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Awards of the 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Asian cinema emerges victorious at the Award Ceremony of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with the Grand Prix going to Japanese Kontora and the Best Director award to Filippino filmmaker Jun Robles Jana for Kalel (15).
In the festival’s premiere competition programme, the Official Selection - Competition Japanese film Kontora, directed, produced and writte...
Estonian Young Actress Ingrid Margus, photo by Mardo Männimägi
At Black Nights Stars initiative, part of Industy@Tallinn & Baltic Event and Black Nights Film festival, talent agent Robin Hudson signed Estonian actress Ingrid Margus to London-based Olivia Bell Management.
Black Nights Stars is a programme for six young actors on the verge of their international carrier designed to build a bridge between foreign casting directors and new talent from the region - enh...
Asian cinema emerges victorious at the Award Ceremony of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with the Grand Prix going to Japanese Kontora and the Best Director award to Filippino filmmaker Jun Robles Jana for Kalel (15).
In the festival’s premiere competition programme, the Official Selection - Competition Japanese film Kontora, directed, produced and written by Anshul Chauhan emerged victorious, nabbing the festival’s Grand Prix and the Best Music award that was hande...
PREMIER Studio's ‘Call-Center’ TV series saw its world premiere as a part of the “Class A” Black Nights International Film Festival. Directors and scriptwriters Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov, as well as the lead actress Sabina Akhmedova, walked the black carpet that traditionally replaces the common red carpet at the Black Nights festival.
Earlier that day the creators behind 'Call-center’ presented the TV-series as a part of the festival’s b...
Yesterday Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event rewarded the best projects after a week full of presentations, networking, screenings, meetings and panel discussions attracting more than 600 guests from 54 different countries.
Marge Liiske, the Head of Industry@Tallinn and Baltic event said that it has been exciting five days of masterclasses, discussions, meetings, pitchings and networking. “74 projects - short films, features and TV drama series included - had over 500 pre-arr...
At the European Genre Forum Packaging Lab in Tallinn, teams of seven genre films are taking a deeper look at marketing and sales of genre films. The projects will be guided by film professionals from Coffee & Cigarettes, Stray Dogs and ARRI Media.
The case study focused on the independent production „Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway” by director Miguel Llanso. The film has already gained attention and positive feedback at sev...
Filmfestivals.com spotted this daring film by Carmen Stadler and sat down with the director prior to her world premiere at Black Nights Film Festival. Carmen Stadler is a swiss filmmaker (1978) who lives and works in Zurich. After an apprenticeship in photography, she studied film and video at the Zurich University of the Arts (zhdk). During her studies she attended seminars in directing, dramaturgy and acting by Stephan Teuwissen. Her diploma film "Nightfluttering " won severa...
Ambassadors from Denmark, Sweden and Norway with Tiina Lokk Festival director (Check the Hitchcokian speech they gave on our video)
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Dora Nedeczky held her presentation about film festival strategy as the part of the IndustryTallinn & Baltic Event the official industry platform of the PÖFF 23 | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
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In PROTO invention factory guests were able to immerse themselves in an interactive fantasy world. We got to experience the great scientific discoveries of past centuries – unique prototypes brought to life by cutting-edge 21st-century technology.
Fun for all, experienced or not look in our video how clumsy we all look when wearing the VR headset equipment.
PROTO invention factory is situated in historic Noblessner foundry. The history of the Noblessner shipyard goes ba...
IMMORTAL (documentary film by KSENIA OKHAPKINA) reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily turn themselves into submissive, faceless creatures. Thus, they become a resource to be used by the state – a grey lump of ore oblivious to the innate value of their individual life.
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The town of Apatity first came into being as a concentration camp. Today, 50 years is considered a ripe old age in the industrial town of Apatit...
Intishal Al Timimi, El Gouna Film Festival director spoke to filmfestivals.com about the festival's past three edition, afull review of a very successfull venture establishing the newly founded festival as one of the must do destination in the region.
Honoring Arab Cinema Black Nights Film Festival held an industry lunch on Tuesday November 26, 2019 in the Nordic Hotel Forum, Sirius Room
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By Bruno Chatelin
I have worked three times over the last decades with Andrei Konchalovsky, a true privilege to know this very talented filmmaker with an incredible film knowledge.
We first met in my ad agency days at JWT on two commercials he shot for my clients: the Gold Mastercard launch film, a parody of North by Northwest shot in Texas, and secondly in Tuscany and Cinecitta for Lux toilet soap which Sophie Marceau was starring.
Later on when he shot "The Inner Circle" for Son...
BlackWalk gala has showcased three mini-collections created with costume art in mind and inspired by movies our featured designers have chosen! (Ad Astra, Cloud Atlas...)
Fun In PROTO invention factory (educative virtual reality center) with scores of immersive attractions.
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Russian film director Andrei Konchalovsky was awarded the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award last night at the screening of his latest film Sin (Il Peccato).
This is the second time after Andrei Konchalovsky visits Tallinn Black Nights, the first time being in 2002 when he attended the screening of House of Fools, which was also screened at the festival yesterday, with him and his wife, the film's star Julia Vysotskaya in attendance.
His latest film Sin, was shot fully...
Yesterday evening Industry@Tallinn & Baltic event announced the first winners of this year’s industry awards: Just Film Works in Progress Award and Script Pool TV Award.
Just Film Works in Progress is a newly introduced category at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Works in Progress focusing on children and youth film projects with five projects competing for the award. Just Film Works in Progress Award was handed out for Durim Kryeziu’s project “Family&r...
Honoring Arab Cinema Black Nights Film Festival held an industry lunch on Tuesday November 26, 2019 in the Nordic Hotel Forum, Sirius Room
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s 23rd edition offers a focus on Arab cinema, as the festival screens 14 films in the specially curated programme In Focus: Sizzling Arabia, showcasing highlights from the last decade.
According to the curator, Intishal Al Timimi, a Black Nights curator who is also the head of the programme ...
At the press conference for his latest film Sin.
Director, screenwriter and producer Andrei Konchalovsky has enjoyed equally distinguished directing careers for both the stage and screen. His best-known film credits range from international pictures such as 'Uncle Vanya', based on the Chekhov play and regarded as one of the best Russian films, and 'House of Fools', a Russian-French co-production about an asylum along the Russian-Chechnya border, to such popular English languag...
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World Premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019
Friday 29 November
World Premiere Official Screening:
Friday 29 November / 21:00 / Coca-Cola Plaza, iSense Saal, Tallinn
Additional Screenings:
Saturday 30 November / 19:00 / Elektriteater, Tartu
Sunday 1 December / 21:00 / Apollo Kino Solaris, Saal 4, Tallinn
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The 23rd edition of the Black Nights Film Festival was opened yesterday at the Alexela Concert Hall with actress Rea Lest honoured with the Bruno O’ya award.
At last night’s Opening Ceremony’s spectacular multimedia show, directed once again by Ingmar Jõela, crossed stage acting, dance acts and live filmmaking, paying homage to films like A Clockwork Orange, The Matrix and Climax.
The festival awarded actress Rea Lest with the Bruno O’ya Award...
Tallinn Black Nights and the Tallinn branch of the Fotografiska photography museum have joined forces to present Still Meets Film, a film stills masterclass with internationally renowned photographers Kris Dewitte and Fabrizio Maltese.
As photography taken on the set of a film is considered a separate branch of the photo industry, Fotografiska Tallinn is introducing a day of masterclasses with world-renowned professionals Kris Dewitte and Fabrizio Maltese showing best pra...
