The winners of the twenty fourth version of the Business@Tallinn & Baltic Occasion portion of the Tallinn Black Nights Movie Pageant (PÖFF) have been unveiled, they usually embody the likes of Cube-Cing-o-Mat, The Effectively, The Convulsions, and The Queen of England Stole My Dad and mom.
A complete of 17 movie tasks at varied phases of scriptwriting, improvement, or post-production have been honored, plus two promising producers have been acknowledged.
The trade strand of PÖFF wrapped on Friday afternoon with a session entitled “Filming in Ukraine 2026.”
Earlier within the week, an worldwide jury chosen the drama collection challenge Wool as essentially the most promising challenge within the fifth version of the TV Beats Co-Financing Market. Written by Birkir Blaer Ingolfsson, Mladen Maticevic, Stephie Theodora, and Milena Dzambasovic, produced by Hörður Rúnarsson and Milena Dzambasovic, and co-produced by Danna Stern, manufacturing corporations Movie Street Manufacturing, ACT 4, and In Transit Productions, Wool relies on a real story and “knits collectively trend with feminine empowerment in a rural meets worldwide setting, making it as related immediately because it was then,” the jury stated.
In the meantime, TV Beats market accomplice TV Drama Imaginative and prescient handed out the Choose Award to Spanish challenge Darkish Waters, directed by Víctor Garcia, written by Amèlia Mora and Héctor Manteca, and produced by Juan Solá, Mark Abela, Tono Folguera, and Maria Rocher. The challenge “blends supernatural thriller, climate-change thriller and a story intertwining the mythological worlds of Iceland and the Ebro Delta in Catalonia,” the jury famous.
In the meantime, the TV Beats Co-Manufacturing Market Public Favourite Award honoree is Nuclear Sundown Cruise, written and directed by Florian Gallenberger, whose Quiero ser gained the Academy Award for finest live-action quick movie in 2001, and produced by Martin Lehwald and Philipp Goeser.
Additionally this yr, the Serial Bridges Baltic Finest Venture Award was handed out to the Lithuanian challenge Therapies, written and directed by Birute Kapustinskaite based mostly on her personal play, and produced by Dagne Vildziunaite. “When a sharp-tongued professor checks right into a distant hospital anticipating peace and privateness throughout chemotherapy, she leads to a six-bed most cancers ward stuffed with loud, impossible-to-ignore ladies, together with her outdated faculty nemesis,” reads a synopsis for the challenge. “Beating most cancers could be the purpose, however first, they’ll must survive one another.”
Take a look at the Business@Tallinn & Baltic Occasion 2025 award winners and jury feedback beneath.
Discovery Campus
Music Meets Movie “Director-Composer Lab: Composing the Minimize” Workshop Award. The award features a two-hour profession mentoring session by Miriam Cutler.
Winner: Nicolò Braghiroli
The jury included: George Christopoulos, Miriam Cutler
The jury commented: “The Music Meets Movie Award, introduced by OTICONS Movie Music Company, is given to an rising composer who demonstrates excellent artistic expertise and creative promise throughout the workshop with Baltic Movie, Media and Arts College “Director-Composer Lab: Composing the Minimize”, led by famend movie composer Miriam Cutler. The mixed skillset of an incredible movie composer at work was showcased throughout the artistic course of, and that’s how effectively they collaborated with the director and the way successfully they transformed that collaboration right into a rating that labored with the narrative. That uncommon skillset is what makes this expertise one to keep watch over for the longer term. The award is introduced by George Christopoulos, founding father of OTICONS.”
Finest upcoming cinematographer of Body Inside a Body 2025
The winner is awarded a Golden Ticket to the ‘Cinematography lab’ workshop on Focus pulling by Group 4 Set.
Winners:
Gemma De Miguel Morell from Spain for the movie Cura Sana.
Tanel Topaasia from Estonia for In Between
The jury commented: “The Body Inside a Body Golden Tickets for the cinematography movie; lab by Team4Set are awarded to 2 movies celebrating visible mastery: one for its vibrant, uncooked aesthetic and dynamic camerawork, and the opposite for its masterful use of lenses and distinction, portray with gentle.”
The jury included: Steve Calavitis, Ville Penttilä, Rauno Ronkainen, John-Christian Rosenlund, Philippe Ros.
Body Inside a Body Lens Award by ARRI is an award for the most effective cinematographer, celebrating their profound contribution to the artwork and methods of cinematography.
Winner: Jolinna Ang from Singapore for the movie I’ll Depart You Phrases .
The jury commented: “For a piece of putting visible poetry, this superbly shot movie captivates with magical colors, fluid compositions, and a rhythmic concord of motion and montage. A movie whose cinematography not solely helps its story, however appears to breathe it into being.”
The jury included: Steve Calavitis (ARRI / Digital camera Nordic), Philippe Ros (Co-Chair IMAGO Technical Committee), Ville Penttilä (Member – Worldwide Cinema Lighting Society)
The Black Nights Stars
The actors and actresses attending the Black Nights Stars 2025 obtained the Black Nights Movie Pageant and Worldwide Casting Administrators Affiliation Awards.
