The jury of the official competition EurAsia has announced that the best film in the competition of 10th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival was Spanish tragic comedy DARKBLUEALMOSTBLACK. Best Eurasian film receives a cash award of 10,000 euros sponsored by the City of Tallinn. The award for best director went to Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan for CLIMATES. Previously Ceylan has won at BNFF the award of Estonian Film Journalists’ Association in 2002.

Sandra Hüller (REQUIEM, Germany) received the award for best actress and Samuli Edelmann the award for best actor for his role in MAN EXPOSED (Finland).

The five-membered jury, headed by Aruna Vasudev (India) announced seven awards altogether.

For the second time in the frames of BNFF the Scottish Leader Estonian Film Award was given out. The jury declared Veiko Õunpuu’s EMPTY as the best film, receiving cash award of 50,000 EEK. Jury’s Special Mention went to documentary THE BLUE HILLS. Estonian film critics chose Hungarian TAXIDERMIA as their favourite, the audience’s highest votes went to ELSA & FRED (Argentina, Spain) Lifetime Achivement Award this year was given to Aki Kaurismäki, whose latest work LIGHTS IN THE DUSK was also festival’s closing film.


10. TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS


Official Competition EurAsia Jury Awards
GRAND PRIX FOR BEST EURASIAN FILM (with cash award of 10.000 EUR) DARKBLUEALMOSTBLACK / AZULOSCUROCASINEGRO (Director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Spain)

JURY PRIZE FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR
NURI BILGE CEYLAN (Climates / Iklimler, Turkey / France)

JURY PRIZE FOR THE BEST ACTOR
SAMULI EDELMANN (Man Exposed / Riisuttu mies, Finland)

JURY PRIZE FOR THE BEST ACTRESS
SANDRA HÜLLER (Requiem, Germany)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
YOU AM I / AŠ ESI TU (Director Kristijonas Vildziunas, Lithuania / Germany)

SPECIAL MENTION
RETRIEVAL / Z ODZYSKU (Director Sławomir Fabicki, Poland)

SPECIAL MENTION
LITTLE RED FLOWERS / KAN SHANG QU HEN MEI (Director Zhang Yuan, China)





Estonian Feature Film Competition Jury Awards
SCOTTISH LEADER ESTONIAN FILM AWARD
EMPTY / TÜHIRAND (Director Veiko Õunpuu)

SPECIAL MENTION
THE BLUE HILLS / SINIMÄED (Director Raimo Jõerand)

FICC Jury Awards
FICC JURY AWARD – DON QUIJOTE AWARD
SONS / SØNNER (Director Erik Richter Strand, Norway)

SPECIAL MENTION
DARKBLUEALMOSTBLACK / AZULOSCUROCASINEGRO (Director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Spain)

SPECIAL MENTION
CLIMATES / IKLIMLER (Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey / France)


NETPAC JURY AWARD
MEN AT WORK / KARGARAN MASHGHOULE KARAND (Mani Haghighi, Iran)


ESTONIAN FILM CRITICS’ AWARD
TAXIDERMIA (György Pálfi, Hungary / Austria / France)


PRIZE OF THE POSTIMEES JURY
LITTLE RED FLOWERS / KAN SHANG QU HEN MEI (Director Zhang Yuan, China)


AUDIENCE AWARD
ELSA & FRED (Director Marcos Carnevale, Argentina / Spain)


LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
AKI KAURISMÄKI (Director, Finland)