Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has unveiled the five projects it will showcase to sales agents and distributors at this year’s Cannes market.
This is the fourth year PÖFF has participated in the Goes to Cannes programme, which aims to spotlight work-in-progress projects by promising talent. The projects will be presented on 18 May. The films are without sales agents and aiming for a festival premiere.
Three of the films are by directors whose previous films premiered at PÖFF. Eeva Mägi is presenting Estonian drama Mo Papa. Her previous film Mo Mamma won the jury prize in the first feature competition at PÖFF 2023.
Romas Zabarauskas’ new thriller The Activist tells the story of a young man who infiltrates a neo-Nazi group to find his boyfriend’s killer. It is the final part of his queer genre-driven trilogy, following The Lawyer and The Writer.
Nicolás Postiglione’s thriller, which has the working title The Evil That Binds Us, is about a Chilian boy in the 1950s with a mysterious family. His first film Immersion was also a jury prize winner at Tallinn’s first feature strand.
PÖFF will also present Dreaming Of Lions by Paolo Marinou-Blanco, about two strangers who travel to Mallorca to kill themselves, but fall in love on the way. The tragicomedy was named most promising project by Tallinn’s Script Pool jury in 2021.
Finally, Slovakian director Tereza Nvotová will showcase The Father is about a man who accidentally locks his baby in a car. Her second feature Nightsiren won the Golden Leopard for best film in the filmmakers of the present section at Locarno.
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