The awards have been introduced to Freddie Mosten Jacob, Karolina Bruchnicka, Kasparas Varanavičius, Kristiin Räägel, Saku Taittonen, Samirah Breuer, Tessa Hoder and Ursel Tilk.
Script Pool
Script Pool Award was given to essentially the most promising challenge, receiving an unique alternative to attend The Write Retreat in Mallorca, introduced by TEGOS Authorized.
Winner: White Ship
Author and Director: Teresa Väli
Producer: Inger Põder
Manufacturing firm: Homeless Bob Manufacturing, Estonia
The jury commented: “Thanks to all 5 groups for sharing their promising tasks with us. It’s a privilege to have had entry to your work. One challenge has stood out because the winner immediately for its daring, emotionally resonant, and universally related story that has the potential to talk powerfully to audiences of each era. The director’s quick movies and robust cinematic ambition for her first function has satisfied us to grant White Ship the chance of constructing essentially the most out of the writing retreat.”
The jury included: Yana Georgieva, Head of Gross sales at Bankside, UK; Camille Segura advisor, France and Per Damgaard Hansen, producers at Paloma Productions, Denmark.
Script Pool Public Favorite Award:
Winner: Apoteos
Written and directed by: Christofer Nilsson
Producer: Annegret Kunath
Manufacturing firm: Råttunge Produktion, Sweden
The winner will obtain two free accreditations for Business@Tallinn @ Baltic Occasion 2026.
European Style Discussion board
The European Style Discussion board was given to essentially the most promising challenge receiving a 25,000 euro award by a digital manufacturing studio ATM Digital consisting of in the future rental of an LED stage, preceded by in the future of pre-lighting for the manufacturing of a particular movie.
Winner: Little Hen
Author and Director: Faye Jackson
Producer: Carley Armstrong
Manufacturing firm: True Moon Photos (United Kingdom)
The jury commented: “Little Hen is a perfect candidate for an ATM Digital award as a result of it completely demonstrates the artistic potential and technical necessity of Digital Manufacturing.
Excessive-Influence Visuals: The challenge requires complicated supernatural environments (Hell’s portal, the Satan’s area) and demanding flying sequences, that are exactly what VP phases excel at producing effectively and realistically.
Demonstrates VP Worth: The story’s core want for correct interactive lighting (infernal glow, excessive altitude gentle) and immersive real-time environments makes it a strong showcase for the superior high quality and effectivity of in-camera VFX.
Distinctive Storytelling: Awarding this challenge helps ATM Digital help revolutionary, formidable style filmmaking and permits filmmakers to execute grand visible concepts which may in any other case be budget-prohibitive.
The in the future of VP stage time would permit the staff to seize an important, visually difficult scene (just like the preliminary portal opening or a key flying second) with professional-grade, high-fidelity backgrounds and lighting.”
Works in Progress
Particular Award by TRT.
The winner can be granted 5,000 euros (by TRT – The Turkish Radio and Tv Company).
Winner: Cube-Cing-o-Mat
Author and director: Kristijonas Vildziunas
Producer: Uljana Kim
Manufacturing firm: Studio Uljana Kim, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia
The jury commented: “Primarily based on the feelings skilled throughout the pandemic interval, which affected the complete world and bodily distanced us from each other, and thru a father’s quest for id and the rebuilding of household bonds, enriched with fantastical components and introduced with a robust directorial type and a nuanced narrative method, the Lithuania–Estonia–Latvia co-production Cube-Cing-o-Mat has been awarded the TRT Award.”
The jury included: TRT representatives Esra Demirkiran, Faruk Güven.
Finest Worldwide Venture.
The winner can be granted 7,000 euros, consisting of 6,000 euros value of companies by Studio Beep, along with 1,000 euros journey allowance.
Winner: Prince
Author and director: Federico Borgia
Producer: Francisco Magnou, Isabel Garcia, Pancho Magnou
Manufacturing firm: Montelona, Argentina, Uruguay
The jury commented: “For its evocative, visually wealthy imagery and the sense that it is a story we genuinely need to see unfold — a piece that lingered with us lengthy after viewing.”
The jury included: Zadig Paloyan, Worldwide Gross sales Govt, Le Pacte, France;
Arnon Manor, Vice President of Visible Results at Sony Photos; unbiased filmmaker, author, producer, and director, USA; Amaia Serrulla, Head of Movies and Documentation Division, San Sebastián Worldwide Movie Pageant, Spain.
Worldwide Works in Progress Public Favourite Award:
Winner: The Convulsions
Author and director: Blanca Camell Galí, Anna Zisman, David Gutiérrez Camps
Producer: Joan Carles Martorell, Iréna Lopez, Luis Ortas, Alice Baldo, Miguel Ángel Abuja, Pablo Gregorio Venegas
Manufacturing firm: Auca Movies, Bapla Movies, Timber Movies, Cinetica Produccions, IMY Productions, France, Spain
The winner will obtain two free accreditations for Business@Tallinn @ Baltic Occasion 2026.
