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The European Film Forum in Tallinn eyes the future of Europe's talents, technology and diversity

How European talents in cinema, games and digital content will stay relevant with global competition increasing, how European startup innovators are championing new business models, and how Europe can lead the way in industry diversity actions? Those will be the three main topics on the agenda of the upcoming European Film Forum (EFF), the European Commission's dialogue with stakeholders on Wednesday, 27 November at the 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Titled "Industry (...

PÖFF 23 I Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Teaser 2019

Nice teaser, congrats from the entire filmfestivals.com team We included this in our channel of festival trailers https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1K2aYED0lNtLZIOk1xwU6mvm3X7-PkCP  And have promoted on the homepage of filmfestivals.com   https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/editor/the_film_festivals_trailer_park  ...

Sri Lankan eco thriller fiction Suparna to premiere at Rebels with a Cause Competition

Suparna,competing Blacknights film festival rebels with the course competition. It talks about nature and nature talking to you. kindly invite you to have unforgettable srilankan film experience . A half-alien half-human young woman, living in a rural village in Sri Lanka, with the help of two friends, tries to save their village from a multinational environment release corporation, while struggling to make up her mind about returning to the planet of her origin. Director Sujeewa Priyalali&...

Tallinn Black Nights sub-festival PÖFF Shorts screens fresh short films by celebrated feature directors

Still from Yorgos Lanthimos, (The Favourite, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Lobster), new short film Nimic, featuring Matt Dillon   Titled Homecoming, the PÖFF Shorts programme will screen films by directors who have been featured in previous editions of Black Nights with their feature films. The programme features films by Yorgos Lanthimos, Peter Strickland, Sudhanshu Saria, Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel, and Teemu Nikki. The programme will showcase films ...

Welcome at Black Nights Film festival at the Nordic Hotel in Tallinn

The most famous event happening during your stay at the festival is the Christmas market of course. During Friday to Sunday there are some dance and choir performances too. Market is open everyday. Here is the programme: http://christmasmarket.ee/en/ Here is the Visit Estonia link: https://www.visitestonia.com/en/tallinn-christmas-market Do not miss on 23.11 when the Black Food Festival in Tallinn,when all the food and drinks that they serve are black. https://www.v...

Try a taste of black at Black Food Festival in Tallinn

The Black Food Festival is coming to Estonia for the first time this year. Having set out its stall in Berlin, London and New York in the last 12 months, it’s be coming to the Põhjala factory in Tallinn. The aim is to open the door to culinary creativity and experimentation and to do so under the umbrella of an enjoyable city festival during some of the blackest nights of the year. Taste-wise, there’ll be something for everybody! ...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival to honour director Andrei Konchalovsky

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival to honour director Andrei Konchalovsky with the Lifetime Achievement Award WRITTEN BY HANNES AAVA. At the 23rd edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky will be presented with one of the festival’s two Lifetime Achievement Awards. The festival will also screen two of his films: the Northern European premiere of his latest film Sin (Il Peccato) and House of Fools (2002). The...

Black Nights Kick Off

And we're off! The 23rd Black Nights Film Festival has officially begun. Over 250 films in 4 different cities and 4 competition programs - Official Selection, First Feature Competition, Baltic Film Competition, Rebels with a Cause Competition. Yesterday's Opening Ceremony kicked off with opening film Adam and the Bruno O’Ya award to a remarkable Estonian actor was awarded to Rea Lest.   The 23rd edition of the Black Nights Film Festival was opened yesterday...

Visit Estonia welcomes festival goers of the Black Nights Film Festival

Welcome to Estonia! We are happy to see you here and hope that not all the nights are black! Here are some tips what to do during your free time during the festival! We hope you will enjoy your stay here and if you have any tourism related questions give me a call or write to me!    Visit in Tallinn! - Today the Christmas Market of Tallinn will be opened on the Town Hall Square, grab a mulled wine, enjoy the performances on the weekends or vi...

Tallinn Black Nights sets focus on Arab cinema

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s 23rd edition will see 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 of the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt, the special programme is most likely the largest of its kind ever screened at an international festival...

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event reveal 2019 Works In Progress titles

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18 films in production or post-production looking for sales agents or festivals for international premieres will be presented at the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Work in Progress sessions on November the 26 and 27th. Both the Baltic Event, showcasing Baltic and Finnish projects, as well as International Works in Progress, compete for the same awards this year - the Post Production Award by Post Control, a Helsinki based high-end post-production house, in the amount of 10 000 E...

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Works In Progress launches a new category for children and youth films

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Works In Progress  launches a new category for children and youth films For the first time, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event showcases five children and youth film projects in a newly launched Just FIlm Works in Progress category. The films in production or post-production looking for sales distributors, sound design, productions or festivals for international premieres will be presented at the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Work in Progress...

