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The festival notches up its 30th edition this year. Running from November 6 to 22, it will open with a screening of Ulya, a co-production between Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Lithuania that premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes earlier this year.
View Films by Strand:
- Baltic Film Competition
- Best Of Docs
- Best Of Festivals
- Critics' Picks Competition
- Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition
- Doc@PÖFF International Competition
- Environmental And Science Film Programme
- Estonian Olympic Committee Sports Film Programme
- First Feature Competition
- In Focus: The Baltic States
- International Youth Competition
- Juniors Competition Programme
- Midnight Shivers
- Official Selection - Competition
- Old Gold: Classic Films Come to Life
- PÖFF Is Celebrating! This Is Where It All Began
- Rebels With A Cause
- Short films
- Special Screenings
- Spotlight: Basque Audiovisual
- Standing With Ukraine
- Youth Programme
View previous years coverage of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival festival:
Black Nights Latest Reviews
A woman unexpectedly shows up at her daughter’s home to reveal the truth about their family.
Never trust a penguin with your soup.
Taken to a forest to be killed, Lucky Liam sees a chance to survive when a rookie hitman awkwardly interrupts the execution.
A hybrid documentary portraying contemporary Belarus through the individuals who have endured imprisonment, repression, and exile — voices from a silenced country, suffocated by the regime.
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Rapa Nui.
Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
Eight-year-old Émile is enjoying the last of the warm summer evenings with his sister Françoise. While they are eagerly scanning the night sky for shooting stars, they are suddenly interrupted by a despicably cruel act.
Kasia earns her living by breaking into other people's homes. One day on the job she finds a dead body of a man and decides to move into his apartment and find out who he was. As she starts to piece together his memories, relationships and secrets, it awakens in her a dream of another life and gives her strength to make changes in her own.
Sylvester Stallone, then a failing actor, writes the ultimate underdog story and must fight for his chance to play the role of a lifetime - Rocky Balboa.
A middle-aged sinologist from Latvia goes out to save his family through the doors of a charming Soviet elevator.
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