Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-Action 1

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

In the 2023 New Talents selection, young auteurs from across borders speak of loss and the search for identity, taking us on a wild ride of different approaches to committing events to memory and challenging familiar modes of storytelling. This programme is about finding a way for the filmmaker's story to disrupt the status quo and remind viewers that the real power of change lies within them.

The common thread in all the selected works by emerging filmmakers is the ambiguity of choice. Stand up or remain a silent witness. Rebel or submit to reality. It is about the choices that manifest as individual acts of courage, but also those that are thrust upon us against our will. The beauty of all these creative visions lies in their balance of sympathy and hostility toward a world on fire, and in their shared, unyielding hope that the humanity in us always has a chance to have its last say.

Screenings

4th Lux Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening050401 / Shorts New Talents võistlusprogramm: lühifilm 1
Q&A duration
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Films

SAAB

Local title
Saab
Original title
SAAB
Director
Liisbeth Kala
Country
Estonia
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

This short film investigates the aesthetics of boredom and states of slowness in the context of everyday poetics. What is it like to capture feelings and states of being on camera? What happens when so little is said and so much is felt?

Director
Liisbeth Kala
Runtime
Language
Estonian
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Stuck Together

Local title
Seotud
Original title
Stuck Together
Director
Anna Wowra
Country
Czechia
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Three friends from a small town with no prospects all dream of leaving. Only one of them gets the chance. Will their friendship survive?

Director
Anna Wowra
Runtime
Language
Czech
Subtitles
English
Trailer

Estonian premiere

Dreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays

Local title
Valendav haav
Original title
La Herida Luminosa
Director
Christian Avilés
Country
Spain
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Sun starved teenagers take on a dreamy trip to the Balearic islands in the pursuit of light and warmth. They must absorb it and be a vessel in order to transport it back to their heavy clouded kingdom.

Director
Christian Avilés
Runtime
Language
English
Subtitles
English
Trailer

Estonian premiere

Bye Bye Bowser

Local title
Hüvasti, Bowser!
Original title
Bye Bye Bowser
Director
Jasmin Baumgartner
Country
Austria
Year
2023
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Punksinger Luna rebels against the indifference of her artsy friends by writing a song about Laugo, the construction worker from across the street.
The collision of the worlds of affluent neglect and everyday work leads to a dramatic downfall.

Director
Jasmin Baumgartner
Runtime
Language
German
Subtitles
English

Baltic premiere

Finn's Heel

Local title
Finni kand
Original title
Finn's heel
Director
Cato Kusters
Country
Belgium
Year
2022
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2023
Programme
Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action

Arthur decides it is time to become a man. He signs up for a boxing class. There he meets Finn, the son of the coach. When Finn is pushed in Arthur's direction by a trick of fate and a sprained ankle, a mutual admiration arises.

Director
Cato Kusters
Runtime
Language
Dutch
Subtitles
English