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This year 18 films are competing in Tallinn in THE OFFICIAL SELECTION PROGRAMME
PÖFF has announced the Official Selection programme where 18 brand-new films will be presented to the audience by their authors personally in Tallinn. This is PÖFF's representative program, where the latest works of authors who have already established themselves in the film world are screened and are aimed at a wider audience.
This year's main competition schedule is now open to the public and TICKETS for the festive premieres are on sale at a discounted price.
Film art from Europe, Asia and North and South America is represented in the selection, as are the Philippines, Singapore, Colombia, Mongolia and South Korea. The youngest author is 32-year-old Filipino Petersen Vargas and the oldest is 70-year-old Eran Riklis.
A total of 11 world premieres and 7 international premieres are planned. "There will be an exciting program both thematically, stylistically and geographically," says Tiina Lokk, the director of the festival. "As always, there are all kinds of genres our Official Selection Competition. At the same time, we don't select films solely on the basis of genre, as the genre is rather a tool of expressing a message."
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PÖFF launched the first-ever AI film recommender
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The brand new AI assistant and film recommender Susi knows the PÖFF programme inside out. Susi is dedicated to helping you find the films in the festival programme that match viewer's unique preferences.
PÖFF is setting a groundbreaking precedent as one of the first film festivals in the world to adopt AI technology to enhance audience engagement. By integrating an AI-powered personal recommendation system, PÖFF is revolutionizing the festival experience, allowing viewers to navigate the festival's extensive film offerings in a more personalized and efficient way.
"A festival-goer can now avoid the overwhelming task of manually browsing through the schedule and instead let the AI recommend films based on their interests and previous favourites," says the Head of Administration at PÖFF, Mikk Granström.
Susi helps users not only discover new films but also select events from Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event’s extensive conference and business programs.
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Just Film Festival Celebrates 24th edition
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Just Film Festival Celebrates 24th edition with a diverse lineup of international youth films. All together there will be 52 film screenings this year. In the International Youth Film Competition Programme there are 11 films, 4 of which are world premieres, 1 international and 4 Baltic premieres.
The International Youth Film Competition will be judged by a youth jury as well as a three-member international jury. The latter will award the Just Film Grand Prix along with a €3,000 grant. In the international jury there are: Tanel Toom, Estonian Oscar-nominated film director and screenwriter (Directed "Truth And Justice" and "Last Sentinel"), Koen Mortier author, director, and producer ("Ex Drummer", "Angel" and "Skunk") and Diane Iljine a Culture, Media, and Film Professional, former Director of International Filmfest Munich and board member.
World premieres at the international youth film competition program are the following:
Rolling Papers
Estonia, 2024
Directed by Meel Paliale
Don’t Worry
Belgium, 2024
Director: Solange Cicurel
Sold out right after we announced the ticket sale.
Spilt Milk
Ireland, United Kingdom 2024
Director: Brian Durnin
Spilt Milk was selected in 2021 as one of the 7 projects that the Baltic Event Co-Production market presented at Cannes, Marché du Film.
This Too Shall Pass
Canada, 2024
Director: Rob Grant
and one International Premiere:
Kontra
Denmark, 2024
Director: Jonas Risvig
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All things related to youth and children’s films. Easy access to networking, learning and pitching!
The two-day industry gathering focused on youth and children's films takes place during Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event on 20-22 November 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia.
It offers opportunities for networking, learning, and pitching film projects, with an emphasis on international and educational growth. Key features include a partnership with KIDS Regio, which brings fresh networking formats like "The Fck Up Night", and insights from a Europe-wide study “Keeping up with children as an audience” on children's viewing habits.
The event introduces a new children’s and youth film category in the Baltic Event’s Co-Production Market, with a focus on full-length features, documentaries, and animations. All the selected projects are eligible to compete for the main prize - The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, including a 20,000€ grant for selected projects.
Find the project list HERE.
This year’s Works in Progress projects have also been announced in all three categories, Just Film Works in Progress among them.
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About Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Started in 1997, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has grown into one of the biggest film festivals in Northern Europe and busiest regional industry platforms, hosting more than 1000 guests and industry delegates and over 160 journalists. The festival screens around 250 features and more than 300 shorts and animations and sees an attendance of 80 000 people annually. In 2017 the festival was covered in 71 languages with a potential global media audience of over 1.1 billion people.
As of 2014 the festival holds the FIAPF accreditation for holding an international competition programme which puts the festival into the so- called A-category of film festivals, alongside other 14 festivals in the world (including Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Karlovy Vary, San Sebastian, Shanghai, Tokyo etc).
Black Nights has an umbrella structure with two sub-festivals PÖFF Shorts and youth and children's film festival Just Film taking place concurrently with the main festival,
two off-season festivals - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival and Tartu Love Film Festival - and a fully-fledged film industry platform Industry@Tallinn, organised jointly with the Baltic Event Co-production market.
DATES IN NOVEMBER
Black Nights Film Festival 16 Nov - 2 Dec
PÖFF Shorts 20 Nov - 25 Nov
Just Film 16 Nov - 2 Dec
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 26 Nov - 30 Nov
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