Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-30) will include a focus on Polish cinema with two dozen Polish films taking centre stage, including opening film Warsaw 1944 by Jan Komasa.

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Polish films in the Black Nights programme will include Family Life and The Foreign Body by Krzystof Zanussi, Field of Dogs by Lech Majewski and Last Floor by Tadeusz Krol as well as films by Jerzy Hoffman, Elwira Niewira, Kasia Adamik, Andrzej Waja, Aleksander Scibor-Rylski and Agnieszka Holland.

Following its 2013 debut the festival will also bring back its industry Confab strand.

Organized in partnership with Independent Cinema Office (UK) the event sees leaders of the international film festival circuit brought together to discuss topics including competition between festivals, programming and censorship, sponsorship, fundraising, and the role of festivals in creative economies.