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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2025

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025

Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition

Programme

11 films

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BIX Almost Nirvana (BIX - beveik Nirvana)

Story of the rock band.

(Country: Lithuania; Year: 2025; Director: Emilis Vėlyvis)

A Goodnight Kiss (Irena)

Documentary about Irena Veisaitė – a Lithuanian writer, human rights activist, who warned us of the wars shaping our world today.

(Country: Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria; Year: 2025; Director: Giedrė Žickytė)

Happiness Is Living In Our Land (Õnn on elada me maal)

Documentary about punk band Velikije Luki.

(Country: Estonia; Year: 2025; Director: Indrek Spungin)

Holy Destructors (Biodestruktoriai)

Film essay about the work of bioarchaeologists.

(Country: Lithuania, France, Latvia; Year: 2025; Director: Aistė Žegulytė)

Laguna

The filmmaker considers the loss of his daughter.

(Country: Lithuania, France; Year: 2025; Director: Sharunas Bartas)

The Last Will (Testaments)

Documentary about the search for a missing urn containing the ashes of Anatols Imermanis, a Latvian crime writer and poet.

(Country: Latvia; Year: 2025; Director: Jānis Ābele)

Lost Stars Of The Horoscope

Follows three Ukrainian girls, Iryna, Sasha and Masha and their families over the course of a year as they attempt to build their new lives in Estonia.

(Country: Estonia; Year: 2025; Director: Katrina Lehismäe)

My Family And Other Clowns (Minu pere ja muud klounid)

Consideration of the children of world famous clowns Piip and Tuut.

(Country: Estonia; Year: 2025; Director: Heilika Pikkov, Liina Särkinen)

Not Made For Politics

As women lead Belarus’s fight for freedom, a filmmaker in exile confronts fear.

(Country: Estonia, France; Year: 2025; Director: Volia Chajkouskaya)

Scarecrows (Putnubiedēkļi)

Documentary about 'runway rangers' at Riga Airport.

(Country: Latvia, Lithuania; Year: 2025; Director: Laila Pakalnina)

Time To The Target

The daily struggle in Lviv.

(Country: Latvia, Czechia, Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Vitaly Mansky)