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TALLINN BLACK NIGHT FILM FESTIVAL Video coverage by Bruno Chatelin
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2025 revealed the winners!
On November 21, the 24th Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event presented its awards at a joint closing ceremony with the Black Nights Film Festival. In total, 15 awards were given to film projects in various stages of scriptwriting, development, or post-production, along with two additional awards recognizing promising producers. Awards were also presented to the talents participating in Discovery Campus. Discovery Campus Music Meets Film "Director-Composer Lab: Composing the...
The Winners of Just Film 2025 Have Been Announced!
On the evening of 21 November 2025 at the closing ceremony of the Black Nights Film festival at the Alexela Concert Hall, the jurys announced the films deemed the best, including the winning films of the 25th Youth and Children's Film Festival Just Film. JUST FILM #YOUNGFILMMAKER AWARD The programme consisted of films that have been created during the PÖFF and Just Film scholarship call and are made by international school-kids themselves. Sunflower Direct...
Prout makes an entrance at Tallinn
Belgian, script writer, director and producer Marc-Henri Wajnberg interviewed by Bruno Chatelin in Tallinn during Black Nights Film Festival on his latest short film/ pilot PROUT Presented in kids animation competition Marc - Henri is in discussion to develop his franchise into a 52 episodes TV Series. ...
Winners of TV Beats Co-Financing Market 2025 announced at PÖFF29
Yesterday evening, the winners of the TV Beats Co-Financing Market, celebrating its fifth year, were announced. The international jury selected the drama series project Wool as the most promising project. Wool is written by Birkir Blaer Ingolfsson, Mladen Maticevic, Stephie Theodora, Milena Dzambasovic, produced by Hörður Rúnarsson, Milena Dzambasovic, co-produced by Danna Stern, production companies Film Road Production, ACT 4, In transit Productions. The winner was ha...
Eight European Genre Projects Ready to Pitch in Tallinn
In 2025, eight projects have been selected for the 11th European Genre Forum, a six-month training cycle for up-and-coming European genre filmmakers. During the Marketing and Packaging Lab in Tallinn, the last event of the genre training programme, the participants will present their projects at a public pitching event. Tallinn Lab is part of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event (I@T& BE) of the Black Nights Film Festival. The project selection of the 11th European Genre F...
VIDEO "Dog of God" Animated Q&A after the screening at PÖFF29
Listen to what the filmmakers had to say on stage following the premiere at Tallinn PLOFF29 about the origins of this spectacular and wild animated fantasy feature revisting the legends of werewolves and much more! A BITE INTO THE STORY? "In a 17th-century Swedish Livonian village, constant rain and drunkenness prevail. When a stolen relic sparks witchcraft accusations, an 80-year-old self-proclaimed werewolf named the Dog of God arrives with a mysterious gift: The Devil's Bal...
Honorary TV Beats Producer Award to Be Presented to Two Recipients
TV Beats Forum, the drama strand of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, will present the second annual Honorary TV Beats Producer Awards in 2025. This year, the awards will be given to Gudny Hummelvoll and Jevgeni Supin. According to Petri Kemppinen and Roosa Toivonen, Co-Heads of TV Beats Forum, the decision to present two awards this year reflects the event’s desire to bring attention to the producer’s pivotal role in the audiovisual industry - without their dedic...
VIDEO Dog of God Animated Q&A After the Screening at PÖFF29
The team on stage at PÖFF29 Q&A folloxwing their screening *****************6 Brothers Lauris, Raitis and Marcis are Latvian filmmakers, born and residing in Riga. Lauris obtained a Master’s degree in Audio-Visual Arts (film directing) at Latvian Academy of Culture. Raitis Abele is a clinical psychologist but studied film art at New York Film Academy. Marcis graduated Latvian Culture Academy as D.o.P. and also obtained Masters in Audio-Visual Arts at Latvian Art Acad...
PÖFF Shorts announced the 2025 winners
The international short film and animation festival within Tallinn Black Nights announced the winners of its 2025 edition this Saturday, November 15 at the PÖFF Shorts Award Ceremony. The winners of the Shorts Live-Action, Animation and National Competitions will all be eligible for qualifying for an Academy Award should they fulfil the academy's requirements. The PÖFF Shorts' European Film Academy candidate for Nomination for European Film Award Best Short Film...
VIDEO Interview with filmmakers of Lifelike in competition at PÖFF29
Interview with Ali Vatansever the director of the feature drama LIFELIKE and the co producer Dumitru Alexandru. The film premiered in Tallinn in main competition at Black Nights Film Festival and we met at the Turkish reception in the Bookstore by the theatre complex. The story: ABDI(46), a once-aggressive school-bus driver, has grown quieter under the weight of his son’s terminal illness. His wife, REYHAN (43), in contrast, refuses to yield to despair; her social media pres...
VIDEO PÖFF29 hotspots with DJ Beat
Festival ambiance at PÖFF29 visiting the old town and various hot spots of the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Music courtesy of DJ Mariel Korjus who performed at Sanga. I am also recommending the Paloma cocktail at Mnemonic Cocktail, I remember when a distributor with Sony releasing in France Johny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves, still cannot remember what Mnemonic means precisely. Especially in the context of cocktails! ...
DUMP OF UNTITLED PIECES by Melik Kuru premiering at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
“THE DUMP OF UNTITLED PIECES” MAKES ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL! Written and directed by Melik Kuru, THE DUMP OF UNTITLED PIECES held its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Competing in the First Feature section, the film tells the story of a young woman striving to exist through her passion in Turkey’s economic and political ecosystem, offering a satirical, original narrative blending drama and comedy within...
PÖFF Hosted a Press Conference for Trine Dyrholm and Dar Salim
The press conference took place this Sunday, 16 November at 13:00 in the Sirius conference hall at Nordic Hotel Forum. Trine Dyrholm was presenting at PÖFF29 the TV series The Danish Woman at PÖFF, and Dar Salim his the film The Fall of Hercules. Dar Salim – The acclaimed Danish actor, best known for his breakout role as Amir Diwan in the famous Danish TV series Borgen and his performance in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (2023), returns to PÖ...
VIDEO Tallinn old city tour with PÖFF guests on a busy saturday program
Saturday's program at PÖFF explores family models. Illusory role models, examples placed in silence, as well as those that are irrevocably broken. Today's films offer a direct and honest opportunity to view a family as it is. At once tender and empowering, often unifying yet inevitably divisive. Today, PÖFF cinemas will be filled with thought-provoking stories about parents trying to protect their children. About children trying to understand their parents. And abou...