that have already won plaudits on the circuit across two competitions.
In the PÖFF Shorts Animation Competition, 57 films showcasing an eclectic range of styles and techniques will be screened. For the first time, 10 animation films will vie for the Jury Prize for Best Children’s Film.
Information on the awards and the PÖFF Shorts juries will be announced in the coming days, as well the candidates for the National Competition and the rest of the films screening in the PÖFF Shorts side programmes.
PÖFF Shorts will run from 17th-25th November and takes place both live and online.
PÖFF SHORTS LIVE ACTION COMPETITION
3 MINUTES OF SILENCE (Dir. Ben Price, United Kingdom, 2020, Fiction, BP)
BEAR HILL PATH (Dir. Tatjana Moutchnik, Germany, Iceland, 2020, Fiction, IP)
BETWEEN YOU AND MILAGROS (Dir. Mariana Saffon, Colombia, 2020, Fiction, BP)
CARRIE'S DOING GREAT (Dir. Alex Salkicevic, Bryce Kraehenbuehl, Australia, 2020, Fiction, BP)
DANIEL (Dir. Claire van Beek, New Zealand, 2019, Fiction, BP)
DAVID (Dir. Zachary Woods, United States, 2020, Fiction, BP)
DROUGHT (Dir. Remi Itani, Lebanon, UK, 2020 Fiction, BP)
EGGSHELLS (Dir. Slava Doytcheva, Bulgaria, 2020, Fiction, BP)
THE EXPLOSION OF A SWIMMING RING (Dir. Tommi Seitajoki, Finland, 2020, Fiction, BP)
FERAL (Dir. Bojana Babić, Serbia, 2020, Fiction, BP)
FIVE TIGER (Dir. Nomawonga Khumalo, South Africa, 2020, Fiction, WP)
GOOD THANKS, YOU? (Dir. Molly Manning Walker, United Kingdom, 2020, Fiction, BP)
HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION (Dir. Zhannat Alshanova, Kazakhstan, 2020, Fiction, BP)
HOW WE WAKE UP (Dir. Helen Takkin, Estonia, 2019, Fiction, WP)
I, TONY (Dir. Argyro Nicolaou, Margaux Fitoussi, Cyprus, 2019, Documentary, EP)
IT'S NOTHING (Dir. Anna Maguire, United Kingdom, 2019, Fiction, BP)
THE LAMB OF GOD (Dir. David Pinheiro Vicente, Portugal, 2020, Fiction, BP)
THE LAST IMAGE OF FATHER (Dir. Stefan Djordjevic, Serbia, 2019, Fiction)
MAN OF THE HARVEST (Dir. Orion Eshel, Luther Clayton, United States, 2020, Fiction, WP)
MONEY HONEY (Dir. Issac Knights-Washbourn, New Zealand, 2020, Fiction, BP)
MOUNTAIN CAT (Dir. Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Mongolia, 2020, Fiction, BP)
ONE MANGO PLEASE (Dir. Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Russian Federation, 2020, Fiction, WP)
PILGRIMS (Dir. Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari, Turkey, 2020, Fiction, BP)
RED ANTS BITE (Dir. Elene Naveriani, Switzerland, Georgia, 2019, Fiction, BP)
TEEN HORSES (Dir. Valérie Leroy, France, 2019, Fiction, BP)
THE TONGUES (Dir. Marja Bål Nango, Norway, 2019, Fiction, BP)
VOICES APART (Dir. David Heinemann, Elvina Nevardauskaite, Lithuania, 2020, Documentary, WP)
WHEN I DANCE, THE EARTH TREMBLES (Dir. Otto Lazić-Reuschel, Germany, 2020, Fiction, IP)
WHITE EYE (Dir. Tomer Shushan, Israel, 2019, Fiction, BP)
