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The 29th edition of the festival will run from November 7 to 29. We are currently inputting details of the films screening, so please check back soon.
View Films by Strand:
- Baltic Film Competition
- Best Of Docs
- Best Of Festivals
- Children's Programme
- Children's Rights Programme
- Critics’ Picks Competition
- Doc@Just
- Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition
- Doc@PÖFF International Competition
- Environmental Film Programme
- Estonian Olympic Committee Sports Film Programme
- First Feature Competition
- In Focus: Catalonia
- International Youth Competition
- Just Anime
- Official Selection - Competition
- Old Gold: Classic Films Come To Life
- Rebels With A Cause
- Screen International Critics' Choice
- Shorts
- Special Screenings
- Spotlight: Austria
- Standing With Ukraine
- Youth Programme
View previous years coverage of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival festival:
Black Nights Latest Reviews
During the Second World War group of six people is delivered to an uninhabited island with a secret mission – to make some pornographic films which in the government’s opinion should boost the fighting morale of the boys at the front.
Two young men in 1920 set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
When Finnish director Karin Pennanen’s uncle Markku died after decades of isolation, she entered his house for the first time in 34 years and uncovered a world no one had seen: an immense archive of paintings, compositions, writings, audio diaries, videotapes, and even notes on how a film should be constructed.
Fresh out of Juilliard, a young violist returns home to live with her parents in the heart of New York City. Now it’s time to play gigs in the homes of strangers and make art with friends - nothing can go wrong, right?
A teenager finds herself being manipulated by her violent father after her parents divorce.
Bea is a 50-year-old woman going through a divorce, and Denís is a 28-year-old trans man struggling with job insecurity. An unexpected incident brings them together, and this encounter will change their lives forever.
An Alzheimer's sufferer is reunited with the brother he hasn't seen in 30 years.
A fallen politician and his wife reinvent themselves as monarchs, taking inspiration from Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, “the man who refuses to die” dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honour. When the Red Army commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless cross-country chase ensues
A PM gets caught up in a scandal ahead of the election.
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