26-11-2019

FESTIVALS: PÖFF Shorts Announces 2019 Winners

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    PÖFF Shorts 2019 Award Ceremony PÖFF Shorts 2019 Award Ceremony photo: Aron Urb , Black Nights Film Festival

    TALLINN: The Black Nights Film Festival / PÖFF announced the winner of its shorts competition and selected the Georgian film 12 K Marx Street by Irine Jordania to compete in the short film category at the European Film Awards 2020. This is the first year that the festival is putting forth a candidate for the European Film Awards. The shorts award ceremony was held on 23 November 2019. The festival runs through 1 December 2019.

    Winners were announced for the Estonian short film competition, two animated short competitions and two international live action short competitions.

    LIST OF WINNERS:

    PÖFF SHORTS NATIONAL COMPETITION
    BEST SHORT
    Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves (Estonia)
    Directed by Chintis Lundgren
    SPECIAL MENTION
    Bad Hair (Estonia)
    Directed by Oskar Lehemaa

    ANIMATION COMPETITION
    BEST SHORT ANIMATION
    Deep Love (Ukraine)
    Directed by Mykita Lyskov
    SPECIAL MENTION
    Lola the Living Potato (France, Russia)
    Directed by Leonid Shmelkov


    SHORTS NEW TALENTS COMPETITION: ANIMATION
    BEST SHORT ANIMATION
    Daughter (Czech Republic)
    Directed by Daria Kashcheeva
    SPECIAL MENTION
    Zorg II (Estonia, 2019)
    Directed by Auden Lincoln-Vogel


    LIVE ACTION COMPETITION
    BEST SHORT FILM
    Holy Family (Portugal)
    Directed by Margarida Lucas
    SPECIAL MENTION
    FROM MATTI WITH LOVE (Finland)
    Directed by Jarno Lindemark


    SHORTS NEW TALENTS COMPETITION: LIVE-ACTION
    BEST SHORT FILM
    My planet (Belgium) 
    Directed by Valery Carnoy
    SPECIAL MENTION
    Elephantbird (Afganisthan)
    Directed by Masoud Soheili


    EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2020
    CANDIDATE FOR EUROPEAN SHORT FILM
    12 K Marx Street (Georgia)
    Directed by Irine Jordania