One month to go - Industry @Tallinn & Baltic Event!

  18 projects attending Baltic Event Co-Production Market  Script Pool Tallinn reveals projects for TV drama series Save the date for European Film Forum Tallinn 2019 Music Meets Films focuses on the creativity of composers Take part in Virtual Reality workshop Apply for accreditation on 28 October the latest! Is this the future of photography?   ...

What's cooking at Industry @Tallinn & Baltic Event?

TV Beats presents case studies of Chernobyl, All The Sins and The Feed! First projects of Script Pool Tallinn and POWR Baltic Stories Exchange revealed Check out this year's Black Night Stars! Forensic musicologist Peter Oxendale @Music Meets Film Get your daily tickets for Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event!   TV BEATS PRESENTS CASE STUDIES OF CHERNOBYL, TH...

Script Pool Tallinn at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event presents scripts for TV drama series for the first time

This year for the first time the international script competition Script Pool Tallinn also presents projects for TV and drama series in addition to scripts for feature films.  The main goal of Script Pool Tallinn, a part of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, is to gather talented scriptwriters with producers attached, in order to provide them support enhancing the script and maximising its production and distribution potential. Adding the TV and drama series category to the competi...

Baltic Event Co-Production Market Announces Official Selection for 2019

  20 projects will be presented at the Co-Production Market 2019 taking place between November 26-29 during the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event. The market’s 18th edition welcomes both promising debutants as well as industry heavyweights, with stories ranging from raw personal traumas to mind-bending thrillers.   “After opening our market to filmmakers from across the globe looking for a window to our region a few years ago, we are excited to admit that filmmak...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the full lineup of the Official Selection

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival unveils the lineup of the Official Selection - Competition of it’s 23rd edition, adding seven world, five international and one European premiere to the previously announced eight films. The programme, diverse, both in terms of genre and geography, covers five continents, with films from Northern And Southern America, Asia, Europe and Africa added in the selection. Three of the directors, while making their feature debuts, are seasoned as TV and...

Black Nights Stars announced for the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Black Nights Stars, the initiative of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, announces six young actors from the Baltic Sea region to participate in the programme this November. The Black Nights Stars programme is designed to build a bridge between foreign casting directors and new talent from the region - enhancing their international visibility. The aim is to help young actors from the Baltic Sea region to promote themselves outside their home territory and acquire the practical skills ne...

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event announce projects for the script competition Script Pool Tallinn, and POWR Baltic Stories

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Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event announce projects for the third edition of the script competition Script Pool Tallinn, and POWR Baltic Stories Exchange international forum.  Script Pool Tallinn is an international script competition for film, TV and drama series scripts. Its main goal is to gather talented scriptwriters with producers attached, in order to provide them support enhancing the script and maximizing its production and distribution potential. At the Script Pool Tallinn eve...

TV Beats Forum presents case studies of Chernobyl, The Feed and All the Sins

TV Beats Forum, an industry-oriented counterpart to the TV Beats programme of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event presents case-studies of several high-profile TV series. Wendy Mitchell and Kathleen McInnis moderate the two-day event with an interesting programme.    Among this year's highlights of the TV Beats Forum is the case study of the highly acclaimed HBO series Chernobyl with the series Lithuanian co-producer UAB Baltic Film Services producer Lineta Mis...

What s cooking at 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 15 Nov - 1 Dec 2019

As one of the leading film festivals in Northern Europe and the only FIAPF-accredited competitive feature film festival in the region, Black Nights aka PÖFF strives to present our audiences and international guests a comprehensive selection of world cinema in its cultural, geographic and genre diversity, with a special emphasis on discoveries from countries that are comparatively lesser highlighted on the global film markets, mixing them with this year’s highlights from the globa...

Tallinn Black Nights launches KinoFF, a new side-festival in Eastern Estonia

Taking place in two cities in the prominently Russian-speaking region Ida-Virumaa in Eastern Estonia, the new festival KinoFF will hold special focus on Russian cinema.   According to the head of the festival Darja Saar, the programme will consist of around 20 films and the festival will invite some of the filmmakers to present their films in person. The programme, curated by the programmers at the Black Nights Film Festival, is currently under consideration.   From the 15th...

Tartu Love Film Festival's 2019 lineup includes Queen of Hearts, Stupid Young Heart, the world premiere of Long Live Rock...

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The Tartu Love Film Festival aka TARTUFF will screen a programme of 11 features and 4 documentaries, mixing international festival circuit favourites from recent years alongside cinematic classics and setting a special focus on music. The festival’s feature film selection is headed by the Sundance audience award winner Queen of Hearts, the sophomore work by Danish director May el-Toukhy who presents a provocative tale of a woman who puts her career and family under severe pressure when...

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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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