YAMB (Dir. Winnele Veyret, France, 2020, Fiction, WP)
PÖFF SHORTS ANIMATION COMPETITION
4 NORTH A (Dir. Jordan Canning, Howie Shia, Canada, 2020, BP)
ANNA, CAT-AND-MOUSE (Dir. Varya Yakovleva, Russian Federation, 2020, BP)
ARKA (Dir. Natko Stipanicev, Croatia, 2020, BP)
CAREFUL (Dir. Alice Saey, France, 2020, BP)
CARROUSEL (Dir. Jasmine Elsen, Belgium, 2020, BP)
THE CHIMNEY SWIFT (Dir. Frédéric Schuld, Germany, 2020, BP)
COLDSHOT (Dir. Evin Collis, Canada, 2020, EP)
CONVERSATIONS WITH A WHALE (Dir. Anna Samo, Germany, 2020, WP)
CRAB (Dir. Shiva Sadegh Asadi, Iran, 2020, BP)
THE FABRIC OF YOU (Dir. Josephine Lohoar Self, United Kingdom, 2019)
FANTASMIA (Dir. Luise Fiedler, Germany, 2019, BP)
FLESH (Dir. Camila Kater, Brazil, 2019, BP)
FRIEND OF A FRIEND (Dir. Zachary Zezima, France, 2019, BP)
GON, THE LITTLE FOX (Dir. Takeshi Yashiro, Japan, 2019, BP)
HORACIO (Dir. Caroline Cherrier, France, 2020, WP)
IT WASN'T THE RIGHT MOUNTAIN, MOHAMMED (Dir. Mili Pecherer, France, 2019, BP)
IT´S ALL THE SALT´S FAULT (Dir. María Cristina Pérez, Colombia, 2020, BP)
JUST A GUY (Dir. Shoko Hara, Germany, 2020, BP)
KAPAEMAHU (Dir. Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe WIlson ,United States, 2019, BP)
KKUM (Dir. KIM Kang-min, Republic of Korea, 2020, BP)
THE MAN AND THE HEAD (Dir. Nilas Røpke Driessen, Denmark, 2020, BP)
MILD MADNESS, LASTING LUNACY (Dir. Marine Laclotte, France, 2020, BP)
THE MISTRESS OF THE COPPER MOUNTAIN (Dir. Dmitry Geller, Russia Federation, 2020)
MY GALACTIC TWIN GALACTION (Dir. Sasha Svirsky, Russian Federation, 2020, BP)
PRECIOUS (Dir. Paul Mas, France, 2020)
PUSH THIS BUTTON IF YOU BEGIN TO PANIC (Dir. Gabriel Böhmer, United Kingdom, 2020, BP)
SERIAL PARALLELS (Dir. Max Hattler, Hong Kong, 2019, BP)
THE SIX (Dir. Chen Xi / An Xu, China, 2019, BP)
SOUVENIR SOUVENIR (Dir. Bastien Dubois, France, 2020, BP)
TIE (Dir. Alexandra Ramires ( Xá ), Portugal, 2020, BP)
WASHING MACHINE (Dir. Alexandra Májová, Czech Republic, 2020, BP)
XYLEM (Dir. Michael Hughes, United Kingdom, 2019, BP)
NEW TALENTS COMPETITION: SHORT FILM
22:47 LINIE 34 (Dir. Michael Karrer, Switzerland, 2019, Fiction, BP)
ANITA (Dir. Sushma Khadepaun, United States, 2020, Fiction, BP)
THE AUDITION (Dir. Guy Lichtenstein, Austria, 2019, Fiction, BP)
BACKWARDS (Dir. Marco Augelli United Kingdom 2019 Fiction BP
BEFORE OUR TIME COMES (Dir. Chloé Terren, France, 2019, Fiction, EP)
BROKEN ROOTS (Dir. Alberto Gross, Spain, 2019, Fiction, BP)
CARRIE (Dir. Emma Lindahl, Poland, 2020, Fiction, BP)
INFRACTION (Dir. Marion Decoste, Mickael Nezreg, Manon Ryckelynck, Maiwen Koskas, Jeremie Hannoah, Florian Morelli, Raphael Halle & Aurelie Vanden Borren, France, 2019, Fiction, BP)
KITTY (Dir. Maria Pawlikowska, United Kingdom, 2019, Fiction, BP)
LIGHT FLUCTUATIONS (Dir. Egor Voronin, Russian Federation, 2020, Fiction, WP)
