Animated Documentaries

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Doc@Shorts

Things are getting real! This program serves the audience a wide range of best recent animated documentaries. Animation blends smoothly strict documentary narration with dramatization of true events in a more fictional manner. It will fluently takes us in a journey beyond time whether we want to travel to the past or to the future and lets us dive inside the mind and soul of the subject. Animated documentary often expresses events in metaphorical level that open up new perspectives for the audience. It’s difficult to imagine any other art form to visualize a physical transition a person goes through and the feeling of being an outsider. The screening takes us to a humoristic trip to the Poland-Belarus border and shuts us in a solitary confinement to listen to inmates’ painful experiences of loneliness. A moving day can be a nostalgic experience. It can also be full of anxiety and demonic mice lurking around the corners. That’s life!

Screenings

Hall 2 Kino Artis
Screening112202 / Animadokid
Q&A duration
Screening duration

Films

Estonian premiere

GIGI

Local title
GIGI
Original title
GIGI
Director
Cynthia Calvi
Country
France
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Doc@Shorts

From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, Gigi tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity.

Director
Cynthia Calvi
Runtime
Language
French
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Between Delicate and Violent

Local title
Õrnuse ja vägivalla vahel
Original title
Zarafet ve Şiddet Arasında
Director
Sirin Bahar Demirel
Country
Netherlands, Turkey
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Doc@Shorts

Can we see the violence of the painter's hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet? Film imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.

Director
Sirin Bahar Demirel
Runtime
Language
Turkish
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

No Room

Local title
Ruumi pole
Original title
Nema mjesta
Director
Jelena Oroz
Country
Croatia
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Doc@Shorts

In this film, cars have legs. Maybe that is why they feel free to use the pavement as they please. There is no room, but could we perhaps be a little more considerate?

Director
Jelena Oroz
Runtime
Language
Croatian
Subtitles
English

International premiere

Mealitancy

Local title
Vastupanuroog
Original title
Plat de résistance
Director
Marie Royer, Zinia Scorier
Country
Belgium, France
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Doc@Shorts

Through audio recordings taken in the field and poetic moving images, the film portrays activists who use food as a tool in their anti-consumerist struggle.

Director
Marie Royer, Zinia Scorier
Runtime
Language
French
Subtitles
English

Inside, the Valley Sings

Local title
Org laulab sinus eneses
Original title
Inside, the Valley Sings
Director
Nathan Fagan
Country
Ireland
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Doc@Shorts

Trapped in the never-ending horror of prolonged solitary confinement, three prisoners seek comfort and escape in the boundless vistas of their own imaginations.

Director
Nathan Fagan
Runtime
Language
English

Estonian premiere

A Border Guard and His Dog

Local title
Piirivalvur ja tema koer
Original title
A Border Guard and His Dog
Director
Pablo Ballarín
Country
Poland, Spain
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Doc@Shorts

A visit to the border between Belarus and Poland

Director
Pablo Ballarín
Runtime
Language
English

Baltic premiere

I Smell A Mouse

Local title
Ma haistan hiirt
Original title
I Smell A Mouse
Director
Iiti Yli-Harja
Country
Finland
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Doc@Shorts

A documentary puppet animation about Iiti’s moving in day. Like a sign from the universe for her poor life choices, there seems to be a nightmarish mouse lurking in the shadows of her new home. Iiti has to get rid of the mouse by whatever means necessary. She arms herself with mouse traps, lethal spray and even an ultrasonic repellent. But the nasty mouse problem just escalates and ultimately leads Iiti to a strange coincidence. Could Iiti be a mouse herself?

Director
Iiti Yli-Harja
Runtime
Language
Finnish
Subtitles
English
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