The team of Black Nights celebrates the news its the sub-festival, international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts has now become an Academy Qualifying film event.

Black Nights pledges to do more in engaging in sustainable activities in 2020 and support and spread the world of people who are trying to make a change.

Tallinn Black Nights programmer Laurence Boyce has joined colleagues from festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno and many others to support the launch of MY DARLING QUARANTINE, an online short film festival designed to raise money in light of Coronavirus.

Russian director Ksenia Ratushnaya discusses the LGBTQ situtation in Russian and her path to making her debut film Outlaw that world premiered at #PÖFF23

Read the buzz, highlights, reviews and interviews from the last edition of Black Nights