Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation 2

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

Whether there’s no single bone in your body or it’s covered all over by soft colourful fur, this screening is especially for you! The PÖFF Shorts New Talents Competition programme for animated films offers a daring, unexpected and fresh view on an art form that knows no boundaries. It’s always interesting to see how young filmmakers observe the world and what are the trends and topics that influence them to make a film. From a personal approach to imaginary fantasy and non-narrative expression, these animations follow topical subjects as refugee crises, underground cultures and cruel aristocratic pastime sports. Foremost this carefully curated selection of films is a wide scale insight to humanity. Tragic, funny and weird stories teach us once again that bigger than anything is love. A suffocating love.

Screenings

Hall 2 Kino Artis
Screening062203 / Shorts New Talents võistlusprogramm: anima 2
Q&A duration
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Films

Estonian premiere

Headprickles

Local title
Arulagedus
Original title
Headprickles
Director
Katarzyna Miechowicz
Country
Poland
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

If you are being bothered by intrusive thoughts, such as: How many plastic bags are optimal for packing one banana?; What ensures victory in the skeleton competition?; Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Or Should I shower with my socks on? Will I face any consequences?--then - that's great! This short film will give you an answer to at least one of these questions.

Director
Katarzyna Miechowicz
Runtime
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Baltic premiere

Shape of the Elephant

Local title
Elevandi kuju
Original title
Shape of the Elephant
Director
Sam Kuwa
Country
Japan
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

There was an elephant living in my house, but all the adults were avoiding it.

Director
Sam Kuwa
Runtime
Language
Chinese
Trailer

Baltic premiere

Fur

Local title
Karv
Original title
Fur
Director
Zhen Li
Country
USA
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

A crush gone moldy...

Director
Zhen Li
Runtime
Language
English
Trailer

Baltic premiere

Fox Tossing

Local title
Rebaseheide
Original title
Fox Tossing
Director
Zénó Kristóf Mira
Country
Hungary
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

In 17th-century Europe, there was a now-forgotten aristocratic pastime/bloodsport called "fox tossing". Based on this strange cultural phenomenon, the animated short aims to present the hedonistic life of the people of a palace, in which foxes participate as playthings sentenced to death.

Director
Zénó Kristóf Mira
Runtime
Language
English
Trailer

Baltic premiere

The Last Bar

Local title
Viimane baar
Original title
The Last Bar
Director
Arne Hain
Country
Germany
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

Kicked out on his 21st birthday and troubled by his inner demons, Melvin thinks of ending things. But right on the edge of a cliff he finds ‘The Last Bar’, a quirky place of misfits that came for all the same reasons. Sparked by talks and confrontation, his inner journey continues and he has to stand up for himself. At break of dawn, his thoughts of ending his life vanished and he decides to stay a little longer.

Director
Arne Hain
Runtime
Language
English
Trailer

Baltic premiere

Opening Night

Local title
Esietendus
Original title
Premiera
Director
Sara Szymańska
Country
Poland
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

The reunion of a young couple, recently split, stirs up intense emotion as they relive their relationship's troubled past during a theatre afterparty. The deeper they delve into their past, the harder it becomes to resurface back into reality.

Director
Sara Szymańska
Runtime
Language
Polish
Subtitles
English
Trailer

Baltic premiere

Sewing Love

Local title
Armupisted
Original title
Sewing Love
Director
Xu Yuan
Country
Japan
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

The expression of emotional desire called love.

Director
Xu Yuan
Runtime
Trailer

Baltic premiere

Pipes

Local title
Torustik
Original title
Pipes
Director
Kilian Feusi, Jessica Meier, Sujanth Ravichandran
Country
Switzerland
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation

Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe & lands to his surprise in a gay fetish club.

Director
Kilian Feusi, Jessica Meier, Sujanth Ravichandran
Runtime
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