Dedicate the weekend to yourself and treat your senses to a pleasurable cinematic experience. Today's PÖFF programme takes you on a journey around the world!
Today’s PÖFF selection offers both gripping action films as well as fairy-tale like enchanting films. What would “Amelie” look like if it were set on the streets of Mexico? Corina, an unconventional woman, will show you. How far can a child take an adult? “No dogs allowed” dissects the complex faces of sexuality with a sharp honesty. Of course Sunday does not go by without a shamelessly good comedy - "Rakett" takes us straight to the real Lapland in 1984.
Below you will find PÖFF's daily outstanding film recommendations. The complete PÖFF Sunday schedule can be found here!
Director: U. B. Hopfner; country: Mexico
17 Nov, Sunday at 20 at Coca-Cola Plazas
International premiere with the filmmakers
An uplifting journey of a woman daring to venture outside her comfort zone. Corina is 20 years old, lives with her mother, and only leaves the house to take the same steps along the same pavement, past the same coffee shop, to her job at a publishing company where no one notices her. The ugly duckling tale takes a delicate and witty twist in this remarkably clever and uplifting debut film.
Director: M. Tervo; countries: Finland, Estonia
17 Nov, Sunday at 19.30 at Cinema Solaris
Niina, a single mother of two children, ends up working in the local newspaper Sápmi News. Meanwhile, information comes to light that a huge bang from the sky that she has heard may have something to do with a missile that the Soviet Union has fired over the Finnish border. What missile? The events of 1984 unfold in this amusing film. It was made in cooperation between Finland and Estonia.
Director: N. Bergman; counrty: Israel
17 Nov, Sunday at 17.30 at Coca-Cola Plaza
World premiere with the filmmakers
Lazer and Bati with their three children live in an ultra-Orthodox Judaist community where family values are highly esteemed and talking about sex is a taboo. Everyday life for the happy family changes when Lazer falls victim to blackmail. There are photos that compromise the man. There are photos that compromise the man. Orientation does not ask about your religion.
Director: S. Bache; country: Germany
17 nov, Sunday at k17 at Coca-Cola Plaza
World premiere with the filmmakers
Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager, but He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control. Director Steve Bache’s debut is not your ordinary coming-of-age film, confronting taboo subjects that will shake the viewer to the core, asking questions about what we are born as and what life can turn us into.
Director: R. Peppiatt; country: Ireland
17 Nov, Sunday at 13.45 at Apollo Cinema Solaris
When a middle-aged music teacher ends up making rap music with two thugs in tracksuits, will it spark a national movement? The answer is yes – this is exactly how Kneecap was born, an Irish-language rap band whose crazy origin story has made waves around the world. The musicians play themselves in the film. Kneecap is Ireland's nominee for the 2025 Oscars.
Director: V. Alfieri; country: Italy
17 Nov, Sunday at 18.15 at Coca-Cola Plaza
World premiere with the filmmakers
A missing body, a suspicious widower, a relentless inspector. What if the dead aren’t really dead? With gripping performances and atmospheric, noir-like cinematography, this cleverly structured psychological thriller spins a web of deceit, doubt and masterful twists that will keep you guessing until the very end.