One of the biggest festivals in Northern Europe, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), headed by the charismatic ...

Tiina Lokk, the founder and managing director of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (known as PÖFF), one of the largest festivals in Northern Europe, has put together with her team of 15 ...

Everything that worries and pains us is there — wars, the environmental crisis, political arrogance, migration, women’s ...

On the eve of Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (POFF), the event’s director, Tiina Lokk, is concerned about threats to the independence of film festivals. In particular, she is worried ...

As the film fest, now in its 28th edition, continues to shine a spotlight on emerging auteurs, it is also working in support of a new studio space that will establish production infrastructure and ...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has defended its selection of Russian film Deaf Lovers, which it describes as “an artistically powerful anti-war work”. A statement issued by festival ...

17/11/2015 - Cineuropa met with Tiina Lokk, the director of the Black Nights Film Festival, to talk about what still needs to be done to consolidate the event's place on the A-list festival circuit ...

Tallinn boasts an impressive program this year featuring 117 world and international premieres. The opening film “The Guardians of the Formula,” directed by Dragan Bjelogrlić, is a co-production ...

When the first coronavirus lockdown went into effect in Estonia this spring, the organizers of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival—the leading cinema event in the Baltics, which unspools Nov. 13-29 ...