Tallinn Black Nights Fest Honcho Tiina Lokk on her Program, Fighting Conflicts and Cuts. ‘If Someday A-List Stars Would Like to Come We’ll Find the Money’
variety.comAnnika Pham 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 programmers, another strong and varied harvest for the fest’s 28th edition unspooling Nov.
8-23 in the Estonian capital. Split into six main competition strands and another 37 sections, this year’s lineup frames a wealth of world film gems for all tastes, with an emphasis on the best from the Baltic and Nordic regions, Central and Eastern Europe.
A total of 250 features and 323 short films from 82 countries will be showcased across PÖFF’S main program and the sub-festival Just Film for kids and youth, including 57 world premieres and 27 international premieres.
Next to the German feel-good comedy “Long Story Short” set to kick start the event on Nov. 8, hotly anticipated world premieres include Klaus Härö’s “Never Alone” (acquired by Menemsha Films for the U.S.), the French thriller “Out of Control” starring Omar Sy, Latvian drama “The Exalted” by the award-winning Juris Kursietis (“Oleg”, “Soviet Jeans”) and Chilean psycho thriller “A Yard of Jackals” starring Nestór Cantillana and Blanca Lewin from the HBO series “Fugitives”.
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