Category: Tallinn

• Tallinn 2022: Our festival highlights

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  27 November 2022

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  Daniel Green, Tallinn

  Returning for its 26th edition and with 2021’s Covid restrictions largely a thing of the past, Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) this year crowned Hilmar Oddsson’s Icelandic dark comedy Driving Mum as the 2022 Grand Prix winner, with the Best Director award going to Ahmad Bahrami for thriller The Wastetown.

  

• Tallinn 2019: Festival highlights & awards roundup

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  1 December 2019

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  Daniel Green, Tallinn

  Seeing out its 23rd edition as the snow gently fell outside of Tallinn’s Russian Theatre, the Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) yesterday crowned Anshul Chauhan’s Japanese father and daughter tale Kontora (pictured above) as the Grand Prix winner, with the Best Director award going to Filippino filmmaker Jun Robles Jana for Kalel (15), a portrait…

  

• Tallinn 2017: Festival highlights & awards roundup

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  11 December 2017

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  Ben Nicholson, Tallinn

  Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival returned to the Estonian capital for its 21st instalment from 17 November – 3 December. Unlike some other A-list European festivals, the chilly darkness provides the perfect excuse to settle in and enjoy a wealth of international cinema. Films from a variety of other European festivals were part of an…