PÖFF Shorts is a sub-festival of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival that focuses on showcasing short films and animations, aiming to offer a diverse, interesting, and alternative program. The festival period, along with its preparation, is intense and offers many challenges, but together with the diligent and friendly Shorts team, it brings a unique and unforgettable event to audiences and filmmakers!

PÖFF Shorts Guest Department Internship

The tasks of the PÖFF Shorts Guest Department Intern include:

• Assisting the PÖFF Shorts guest department with ongoing matters
• Managing the PÖFF Shorts guest department's emails in collaboration with the guest department assistant during the busy period before the festival
• Sending reminders to PÖFF Shorts guests during the festival in collaboration with the guest department assistant
• Managing the PÖFF Shorts guest department's work schedules according to current tasks
• Working at the PÖFF Shorts information desk during the festival
• Supporting networking opportunities for PÖFF Shorts guests at events during the festival.

You are suitable for the PÖFF Shorts guest department internship if you are responsible, an excellent communicator, empathetic, enthusiastic, proactive, and quick to adapt to changing circumstances. A fondness for spreadsheets is a plus.

The PÖFF Shorts guest team (including several volunteers) has been working together since the time when PÖFF Shorts was still known as Sleepwalkers and Animated Dreams. Our main goal is to provide guests with fast and clear communication and make them feel at home at our festival. The festival time is always busy, which makes it even more important for us to support and take care of each other. We look for solutions, laugh together, and if there is one team whose motto could be "come to the dark side, we have cookies," it would be us – naturally, it has become a tradition that we always have cookies.

Internship period: September-November 2025
Application deadline: August 28th 2025
Location: Tallinn
This internship is unpaid.

When applying for this internship please include answers to these short questions: How do you see a potential film festival guest and what could be your role in supporting them during their visit? Up to 500 characters.