Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Unveils 2026 Documentary Lineup for 30th Edition
The 30th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) is set to take place from November 6 to 22, showcasing twenty feature documentaries across both international and Baltic competitions, alongside seven special screenings. Within the international Doc@PÖFF competition, eleven films will be presented, while the Baltic section includes nine films, with five making their world debut. Highlights consist of Loup Bureau's Child of Sinaï and The Taste of Democracy by Péter Akar and Ambrus Fatér. The jury for the international competition is led by Karin Pennanen, with Roman Bondarchuk and Israel Bañuelos as members. Among the world premieres in the Baltic competition is Alexander Belinski's Baltic UXO, and special screenings feature Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears and Slava: Shooting With Music by Jacqui Morris.
Key facts
- The 30th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival runs November 6–22, 2026
- Twenty feature documentaries compete across the international and Baltic sections, plus seven special screenings
- Doc@PÖFF international competition includes eleven titles; the second Baltic competition has nine, five as world premieres
- About fifty documentary features are spread across the festival's sections
- Karin Pennanen, 2025 winner with Days of Wonder, chairs the international jury
- Christian Popp heads the Baltic competition jury with Rada Šešić and Carmen L. Vicencio
- Special Screenings include three world premieres and one international premiere
- Slava: Shooting With Music follows Okean Elzy's Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Entities
Artists
- Marianna Kaat
- Loup Bureau
- Péter Akar
- Ambrus Fatér
- Vesa Kuosmanen
- Adam Nielsen
- Andreas Koefoed
- Eva Mulvad
- Murad Allahverdi
- Laurentiu Garofeanu
- Filip Remunda
- Daniela Miron
- Diana Vlas
- Kaspar Astrup Schröder
- Anastasiia Vedenskaia
- Yong Zhang
- Karin Pennanen
- Roman Bondarchuk
- Israel Bañuelos
- Alexander Belinski
- Agnė Dovydaitytė
- Rinaldas Tomaševičius
- Mihkel Oksmann
- Francesco Rufini
- Laura Liventaal
- Pepe Andreu
- Rafa Molés
- Nerijus Milerius
- Karolina Peterson
- Yuliia Hontaruk
- Christian Popp
- Rada Šešić
- Carmen L. Vicencio
- Stephen Frears
- Kullar Viimne
- Erlend Štaub
- Taavi Arus
- Jüri Järvet
- Max Korman
- Louis Kahn
- Jacqui Morris
- David Morris
- Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
- Ilja Rautsi
- Tim Blake Nelson
Institutions
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
- PÖFF
- Doc@PÖFF
- Docudays UA
- Ukraine War Archive
- Acousmatic Film Sound
- American Documentary Inc.
- Okean Elzy
- Revista cultural el Hype
Locations
- Tallinn
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Iceland
- Spain
- Ukraine
- Slovakia
- Finland
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Sinai Peninsula
- Hungary
- Azerbaijan
- Moldova
- Mexico
- Cannes
- France
- Riga
- United Kingdom
- United States
Sources
- El Hype —