Rebels With Their Shorts II

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels with a Cause Competition, Rebels With Their Shorts

These films will take part in Rebels With A Cause, a competition section of the Black Nights Film Festival dedicated to films that defy the traditional modes of filmmaking. The selection provides a mixture of new filmmakers who will lead the way in cinema over the coming years and more established talent. Each short will be eligible for the honorific prize of Best Rebels Short chosen by the Rebels With A Cause jury members.

Screenings

7th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening130703 / Lühikesed mässajad 2
Q&A duration
Screening duration

Films

Baltic premiere

Angie

Local title
Angie
Original title
Angie
Director
Anthony Coveney
Country
Canada
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

Angie, a bigorexic bodybuilder at the end of her career, discovers an unusual growth in her back. While consulting the doctor's office, she is told that she will have to cut her lifestyle habits in order not to deteriorate her case. Angie takes a disturbing look at body obsession, while exploring narcissism and insatiablity.

Director
Anthony Coveney
Runtime
Language
French
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Mauled By A Dog

Local title
Koerarünnak
Original title
Mauled By A Dog
Director
Sion Thomas
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

Across one long night, after a young woman has her face ripped off in an alleyway, her call centre worker boyfriend goes on a surreal journey through the underbelly of a South Wales Valleys town to take revenge on her attacker – a dog.

Director
Sion Thomas
Runtime
Language
English

Baltic premiere

Lick A Wound

Local title
Haavade lakkumine
Original title
Les animaux vont mieux
Director
Nathan Ghali
Country
France
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

A mysterious community of animals engages in rituals in the basements of a church, sheltered from humans. These animals have chosen to live self-sufficiently in this cellar.

Director
Nathan Ghali
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

The Posthuman Hospital

Local title
Posthumaanne haigla
Original title
The Posthuman Hospital
Director
Junha KIM
Country
Republic of Korea
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

The film showcases medical records of posthuman patients in an imaginary hospital through experimental digital images.

Director
Junha KIM
Runtime
Language
no dialogue

Baltic premiere

Dinosauria, We

Local title
Meie, saurused
Original title
Dinosauria, We
Director
Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer
Country
Canada
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

It is an experimental short film that explores the consequences of human kind corruption, ultra capitalism and the exploitation of natural ressources in a dystopian post-apocalyptic vision of the end of the world imagine by poet Charles Bukowski.

Director
Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer
Runtime
Language
English

Baltic premiere

High Street Repeat

Local title
Peatänava mitu nägu
Original title
High Street Repeat
Director
Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

The film uses a range of animation techniques to explore the story of migration and enterprise, told through the changing face of Britain’s high street.

Director
Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill
Runtime
Language
English

Baltic premiere

The Point of Permanence

Local title
Püsivuspunkt
Original title
The Point of Permanence
Director
Nana Kawabata
Country
Japan
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2024
Programme
Rebels With Their Shorts

From the creation of the human race to its final destination of being trapped in the point of permanence.

Director
Nana Kawabata
Runtime
Language
no dialogue
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