Press Releases

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26.11.2022 - Awards of the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

24.11.2022 - Israeli cinematography in PÖFF’s focus

23.11.2022 - PÖFF announces its 2022 DDA Spotlight Award Winners

17.11.2022 - PÖFF is showing films from the competition programme

04.11.2022 - PÖFF announces its full 2022 programme

31.10.2022 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival unleashes its 2022 Rebels with a Cause

27.10.2022 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces its first ever Critics' Picks

25.10.2022 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces its 2022 Baltic Competition lineup

20.10.2022 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) Announces the full line up for its Official Selection competition programme

13.10.2022 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces its 2022 First Features competition lineup

14.09.2022 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) Announces the first seven films to join its main Official Selection competition programme

02.08.2022 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces the addition of a new Critics’ Picks competition programme to its 26th edition this November

09.03.2022 - PÖFF takes Ukraine to Cannes and screens Ukrainian films

27.11.2021 - Awards of the 25th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

26.11.2021 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces legendary Spanish director Carlos Saura as the latest recipient of its Lifetime Achievement award

09.11.2021 - The Russian Film Festival will be held for the first time in Estonia as part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

08.11.2021 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and DDA today named filmmakers Liesl Tommy for Respect and Sebastian Meise for Great Freedom as the recipients of this year’s DDA SPOTLIGHT AWARD

04.11.2021 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces its full 2021 programme

01.11.2021 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival brings New German Cinema to Estonian cinemas

28.10.2021 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival unleashes its Rebels with a Cause

27.10.2021 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival puts Hungary in focus in 2021

25.10.2021 - PÖFF announces its Baltic Competition films for 2021

20.10.2021 - PÖFF announces its full Official Selection for 2021

13.10.2021 - PÖFF announces its 2021 First Features competition lineup

16.09.2021 - Tallinn Black Nights announces first 6 Official Selection films

09.07.2021 - PÖFF & EFF to collaborate on promoting film literacy in Europe

07.07.2021 - PÖFF, EFA & FIPRESCI to welcome European Discovery directors at new Discovery Campus

10.06.2021 - Baltic Event Co-Production Market presents 7 projects at Cannes

01.06.2021 - Baltic Event Co-Production Market presents 7 projects at Cannes

27.04.2021 - Black Nights Goes to Cannes!

27.11.2020 - Awards of the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

24.11.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival screens 13 fresh series in the TV Beats section

21.11.2020 - Margarethe Von Trotta to receive the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award

20.11.2020 - European Film Forum in Tallinn: zooming into leadership resilience, foresight and transformation of the film industry during COVID19

13.11.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival kicks off its 24th edition

12.11.2020 Armando Iannucci and Francis Annan to be the first recipients of the DDA Spotlight Award the Tallin Black Nights Film Festival

10.10.2020 - Estonian-Canadian DOP Alar Kivilo to receive the Tallinn Black Nights Lifetime Achievement Award

06.10.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the full lineup of its 24th edition

04.10.2020 -Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces collaboration with three medical companies to ensure the safety of its events and guests

03.10.2020 -Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival lets loose its Rebels With A Cause

03.10.2020 -Invitation to the virtual Opening Press Conference of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

30.10.2020 -14 films to compete at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s Baltic Competition programme

28.10.2020 -Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival puts German film in focus in 2020

22.10.2020 -Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the complete lineup of the Official Selection – Competition

19.10.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival to introduce the DDA Spotlight Award

15.10.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces the First Feature Competition lineup for 2020

23.09.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces first eight films of the Official Selection – Competition

17.09.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival saves forests with Single.Earth, a rising Estonian greentech startup

14.08.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s industry strand goes online

31.07.2020 - Tartu Love Film Festival announces full programme

08.07.2020 - The European Genre Forum announces projects for 2020

15.05.2020 - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival announces statistics of the virtual edition and donates most of its ticket revenue for Corona relief

11.05.2020 - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival crowns winners

05.05.2020 - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film festival and European Genre Forum organise an international virtual panel to discuss the future of the genre industry

30.04.2020 - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival Announces Full Programme

16.04.2020 - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival moves online

16.03.2020 - Festival programmers join forces to launch My Darling Quarantine, an online festival designed to raise money in light of Coronavirus

13.03.2020 - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival ic changing dates or moving online

03.03.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Opens Film Submissions as PÖFF Shorts Celebrates Becoming an Academy Qualifying Event

28.02.2020 - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival celebrates H.P. Lovecraft’s 130th anniversary

31.01.2020 - Tallinn Black Nights mourns Finnish filmmaker Jörn Donner