Late Night Love

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025

All you need is love— and some online dating advice, a bit of dark room kimchi practices, and some conceptual and philosophical, live-action and animated considerations.

Our Late Night Love programme is a mix of older and younger people seeking intimate connections. Sometimes they need to travel to find their lost soul sister (or, at least, their massage companion); at other times, they need to calculate the time already passed and check if there's still time for lovemaking.

Anyone interested can be a significant other, yet there are a lot of funny, endearing, and ultimately human questions in the process. Time to find true love -or, at least, true love statements from filmmakers that know how to push the envelope and reflect on it.

Prepare for some equally racy and tender moments, peppered with unique craft and a fresh filmmaking energy. Not too late to be in love.

The screening is not recommended for people under the age of 18.

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Screening071620 / Late Night Love
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Screening093020 / Late Night Love
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Films

Exchange

Local title
Vahetus
Original title
Exchange
Director
Toby Wharton
Year
2025
Festival
25th Youth and Children's Film Festival, PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A young man encounters a woman at night and feels an immediate connection, but when she tells him she is selling sex, he refuses to accept that’s all there is between them.

Director
Toby Wharton
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Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating

Local title
Professor Slavoj Žižek internetitutvuste probleemist
Original title
Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating
Director
Mardo El-Noor
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

In an alternate 16th-century Europe where online dating somehow exists, Slav (voiced by world-renowned thinker Slavoj Žižek) is the quintessential Renaissance man, pondering life’s greatest question: "To match, or not to match." Between tinkering with inventions and perfecting his chess game, he is faced with his ultimate challenge—falling in love.

Director
Mardo El-Noor
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Love Me Tender

Local title
Armasta mind õrnalt
Original title
Love Me Tender
Director
Betina Bożek
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

An introverted man, emotionally attached to his vacuum cleaner, dives into the world of online dating, where through a series of failed encounters, he discovers that technology, instead of bringing people together, often drives them apart – and true closeness may be found in the most unexpected place.

Director
Betina Bożek
Runtime
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Sleazy Tiger

Local title
Nilbe tiiger
Original title
Sleazy Tiger
Director
James Ley
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Young romantic Alan is excited for his first date with vegan heartthrob Blair and doesn’t want to mess things up. However, when Blair gives Alan a jar of homemade kimchi Alan realises he’s going to struggle to control his erotic desires. Does Alan have what it takes to get him and his kimchi out of Horny Hell, fend off actual Alan Cumming and make it back to Blair?

Director
James Ley
Runtime
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True Love

Local title
Tõeline armastus
Original title
True Love
Director
Jess Dadds, Sam Giles
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A group of teenagers fall desperately in love with the same person. As their attempts to impress their crush and one-up each other get more and more dramatic, conflict is inevitable.

Director
Jess Dadds, Sam Giles
Runtime
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Adhesion

Local title
Kokkukasvamine
Original title
Adhezija
Director
Rafael Cuculić
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

A man and a woman accept each other in spite of their insecurities.

Director
Rafael Cuculić
Runtime
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Still Sexy

Local title
Endiselt seksikas
Original title
Still Sexy
Director
Panos Zygouros
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

This is an honest, documentary portrait of a couple in later life – Maria and Walter, capturing both the everyday and the private moments of their relationship, ultimately seeking to answer a question that touches the fears of all generations: How important is sexuality in love and how long can it last?

Director
Panos Zygouros
Runtime
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Happy to See you Again

Local title
Rõõm sind jälle näha
Original title
Te Revoir
Director
Laura Nicolas
Country
Year
2025
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

This is the cycle of a love encounter, the repetition of mistakes, words and thoughts colliding.

Director
Laura Nicolas
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The Fishbowl Girl

Local title
Tüdruk vaateaknalt
Original title
The Fishbowl Girl
Director
Hung Yi Wu
Country
Year
2024
Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2025
Programme

Wei, a young lesbian, goes to Thailand on a graduation trip. After witnessing an intimate interaction between the girl she fancies and a male friend, she goes to a Thai massage parlour, but the experience isn’t as beautiful as she envisioned.

Director
Hung Yi Wu
Runtime
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