Ray Panthaki’s ‘In Starland’ among world premieres at Tallinn Black Nights 2026
World premieres include Ray Panthaki’s UK-US title ‘In Starland’.
Tallinn Black Nights Stars 2026 includes Norwegian, Lithuanian, Estonian actors
EXCLUSIVE: Talent showcase features actors from Netflix’s ’23,000 Lives’ and 2015 movie ‘The Fencer’.
Second World War propaganda porn drama ‘Think Of England’ picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Hawkins’ psychological drama played at Tallinn and Glasgow.
17 film festivals receive official ‘A’-list classification as part of major FIAPF revamp
EXCLUSIVE: Annecy, Busan and Clermont-Ferrand are among those now with an ‘A’ classification.
Tallinn prize winner ‘China Sea’ picked up for sales
EXCLUSIVE: The MMA drama won the best film award in the critics’ picks competition at Tallinn.
Tallinn Black Nights appoints new artistic director, programming team
Festival founder Tiina Lokk, who is Tramberg’s mother, shifts focus to her CEO role.
Our left-field tips for Bafta voters, plus Doha, Tallinn and Tokyo festival dispatches – The Screen Podcast
The team recommends documentaries and non-English-language titles that Bafta and Ampas voters might have missed.
The hot projects that caught the eye of international execs at Tallinn Black Nights 2025
Attendees welcomed the focus on Ukraine of the industry programme.
Spanish drama ‘The Good Daughter’ wins top prize at Tallinn Black Nights
Julia de Paz Solvas’s family drama also won the audience award and best actress.
UK horror ‘Little Bird’ among Industry@Tallinn & Baltic winners
The film won the most promising project in the European Genre Forum.
Ukraine launches €50m culture fund, 30% cash rebate for international productions
The announcement was made by the head of the Ukrainian state film agency at the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic event.
Private financiers urge film and TV producers to be more open to digital content
The Tallinn panel said audiences are moving to digital and short-form content.
“Producers have to now think like a systems architect,” says AI panel at Tallinn Black Nights festival
The panel also discussed AI tool for screenwriters, dynamic workflows and remaining authentic.
“These are great stories that will travel the world,” says Black Nights Triin Tramberg of trimming the main competition
Tramberg has taken over as artistic director from her mother, Tiina Lokk.
Black Nights’ Malaika Bova on first films, the importance of world premieres and creating a community
Bova’s previous role at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival gave her invaluable insight into supporting debut filmmakers.
Why the filmmakers of Norwegian romantic drama ‘My First Love’ believe the set was” the nicest one ever”
Mari Storstein’s debut fiction feature is now making its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights film festival.
