Festival Description: The festival’s mission is to showcase the best animated and live action short films of all genres from cutting edge talents and bold visionaries across the world.
PÖFF Shorts hosts three internationally recognised competition programmes: the international competitions for live action and animation with their respective student competitions called New Talents, as well as the PÖFF Shorts National Competition designed to provide a platform for Estonian filmmakers and animators.
Alongside the competitions the festival presents an array of astonishing, thought provoking, inspiring and challenging out of competition short film programmes.
PÖFF Shorts is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA) and an Academy Award and BAFTA-qualifying festival
2021 Dates TBC, Call for Entries to Follow
2020 Festival Coverage
PÖFF Shorts presents films in the following programmes:
FILMS MEETING THE FESTIVAL REQUIREMENTS MUST:
– Be short or half-length films (up to 45 minutes): fiction, documentary, experimental; live-action or animation.
– Completed after the 1st of January 2019 (regarding competitive programmes). Preferable Estonian premiere.
PÖFF Shorts is an Academy Award-qualifying festival for its categories of live-action and animation, as well as a European Academy Award qualifying festival (Short Film)
Awards and Prizes (animation):
International Animation Competition
Jury prize for Best Film
Jury prize for Best Student Film (New Talents)
Jury prize for Best Children's Film
National Competition
Jury prize for Best Film
Jury prize: EFA awards Short Film Candidate