Finest Baltic Venture
The winner can be granted 7,000 euros, consisting of 6,000 euros value of companies by Studio Beep, along with 1,000 euros journey allowance.
Winner: Cube-Ching-O-Mat
Author and director: Kristijonas Vildziunas
Producer: Uljana Kim
Manufacturing firm: Studio Uljana Kim, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia
The jury commented: “For the compelling mix of a fantasy-leaning proposal with the emotional problem confronted by the protagonist, and for making us desirous to see how this takes form each visually and narratively.”
The jury included: Zadig Paloyan, Worldwide Gross sales Govt, Le Pacte, France; Arnon Manor, Vice President of Visible Results at Sony Photos; unbiased filmmaker, author, producer, and director, USA; Amaia Serrulla, Head of Movies and Documentation Division; San Sebastián Worldwide Movie Pageant, Spain
Baltic Occasion Works in Progress Public Favourite Award:
Winner: Lex Julia
Author and director: Laura Hyppönen
Producer: Merja Ritola, Co-produced by Magdalena Zimecka, Marianne Ostrat, Marta Krzeptowska, Daniel Lägersten
Manufacturing firm: Greenlit Productions Oy, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Poland
The winner will obtain two free accreditations for Business@Tallinn @ Baltic Occasion 2026.
The Finest Simply Movie Venture
The winner obtained a 1,000 euro financial prize to assist the movie achieve visibility by protecting promotion and publicity prices.
Winner: Suiza
Author and director: Maria Fernanda Gonzales
Producer: Norma Velásquez
Manufacturing firm: Lucuma Salvaje, Suena Peru, Argentina, Peru
The jury commented: Suiza impresses with a robust and putting visible type that grabs you instantly. The three younger protagonists deliver a daring, dynamic power to the movie and the tough, unpolished really feel makes the story much more genuine. The themes of rising up are very relatable, they permit a younger viewers to simply establish with the movie. And the town of Lima actually turns into a personality of its personal, including depth and ambiance to the movie.
The jury included: Marjo Kovanen, PhD, Head of the Unit for the Promotion of Audiovisual Tradition at KAVI, Nationwide Audiovisual Institute, Finland; Meel Paliale, Director (“Rolling Papers”); Veerle Snijders Head of Netwerk Filmeducatie on the Eye Movie Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Simply Movie Works in Progress Public Favourite Award
Winner: Suiza
Author and director: Maria Fernanda Gonzales
Producer: Norma Velásquez
Manufacturing firm: Lucuma Salvaje, Suena Peru, Argentina, Peru
The winner will obtain two free accreditations for Business@Tallinn @ Baltic Occasion 2026.
Baltic Occasion Co-Manufacturing Market
Baltic Occasion Co-Manufacturing Finest Venture
The winner was handed the Eurimages Co-Manufacturing Improvement Award of €20,000.
Winner: The Effectively
Author and director: Petra Koivula, Siiri Halko
Producer: Jenni Jauri
Manufacturing firm: Silmu Movies, Finland
The jury commented: The Effectively provides a nuanced and emotionally perceptive portrait of a sisterly relationship destabilized by altering roles in a household. The movie’s mix of social and quiet magical realism guarantees a particular, atmospheric aesthetic. The story’s thematic resonance round id, foster care, and emotional dependency offers it substantial creative weight whereas on the identical time permitting it to narrate to relational shifts occurring in lots of households. The jury believes that this promising debut of younger director Siiri Halko, produced by Jenni Jauri has the potential to be deeply affecting and cinematic.”
The jury included: Els Hendrix, Senior Adviser on the Federal Commissioner for Tradition and the Media (BKM) and German consultant to Eurimages; Katrin Pors, producer at Snowglobe, Denmark; Jörg Schneider, commissioning editor at ZDF, Germany.
The jury additionally handed out the Eurimages Particular Co-Manufacturing Improvement Award to an Ukrainian challenge, value €20,000.
Winner: Alice desires to reside
Author and director: Denys Sabolev, Vitaliy Dokalenko
Producer: Andrejs Ekis, Vitaliy Dokalenko
Manufacturing firm: Ganzafilm
The jury commented: “Alice desires to reside permits for a deeply atmospheric and emotionally truthful depiction of post-traumatic intimacy. Sadly sufficient, everyone knows that the trauma nonetheless continues. Kyiv is portrayed not as a battlefield however as a lived-in, wounded panorama, giving the movie a quietly resonant authenticity that distinguishes it from extra typical struggle dramas.”
Producers Community Prize for 2 promising younger producers.
The award was one free go to Producers’ Community 2026 awarded by Cannes Marché du Movie.
Winner: No salvation coming
Author and director: Vojtěch Strakatý
Producer: Jan Čadek
Manufacturing firm: Newbie’s Thoughts, