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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...
Will Europe stay in the global game in the time of changing media windows, and what will the future of its audiovisual industries look like? These are two major topics on the agenda of the European Film Forum, the European Commission's flagship conference which for the second consecutive year will be held at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event.
Titled "Breaking Windows - Tackling Convergence in the European Media Landscape", the Forum is a full-day executive level publ...
This year Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event presents a new initiative - Storytek Forum, a conference bringing together creatives, tech platforms and investors from across the world to explore, explain and help navigate the future of the booming content business.
Storytek Forum is a one-day inspirational brainstorming and discussion forum at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event with top business experts explaining the secrets of digital marketing, financing, production and sales in the ...
Monsieur Gangster Les tontons flingueurs, 1963
Director: Georges Lautner. Starring: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche
Tallinn Black Nights to make reverence to classic French comedy
Celebrating the 20th anniversary, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) has chosen France as the country of this year's focus. Taking place on 11-27 November, the North European festival will have a considerable F...
Awards Ceremoiny by Ahto Sooaru
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Best Project
Eurimages Co-Production Development Award
20 000 Euros
The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award goes to the Best Project of the Baltic Event Co-Production Market, based on its artistic quality and potential for theatrical release. The project must be a European co-production between at least two member states of the Eurimages Fund from the outset, while the co-operation between partners must not be exclusively financial. The award, which takes the fo...
As I Fall, producer Gyda Velvin Myklebust, DNF Masters, Norway, director Magnus Meyer Arnesen
Citizen Saint, producer Lasha Khalvashi, Artizm, Georgia, director Tinatin Kajrishvili (in collaboration with EAVE – European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs)
East of Sweden, producer Liisa Penttilä-Asikainen, Kaiho Republic, Finland, director Simo Halinen
Emil, producer Oana Giurgiu, Hai Hui Entertainment, Romania, director Andrei Gruzsniczki
Far Frontiers, produce...
Europa Cinemas Innovation Day Lab “Creating new audiences, Inspiring current audiences”
Friday, November 18 @Nordic Hotel Forum Arcturus, 10.00-16.30
This Innovation Day Lab will focus on programming, marketing, audience development and social media. Participants will consider these topics in practical workshops, discussions and brainstorming sessions. The goal is to strengthen the network of regional cinemas and to provide a platform where they can share strength...
Seventeen projects have been selected for the Co-Production Market, which will be taking place on 21-24 November at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event during the Black Nights Film Festival. In other sections, Baltic Event highlights eight Baltic and Nordic projects in the script and pitch workshop POWR Baltic Stories Exchange and 20 projects in the Works in Progress and Screeningssections.
For its 15th jubilee edition, Baltic Event has selected 14 p...
A year has passed and the confirmed PÖFF fans do not have to suffer for a long time. The delicious smell of the biggest treat can already be sensed. The festive opening ceremony of PÖFF takes place on November 11 at 19:00 at Nordea Concert Hall together with the black carpet and the opening film. During the opening ceremony the Black Nights Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award and the prize named after Bruno O'Ya to a young Est...
The opening ceremony will be followed by the opening film, a majestic French drama "Eternity" („Éternité“), focussing on a French family story during a whole century, over three generations, bringing out all the characteristics of the country and the culture that make it so pleasant and enjoyable. The film's director is Tran Anh Hung, with a superb cast with Audrey Taoutou, Bérénice Bejo and Mélanie Laurent...
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First Feature Competition Jury
REZA MIRKARIMI
Director
Iran
Reza Mirkarimi graduated from the Tehran Fine Arts University in graphic arts. His cinema activities began in 1987 with a series of shorts followed by two TV series for young people. His first feature „The Child and The Soldier“ (1999) was released in France in 2001. His second feature „Under the Moonlight“ won the 40th Critics’ Week Bes...
UBERTO PASOLINI
Director, producer
Great Britain, Italy
Uberto Pasolini has worked in films since 1983 and became an independent producer in 1994 with „Palookaville“. He subsequently produced many other features, including „The Full Monty“. Uberto has directed two features, „Machan“ (PÖFF 2009) and „Still Life“, (closing film at PÖFF 2013) set in Sri Lanka and South London, respectively...
"Lines" a film by Vassilis Mazomenos :
A call operator endeavors to help people keep on living and hoping.
Storyline : Greece now days. Seven different stories about seven persons who have already reached their limits and finally fall apart.
Despite their seemingly obvious connection they are simultaneously connected through a common desperate action: the last phone call to the psychological support center called "life line". It's their las...
Can you raise a million through crowdfunding? Well, the Hollywood kickstarter guy Justin Giddings can and on 17. November he’s right here in Tallinn and takes the stage with the brightest crowdfunding minds of Estonia to tell you exactly how it’s done!
What are the biggest mistakes in crowdfunding? How to grow an audience with zero funds? Should I choose equity or perk based crowdfunding? How to engage thousands of investors through a few minute video and how to guerilla market...
BREATHE 7 DAYS of QUIET DREAMS with QUIET HEART (thanks TUOS): DARK FORTUNE and EASTERN BUSINESS AT YOUR DOORSTEP for the HAVE NOTS in LINES with QUEEN OF SPADES and THE CHRONICLES OF SPADE
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the line-up for its 20th edition, taking place on November 11-27. The premieres for the 12 feature films in competition, all international or world premieres, will take place from 16 until 22 November , with Queen of Spades (Russia) by ...
Two films from the 2016 programme of the 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, taking place on 11-27 November – Caina, part of the First Features Competition and House of Others are among the films that will tour six European countries in order to promote European cinema and to debate the current state of the continent.
Six countries - Estonia, Spain, Austria, Italy, Portugal and France – cross the b...
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About Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
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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