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Tag: 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: PÖFF Shorts

Occhio

Giulia Falciani
2024

Joshua Bogatin - 20-11-2024

The road towards eye damage recovery is a protracted and painful one, eye-opening documentary finds out - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Being John Smith

Olla John Smith
2024

Joshua Bogatin - 20-11-2024

Possessing the most common name in the Anglophone world isn't quite an advantage, British artist finds out - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

I am a Flower

Ariel Victor Arthanto
2024

Pilleriin Raudam - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: in this poetic animation from Germany, flower people struggle to find their identity, with some refusing to blossom - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Roots Unearthed (Kökleri Dışarıda)

Baran İsmail Ulaş
2024

Anna Tarnašinskaja - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: tribute to the fading culture and identity of rural communities seeks to memorialise the fleeting beauty of life - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Ada

Pahriya Ghalip
2024

Anastasia Senina - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Chinese film offers a playful yet introspective exploration of two young Uyghur women’s journey to understand love - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Min’s Day Off

Joāo Londres
2024

Eik Tammemäe  - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: a loner delivers a sorrowful karaoke rendition, eliciting little empathy from the apathetic audiences - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Nostalgia in Red

Carmen-Louise Suuroja
2024

Milani Perara - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Estonian film offers a quiet and compelling exploration of memory and longing ,narrated within the progression of one single night - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

August

Pauline Kokla
2024

- 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: all-male family of three grapples with grief, alcohol, the inability to communicate and to move on - Estonian drama premieres in the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Jackpot

Vasile Todinca, Vlad Popa
2024

Madli Raig - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: two Romanian workers ponder the repercussions of hitting the jackpot, while imprisoned inside a cacophony of urban sounds - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Driving Lessons

Anastasiya Gruba
2024

Ursula Toomri - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: father and daughter share life lessons as they navigate the war-ravaged streets of their city - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

When They Bloom

Gvozden Ilic
2024

Astrid Mutt - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: gorgeous feelings blossom with the arrival of the summer sun, in this wispy teen drama from Serbia - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Actor

Damjan Kozole
2024

Justine Fruytier - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: an actor is mysteriously tied to the fate of his characters, in this cleverly structured Slovenian film - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Cry For Me

Annina Juuso
2024

Piia Parktal - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Estonian filmmaker shines the spotlight on a very old and peculiar tradition, in this intimate, generation-bonding, and therapeutic short film - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Third Wheel (Kolmas Ratas)

Rauno Laikjõe
2024

Grete Kaio - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: audiences are thrown into the heart of a love triangle, in a Estonian film bursting with youthful energy and spontaneity - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Flower’s Journey

Ilanna Barkusky
2024

Heli Valgeväli - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Canadian-born, US-based director celebrates the life cycle of a flower with movement and dance, in a movie bursting with lyricism - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

How Much For This?

Johanna Viskar
2024

Mirel Mesila - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: a beach peddler reassesses his ways after a kind missionary approaches his prospective buyers with a very unusual proposition - Estonian parable is in the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Car That Came Back From the Sea

Jadwiga Kowalska
2024

Tatiana Tarasova - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: minimalistic animation set in Poland during the 1980s shows a drab and listless nation, contrasted against the colourful dreams of Western Europe - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Gender Reveal

Mo Matton
2024

Victor Fraga - 10-08-2024

Three extravagant, non-binary queers struggle to survive a very boring, heteronormative gender reveal party - wacky Canadian short shows in Tallinn [Read More...]