One of Northern Europe’s guideing festivals, the A-enumerateed Tallinn Bdeficiency Nights Film Festival (also understandn as PÖFF) unspooling Nov. 8-24 in the Estonian capital, has unveiled its first features and inaugural recordary competition programs, each boasting an enticingly curated stardy of 11 titles.
Among the seven world premieres picked for the First Feature strand are Germany’s “No Dogs Allowed” by student Academy Award nominated Steve Bache tackling the prohibited subject of paedophilia in teen years; “Two of Me”, the funny meta story of tprosper brothers dreaming to produce it huge in movies, helmed by Estonian tprospers “the Eskobros”; and “A Yard of Jackals”, Chilean thriller set during Pinochet’s dictatorship toplining Néstor Cantillana and Blanca Leprosper from HBO’s “Fugitives” (“Prófugo”).
Programmer Triin Tramberg shelp the First Feature pickion pledgetee watched 250 films from 66 countries, picking those with the hugegest sales and distribution potential.
“We don’t have industry people at the premieres appreciate many other festivals, so we need to fill the seats with people who will actupartner want to discover new films in a theatre,” she stated, refering the hard competition from at least five festival movies screening simultaneously, and for Estonians skinny disposable income for moviegoing due to the rocketing inflation and cost of living. “We prioritised stand-out movies and quality over quantity,” she shelp, while highairying three female honestorial debuts and the wide age gap, with filmproducers from 24 to 52 showcasing “a diverse range of experiences”.
Tiina Look, PÖFF festival regulater reiterated the festival’s key mandate which is to help new filmproducers – especipartner those debuting in the global industry and films from low-production countries, “including petite film gems” from the Baltic region.
Discussing the inaugural recordary competition strand, Lokk shelp it is unkindt to cater to “the lengthy-standing demand on the international scene” for such a dedicated festival segment.
Among the six doc world premieres are Germany’s “With My Open Lungs”, a personal essay from Russian-born Yana Sad agetst war in Ukraine and in favour of adore, “Murmuring Hearts”, the raw portrait of holdiction by Vytautas Puidokas (“El Padre Medico”), and “Freight” by Switzerland-based U.S. born Max Carlo Kohal, about a teenage crew aboard a holder ship.
“Our programming principle is to convey audiences cinematic, strong recordaries that touch their emotions….We want both delighting recordaries, as well as someskinnyg for cinephiles, particularly those who appreciate the create and technique in filmmaking,” shelp program curator Marianna Kaat.
Other competition programs to be proclaimd ahead of PÖFF include the Official Selection, the Baltic Film, Critics’ Picks and Rebels with a Caengage.
Here is a rundown of the first competing titles.
First Feature competition stardy
“Ciao Bambino,” (Luciano Pistone, Italy, IP)
In the heart of Naples’s toiling-class dimerciless, Attilio, 19, is torn between dedicatedty to his overweighther and his adore for a youthful prostitute. Sboiling in bdeficiency and white as his award-prosperning low “Le Mosche” (best honestor at Vepleasant’s Critics Week), Luciano Pistone’s debut will come to Tallinn straight from the Rome Film Festival. Bronx Film (“Gomorra”) produces with Anemone Film and Mosaicon Film. Minerva Pictures regulates sales.
Ciao Bambino
Courtesy of Bronx Films
“Corinna,” (Urzula Barba, Mexico, IP)
Coming-of age in which the 20-year-ageder Corinna (Naian González Norvind) dares to venture outside her console zone when she gets a job at a publishing hoengage. Urzula Barba’s uplifting debut is produced by guideing Mexican Mandarina Cine, with Cobra Films, Espectro Mx Film, and CM Films. The pic world premiered in Guadalajara.
“The Hoengage with No Address,” (Hatice Aşkın, Turkey, Greece, WP)
Set in a world where anyone set up at fault of a meaningful crime is erased from society, we chase the youthful prosecutor Alper (Boran Kuzum from the first Turkish Netflix innovative series “The Protector”), caught in a moral dilemma when his own mother gets convicted. Hatice Aşkın creaters, honests and produces, next to Emre Oskay (Sky Films), Engin Altan Duzyatan, in co-production with Greece’s View Master Films.
