THE FESTIVAL ON WHEELS IS GEARING UP TO MEET CINEMA FANS ONCE MORE WITH SEVERAL NEW SECTIONS COMPLEMENTING THE TRADITIONAL CORE OF THE PROGRAMME. THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL ON WHEELS LINE-UP FEATURES AWARD-WINNING FILMS FROM WORLD CINEMA, THE LATEST WORK TO COME OUT OF TURKISH CINEMA, A DARDENNE BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE, ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ'S 'AMERICAN FILMS I ENVY,' PRODUCTIONS TAKING UP THE ARAB SPRING, AND SHORT FILMS FROM FINLAND, INCLUDING THE WORK OF FINNISH CINEMA MASTER, AKI KAURISMÄKI.

As the Festival on Wheels prepares to set out for the 17th year, a packed programme of award-winning films from World and Turkish cinema, classics and shorts, workshops and panel discussions awaits film fans, along with the latest publication of the Bookstand on Wheels. Organized by the Ankara Cinema Association, in association with the Turkish Ministry of Culture & Tourism, the Festival on Wheels will begin its travels, as every year, in Ankara. Following screenings in the capital on 2-8 December, the Festival will be visiting Sinop on 9-12 December, and Izmir on 14-18 December.

WORLD CINEMA
The World Cinema section presents a selection of award-winning films fresh from the world's leading festivals. The section line-up includes Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli), The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius), Atmen (Karl Markovics), Courage (Greg Zglinski), The Day He Arrives (Hong Sangsoo), Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki), Melancholia (Lars von Trier), Nana (Valérie Massadian), The Prize (Paula Markovitch) and Volcano (Runar Runarsson).

TURKEY 2011
Once again this year, Festival on Wheels audiences will be presented with a pick of the latest productions to emerge from Turkish cinema. In addition to film screenings, cinephiles will have the chance to speak with cast and crew at gala performances and during Q&A sessions. The section line-up includes: Onur Ünlü's The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family (Celal Tan ve Ailesinin Aşırı Acıklı Hikayesi), which won three awards, among them Best Film, at this year's Adana Golden Boll Festival; Future Lasts Forever (Gelecek Uzun Sürer), the second film by Özcan Alper, in which he reflects on the recent history of southeast Anatolia; Nuri Bilge Ceylan actor Muzaffer Özdemir's directorial debut, Home (Yurt); What Remains (Geriye Kalan), the film that won first-time director Çiğdem Vitrinel Best Director award at Antalya; Yüksel Aksu's second feature Ecotopia (Entelköy Efeköy'e Karşı); and the Murat Saraçoğlu directed In Flame! (Yangın Var).

DARDENNE BROTHERS: CONSCIENCE AND FATE
Belgian filmmaking duo, the Dardenne Brothers, fabled for their signature documentary-style realism in portraying the 'other' Europe and the struggles of the man on the street, will be guests of the Festival on Wheels this year with a retrospective of five of their films: Rosetta, The Son, The Promise, Lorna's Silence and The Kid with a Bike.

ZEKİ DEMİRKUBUZ: AMERICAN FILMS I ENVY
This section brings audiences four American films described by prominent Turkish director Zeki Demirkubuz as "films I envy." The compilation combines Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, one of the most powerful portrayals of violence on celluloid, with the John Huston directed title The Misfits, in which both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable made their last screen appearances, Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza, and the John Schlesinger film Midnight Cowboy.

SPRING IS REVOLUTIONARY
The Spring is Revolutionary section offers an on-the-ground perspective of the transition sparked in the Arab world in 2011 by the demand for democracy, as depicted on screen by local filmmakers. Alongside film screenings, the Festival on Wheels will be opening up the Arab Spring to debate in a panel discussion.

CLASS - CLOSE-UP
This year's addition to the now annual Bookstand on Wheels comes in the form of Class Relations: A Timeworn Representation? which explores various dimensions of the class concept in film, literature, culture and economy. Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's La Rabbia, a previously obscure documentary made up entirely of archive footage, will also be screened as a spin-off of the 'class' theme.

