The films with international potential from the IDFA, Tallinn and Thessaloniki festivals
Screen’s chief film critic Fionnuala Halligan notes what stood out from the pack at three autumn festivals.
Ivaylo Hristov’s ‘Fear’ wins best film at Tallinn Black Nights
Nisan Dağ wins best director for ‘When I’m Done Dying’.
Tallinn crowns 2020 industry winners
Lithuanian writer-director Eglė Vertelytė’s Tasty was named the winner of Screen International’s best pitch award.
From ‘Tenet’ to ’Stranger Things’: how the Baltic region is opening up for international production
The heads of the national film institutes of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania came together in Tallinn.
Creative Europe deputy head previews “recovery and transformation” action plan
MEDIA proposals aim to revitalise the sector in the wake of the pandemic.
Oration Films picks up world sales on Tallinn Black Nights title ‘In The Mirror’ (exclusive)
Play on social media riffs on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
Winter swimming and forest BBQs replace indoor parties at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
The festival is underway in Estonia with 80 international guests in town.
Berlinale to reduce selection; festival directors call for unity with cinemas
Directors from the Berlinale, IFFR and Tallinn Black Nights discussed the future of film festivals.
Armando Iannucci, Francis Annan to receive Black Nights’ first DDA Spotlight Awards
New award to recognise diversity and inclusion in cinema.
ARRI Media takes on world sales for Black Nights title ’Caged Birds’
Germany’s ARRI Media has acquired world sales rights to Swiss director Oliver Rihs’ Caged Birds which is making ts international premiere in competition at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival next week.
ScreenDaily Talks: Black Nights, Berlin, Rotterdam heads to talk winter festival plans
The latest in our ScreenDaily Talks live series will take place on November 18 at 2pm UK time (3pm CET/4pm EET).
Tallinn Black Nights unveils 2020 works in progress titles
A total of 18 films will be showcased, including a €3m historical feature set in medieval Estonia.
Tallinn Black Nights completes 2020 competition line-up
Twelve films to receive their world premiere in competition at the festival.
“I was very nervous”: How Tallinn staged a hybrid festival amid Estonia’s second wave
“Every day when I woke up, I’m asking whether we have to cancel the festival or move it online.”
Viesturs Kairish talks about love, language and humour in ‘The Sign Painter’
“It was a political and aesthetic choice to shoot in Lagalian Latvian.”
Mika Kaurismäki on why he hit the bar in lockdown with ‘Gracious Night’
A planned shoot in Dubai became a lockdown film in the bar the Finnish director owns in Helsinki.