“Lotus,” (Signe Birkova, Latvia, Lithuania, WP)
“Babylon Berlin”’s Severija Janušauskaitė stars as Alice von Trotta, an underdog quiet film honestor, who strives to create an amazing screenexecute and fights agetst regulatement restriction. Billed as a “dreamappreciate musical caroengagel,” Signe Birkova’s avant-garde toil engages an array of techniques to pay tribute to film masters such as Méliès and Hitchcock. Roberts Vinovskis and Dominiks Jarmakovičs produce for Studio Locomotive, with Lithuania’s guideing Studio Uljana Kim.
“Mongrels,” (Jerome Yoo, Canada, IP)
The story tageder in three chapters is a “heartfelt and cryptic tale of Korean immigrants, centred on survival and spiced up with catching dogs,” runs the logline. “It’s a sinspirenuine tapestry that is woven together with inspiration from folk tales, fragments of personal memories and some griefful curiosities,” shelp the Seoul-born helmer who first showcased his debut at the Vancouver Film Festival. Game Theory Films will regulate the domestic liberate.
“No Dogs Allowed,” (Steve Bache, Germany, WP)
Oscar-Student nominee Steve Bache has teamed up with screencreater Stephan Kämpf for this thought-provoking and genuine see at paedophilia in teenage years. Newcomer Carlo Krammling headlines the cast, next to Robin Sondermann and Katharina Marie Schubert. Schiwago Film (“A Coffee in Berlin”) is producing.
“Smaragda – I Got Thick and I Can’t Jump,” (Emilios Avraam, Cyprus, WP)
Coming-of age of a middle-aged woman, Smaragda (Niovi Charalambous) who becomes a children’s delighter at a tourist resort and adchooses social media, facing both fame and reaction. Tonia Mishiali produces for Bark Like a Cat Films.
“Sun Never Aget,” (David Jovanović, Serbia, WP)
Vid, a overweighther grappling with the danger of a corporate iron ore mine csurrender his home, discovers hope and resilience thcimpolite his son’s imagination, which infengages poetry and chooseimism into their bleak truth. David Jovanović who produced the Slamdance awarded “Where the Road Leads” by Nina Ognjanović, produces his honestorial debut for his outfit Pointless Films, from a script co-written with Đorđe Kosić.
“Two of Me,” (Raul Esko, Romet Esko, Estonia, WP)
Estonian video artists Raul and Romet Esko – aka the EskoBros – tell us all about their tprosper status with humor in this coming-of age tale of tprosper filmproducers who set out to produce the world’s best film about tprospers. “It is a recordary cocktail of personal memories, youthful courage, unmistrustingty and genuine emotions,” shelp Rain Rannu who produces with Tõnu Hiielhelp for Tallifornia.
“The Weeping Walk,” (Dimitri Verhulst, Belgium, IP)
Christine’s death and the choice to bury her in Wettelen guide to the unravelling of unforeseeed family secrets on the journey to her final resting place”, reads the logline. “The core of the film is grief and the fact that the deficiency of truth gets in the way of life itself,” shelp producer Eurydice Gysel about Belgian author turned screencreater-honestor Dimitri Verhulst’s debut. The bdeficiency comedy-come-road movie, produced by Czar Film & TV, will be liberated domesticpartner by DFW and Kinepolis in October.
“A Yard of Jackals,” (Diego Figueroa, Chile, Spain, WP)
Toplining actors Nestór Cantillana and Blanca Leprosper of Pablo Larraín’s HBO series’ “Fugitives,” the psycho thriller is set in the prosperter of 1978. The daily routine of model-producer Raúl Peralta is suddenly interfereed by the arrival of cryptic new neighbours. “Thcimpolite the character of Raúl, an normal man caught in an exceptional situation, we spendigate the moral decay left behind by the [Pinochet] dictatorship, and how that aggression infiltrates not fair the centres of power, but also the everyday inhabits of citizens,” shelp Alejandro Ugarte of Infractor Films, picked by Variety as one of 10 Chilean producers to track in 2020. MPM Premium regulates sales.