TUNCEL KURTİZ'S ÉMIGRÉS
Festival on Wheels audiences this year will have the opportunity to catch Hasan the Rose (Gül Hasan), the 1979 film directed in Sweden by Tuncel Kurtiz and starring himself in the lead role. In its time, this unconventional 'guest worker' film won three awards at the Antalya Film Festival, as well as the Best Director award of the Swedish Film Institute.

CHECK OUT THESE FREE SCREENINGS!
The now classic Festival on Wheels short film screenings fall this year into three categories: Short is Sweet, a selection of innovative films from around the world; Finland in Short, a sample of Finnish work from the past 30 years; and Cowboys of the North: Aki Kaurismäki, which covers the short films of Finland's most prominent director.

Films from Belgium and France make up the Children's Films section and promise to appeal as much to adults as to the young.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS and WORKSHOPS
As well as film screenings, the 17th Festival on Wheels continues to offer workshops on cinema. Workshops will be held in parallel to panel discussions on the Festival with themes of 'The Arab Spring' and 'Class and Cinema.' Additionally, the Script Workshop: Characters, Dialogue and Acting will focus on character portrayal, dialogue and the relationship between director and screenwriter. Distinguished academic and critic Mieke Bal will come together with audiences in a master class on the theme of What Culture Silences after the screening of his latest film, A Long History of Madness, co-directed with Michelle Williams Gamaker.

For the younger generation, and specifically 8-12 year-olds, Mieke Driessen and Jenny van den Broeke will be leading an Animation with Kids Workshop in Ankara sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Embassy. Here, young participants will produce their first stop motion animation films. Again in Ankara, Ceylan Özçelik, presenter of the SkyTürk film programme 'The Most Thrilling Place', will give a workshop entitled Warning: Shooting in Progress! The Most Thrilling Place in Television, in which the finer details of making a film programme for television will be discussed.

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November 2011

15th EDITION OF THE BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL (PÖFF) ANNOUNCES IT WILL OPEN WITH ICELANDIC TRAGICOMEDY EITHER WAY AND CLOSE WITH THE TREE OF LIFE AS FULL PROGAMME IS ANNOUNCED AND TICKETS GO ON SALE

The Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), which runs from 18th to 30th November 2011, will begin its celebration of Icelandic cinema on its Opening Night by launching the festival with a screening of Either Way.

Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson the film centres on Alfred and Finnbog who work for the Icelandic public roads department with a job painting dividing lines and hammering kilometre posts into road shoulders. This odd couple spend their time debating with each other whilst being isolated from civilisation and their loved ones. Their relationship forms the basis of a warm and moving comedy drama that will provide a perfect curtain raiser to the biggest film festival in North East Europe.

Either Way will be one of many Icelandic films in the festival as the festival will present a focus on cinema from the country in recognition of the fact that Iceland was the first country to recognise Estonia’s independence in 1991. Films such as the concert film Inni: Sigur Rós (Dir: Vincent Morisset) and the lauded Volcano (Dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson) will sit alongside a retrospective of the work of Fridrik Thor Fridriksson who will also be on hand to collect the PÖFF Lifetime Achievement award.

The festival competitions – including the Official Competition Eurasia, Tridens Baltic Film Competition, Heave(i)en Estonian Film Award and Competition for North American Indies – will include many delights from established films such as The Artist (Dir. Michel Hazanavicius) and Elena (Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev) to the world premiere of the Kazakh film Akkyz (Dir: Zhanabek Zhetiru). Other competition premieres will include the international premieres of Uzbek film Late Life (Dir. Ayub Shaxobiddinov) and Doppelgänger Paul (Dir: Kris Elgstrand, Dylan Akio Smith) and a European premiere for The Last Nights of Joe May (Dir. Joe Maggio)

The Panorama section will focus upon those films that have already delighted festival audiences, amongst them Buta (Dir. Dir: Ilgar Najaf) [which will recieve it's international premiere], Gypsy (Dir: Martin Šulík) and We Have a Pope (Dir: Nanni Moretti) whilst the Forum contains some esoteric works ripe for adventurous audiences to discover including UK feature Wild Bill (Dir. Dexter Fletcher) and the stunning Blue Bird (Dir: Gust Van den Berghe). There’ll also be a chance to see films from directors who have screened at PÖFF over the years with The Trip (Dir. Michael Winterbottom) and Faust (Dir: Aleksander Sokurov) sure to entrance the numerous visitors to the festival. The festival will close with a screening of the Palme D’or winning The Tree of Life (Dir. Terence Malick)

