The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PFF) in Estonia unveiled its competition and first feature competition lineups and the international jury for its 2025 official selection on Friday. The main competition for the 29th edition of the festival includes17 feature films, with16 world premieresandone international premiere.

This years selection follows an impressive number of submissions: 1,900 for the main program, 433 for Just Film, and over 5,600 for Shorts, the fest said. Films were submitted from more than100 countries, with around80 nations representedin the festivals final program. Overall, the program will showcase110 world premieresand30 international premieres. Festival director and head curatorTiina Lokkdescribed this years competition as a reflection of the worlds anxieties and resilience, saying: Its difficult to pinpoint a single common thread this year, but once again, the selection holds up a mirror to our world. Everything that worries and pains us is there wars, the environmental crisis, political arrogance, migration, womens rights, and, above all, the fragile ties of family life.

She noted strong submissions fromAsia, Latin America,andSpain, the only country with two films in the competition. With Catalan Films in Focus, we were pleased to include emerging Catalan female talent Jlia de Paz Solvas with The Good Daughter, as well as The Dashed Lines a warm and unexpected story about divorce by Galician director Anxos Fazns, Lokk said.

The jury is chaired by Macedonian filmmakerTeona Strugar Mitevska (Mother; God Exists,Her Name Is Petrunya;The Happiest Man in the World). The other jury members are Debra McGuire, the Emmy-nominated fashion and costume designer (Friends, Phil Spector, The Morning Show), Mongolian producer and screenwriter Nomuunzul Turmunkh (Silent City Driver, The Sales Girl), cinematographer Roberto Schaefer (Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace), and German producer Ingo Fliess (The Teachers Lounge).

PFF 2025 runs Nov. 7-23.

Check out the full competition lineups below.

Main Competition

18 Holes to Paradise (Portugal, Italy, Argentina), dir. Joo Nuno Pinto

Duality (Iran), dir. Abbas Nezamdoost

Hungarian Wedding (Hungary), dir. Csaba Kel

LifeLike (Turkey, Greece, Romania), dir. Ali Vatansever

Mira (Morocco), dir. Nour Eddine Lakhmari

No Comment (Norway), dir. Petter Nss

Sisa (Philippines), dir. Jun Robles Lana

The Dashed Lines (Spain), dir. Anxos Fazns

The Frog and the Water (Germany), dir. Thomas Stuber

The Good Daughter (Spain), dir. Jlia de Paz Solvas

The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat (Japan), dir. Yukihiro Morigaki

The Moon is a Father of Mine (Luxembourg, Turkey, Georgia, Germany, Czechia, Bulgaria), dir. George Ovashvili

The Muralist (Mongolia), dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj

The Stories (Austria, France, Belgium, Egypt, Sweden), dir. Abu Bakr Shawky

Think of England (United Kingdom), dir. Richard Hawkins

Veins (Canada), dir. Raymond St-Jean

Versalles (Mexico), dir. Andrs Clariond

First Feature Competition

Admission (Quentin Hsu, Coolie Films Co, Taiwan)

A Safe Place (Cecilia tefnescu, Point Film, Romania)

Backstage Madness (Amanbek Admat, Tazar Cinemacompany, Kyrgyzstan)

Dump of Untitled Pieces (Melik Kuru, Hafif Film, Parda Film, Turkey)

Easy Girl (Hille Norden, Leitwolf Filmproduktion, Germany)

Elenas Shift (Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Boo Productions, Greece)

Hercules Falling (Christian Bonke, Bo Starling, Denmark)

Interior (Pascal Schuh, U5 Filmproduktion GmbH Ko. KG, Germany)

Juana (Daniel Gimnez Cacho, Talipot Studio, Mexico)

Lady (Samuel Abrahams, MetFilm Production, U.K.)

My First Love (Mari Storstein, Nordisk Film Norge, Norway)

Sunday Ninth (Kat Steppe, Paradiso Filmed Entertainment, Belgium)

This Is Not Happening (Artur Wyrzykowski, Bold Humans, Poland)