The festival accommodates three international competition programs (EurAsia, Tridens and North American indie films), and three full blown sub festivals (Animated Dreams, Just Film, and Sleepwalkers) along with comprehensive festival program and industry events Baltic Event and Industry @ Tallinn.
Submit your film for the 18th edition of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, November 14 - 30, 2014, Tallinn, Estonia to the following categories.
Black Nights Film Festival main programme
(14 November - 30 November, 2014)
- International competition EurAsia with 10 000 EUR grand prix and other monetary prizes for feature length films from European and Asian territories premiered after 15 September, 2013
- Regional competition – Tridens film competition for feature length films from countries around the Baltic Sea premiered after 15 September, 2013
- North American competition - indie feature film competition for feature length films from Canada and US premiered after 15 September, 2013
- Non-competitive sections for Feature length films and documentaries premiered after 1 January, 2014
Children‘s and Youth Film Festival Just Film
(14 November - 23 November, 2014)
- International competition programme of feature films for children
- International competition programme of feature films for young people
- Non-competitive informative programmes, retrospectives and special presentations
for full-length fiction or documentary films premiered after 1 January, 2013
16th Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams
(26 November - 30 November, 2014)
- International competition programme of short and medium-length animated films
- Non-competitive informative programmes, retrospectives and special presentations.
- Full-length animations program
for short and medium-length (-45 min) animated films premiered after 1 January, 2012;
Student and Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers
(18 November - 22 November, 2014)
- International competition program of short and medium-length films made by film or media students
- International competition programme of short and medium-length films
- International competition programme of short and medium-length from countries from the Baltic Sea region (Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden)
- National competition programme of Estonian short and medium-length films
- Non-competitive informative film programmes, retrospectives and special presentations
for short and medium-length (-45 min) films: fiction, documentary or experimental
For international student competition, directed by a film or media student
Premiered after 1 January, 2013 for the international student, short and Baltic Sea festival competitions
Premiered after 1 January 2014 (in the case of films for the Estonian National competition)