The Screen International Critics Choice encompasses those films that those at the renowned industry magazine have made waves over the past year including the mesmerising The Turin Horse (Dir: Béla Tarr) and the tough but brilliant Tyrannosaur (Dir. Paddy Cosindine). PÖFF’s Vitamin Boost will include the funny, strange and weird with Karlovy Vary Independent Camera Award winner Sunflower Hour (Dir. Aaron Houston) and China based sex comedy Red Light Revolution (Dir. Sam Voutas) guaranteed to chase the blues of the dark nights away.

Documentaries will also be represented with Docs@PÖFF and will include screenings of the beautiful Argentinean Lesson (Dir: Wojciech Staroń) and moving Mama Africa (Dir: Mika Kaurismäki) whilst there will be a special focus on Human Rights, with Diversity Enriches a programme which aims to show how similar we all are in spite of our differences. There’ll also be a chance to see some of the best haute couture with Monton Presents: Fashion on Film, a selection of short films in Sleepwalkers Presents and some extra special screenings to celebrate the 15th birthday of PÖFF

The director of the Black Nights Film Festival Tiina Lokk said:

“As always we have an absolutely full programme and we urge everyone to check out the wealth of films we have on show. From the biggest names to those beginning to make names for themselves, the 15th anniversary of PÖFF is definitely one of our best programmes yet.”

The full programme and schedule for Black Nights and information on how to buy tickets is available www.poff.ee

PÖFF is part of the programme of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011.

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Notes for Editors

For further information contact the International Press Officer Laurence Boyce at laurence.boyce@poff .ee

The Black Nights Film Festival has a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/festivalpoff. The POFF English twitter feed is available at @POFFWolf whilst the Estonian feed is available at @POFFIHunt

For more information about Tallinn – 2011 European Capital of Culture go to http://www.tallinn2011.ee/eng

TALLINN 2011 PRESS RELEASE

16 November 2011

European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 cooperates with Black Nights Film Festival

The 15th Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) and Tallinn 2011 present during this year’s festival a new international animation training event and films by world’s top directors.

AnimaCampus Tallinn is a brand new networking platform and training event for up-and-coming young filmmakers working in the field of animation. The five-day creative summit takes place during the year of European Capital of Culture in parallel with the Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, the sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Among others Tallinn welcomes this week a member of a known Japanese indie-anima group Nobuaki Doi, the creator of smartphone app Angry Birds, the head of animation department of the Finnish Rovio Entertainment Nick Dorra and representatives of film studios from Sweden, Denmark, UK and Germany. AnimaCampus will finish on Saturday 19th November. See more: http://2011.anima.ee/eng

Just as in earlier years Tallinn 2011 supports the international film market Black Market aimed at film industry professionals – makers, distributers, producers - and focusing on films from Central and Eastern European and Nordic countries, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan, Azerbaidzhan.

See more: http://market.poff.ee.

In addition Tallinn 2011 supports the screenings of a dozen films by nominees of this year’s European Film Academy awards, among them candidates for best film „The Artist“ (France), “Le Gamin au Vélo“ (Belgium/France/Italy), „Hævnen“ (Denmark), „Le Havre“ (Finland/France/Germany), „The King’s Speech“ (UK) and „Melancholia“ (Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany). A year ago EFA awards gala took place in Tallinn to celebrate the European Capital of Culture title, this year the awards will be announced in the beginning of December in Berlin. See more: http://2011.poff.ee/eng/films/programmid.c/tallinn-2011-presents-efa-2011-nominees-at-poff

Also at PÖFF – there is a special programme of filmmakers who will be part of one of the most exciting closing events of the European Capital of Culture – the audio-visual installation ’60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero’. This special programme will present the new films of Naomi Kawase (Japan), Michael Glawogger (Austria), Jeon Kyu-hwan (South Korea), Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (Iceland), Aki Kaurismäki (Finland), Amir Naderi (Iran/USA), Michael Winterbottom (UK) and Rainer Sarnet (Estonia).

