The Tallinn Black Nights Movie Competition (PÖFF) in Estonia unveiled its competitors lineup and worldwide jury for its 2025 official choice on Friday. The competitors for the twenty ninth version of the competition contains 17 function movies, with 16 world premieres and one worldwide premiere.
“This yr’s choice follows a powerful variety of submissions: 1,900 for the principle program, 433 for Simply Movie, and over 5,600 for Shorts,” the fest stated. “Movies had been submitted from greater than 100 nations, with round 80 nations represented within the competition’s ultimate program.” Total, this system will showcase 110 world premieres and 30 worldwide premieres.
Competition director and head curator Tiina Lokk described this yr’s competitors as a mirrored image of the world’s anxieties and resilience, saying: “It’s tough to pinpoint a single widespread thread this yr, however as soon as once more, the choice holds up a mirror to our world. All the things that worries and pains us is there — wars, the environmental disaster, political conceitedness, migration, girls’s rights, and, above all, the delicate ties of household life.”
She famous sturdy submissions from Asia, Latin America, and Spain, the one nation with two movies within the competitors. “With Catalan Movies in Focus, we had been happy to incorporate rising Catalan feminine expertise Júlia de Paz Solvas with The Good Daughter, in addition to The Dashed Traces — a heat and sudden story about divorce by Galician director Anxos Fazàns,” Lokk stated.
The jury is chaired by Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska (Mom; God Exists, Her Identify Is Petrunya; The Happiest Man within the World). The opposite jury members are Debra McGuire, the Emmy-nominated style and costume designer (Buddies, Phil Spector, The Morning Present), Mongolian producer and screenwriter Nomuunzul Turmunkh (Silent Metropolis Driver, The Gross sales Woman), cinematographer Roberto Schaefer (Discovering Neverland, Quantum of Solace), and German producer Ingo Fliess (The Academics’ Lounge).
Try the total competitors lineup beneath.
MAIN COMPETITION
18 Holes to Paradise (Portugal, Italy, Argentina), dir. João Nuno Pinto
Duality (Iran), dir. Abbas Nezamdoost
Hungarian Wedding ceremony (Hungary), dir. Csaba Káel
LifeLike (Turkey, Greece, Romania), dir. Ali Vatansever
Mira (Morocco), dir. Nour Eddine Lakhmari
No Remark (Norway), dir. Petter Næss
Sisa (Philippines), dir. Jun Robles Lana
The Dashed Traces (Spain), dir. Anxos Fazáns
The Frog and the Water (Germany), dir. Thomas Stuber
The Good Daughter (Spain), dir. Júlia de Paz Solvas
The Imaginary Canine and the Mendacity Cat (Japan), dir. Yukihiro Morigaki
The Moon is a Father of Mine (Luxembourg, Turkey, Georgia, Germany, Czechia, Bulgaria), dir. George Ovashvili
The Muralist (Mongolia), dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj
The Tales (Austria, France, Belgium, Egypt, Sweden), dir. Abu Bakr Shawky
Consider England (United Kingdom), dir. Richard Hawkins
Veins (Canada), dir. Raymond St-Jean
Versalles (Mexico), dir. Andrés Clariond