Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival opens a year-round online cinema
Opening this month, Tallinn Black Nights (PÖFF) launches an online cinema where films can be watched all year round throughout Estonia s territory. The kick-off event will screen five films of the Women s Nights Film Festival, followed by films from the programme of the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival. Due to the pandemic, we screened a large part of our programme online during last year s PÖFF and it turned out to be very popular. For the first time, those who live far from the cities Tallinn and Tartu had the opportunity to take part in the festival and this is what really inspired us, said the festival director Tiina Lokk.
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TALLINN: The year 2020 was an extraordinary year for the Estonian film industry. The coronavirus pandemic had a devastating effect on the industry and cinema attendance all over Europe. However, on the positive side, the local market share of Estonian films rose to a record high, garnering 26.72% of the total number of cinema admissions. The per capita rate of cinema going in Estonia was still relatively healthy at 1.35.
The most watched film was Christopher Nolan’s
Tenet, which was partly filmed in Estonia. For most of the year, Estonia kept its cinemas open, with special security measures and conditions of keeping cinema halls half full.
New Horizons IFF Launches VOD Platform
WARSAW: The New Horizons IFF will launch New Horizons VOD in Poland on 26 February 2021 at nowehoryzonty.pl/vod. The platform is aimed at fans of film festivals and films awarded at European and world events.
New Horizons VOD was created following the success of the online edition of the 2020 New Horizons IFF festival.
The website will start with 216 films, which will include productions from the catalogue of Gutek Film and the New Horizons Association. The library also features the winning films of the last edition of the festival, shown in cinemas as part of special screenings, and unavailable elsewhere.