See more: http://2011.poff.ee/eng/films/programmid.c/60-seconds-of-solitude-in-year-zero

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Open call for the projects for Dragon Forum 2012! Shake the drawer of your documentary dreams and let them come true!

International Academy of Document Dragon Forum opens call for 2012 year edition.

The schedule of Dragon Forum 2012:

· script session in Warsaw, from 24th till 27th of January

· individual project development consultations in February and March

· production session in Berlin, in April

· pitching in Krakow, in the beginning of June, during Krakow Film Festival.

· co-production session in Leipzig, in October, during the International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films

The course is dedicated to the filmmakers, having developed idea of documentary film for the international audience, who want to access the international co-production market.

Application requires:

• short description of the film project

• initial trailer

• information about authors

• initial budget

• estimated financial plan

Detailed information, regulations, schedule and application form are available on www.dragonforum.pl

Workshops are held in small group, conducted by Polish and international experts. The workshops language is English. Finished projects will be presented to commissioning editors from major European and international TV stations and funds as well as producers, distributors and sales agents, who will come especially for Dragon Forum, held in Krakow in first days of June 2012. For certain selected projects participation in Co-production Meetings at Dok Leipzig is foreseen.

Dragon Forum is:

the possibility of professional development of film project

work under the guidance of prominent documentary film makers and international experts

creative meeting in the international documentary team

presentation of the project on the international market

entry to the European documentary filmmakers network

access to the international film market

Fill in the application form available on till 23:59, 18th December 2011.

See you soon in Dragon’s claws!

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The 15th annual Tallinn Black Nights presents 5 Czech films to the Estonian public

Prague, 21 November 2011 - Five contemporary Czech films will be presented at the international film festival in Tallinn, Estonia. They will be represented in three non-competitive sections. The 15th annual Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Baltics and is also the organiser of the Baltic Event coproduction market and the Black Market film market.

Estonian audiences can look forward to five coproduction films in the non-competitive FORUM, PANORAMA and 15 SELECTED TITLES sections. In the Panorama section films that predominantly won awards in the last year and which present a view of current trends and directions are shown. Audiences can look forward to the films Alois Nebel by director Tomáš Luňák, Martin Šulík's Gypsy and Identity Card from director Ondřej Trojan in this section.

Director Zuzana Liová's The House is among the 37 films presented in the Forum section and the 15 Selected Titles section presents films from directors that have been presented at least twice in the past at the festival in Tallinn. Director Christophe Honoré's coproduction film The Beloved fulfils this condition.

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival offers three competition sections from the main programme through the section on documentary and feature films from Baltic states to the special Estonian competition section. In the Focus section this year the organisers focused on Icelandic cinematography and the fact that since 2008 the number of films screened has increased even in spite of the economic crisis.

The 15th annual Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will be taking place from 16 to 30 November 2011 and will become a unique event for international feature films, animated work and student films and films for youth. A film and coproduction market will also take place for film industry professionals. You can find more information at: http://2011.poff.ee/

Contact:

Jana Černik, GSM: +420 724 32 99 49

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Warsaw Film Festival joined the Academy Award® film festival list. This means that the winner of the Grand Prix in the WFF's Short Films Competition will have the right to compete for the Oscar® for best short film. The organizers of the Warsaw Film Festival have received a memo to this effect signed by Jon Bloom, chair of the Academy's Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Executive Committee. "We have been consistently developing the Warsaw Film Festival for years", says Stefan Laudyn, director of the Warsaw Film Festival. "In this, we also want to be useful to the Polish and international film industry. We have been promoting debuting filmmakers for many years and the Shorts Competition, held since 2008, is the latest step in this direction. This year's workshop for Polish makers of short films, Shorts Warszawa, organized by the WFF and the CentEast Market, showed just how much filmmakers stand to gain from meeting experienced professionals. I think having a project make it to the Oscar list will further increase young Polish and international filmmakers' interest in the WFF". "This excellent news is sure to trigger even greater interest in the Warsaw Film Festival among shorts filmmakers all over the world, and will have a positive impact on the standard of our Shorts Competition", adds Bartek Pulcyn, curator of the Shorts Competition at the Warsaw Film Festival. "I trust it will also serve as a strong incentive for Polish film directors and producers to have the world premieres of their projects at the WFF".