MY DEAR CORPSES (Dir. German Golub, Estonia, 2020, Fiction, BP)
PAPER PROMISES (Dir. Uzair Amjad, Finland, 2020, Fiction, IP)
PATISOTAM (Dir. Kio Shijiki (志自岐希生), Japan, 2020, Fiction, IP)
PERFECT BODY (Dir. Jessica Pupo, France, 2019, Fiction, BP)
THE PUBIC HAIR (Dir. Carolin Glomp, Germany, 2020, Fiction, BP)
RICE & BREAD (Dir. Greta Griniūtė, United Kingdom, 2019, Fiction, BP)
ROCK BOTTOM (Dir. Syver Flem, Norway, 2019, Fiction, IP)
SETTLING THE SCORE (Dir. Zuzanna Grajcewicz Poland 2019 Fiction BP
THE SCHOOL BUS (Dir. Ramazan Kılıç, Turkey, 2019, Fiction, BP)
SHOAL (Dir. Tammes Bernstein, United Kingdom, 2020, Fiction, BP)
THE SIMULATION OF BEING (Dir. Stefan M. Bürkner, Germany, 2020, Fiction, WP)
SPIN (Dir. Jorge G. Camarena, United States, 2020, Fiction, WP)
SUN DOG (Dir. Dorian Jespers, Belgium, 2020, Fiction)
THE THIRD PERSON (Dir. Pouya Aminpouri, Iran, 2019, Fiction, BP)
THEY WON'T LAST (Dir. Portlynn Tagavi, United States, 2019, Fiction, BP)
VLADA GOES TO LONDON (Dir. Arti Savchenko, Israel, 2020, Fiction, WP)
WEDDING WALTZ (Dir. Severi Koivusalo, Finland, 2019, Fiction, IP)
WHO GOES THERE? (Dir. Astrid Thorvaldsen, United Kingdom, 2020, Fiction, BP)
NEW TALENTS COMPETITION: ANIMATION
ARMED LULLABY (Dir. Yana Ugrekhelidze, Germany, 2019, BP)
BLACK SHEEP BOY (Dir. James Molle, France, 2019, BP)
DÉJEUNER SUR L'HERBE (Dir. Jocelyn Charles, Jules Bourgès, Nathan Harbonn-Viaud, Pierre Rougemont, France, 2019, BP)
FOREVER (Dir. Mitch McGlocklin, United States, 2020, BP)
HIT AND RUN (Dir. Hannah Brewerton, United Kingdom, 2020, BP)
I'M HERE (Dir. Julia Orlik, Poland, 2020)
INSIDE ME (Dir. Maria Trigo Teixeira, Germany, 2019, BP)
MARBLES (Dir. Natalia Spychala, Poland, 2019, BP)
MONACHOPSIS (Dir. van Loon Liesbet, Belgium, 2020, BP)
NAKED (Dir. Kirill Khachaturov, Russian Federation, 2019)
NIGHT SHIFT (Dir. Linda Stūre, Latvia, 2019)
OBSERVATION POINT (Dir. Aleksander Jozefczyk, Poland, 2019, BP)
PEARL DIVER (Dir. Margrethe Danielsen, Norway, 2020, BP)
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN (Dir. Natalia Durszewicz, Poland, 2020, BP)
UN DIABLE DANS LA POCHE (Dir. Antoine Bonnet & Mathilde Loubes, France, 2019, BP)
KIDS ANIMATION COMPETITION
BENCH (Dir. Rich Webber, United Kingdom, 2020, BP)
CORNSTALK (Dir. Anastasiia Zhakulina, Russian Federation, 2020)
EATEN (Dir. Mohsen Rezapour, Iran, 2019, BP)
FRIENDS (Dir. Florian Grolig, Germany, 2019, BP)
HOPUS (Dir. Lucie Kokoliová, Czech Republic, 2019, BP)
MATILDA AND THE SPARE HEAD (Dir. Ignas Meilūnas, Lithuania, 2020)
ONE STORMY NIGHT (Dir. Gil Alkabetz, Germany, 2019, BP)
SO BUT NOT SO (Dir. Pedro Brito, Portugal, 2019, IP)
TWIN TREES (Dir. Emmanuel Ollivier, France, 2020, IP)
YOU ARE NOT A KIWI (Dir. Maria Saveleva, Estonia, 2020)
WP – World Premiere
IP – International Premiere
BP – Baltic Premiere
EP – Estonian Premiere