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| The War We Carry is among the films in competition Photo: Courtesy of POFF |
There will be 11 world premieres in the documentary section. Marianna Kaat, the curator of Doc@PÖFF International and Baltic Competitions say she approaches every documentary with childlike curiosity, hoping to discover a fresh perspective, a compelling character or an insight stays with her.
She added: “This year, I was particularly struck by filmmakers finding fresh ways to tell their stories, opening up new possibilities for documentary cinema and its role in defending our sense of reality. These films ask us to look more closely, question our assumptions and resist easy explanations. In a world where so much comes to us already interpreted, that feels especially necessary.”
The Doc@PÖFF jury is headed by Finnish director and screenwriter Karin Pennanen, whose Days of Wonder won the prize last year. The jury also includes Roman Bondarchuk, Ukrainian filmmaker, artistic director of Docudays UA and co-founder of the Ukraine War Archive; Mexican-Estonian sound designer and re-recording mixer Israel Bañuelos (Smaragda: I Got Thick Skin And I Can't Jump), founder of Acousmatic Film Sound.
The jury of the Docs@PÖFF Baltic competition is headed by Christian Popp, a senior film producer and former commissioning editor with more than 35 years of experience in the film industry. He will be joined by director Rada Šešić (In Whitest Solitude) and Carmen L Vicencio, the supervising director at American Documentary Inc.
In addition to the competition programmes around 50 feature documentaries will be screened across various programmes at the festival.
The Special Screenings programme presents films with a particular connection to Estonia or to festival guests and comprises seven films.
The latest list of announced films is below.
Doc@PÖFF International Competition
• Birthday Candles (Azerbaijan) – dir. Murad Allahverdi
• Child oOf Sinaï (Egypt, France) – dir. Loup Bureau
• Father’s House (Denmark) – dir. Adam Nielsen, Andreas Koefoed, Eva Mulvad
• Fruitcakes: The Dawn Of Drag (Finland, Denmark) – dir. Vesa Kuosmanen
• Lost and Found: Thirty Years, Not Together (Romania) – dir. Laurentiu Garofeanu
• Love Exposed (Czechia) – dir. Filip Remunda
• Sentenced at Birth (Moldova) – dir. Daniela Miron, Diana Vlas
• The Taste Of Democracy (Hungary) – dir. Péter Akar, Ambrus Fatér
• The War We Carry (Denmark) – dir. Kaspar Astrup Schröder
• Three Comrades (France) – dir. Anastasiia Vedenskaia
• Tingatinga Between Two Homes (China) – dir. Yong Zhang
Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition
• Baltic UXO (Lithuania, Germany, Latvia) – dir. Alexander Belinski, Agnė Dovydaitytė
• I Want To Be Human (Lithuania) – dir. Rinaldas Tomaševičius
• Ice, Men And A Starling (Estonia) – dir. Mihkel Oksmann
• La Pietà (Iceland, Lithuania, Spain) – dir. Pepe Andreu, Rafa Molés
• Living On (Lithuania) – dir. Nerijus Milerius
• Memory From The Sea (Lithuania) – dir. Francesco Rufini
• Riga my Love (Latvia) – dir. Karolina Peterson
• The Perfect (Estonia) – dir. Laura Liventaal
• To Die To Live (Ukraine, Latvia, Slovakia) – dir. Yuliia Hontaruk
Special Screenings
• A Photographer In Cannes (Estonia) – dir. Kullar Viimne
• Dangerous Liaisons (UK) – dir. Stephen Frears
• JJ: Every Inch a King (Estonia) – dir. Taavi Arus
• Joy Will Prevail (US) – dir. Max Korman
• Red Snow (Finland, Estonia, Sweden) – dir. Ilja Rautsi
• Slava: Shooting With Music (UK) – dir. Jacqui Morris, David Morris
• The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd (US) – dir. Tim Blake Nelson