More information:

Bartek Pulcyn, curator of the WFF Shorts Competition - tel. +48 605 289 793, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center (www.gnfc.ge) has signed a memorandum of cooperation on production with the Georgian Public Broadcaster (www.gbp.org).

9 -20 Nov 2011

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Ljubljana International Film Festival, among the visitors popularly known as LIFFe, is the largest and most important film festival in Slovenia. In the 21 years of its existence the Ljubljana International Film festival has opened windows onto the world cultural arena to the inhabitants of Slovenia.

LIFFe has enabled first-rate European and world film distribution, no longer entirely dependent on the market, but coexisting with it, shaping and enriching it in the long run.

Festival programme stems from the established festival texture which changes annually according to the current production, from which the finest and most compelling auctorial works are selected. The festival every year presents one or two of the worlds most visible national productions.

Last years edition of the festival presented 117 films on 281 screenings. We have hosted 46 international guests, 161 journalists and 50 000 visitors.

The most important of all festival aims is to present new authors and worlds new cinematographies but of course every year we also present well-known names of the world cinema.

Festival venue

Cankarjev dom, Linhart and Kosovel Hall, Foyer II, Klub CD, E1-E4, M1

Kinodvor, Kino Komuna, Slovenian Cinematheque

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Kolosej Maribor, hall 5

Full program of 2. American Film Festival announced. Todd Solondz to open the festival with Dark Horse.

7.11.2011


The 2. American Film Festival will take place on 15-20 Nov in Wrocław, Poland. This year’s festival will screen 76 films, including 40 Polish and 6 European premieres. The festival’s full program can be found on the website www.americanfilmfestival.pl.

The Highlights section will feature latest hits starring top US actors. The opening film will be Todd Solondz’s newest film, Dark Horse, which competed in the main competition in Venice this year. Mr. Solondz will be present in Wrocław for his directorial retrospective.

The audience in Wrocław will be the first one in Poland to see the latest films from Gus Van Sant (Restless), Kevin Smith (Red State) and Miranda July (The Future). Other highlights will be the tragicomedy Jack Goes Boating - Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Oscar-nominated Michelle Williams, and the star-studded (Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington) Last Night. The closing film will be Whit Stillman’s quirky comedy Damsels in Distress, which was also the closing film of the Venice IFF this year.

In the competitive Spectrum section, the audience will enjoy Michael Di Jiacomo’s Somewhere Tonight starring John Turturro - a film about a couple of New York loners, who meet over a sex phone. Other films in this section will be Alison Bagnall’s The Dish and the Spoon with a great performance of America’s rising star, Greta Gerwig, as well as William Eubank’s Love – a metaphysical film about loneliness, often compared to Duncan Jones’ Moon.

The competitive documentary section American Docs will feature SXSW’s audience award winner Marwencol by Jeff Malmberg and The Other F-Word by Andrea Blaugrund. This year’s films will explore phenomena such as exploitation cinema (American Grindhouse with appearances by Quentin Tarantino). This section will also show Errol Morris’ latest provocative film Tabloid. Another film on the subject of media is Andrew Rossi’s Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times.

2.AFF will also tribute established masters, such as this year’s Cannes winner Terrence Malick and the Polish-born, six time Oscar winner Billy Wilder. The festival programmers will also put the spotlight on one of the most prolific young US filmmakers – mumblecore’s prime representative – Joe Swanberg. This retrospective salute marks a first ever for Swanberg who will come to Wrocław to introduce and discuss his films.

The festival will also show Nicolas Ray’s last experimental film We Can't Go Home Again, reconstructed by the director’s wife, Susan.

Festival Passes (170 PLN/ca. 40 EUR) are on sale until 6 Nov. Online ticket sales goes live on 3 Nov.

