Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) is the only A-category film festival in Northern Europe and celebrates its 25th birthday in 2021. Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event is the one-week summit for film and audiovisual industry professionals which runs during the festival. For its 20th edition, the hybrid event takes place from Nov 19-26 and welcomes projects and participants from around the globe.
Goes to Cannes
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF)
Projects
Goes to Cannes
SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Whispers of War
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Florian Hoffmann
Produced by: Alexander Wadouh & Roxana Richters (Chromosom Film & Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin)
Country of production: Germany
Original title: Stille Post
Genre: Feature film
Language: German, Turkish, Kurdish
Runtime: 94 min
Completed in: Summer 2021
When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire life in Berlin.
Goes to Cannes
SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Just Before
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Alisa Erokhina
Produced by: Denis Kovalevsky & Anna Shalashina (Salt Film Studio (Russia), WISH Media (Russia), Les Steppes Productions (France) with the support of the Russian Ministry of culture and KINOPRIME Foundation
Country of production: Russia, France
Original title: Накануне
Genre: Feature film
Language: Russian
Runtime: 90 min
Completed in: October 2021
15-year-old Max prepares to kill his father’s mistress Anna. The film shows the last days in the life of both characters. On the day of the tragedy, Max rings Anna’s doorbell with a gun clenched in his pocket. This is when their first and final conversation occurs and reveals the truth about both of them.
Goes to Cannes
SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Round Trip
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Dorothée Van den Berghe
Produced by: Bert Hamelinck & Dimitri Verbeeck & Helena Vlogaert (Caviar)
Country of production: Belgium
Original title: Aller / Retour
Genre: Feature film
Language: English, Dutch, French
Runtime: 90 min
Completed in: September 2021
Truck driver Erika catches a transmigrant (Idy) hiding in her truck. The confrontation that follows escalates to such an extent that Erika has no choice but to save Idy’s life and take him back on board very reluctantly. Aller / Retour is a warm buddy road movie about the unexpected friendship.
Goes to Cannes
SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Citizen Saint
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Produced by: Lasha Khalvashi & Denis Vaslin & Boris Chouchkov (Artizm)
Country of production: Georgia, France, Bulgaria
Original title: Mokalake Tsmindani
Genre: Feature film
Language: Georgian
Runtime: 100 min
Completed in: November 2021
Miners in the small town discover that centuries ago crucified Saint came back to life and lives among them. Shortly after celebrating his presence they lose hope, ordinary man can’t protect them from misfortunes. Hopeless and frightened crowd believing saint will have more power on the cross.
Goes to Cannes
SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Pinocchio and the Water of Life
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Viktor Lakisov
Produced by: Vsevolod Zorin & Paul Marshal & Mark De Carlo (Asymmetric Studios OÜ & Dick Lizzardo Productions, Inc.)
Country of production: Estonia, USA, Russia
Original title: Pinocchio and the Water of Life
Genre: Animation
Language: English
Runtime: 85 min
Completed in: 2022
Pinocchio leaves his fathers’s house and finds friends who are puppets like him. Suddenly he realizes that his new friends are unable to move without puppet-master, and even more, his new friends are not alive! Pinocchio longs to give life to the puppets and give them freedom.