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FeaturesInternational execs choose favourite projects, praise youth focus of Tallinn’s 28th edition
‘Emi’, ’The Worker’ and ‘Late Shift’ all gathered plaudits from industry attendees.
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NewsRussian director on ‘Deaf Lovers’ PÖFF controversy: “Censorship is the biggest threat to art in our world”
‘Deaf Lovers’ was removed from Tallinn’s ‘Standing With Ukraine’ programme but kept in the festival.
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News‘Silent City Driver’ leads Tallinn 2024 winners; Palestinian, Israeli films take prizes
Several winners referenced ongoing global conflicts in their speeches.
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NewsMigration stories head Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2024 winners
17 awards distributed to film projects at various development & production stages.
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News“Like ‘Black Mirror’ without the technologies”: Tallinn filmmakers discuss working in exile
Producer Uldis Cekulis suggested making projects faster to respond to current events.
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Reviews‘Trains’: IDFA Review
IDFA top prize-winner is a timeless train trip through black-and-white archive footage
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FeaturesHow Tallinn’s AI recommender aims to help audiences discover new films
Susi allows users to input any information, and it will suggest films from the PÖFF programme.
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NewsFinnish series project ‘The Women I Think About At Night’ leads Tallinn TV Beats winners
German project ‘In Paradise’ wins new Public Favourite award.
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NewsAtlas acquires Tallinn title ‘The Weeping Walk’ (exclusive)
Film will have its world premiere in Tallinn’s First Feature Competition.
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FeaturesTallinn’s industry head looks forward to presenting projects, talking AI and debating funding sources
The Tallinn industry programme closed attendance applications early for the first time.
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NewsTallinn Black Nights responds to criticism of Russian film: “This is an anti-war work”
Film has been removed from the Standing with Ukraine programme, but remains in competition.
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FeaturesTallinn director Tiina Lokk warns about threats to film festival independence
”There is no right to demand that you should take a film off your programme,” says Lokk.
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News‘All We Imagine As Light’, ‘Honeymoon’ among Kyiv film festival winners
Bogdan Muresanu’s ‘The New Year That Never Came’ won a special mention.
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Reviews‘Under The Volcano’: Thessaloniki Review
Poland’s Oscar entry is a drama about a Ukrainian family stranded in Spain on the outbreak of war
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NewsFirst Budapest International Film Festival launches with independent Hungarian fund (exclusive)
The fund will support one Hungarian feature and one short, from script to release.
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NewsTallinn Baltic Film Competition selection includes seven world premieres
16 titles include ‘Anna LOL’, about a young woman exploring double standards in Latvian society.
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News‘I Can’t Have Sex’ world premiere among Tallinn Rebels With A Cause selection
10 features include six world premieres.
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NewsDavid Dietl’s ‘Long Story Short’ to open Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
German focus programme comprises 15 new German films.
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NewsTallinn Critics’ Picks 2024 selection includes 10 world premieres
Titles include Vincenzo Alfieri’s ‘The Body’ and Paolo Marinou-Blanco’s ‘Dreaming Of Lions’.
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NewsTallinn completes Official Selection Competition with 11 world premieres
World premieres include Ukrainian feature ‘The Mousetrap’, filmed between military service breaks.