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The Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), which runs from 18th to 30th November 2011, has announced its full competition programmes. From established names to debut features, from festival hits to new discoveries, the competitions at PÖFF promise to deliver the very best in world cinema

With a focus on cinema for Europe and Asia, the International Competition EurAsia focuses offers a prize of 10'000EUR awarded to the winner of the Grand Prix alongside jury prizes for Best Director, Actor and Actress. Highlights of this year's competition include We Need To Talk About Kevin (Dir. Lynne Ramsay, UK) one of the most talked about films at the Cannes Festival containing a stunning central performance from Tilda Swinton as a mother dealing with the aftermath of her child's actions, and Rose (Rosa) (Dir. Wojciech Smarzowski, Poland), the lauded film about the harrowing treatment of Poles at the end of the Second World War. There'll also be the chance to enjoy The Artist (Dir. Michel Hazanavicks, France) the ode to silent cinema that has already charmed many audiences and Estonia's own Letters To Angel (Kirjad Inglile) (Dir. Sulev Keedus, Estonia). The film, about an Estonian soldier returning after the Afghan war to find himself fighting new battles, is Estonia's submission for Best Foreign Language Feature in the 2012 Academy Awards. Other countries represented in the competition include India, Kazakhstan, China and Iran. The jury are: Sergei Loznitsa (Director, Russia), Juanita Wilson (Director, Ireland), Peter Zeitlinger (Cinmeatographer, Austria) Indu Shrikent (Festival Director, India) and Peeter Urbla (Producer, Estonia).

Letters to Angel will also be screening in the Tridens Baltic Feature Film Competition which showcases the best cinema from Baltic Countries. With a prize of 5000EUR (sponsored by Tridens) for Best Film and 3200EUR (sponsored by Scottish Leader) for the film with best distribution potential it promises to be a hotly contested programme. Films include The Idiot (Idioot) (Dir. Rainer Sarnet, Estonia), a stylish adaptation of the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the compelling documentary The New World (Uus Maailm) (Dir. Jaan Tootsen, Estonia) and a group of activists who attempt to change their corner of the world. There'll also be the chance to see How Are You Doing Rudolf Ming? (Teb Klajas, Rudolf Ming?) (Dir. Roberts Rubins, Latvia) a documentary about a boy obsessed with films and violence and The Book Smugglers (Dir. Jeremiah Cullinane, Ireland/Latvia) about 19th century Lithuanian book smugglers, who managed to save their language from extinction. The jury will consist of Dita Rietuma (Journalist/Lecturer, Latvia), Xavier Garcia Puerto (Festival Director, Spain) and Laufey Gudjónsdóttir (Film Consultant, Iceland).

The North American Independent Film Competition examines esoteric American films that have good potential for distribution. The programme will include Martha May Marcy Marlene (Dir. Sean Durkin, USA), which gained acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for the strong central performance from Elizabeth Olsen (the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) as a girl suffering from paranoia and delusions after escaping from a cult. Other films include 50/50 (Dir. Jonathan Levine, USA), a painfully honest comedy starring Joseph Inception Gordon-Levitt stars as a man diagnosed with cancer who deals with his fate with the help of his best friend played by Seth Rogan, and Win Win (Dir. Thomas McCarthy, USA), director Thomas McCarthy's follow up to acclaimed films The Station Agent and The Visitor which stars Paul Giamatti as an attorney who attempts to keep his practice afloat by acting as the legal caretaker of an elderly client. The jury will consist of Gabor Greiner (Sales Agent, Germany), Youngjoo SUH (Producer, South Korea) and Peeter Rebane (Director, Estonia)

The director of the Black Nights Film Festival Tiina Lokk said:

"As always, the Black Nights competitions represent a wide and diverse range of films and we're proud that such a broad spectrum of cinema gets the opportunity to win some wonderful awards. We're grateful to our sponsors for making the awards happen and we look forward to our juries and audience enjoying all that we have to offer."

The full programme for Black Nights will be announced on November 10th at www.poff.ee

PÖFF is part of the programme of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011.

