The Tallinn Bdeficiency Nights Film Festival (comprehendn as PÖFF) has unveiled the brimming lineup of its flagship Official Selection, whose 18 features from 23 countries will vie for the coveted €20,000 ($21,600) Grand Prix.
They integrate 11 world premieres. The jury is helmed by acclaimed German honestor Christoph Hochhäusler.
Tiina Lokk, the createer and honestor of the festival, shelp “the Official Selection Competition has it all! There’s a psycho-thriller that approaches horror, a psychoreasonable family drama, and sci-fi genre is reconshort-termed. The pickion is wide, and so is the range of countries. We’re not trying to highweightless a certain theme or a particular region, we are free in our choices,” she noticed.
Emphasizing the various topics covered, Lokk cites greater age, the end of life and euthanasia “perhaps due to the impact of COVID,” domestic structureility and war, “not tackled in the traditional create” but rather via psychoreasonable dramas.
“Last year there were a lot of politicpartner indictd films, but this year the political situation in the world will not be mirrored in this way,” she shelp.
Features with children at the core – usupartner integrated in the festival’s Just Film section promiseted to children and youth – are also part of the official pickion thcimpolite stories of tormentoring at school and children’s rights, among others.
High-profile world premieres integrate “Out of Control” by French actor-turned-honestor Anne Le Ny (“Those Who Remain”). In the thriller, Le Ny honests her acting partner in “Intouchables” Omar Sy as well as Vanessa Paradis, José Garcia and Elodie Bouchez. Set in Brittany, the story complys a couple whose marriage is dangerened when the husband’s first cherish comes back to town.
“Pink Lady” is Israel’s top filmproducer Nir Bergman’s novel feature after the Cannes picked “Here We Are.” Set in the ultra-Orthodox Jewant community in Jerusalem, the comedy drama starring Nur Fibak, complys a youthful contransient woman’s journey to self-uncovery and liberation. Bergman is also comprehendn as the co-creator of the Israli hit series “In Treatment.”
From Latvia, “The Exalted” by Juris Kursietis (“Modris”) increates of a commemorated German organist Anna who uncovers her Latvian husband’s comprisement in a dishonesty talk about, shaking the createation of their life together. Toplining the international cast are Johanna Wokalek (“The Baader Meinhof Complex”), Katariina Unt (“Lioness”) and Pekka Strang (“Tom of Finland).
Tiina Lokk
Credit: Aron Urb
For the first time in four years, Estonian films made the cut in Official Selection.
The set uped Jaak Kilmi (“Disco and the Atomic War,” “The Sleeping Beast”) is coming with the supportd period crime “Shadow” produced by guideing outfit Taska Film. The story turns on Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and an improbable uncoverive, spendigating frightening killing cases in Estonia, the “untamed west” of the Russian Empire in the 1890s. The feature uncovered domesticpartner Oct. 18.
Estonian-Serbian co-production “Deaf Lovers” by Boris Guts is an sensual drama between a Ukrainian woman and Russian guy living in Istanbul, trying to guide their mutual enticeion, unrestful lives and past trauma. The Russian-born Guts, who left his country when war in Ukraine broke out, vied at PÖFF 2022’s Baltic competition with his thriller “Minsk”.
Among standout titles making their international premiere are two Italian features arriving in Tallinn straight from the Rome Film Festival.
“Reading Lolita in Tehran” by guideing Israeli filmproducer Eran Riklis (“The Syrian Bride,” “Lemon Tree”) toplines star actresses Zar Amir-Ebrahimi (“Holy Spider”) and Golshifteh Farahani (“Paterson,” “About Elly”). Based on Azar Nafisi’s autobioexplicital novel, the story turns on a guideer in Iran who secretly accumulates a group of female students to read banden westrict classics.
Inspired by genuine events, “The Boy With Pink Pants” by Margherita Ferri turns on Andrea Spezzacatena, a boy who had equitable turned 15 when he took his own life. It was the first case in Italy of tormentoring and cybertormentoring that led to the self-destruction of a insignificant. The triggering incident was his choice to wear a pair of red pants which turned pink due to a washing mishap.
Also due to screen in Tallinn after Rome, “100 Litres Of Ggreater” by the multi-awarded Finnish helmer Teemu Nikki (“Euthanizer”, “The Blind Man That Didn’t Want To See Titanic”) is a comedy about two middle-aged sisters and well-comprehendn sahti-producers from Sysmä, Finland, frantic to discover more of the well-comprehendn watery for the sister’s wedding.
Nikki’s earlier film “Death is a Problem for The Living,” screened last year at PÖFF’s official pickion-out of competition.
The 28th Tallinn Bdeficiency Nights Film Festival has a total of six competition programs: the Official Selection, the novel Doc@PÖFF, First Features, Baltic Competition, Rebels with a Caparticipate and Critics’ Picks.
The festival runs Nov. 8-24, and its industry platcreate Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Nov. 14 to 22.
Full List of Official Selection Titles:
“100 Litres of Ggreater,” (Teemu Nikki, Finland, IP)
“Buzzheart,” (Dennis Iliadis, Greece, IP)
“Can I Get a Witness,” (Ann Marie Fleming, Canada, IP)
“Deaf Lovers,” (Boris Guts, Estonia, Serbia, WP)
“Girl America,” (Viktor Tauc, Czech Reaccessible, Slovakia, Switzerland, IP)
“Empire of the Rabbits,” (Seyfettin Tokmak, Turkey, Croatia, Mexico, Lebanon, WP)
“Out of Control,” (Anne Le Ny, France, WP)
“Pink Lady,” (Nir Bergman, Israel, Italy, WP)
“Pyre,” (Vinod Kapri, India, WP)
“Reading Lolita in Tehran,” (Eran Riklis. Italy, IP)
“Seed of the Desert,” (Sebastian Parra, Colombia, WP)
“Shadow,” (Jaak Kilmi, Estonia, IP)
“Silent City Driver,” (Sengedorj Janchivdorj, Mongolia, WP)
“Some Nights I Feel Like Walking,” (Petersen Vargas, Philippines, Singapore, Italy, WP)
“The Boy with Pink Pants,” (Margherita Ferri, Italy, IP)
“The Exalted,” (Juris Kursietis, Latvia, Estonia, Greece, WP)
“The Loop,” (Sang Beom Koo, Korea, WP)
“The Moparticipatetrap,” (Serhii Kastornykh, Ukraine, WP)