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.
Costume designer Debra McGuire on 31 years of dressing Jennifer Aniston: “We have a language that doesn’t need to be spoken”
McGuire discussed her experience working on ‘Friends’ and her collaborations with Judd Apatow.
Tallinn Baltic Competitions reveal lineups, including three world premieres
The programme opens with Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’.
Tallinn world premieres ‘The Megalomaniacs’ and ‘Veins’ boarded for sales
The films are part of Reason8’s AFM slate.
Tallinn Black Nights to open with ‘They Will Be Dust’ as part of Catalan focus
The Estonian festival runs November 7-23.
Tallinn unveils official selection competition with 16 world premieres
Lineup includes new films from Abu Bakr Shawky, George Ovashvili and Richard Hawkins.
UK comedy ‘Lady’ among Tallinn Black Nights first feature competition
13 films are competing for the best debut film award.
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.
UK director Samuel Abrahams on mockumentary ‘Lady’, casting Sian Clifford and ‘Saltburn’ comparisons
The mockumentary screens in the first feature competition at Tallinn Black Nights.
Tallinn industry head Marge Liiske talks rising costs, tackling AI and the importance of children’s films
The industry programme runs November 14-23.