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Notes for Editors

The full list of competition films are:

International Competition EurAsia

ADALBERT'S DREAM (VISUL LUI ADALBERT)

Dir. Gabriel Achim, Romania, 2011

AKKYZ

Dir. Zhanabek Zhetiru, Kazakhstan, 2011

THE ARTIST

Dir. Michel Hazanavicks, France, 2011

LATE LIFE (KETŠIKKAN HAJOT )

Dir. Ayub Shahobiddinov, Uzbekhistan, 2011

THE IDIOT (IDIOOT)

Dir. Rainer Sarnet, Estonia, 2011

DOUBLE STEPS (LOS PASOS DOBLES)

Dir. Isaki Lacuesta, Spain, 2011

ELENA

Dir. Andrei Zvjagintsev, Russia, 2011

BUSONG (PALAWAN FATE)

Dir. Auraeus Solito, The Phillipines, 2011

LETTERS TO ANGEL (KIRJAD INGLILE)

Dir. Sulev Keedus, Estonia, 2011

KOTOKO

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan, 2011

MOURNING

Dir. Morteza Farshbaf, Iran, 2011

A SIMPLE LIFE (TAOJIE)

Dir. Ann Hui, Hong Kong/China, 2011

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Dir. Lynne Ramsay, UK, 2011

SONS OF NORWAY (SONNER AV NORGE)

Dir. Jens Lien, Norway, 2011

LAND OF OBLIVION (TERRE OUTRAGEE)

Dir. Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine, 2011

ROSE

Dir. Wojciech Smarzowski, Poland, 2011

VOLCANO (ELDFJALL)

Dir. Runar Runarsson, Iceland, 2011

Tridens Baltic Feature Film Competition

BARZAKH

Dir. Mantas Kvedaravicius, Finland/Lithuania

CUBATON (EL MEDICA- THE CUBATON STORY)

Dir. Daniel Fridell, Sweden/Finland/Estonia, 2011

A MONUMENT TO PLEASE EVERYONE (ET MEELDIKS KÕIGILE)

Dir. Kristina Norman, Estonia, 2011

THE IDIOT (IDIOOT)

Dir. Rainer Sarnet, Estonia, 2011

33 ANIMALS OF SANTA CLAUS (33 ZVERI ZIEMASSVETKU VECTITIM)

Dir. Laila Pakalnina, Latvia, 2011

THE KAPLINSKY SYSTEM (KAPLINSKI SÜSTEEM)

Dir. Raphael Gianelli-Meriano, Estonia, 2011

LETTERS TO ANGEL (KIRJAD INGLILE)

Dir. Sulev Keedus, Estonia, 2011

HOW ARE YOU DOING, RUDOLF MING? (TEV KLAJAS, RUDOLF MING?)

Dir. Roberts Rubins, Latvia, 2010

THE BOOK SMUGGLERS (KNYGNESIAI)

Dir. Jeremiah Cullinane, Ireland/Lithuania, 2011

RAMIN

Dir. Audrius Stonys, Latvia/Georgia, 2011

TADAS BLINDA. THE LEGEND (TADAS BLINDA. PRADZIA)

Dir. Donatas Ulvydas, Lithuania, 2011

THE NEW WORLD (UUS MAAILM)

Dir. Jaan Tootsen, Estonia, 2011

North American Independent Film Competition

50/50

Dir. Jonathan Levine, USA , 2011

388 ARLETTA AVE

Dir. Randall Cole, Canada, 2011

BELLFLOWER

Dir. Evan Glodell, USA, 2011

THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY

Dir. Joe Maggio, USA, 2011

WIN WIN

Dir. Thomas McCarthy, USA, 2011

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE

Dir. Sean Durkin, USA, 2011

STARBUCK

Dir. Ken Scott, Canada, 2011

DOPPELGÄNGER PAUL

Dirs. Kris Elgstrand & Dylan Akko Smith, Canada, 2011

ANOTHER EARTH

Dir. Mike Cahill, USA, 2011

MOTH DIARIES

Dir. Mary Harron, Canada/Ireland, 2011

For further information contact the International Press Officer Laurence Boyce at laurence.boyce@poff .ee

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