Reaching its 20th edition this year, the
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival aka
PÖFF, the only
FIAPF-accredited (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) competitive non-specialized film festival in Northern Europe takes place from
11-27 November.
For 17 whole days, Tallinn, the Estonian, capital transforms as every year into a big movie theatre, screening a number of 200 films in its categories and screening around 1000 national and international guests.
The 2016 edition will see three competition programs – the International Main Competition, the International First Features and the Estonian Film Competition.
Eastern Business by Igor Cobileanski
Eastern Business by
Igor Cobileanski and
Lines by
Vassilis Mazomenos will represent the Balkans in this year’s
Main Competition section of the festival, while
Wedding Dance by
Cigdem Sezgin will participate in the
First Features Competition, a program that shows full-length movies from rising talents, chosen carefully by the festival’s international team and evaluted by a jury consisting of international film industry professionals.
As in the previous years, in addition to PÖFF’s main program there is a wide selection of special screenings and non-competitive programs like Panorama, Forum, Hot Topics, DOC@PÖFF etc.
The Balkan films in the side-program of the 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival are the following:
Panorama
The Trip we Took with Dad by Anca Miruna Lazarescu (Germany/Romania/Hungary/Sweden, 2016, 111min)
Godless by Ralitza Petrova
Forum
House of Others by Rusudan Gluridze
DOC@PÖFF
The War Show by Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon (Denmark/Germany/Syria/Turkey, 2016, 100min)
Goethe Institut Presents New German Films
The Trip we Took with Dad by Anca Miruna Lazarescu (Germany/Romania/Hungary/Sweden, 2016, 111min)
Across the Line
Hot Topics
The War Show by Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon (Denmark/Germany/Syria/Turkey, 2016, 100min)
