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29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition: 12 publications

Holy Destructors (Biodestruktoriai)

Aistė Žegulytė
2025

Joshua Polanski - 22-11-2025

Exquisite Baltic doc reveals the "unique and unrepeatable" beauty of microorganisms, with a very poetic sensibility - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

BIX Almost Nirvana

Emilis Vėlyvis
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 21-11-2025

Lithuanian filmmaker showcases a songwriter and his band at their most human and creative, In this clear and cohesive documentary - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Twice as many reasons to laugh and cry

 

Davide Abbatescianni - 14-11-2025

DOC@PÖFF doubles down: Davide Abbatescianni gets inside the Tallinn Black Nights’s fast-growing hub for documentary film, which now boasts a brand new strand entirely devoted to Baltic non-fiction [Read More...]

Lost Stars of the Horoscope

Katrina Lehismäe
2025

Marina Richter - 13-11-2025

Ukrainian immigrants find shelter and solace in Estonia, despite tussling with non-belonging sentiments - from Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Happiness is Living in our Land (Õnn on Elada me Maal)

Indrek Spungin
2025

Joshua Polanski - 13-11-2025

Appropriately messy and entertaining doc about Estonian punk band that supposedly helped to trigger the demise of the USSR lacks in historicity - Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Laguna

Sharuna Bartas
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 12-11-2025

Sharuna Bartas and his daughter embark on a self-appointed pilgrimage to Mexico in order to honour their late Ina Marija, killed at just 24 - filthy genius doc shows in the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

My Family and Other Clowns (Minu Pere ja Muud Klounid)

Heilika Pikkov, Liina Särkinen
2025

Marina Richter - 12-11-2025

The family life of Estonia's top two clowns isn't all smiles and laughter - from the DOC@PÖFF Baltic Competition of 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Time to the Target (Chas Pidlotu)

Vitaly Mansky
2025

Nataliia Serebriakova - 11-11-2025

Vitaly Mansky’s new film extends his long-standing exploration of post-Soviet identity and human endurance into the deeply personal terrain of his native Lviv, in Western Ukraine - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Last Will (Testaments)

Jānis Ābele
2025

Marina Richter - 11-11-2025

Latvian erotic and crime writer Anatols Imermanis died in 1989 without visiting the Pigalle; now a group of artists have set out to scatter his ashes there - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Goodnight Kiss (Irena)

Giedrė Žickytė
2025

Anton Bitel - 11-11-2025

Giedrė Žickytė’s documentary portrait of late Lithuanian intellectual Irena Veisaitė is both a celebration and a lament - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Not Made for Politics

Volia Chajkouskaya
2025

Nataliia Serebriakova - 10-11-2025

Women became the face of resistance as Belarus fought against Lukashenko, in this dirty doc dedicated to female Belarusians involved in politics - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Scarecrows (Putnubiedēkļi)

Laila Pakalnina
2025

André Vital Pardue - 08-11-2025

Airport workers negotiate the environmental conflicts of the shared airfield space, in this quirky Latvian documentary - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]