Last weekend, the winning films from six competitions were awarded.

A new swing starting today with screenings at Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza and Artis Cinema.

A discussion with Laurence Boyce, Director of our Live-Action Programme.

What exciting ideas lie behind the new South Korean indie animation? During the first weekend of the Black Nights Film Festival, a special Korean animation programme will be accompanied by guests.

A total of 13 short dance films prove that you can dance pretty much anywhere.

A total of 283 short films were selected to be screened at the festival from November 8-20.

This year, the international competition for children's animation will screen a total of 13 films in three screenings.

A chat with the Head of PÖFF Shorts' animation programmer Vassilis Kroustallis.

A total of 14 short films and animations will be screened in the 2024 edition of REBELS WITH THEIR SHORTS.

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, the business summit for film and audiovisual professionals, together with PÖFF Shorts, are launching a guiding platform for emerging filmmakers.

We asked the new head of PÖFF Shorts what excites her the most about the festival.

This year, the Shorts National Competition programme includes 13 animated films — more than ever before. In total, 33 films will compete for the title of Best Short.

This year, the 12th edition of the Baltic Pitching Forum (BPF) welcomed filmmaking talents from the Baltic countries and Croatia to the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. Office.

The short film and animation festival within the Black Nights Film Festival has unveiled the titles which will be a part of its six competitions. The 8th edition of PÖFF Shorts runs from 8 to 20 November in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia.

The signature design of the PÖFF Shorts was created by Finnish artist Aliina Kauranne. Take a look!

Tara first became acquainted with the Black Nights Film Festival a decade ago. She never looked back. “The festival has always felt like home,” she shares.

According to years of experience, a Wolf Pass hangs around the neck of a true PÖFF Wolf.

Shorts and the Estonian Animation Union are now members of the CEE Animation Network. In addition, UK animated films screened at the festival will be eligible for a BAFTA nomination.

Three Baltic filmmakers given opportunity to develop short film scripts as part of the 6th edition of the Baltic Shorts Residency.

The Shorts Industry Shortcut (or SIS) is PÖFF Shorts’ industry arm, a stimulating, thought-provoking and inspiring guidance platform for emerging filmmakers.

The 46th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival kicks off Friday, February 2nd.

PÖFF Shorts EFA nomination and Rebels with A Cause winners announced at the 27th Black Nights Award Ceremony.

The international short film and animation festival announced the winners of its 2023 edition this Saturday, November 11 at the PÖFF Shorts Award Ceremony.

The more physically disabled people are visible, the more we push accessibility to be a norm.

What's PÖFF TV and how to view it?

When: 8 November 2023, 15.30-16.30 Where: Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza, A. Le Coq Suite (Hobujaama 5)

For one night only, we will put on a special showcase at Paavli Kultuurivabrik.

Humour, dance and the unexpected define Shorts Alternatives.

Festival tickets and Wolf Passes are on sale now.

The international jury of PÖFF Shorts has something to look forward to: their dinners will be prepared by restaurant Spot.

In PÖFF's Rebels With A Cause competition that defies the methods of conventional film production, 12 short films and animations from Japan, Côte d'Ivoire and elsewhere will be shown.

What makes a good story for a children's film?

The Black Nights’ short film and animation festival has chosen 24 films from 85 submissions to the PÖFF Shorts National Competition.

Among the record number of over 5,400 films, the Black Nights' short film and animation festival has selected a total of 104 films for international competition programmes.

The Wolf Pass allows for a smoother PÖFF experience.

As top industry names and emerging talents meet in Vilnius from October 10-13, BPF will host events on intimacy co-ordination, talent agents and co-production opportunities.

The next short film and animation festival takes place from November 7-15, 2023.

We are hereby publishing a joint statement from the distributors and producers of a film in the PÖFF Shorts programme.

PÖFF Shorts EFA nomination and Rebels with A Cause winners announced at the 25th Black Nights Award Ceremony.

The international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts announced the winners of its 2022 edition at the PÖFF Shorts Award Ceremony on Saturday, November 19.

PÖFF Shorts runs from November 15-23. Festival tickets on sale now.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the line-up for Rebels with a Cause.

PÖFF Shorts has unveiled the titles which will be a part of its six competitions, with a total of 131 films will screen across the festival running from 15 to 23 November.

Since 2018, PÖFF Shorts has been giving artists around Estonia a chance to re-imagine the PÖFF wolf.

Get your Black Nights Festival Pass today.

Without volunteers, there would be no Black Nights Film festival (PÖFF). It's that simple. PÖFF is looking for everyone who is ready to help to organise one of the largest film events in Northern Europe.

PÖFF Shorts joins the biggest film festival in the world from January 30 to February 4 with Baltic Shorts.

Olga Lucovnicova's documentary "My Uncle Tudor" hailed as the best European short at the annual European Film Awards.

At the 25th Black Nights Award Ceremony, Špela Čadež' "Steakhouse" announced as the EFA nomination from PÖFF Shorts.

