Best of TAFF 2025
The awarded films of TAFF 2025.
TAFF 2025 palkitut elokuvat.
Kino Kilta,
Sunday 24.08.2025
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Films in this screening:
Elena Walf:
A Pain in the Butt
(Der Stachel im Po)
Croatia, Germany, 2025. 6 minutes.
The hedgehog is just about to go into hibernation when he notices that one of his spines is missing. It’s stuck in Lena’s dog’s bottom, of all places. Getting it back won’t be easy…
Jenny Jokela:
Dollhouse Elephant
Finland, 2025. 11 minutes.
In a world that demands community participation, individual desires inevitably collide. A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.
Eddy Wu:
IMMATURE
Taiwan, 2024. 6 minutes.
IMMATURE is an animated documentary that explores the fluidity and complexity of gender identity through the lens of body imagery. The film delves into the evolving experiences of a transgender gay man, capturing the nuances of his self-exploration. By highlighting the beauty in the ongoing process of becoming, challenging societal norms and conventional gender frameworks. The film reflects the vulnerability, resilience, and strength involved in embracing one’s true self. It offers a fresh perspective on how gender identity and body image are intertwined, inviting viewers to rethink the relationship between body, identity and self-perception.
Marta Reis Andrade:
Dog Alone
(Cão Sozinho)
France, Portugal, 2025. 13 minutes.
A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.
Quirijn Dees:
Pubert Jimbob
Belgium, 2024. 16 minutes.
Pubert Jimbob, a young man, enters a strange reality after getting lured away from his home by an enigmatic figure, who throws him a lighter. Jimbob meets Nadine, a lump with a mouth, and helps her.
Veera Lamminpää:
Fish River Anthology
(Mereneläviä)
Finland, 2024. 10 minutes.
The supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song.
Sasha Svirsky:
Dull Spots of Greenish Colours
Germany, 2024. 11 minutes.
War for our attention has suddenly become an actual war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as something having their agency, as one of the acting forces rendering possible a horrific event, which is very hard to accept and almost impossible to comprehend. We have no control over it and are doomed to scroll through the newsfeed.