The 28th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - also known as PÖFF - will run from November 8 to 24. The programme is currently being announced so this page is a work in progress.

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Wet Monday
Wet Monday
On the day dedicated to the celebration of innocence, a girl is robbed of her own, her ignorant surroundings push her into treating it like a normal event.
Toxic
Toxic
Two teenage girls, eager to escape from the bleakness of their industrial town, form an unexpected bond at a local modelling school that pushes their bodies to the limit.
Kneecap
Kneecap
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
Girls Will Be Girls
Girls Will Be Girls
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
Holy Cow!
Holy Cow!
After the sudden death of his father an 18-year-old finds himself looking after his sister... and changing his life.
Young Hearts
Young Hearts
A 14-year-old boy feels attracted to his new neighbour, Alexander. Soon he realises that he's truly in love for the first time, but interactions with his friends and family bring more questions than answers.
A New Kind Of Wilderness
A New Kind Of Wilderness
In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and free, but a tragic event changes everything, and they are forced to adjust to modern society.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Features

Life lessons
Shuchi Talati on rebellion and relationships in school-set drama Girls Will Be Girls
Growing pains and gains
Saulė Bliuvaitė on developing and shooting Golden Leopard winner Toxic
'I really wanted to make a movie for the younger version of myself'
Anthony Schatteman on love, authenticity and acceptance in Young Hearts
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