The 2025 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PFF) has unveiled the selection of documentaries in its Doc@PFF International and Baltic competitions, with Baltic documentaries and feature films set to compete in separate programs for the first time.

This years selection explores themes ranging from family relationships and traditional ways of life to politics and war, with stories set across the globe from Moldova to the Himalayan mountains, organizers said about the doc lineup on Tuesday. Many of them also portray women who dare to dream big despite restrictive and challenging circumstances. Said curator Marianna Kaat: The films in the Doc@PFF program open a restless world where bold, author-driven works captivate with their search for balance and understanding and demonstrate that documentaries can be even more engaging than fiction.

The Doc@PFF International Competition jury is made up of producer Tania El Khoury, founder of Khamsin Films (Beirut) and Les Films de lAlta (Paris), Estonian producer Marianne Ostrat, founder of Alexandra Film and Fork Film Animation Studio, and German filmmaker and documentary director Daniel Abma (Beyond Wriezen, Transit Havana, Autobahn).

The Baltic doc competition jury, meanwhile, includes Ana Fernndez Saiz, a U.K.-based Spanish documentary consultant and founder of a boutique sales agency, Pamela Cohn, a curator, journalist, and nonfiction story consultant, as well as the host of The Lucid Dreaming Podcast, and Koen Suidgeest, the Dutch filmmaker (Casting, Karlas Arrival), photographer, and educator.

Check out the full Tallinn docs lineups below.

Doc@PFF International Competition Films

Days of Wonder (Finland), dir: Karin Pennanen

Edge of the Night (Estonia), dir: Vladimir Loginov

Electing Miss Santa (Moldova, Romania), dir: Raisa Rzmeri

Far Away (Turkey), dir: Tayfur Aydn

The Feast of the Wolf (Croatia, Serbia), dir: Jadran Boban

Goodbye Sisters (France, Nepal), dir: Alexander Murphy

Its Winter (Iran, France), dir: Sajad Imani

The Lunch: A Letter to America (Italy, USA), dir: Gianluca Vassallo

Miss Jobson (Spain, Jamaica), dir: Amanda Sans Pantling

One Day I Wish to See You Happy (Ukraine, France), dir: Maryna Nikolcheva

Doc@PFF Baltic Competition Films

A Goodnight Kiss (Lithuania, Estonia), dir: Giedr ickyt

BIX Almost Nirvana (Lithuania), dir: Emilis Vlyvis

Happiness Is Living in Our Land (Estonia), dir: Indrek Spungin

Holy Destructors (Lithuania, France), dir: Aist egulyt

Laguna (France, Lithuania), dir: Sharunas Bartas

The Last Will (Lithuania), dir: Jnis bele

Lost Stars of the Horoscope (Estonia), dir: Katrina Lehisme

My Family and Other Clowns (Estonia), dir: Heilika Pikkov, Liina Srkinen

Not Made for Politics (Belarus), dir: Volia Chajkouskaya

Scarecrows (Latvia, Lithuania), dir: Laila Pakalnina, Laila Pakalnia

Im Time to the Target (Latvia, Czechia, Ukraine), dir: Vitaly Mansky