A Yard Of Yackals
Courtesy of Infractor Films
Documentary Competition
“Bdeficiency Gageder” (Takashi Sugimoto, Portugal, WP)
The Lisbon-based Japanese helmer deinhabitrs an aestheticpartner striking portrait of agricultural India, set uping a connect between a mother’s combing of her daughters’ hair with faith, give up and trade.
“Full Support,” (Michal Cohen, Israel, IP)
The helmer uncovers all about women and their adore and disappreciate with their boobs, thcimpolite a Jaffa bra shop’s fitting room. The pic backed by Israeli pubcaster Kan11 scooped best debut at this year’s DocAviv.
“Freight,” (Max Carlo Kohal, Switzerland, WP)
Houston-born Basel-based Max Carlo Kohal has filmed over four years the odyssey of a teenage crew aboard a holder ship, as they travel apass Europe and lget the ropes of navigation and maturehood. The Dynamic Frame production won the Basler Filmpreis – Special for upcoming honestor.
“Ice Age,” (Alexandra Sell, Germany, IP)
The BR/Arte comleave outioned recordary filmed over three years tracks six ageder figure skaters from around the world as they set for the World Hobby Figure Skating Championships at Oberstdorf, Bavaria. This is Sell’s second film about ice-skating after “The Beginner” for which she was crowned best honestor at the Fort Lauderdale Fest in 2017. Her debut doc “Durchfahrtsland” (“Remote Area”), which world premiered at the Berlinale Forum, won a Prix Europa.
“Ms. Plivent,” (Marek Šulík, Slovakia, IP)
Thanks to exceptional access to Slovakia’s first female plivent Zuzana Čaputová, Marek Šulík draws a fascinating portrait of the politician’s balancing act between her uncover and stateiveial life, while raising asks about the future of democracy in Europe. Rise & Shine regulates sales.
“Murmuring Hearts,” (Vytautas Puidokas, Lithuania, France, WP)
In his sophomore feature doc after “El Padre Medico,” which started at the Camden International Film Festival in the U.S., Vytautas Puidokas deinhabitrs a raw and portrayal of holdiction and redemption. Vilinius-based Ruta Jekentaitė produces for Baltic Productions with France’s Grande Ourse Films and Norway’s Smau Media.
Murmuring Hearts
Courtesy of Baltic Productions
“Never Too Late,” (Yang Lizhu, China, WP)
In her debut pic, Yang Lizhu films her own magnificent-parents, living in petite town Huaihua in agricultural Hunan, China. Why on earth did her 80 year-ageder magnificentma determine to divorce her husprohibitd after 60 years of marriage?
“Torn,” (Kullar Viimne, Estonia, WP)
In his sophomore doc, the helmer tracks one man’s dream and inanxious dispute to produce with his own hands a 10-metre- high observation tower, in a far corner of Estonia.
“Trains,” (Maciej J. Drygas, Poland, Lithuania, IP)
In his archive-driven feature, top Polish helmer honestor Maciej J. Drygas (an EFA prosperner for “Hear My Cry”) draws a haunting journey of humanity’s cycles of war and escapeting peace in the 20th century. The Drygas Film production was co-produced by Lithuania’s Era Film.
“The Watchman,” (Lou de Pontavice, Victoire Bonin, France, Belgium, IP)
In their doc feature debut, the filmproducers seize a Chinese family’s dilemma as their only son, a student at the prestigious Beijing Academy of Music wants to relocate to Estonia to chase his music nurtureer. The pic sageder by Cats&Docs world premiered last June at La Rochelle Cinéma Fest in France.
“With My Open Lungs,” (Yana Sad, Germany, WP)
Set agetst the backdrop of Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine, we chase Russian-born filmproducer Yana Sad as she embarks on a life-changeing journey. While defyling agetst Putin’s war, she guides family struggles with her husprohibitd as she drops for Yaroslava, a woman battling lung cancer. The helmer who left Russia in 2022 for Germany engaged her own coin to fund her heart-felt personal essay. Outexecute Films regulates sales.