The Black Nights Film Festival web cinema will screen short films until November 28.

The international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts has announced the winners of its 2021 edition.

In honor of Rao Heidmets’ 65th jubilee the short and animated film festival PÖFF Shorts has dedicated a retrospective to the filmmaker that includes a premiere of the puppet animation Troublemaker Tommy directed with Pauline Heidmets.

Looking to meet filmmakers? Here's your chance!

The 5th edition of PÖFF Shorts will showcase over 370 short films and animations.

The 2021 children's animation competition was programmed for PÖFF Shorts by the Estonian Children's Literature Centre.

PÖFF Shorts continues to work with restaurants working for a better and tastier environment.

The short film and animation festival set to take place from November 16 to 24 will screen 16 cassettes with 250 films.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces the line-up for Rebels With A Cause, an international competition programme screening 14 feature films, alongside a short films competition that includes 13 entries this year, split across two programmes.

Award winners and popular festival titles sit alongside new discoveries for audiences to see during Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in November.

Since 2018, PÖFF Shorts has been working with artists around Estonia to give the festival a visual identity.

The 9th BPF will invite selected participants as well as industry professionals from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, alongside guest country Sweden.

From November 16-24, the international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Black Nights Film Festival.

Tallinn Black Nights fulfils its 2020 pledge to donate a part of its film submission fees toward the preservation of local forests, alongside Estonian green tech company Single.Earth and the newly formed forest fund Estonian Wildlife.

Filmmakers and scriptwriters from all three Baltic countries are being encouraged to apply for the BALTIC SHORTS RESIDENCY, the third edition of which will take place in Lithuania from 1-20 June 2021. Deadline for application is April 18, 2021.

PÖFF has announced dates for its 25th-anniversary edition and opens submissions for the main festival and sub-festivals PÖFF Shorts and Just Film.

Wild West Compressed is a fun and playful animation in which the wide open vistas of the Western are constrained by the modern preoccupation of seeing everything on your phone. Will the Wild West ever see widescreen again in a film that is not only a slice of bright and breezy animation but also a sly lament for the loss of the big screen.

International short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts has announced the winners for its 2020 edition.

A bright and breezy ad for an airline. In the current lockdown, this is just what we want isn’t it? But as we look below the surface we are faced with the environmental consequences of our actions. The glossy and glamorous world of the music video and commercial clash with the all too real dangerous effects of air travel.

Animated shorts Gravedad confidently walks the line between tender and intimate and bold and provocative as director Matisse Gonzalez Jordán explores a world in which changes in gravity make our protagonist have to shift her life between light and heavy. A clever evocation of emotional turmoil, the film has proved to be a popular one – including screening in last year’s New Talents Animation Competition at PÖFF Shorts.

In this collection of six dance films the narrative lines play between the allegory, the social commentary and the abstraction of our own reality.

Initially, the animated short The Beauty seems to be a languid trawl through the majestic splendour of the ocean. But on a closer look we see that the wonderful creatures and magnificent corals and plants are all replaced by plastic bottles or other detritus that has filled up the ocean thanks to humanity.

A mother and her son, Christoph, decide to spend a morning in a hunting perch waiting for prey to come past their sights. Hungover from the night before, Christoph wants to choose this quiet moment in the forest to tell his mother some important news.

If you think a film about minigolf couldn’t be insightful and intelligent, then let *Ascona* change your mind.

With PÖFF celebrating Germany as its Country in Focus for 2020, PÖFF Shorts will be screening Next Generation Short Tiger, a selection of new fiction, animation and documentaries from some of the best and brightest talents coming out of Germany.

Record number of Estonian entries received in first year PÖFF Shorts becomes an Academy Award qualifier.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival sub-festival announces 115 titles across five different competition as PÖFF Shorts (17th-25h November 2020) celebrates its first year of being an Academy Award qualifying festival.

The projects from all participating countries shared the awards on Friday evening.

Since 2018, PÖFF Shorts has been working with artists around Estonia to give the festival a visual identity. The 2020 PÖFF Shorts festival identity is authored by artist Ingmar Järve who captured our eye with his striking and unique street art.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will invest one euro from every film submission fee collected to combat intensive clear-cuts in Estonia. The platform created by the Estonian startup Single.Earth gives money to forest owners for switching from clear-cutting to alternative forest management methods.

The 15th edition of the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, held online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, crowns Even Husby Grødahl’s Downs of the Dead as the Méliés Short Film Competition winner.

The team of Black Nights celebrates the news its the sub-festival, international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts has now become an Academy Qualifying film event.

At the PÖFF Shorts award ceremony held on Saturday November 23 in Tallinn’s Club Hollywood, the winners of the Black Night Film Festival’s short film and animation sub-festival PÖFF Shorts were announced.

The 22nd Black Nights Film Festival was a blast! Here’s an overview how it all went down in numbers: