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\n\tThe Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (P\u00d6FF) in Estonia unveiled its competition and first feature competition lineups and the international jury for its 2025 official selection on Friday. The main competition for the 29th edition of the festival includes\u00a017 feature films, with\u00a016 world premieres\u00a0and\u00a0one international premiere.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThis year\u2019s selection follows an impressive number of submissions: 1,900 for the main program, 433 for Just Film, and over 5,600 for Shorts,\u201d the fest said. \u201cFilms were submitted from more than\u00a0100 countries, with around\u00a080 nations represented\u00a0in the festival\u2019s final program.\u201d Overall, the program will showcase\u00a0110 world premieres\u00a0and\u00a030 international premieres.<\/p>\n
\n\tFestival director and head curator\u00a0Tiina Lokk\u00a0described this year\u2019s competition as a reflection of the world\u2019s anxieties and resilience, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to pinpoint a single common thread this year, but once again, the selection holds up a mirror to our world. Everything that worries and pains us is there \u2014 wars, the environmental crisis, political arrogance, migration, women\u2019s rights, and, above all, the fragile ties of family life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tShe noted strong submissions from\u00a0Asia, Latin America,\u00a0and\u00a0Spain, the only country with two films in the competition. \u201cWith Catalan Films in Focus, we were pleased to include emerging Catalan female talent J\u00falia de Paz Solvas with The Good Daughter<\/em>, as well as The Dashed Lines<\/em> \u2014 a warm and unexpected story about divorce by Galician director Anxos Faz\u00e0ns,\u201d Lokk said.<\/p>\n \n\tThe jury is chaired by Macedonian filmmaker\u00a0Teona Strugar Mitevska (Mother; God Exists<\/em>,\u00a0Her Name Is Petrunya<\/em>;\u00a0The Happiest Man in the World<\/em>). The other jury members are Debra McGuire, the Emmy-nominated fashion and costume designer (Friends<\/em>, Phil Spector<\/em>, The Morning Show<\/em>), Mongolian producer and screenwriter Nomuunzul Turmunkh (Silent City Driver<\/em>, The Sales Girl<\/em>), cinematographer Roberto Schaefer (Finding Neverland<\/em>, Quantum of Solace<\/em>), and German producer Ingo Fliess (The Teachers\u2019 Lounge<\/em>).<\/p>\n \n\tP\u00d6FF 2025 runs Nov. 7-23.<\/p>\n \n\tCheck out the full competition lineups below.<\/p>\n \n\tMain Competition \n\tFirst Feature Competition<\/strong> The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (P\u00d6FF) in Estonia unveiled its competition and first feature competition lineups and the international jury for its 2025 official selection on Friday. The main competition for the 29th edition of the festival includes\u00a017 feature films, with\u00a016 world premieres\u00a0and\u00a0one international premiere. \u201cThis year\u2019s selection follows an impressive number of submissions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[706,2883,1540,1171,5643,8684,15293,908],"class_list":{"0":"post-27183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-black","9":"tag-competition","10":"tag-festival","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-lineup","13":"tag-nights","14":"tag-tallinn","15":"tag-unveils"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>18 Holes to Paradise (Portugal, Italy, Argentina), dir. Jo\u00e3o Nuno Pinto
Duality (Iran), dir. Abbas Nezamdoost
Hungarian Wedding (Hungary), dir. Csaba K\u00e1el
LifeLike (Turkey, Greece, Romania), dir. Ali Vatansever
Mira (Morocco), dir. Nour Eddine Lakhmari
No Comment (Norway), dir. Petter N\u00e6ss
Sisa (Philippines), dir. Jun Robles Lana
The Dashed Lines (Spain), dir. Anxos Faz\u00e1ns
The Frog and the Water (Germany), dir. Thomas Stuber
The Good Daughter (Spain), dir. J\u00falia de Paz Solvas
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat (Japan), dir. Yukihiro Morigaki
The Moon is a Father of Mine (Luxembourg, Turkey, Georgia, Germany, Czechia, Bulgaria), dir. George Ovashvili
The Muralist (Mongolia), dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj
The Stories (Austria, France, Belgium, Egypt, Sweden), dir. Abu Bakr Shawky
Think of England (United Kingdom), dir. Richard Hawkins
Veins (Canada), dir. Raymond St-Jean
Versalles (Mexico), dir. Andr\u00e9s Clariond<\/p>\n
Admission (Quentin Hsu, Coolie Films Co, Taiwan)
A Safe Place (Cecilia \u015etef\u0103nescu, Point Film, Romania)
Backstage Madness (Amanbek Ad\u017e\u00f5mat, Tazar Cinemacompany, Kyrgyzstan)
Dump of Untitled Pieces (Melik Kuru, Hafif Film, Parda Film, Turkey)
Easy Girl (Hille Norden, Leitwolf Filmproduktion, Germany)
Elena\u2019s Shift (Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Boo Productions, Greece)
Hercules Falling (Christian Bonke, Bo Starling, Denmark)
Interior (Pascal Schuh, U5 Filmproduktion GmbH & Ko. KG, Germany)
Juana (Daniel Gim\u00e9nez Cacho, Talipot Studio, Mexico)
Lady (Samuel Abrahams, MetFilm Production, U.K.)
My First Love (Mari Storstein, Nordisk Film Norge, Norway)
Sunday Ninth (Kat Steppe, Paradiso Filmed Entertainment, Belgium)
This Is Not Happening (Artur Wyrzykowski, Bold Humans, Poland)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"