The sub-festival of Black Nights Film Festival selected a total of 42 short films to the animation competition programmes, with 27 in the International Animation Competition and the festival's student section entitled New Talents screening 15 animated films.
"There is a programme diversity and an interplay between narrative and more experimental animation shorts. Animation shorts dare to be longer in length, and at the same time, highly accomplished," notes Vassilis Kroustallis, PÖFF Shorts' new animation programme director.
The PÖFF Shorts animation competition will host the Baltic premieres for many acclaimed films including MEMORABLE (France) the Annecy Short Film and Audience Award winner directed by Bruno Collet, and ACID RAIN (Poland 2019) by director Tomek Popakul. a 26-minute experiential trip in Central Eastern Europe that premiered in Sundance and won the Grand Prix at Animafest Zagreb 2019.
Selection highlights include THE PHYSICS OF SORROW (Canada 2019) the latest film by the Oscar-nominated artist Theodor Ushev who received a special mention at 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
The New Talents competition will host a screening of DAUGHTER (Dir. Daria Kascheeva, Czech Republic 2019), a handheld-camera stop-motion film, recently awarded the Student Academy Award 2019.
The international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts comprises of three competition programmes: live action and animation with their respective student sections known as New Talents, and a National Competition to showcase the best of Estonian short form cinema.
The titles for the international short film competition can be found at https://mailchi.mp/poff/short-competition-announced-2019.
Full programme will be revealed online by November 8.
The international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts will be held from November 19-27, 2019.
For more information on PÖFF Shorts go to http://2019shorts.poff.ee/en/english/
For more information on Black Nights Film Festival go to: www.poff.ee
Press accreditation for the 23rd Black Nights Film Festival now open: https://vp.eventival.eu/poff/23
PÖFF Shorts 2018 Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/poffihunt/collections/72157700601395162/
