Winners of 2024 PÖFF Shorts

TALLINN: The international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts, taking place within the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, announced its winners on 16 November 2024.
19-11-2024

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024 Announces Baltic Film Competition Selection

TALLINN: Sixteen films, including six world premieres and two international premieres, will screen in the Baltic Film Competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF, 8 – 24 November…
31-10-2024

PÖFF Announces 2024 Critics Picks Competition Selection

TALLINN: Ten world premieres from around the globe, selected by a team headed by Nikolaj Nikitin, will screen in the Critics Picks Competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival…
27-10-2024

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024 Announces Full Competition Selection

TALLINN: Eighteen titles, including 11 world premieres and seven international premieres, will vie in the main competition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), which will be held 8…
20-10-2024

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Announces Works in Progress Selection

TALLINN: Seventeen projects from countries including Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia and Czech Republic have been selected for the three categories of Works in Progress, which will be held within…
17-10-2024

PÖFF 2024 Announces First Feature Competition

TALLINN: Eleven titles chosen from among 250 films from 66 countries landed in the First Feature Competition selection of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF). The festival will…
15-10-2024

Estonia to Support Film Industry in Jõhvi with 10.9 m EUR

TALLINN: With the 10.9 m EUR that the state will allot to develop infrastructure and support services for the film industry in Jõhvi, the Ida-Viru Investment Agency plans to establish…
13-10-2024

TV Series Von Fock to Premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

TALLINN: Estonian director Arun Tamm is putting the final touches on the TV series Von Fock, which will premiere at TV Beats Forum (18 – 20 November 2024) within Industry@Tallinn…
08-10-2024

PRODUCTION: Estonian Director Tõnis Pill in Postproduction with Fränk

TALLINN: Estonian director Tõnis Pill is currently in postproduction with his debut feature Fränk, which is set to be released in the spring of 2025. This 100% Estonian coproduction is…
06-10-2024

Baltic Event Co-Production Market 2024 Announces Selected Projects

TALLINN: Fourteen projects have been selected for the Baltic Event Co-Production Market, which will be held at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 20-22 November 2024. This year, the market is including…
03-10-2024

FNE Oscar Watch 2025: Estonia Selects 8 Views of Lake Biwa as Oscar Candidate

TALLINN: The magical-realist tragedy 8 Views of Lake Biwa / Biwa järve 8 nägu by Marko Raat has been selected as Estonia’s candidate for the 97th Academy of Motion Picture…
12-09-2024

PRODUCTION: Estonian Directors Rain Tolk and Andres Maimik in Postproduction with Jan Uuspõld Goes Home

TALLINN: Estonian directors Rain Tolk and Andres Maimik are currently in postproduction with Jan Uuspõld Goes Home / Jan Uuspõld läheb koju, a comedy telling a fictitious story of the…
06-09-2024

FNE at Venice 2024: Elle Driver Handles Sales on Alexandros Avranas’s Estonian and German Minority Coproduction Quiet Life

TALLINN: The rights to the new work by the Greek director Alexandros Avranas, Quiet Life (aka Apathy), which had its world premiere on 29 August 2024 in the Horizons section…
29-08-2024

Baltic Film Days 2024 Ready to Start

TALLINN: The 8th edition of the Baltic Film Days will take place simultaneously in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 29 to 31 August 2024, showcasing the best of the Baltic…
27-08-2024

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event and Locarno Pro Launch Tallinn Industry Academy

TALLINN: The first edition of the Tallinn Industry Academy, introduced by Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event (ITBE, 14 – 22 November 2024) and Locarno Pro will take place during the industry…
27-08-2024

Michael Fassbender and Richard Gere to Shoot in Estonia for Paramount+ Series The Agency

TALLINN: Paramount+ series The Agency produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and starring Michael Fassbender and Richard Gere, will start shooting in Estonia in September 2024 using the local…
20-08-2024

PRODUCTION: Estonian Director German Golub Shoots Baltic Biopic Our Erika

TALLINN: Estonian director German Golub is currently in production with his debut feature Our Erika / Meie Erika. This Estonian/Lithuanian/Latvian coproduction tells the story of Olympic track cyclist Erika Salumäe,…
11-08-2024

GRANTS: Estonian Feature and Documentary Production Grants in 2024

TALLINN: The Estonian Film Institute has distributed 4,740,000 EUR as production grants for feature and documentary films in 2024. Part of the grants will be financed in two stages, in…
08-08-2024

The 2024 Tartuff Underway in Estonia

TARTU: Eighteen films are screening at the Tartu Love Film Festival Tartuff from 5 to 10 August 2024.
08-08-2024

Film Archives in National Archives of Estonia Halfway through Digitalisation

TALLINN: A total of 245 hours of the film archives in the National Archives of Estonia were digitalised by the end of 2023.
09-07-2024