The festival launches its first programme dedicated to series called TV Beats, screening first episodes of the German show Babylon Berlin and two Russian series - Gogol. Origins and Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion.
Babylon Berlin is the most expensive German series ever produced with a budget of nearly 40 million euros. It follows a young police officer in the Weimar republic during the 1920’s, an era of organised crime and political turmoil that paved way to the rise of natio...
This is the final call for pre-event Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2017 accreditations! The deadline has been pushed to 31 October. Applying on the spot will re...
POWR pitching session, 2016
The two initiatives by Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event that work with script projects, have announced the 2017 participants.
Script Pool Tallinn is the new script development competition that is launching at this year’s Industry@Tallinn with the main prize including 5000 euros and mentoring sessions with a professional script doctor, both provided by the European leading licensing company Telepool. Seven teams consisting of scriptwriters and produce...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival sadly informs that festival programmer, film researcher and critic Igor Gouskov passed away on the 8th of October.
Gouskov died in Paris where he had lived for the last few years. He was 50 years old.
Festival director Tiina Lokk said: ‘Igor w...
Moonlight Sonata
In special recognition of Finland's 100th birthday, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has created a special programme of 23 films celebrating Finnish cinematic history, which will be shown in a 48-hour-long marathon screening.
The unprecedented screening is set to take place between the 24th and 26th of November at the old cinematheque Kinomaja in Tallinn’s Old Town. The events programme will include a karaoke contest and a live peforman...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival adds ten films to the previously announced eight that will compete in the Official Selection (formerly called the Main Competition) for the festival’s Grand Prix and one film that will be screened out of competition.
Ten of the films in the competition line-up will have their world, seven their international and one its European premiere. Eight films are from Europe, seven from Asia, two have been made in the US and one in South America.
Festiv...
European Children's Film Association I Association Européenne du Cinéma pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
Just Film, a sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival dedicated to screening children’s and youth cinema announces that the European Children’s Film Association (ECFA) will appoint a jury and present the prestigious ECFA Award to one film from the programme.
The winning films from each ECFA member festival will move on ...
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event is the pro platform of Black Nights Film Festival and Baltic Event teams that offers one of the fastest growing audiovisual industry meetings in Northern Europe with more than 700 attending guests in 2016.
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event take place on 27 November until 1 December, 2017.
Details available on: industrytallinn.com
This year, the Industry has launched a series of new events in connection with creative industrie...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) announces 13 titles from its two international competition programmes. The remaining films from each lineup will be announced in October.
The festival has renamed the Main Competition the Official Selection, retaining most of its previous awards and regulations. The eight films announced are set to compete for the festival’s Grand Prix, alongside with the rest of the programme, that will be announced on the 17th of October. The...
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EUROPEAN GENRE FORUM READY TO ENTER NEXT STAGE
The EGF is a training programme that sets to boost the careers of future players in the genre film industry through four days of trainings, panels and pitching sessions. The programme, aimed at European director/producer teams developing their 1st or 2nd feature length genre film project, is jointly organised by...
This is the final call for this year's Baltic Event and International Works In Progress showcases that will take place during Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event on 29 and 30 November. Prog...
INDUSTRY@TALLINN & BALTIC EVENT PROJECTS AT TORONTO
We congratulate the projects that have participated in the different sections of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event in recent years and have been selected into the programme of TIFF.
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Submissions are now open for the Storytek accelerator, the first mentor-driven accelerator fully focusing on audiovisual sector, where deep knowledge of the global film and creative industry mixes with top notch technology competence. Estonia, already a world leader in technology innovation with pioneering e-residency and e-governance solutions and home to the renowned Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) is a natural fit for fostering the ecosyste...
Pictured in Cannes at the Estonian Film Commission Party in Cannes, from left to right
Bruno Chatelin filmfestivals.com partner of the festival (look out for the ccoverage of the upcoming Black Nights Film Festival), Hannes AAVA Programmer Programming, Publicity/PR, Sten-Kristian SALUVEER Head of Development, Management, Programming.
Eda Koppel - Estonian Film Institue Head of Marketing hosting the party with Edith Sepp
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Just Film, a sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival dedicated to screening children’s and youth cinema announces that the European Children’s Film Association (ECFA) will appoint a jury and present the prestigious ECFA Award to one film from the programme.
The winning films from each E...
Main CompetitionJury Members: Uberto Pasolini, Steen Bille, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Laura Birn, Kang Soo-Yeon, William Goldstein
Grand Prix for the Best Film(bronze wolf statuette and a grant of 10 000 Euros, equally shared by the director and producer)
Film: A QUIET HEART
Country: Israel
Director: Eitan Anner
Producer: Gal Greenspan
Receives: Eitan Anner
Jury comment: For an inspiring journey towards hope and courage.
Jury prize for the Best Director(bro...
Black Nights Film Festival's Main Competition - Lines | Dir. Vassilis Mazomenos | Country: Greece
Interview with director Vassilis Mazomenos and producer Lampros Georgopoulos | Moderator Giampietro Balia.
(© BNFF)
Acclaimed Greek writer, director and producer Vassilis Mazomenos’ new film, Lines [+], world-premiered in the Tallinn Black Nights Main ...
76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival screens Abbas Kiarostami’s short film Take Me Home with the documentary
76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
The 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will see the screening of one of the last compeleted films by the recently departed beloved master of Iranian cinema – Abbas Kiarostami. The short film Take Me Home is one of th...
15TH BALTIC EVENT KICKS OFF
Four busy days with meetings, workshops, screenings and awards - today we are opening the birthday edition of Baltic Event, the largest co-production platform in North-Eastern Europe.
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Co-Production Market
Seventeen exciting projects will be presented at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market 21-24 November.
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COME AND DISCOVER THE ...
The highly anticipated Sony Pictures Releasing International film The Edge of Seventeen will have its European premiere at the 20th Edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia this Sunday, 20 November at 6 p.m. in the Kosmos IMAX cinema, on the eve of the US domestic launch of the film from STX Entertainment. Rising star Hayden Szeto will be attending the fest...
