The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) in Estonia has announced its official competition and first feature lineups, as well as the international jury for its 2025 edition. The 29th edition’s main competition will feature 17 films, including 16 world premieres and one international premiere.
“This year’s selection follows a remarkable volume of
submissions 1,900 for the main program, 433 for Just Film, and over 5,600 for
Shorts,” festival organizers said. “Entries arrived from more than 100
countries, with around 80 nations represented in the final lineup.” In total,
the 2025 festival will feature 110 world premieres and 30
international premieres.
Festival director and head curator Tiina Lokk
described this year’s program as a reflection of global challenges and human
endurance. “It’s hard to define one unifying theme,” she noted, “but the lineup
once again mirrors our world wars, environmental crises, political arrogance,
migration, women’s rights, and the fragile bonds of family.”
Lokk highlighted strong representation from Asia, Latin
America, and Spain, the only country with two entries in the main
competition. “With our Catalan Films in Focus section, we’re thrilled to
include rising Catalan filmmaker Júlia de Paz Solvas (The Good
Daughter) and Galician director Anxos Fazáns (The Dashed Lines),
a warm, unconventional story about divorce,” she added.
The international jury will be led by Macedonian
director Teona Strugar Mitevska (Mother, God Exists, Her Name Is
Petrunya). She will be joined by Debra McGuire, Emmy-nominated
costume designer (Friends, The Morning Show); Nomuunzul
Turmunkh, Mongolian producer and screenwriter (Silent City Driver); Roberto
Schaefer, cinematographer (Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace);
and Ingo Fliess, German producer (The Teachers’ Lounge).
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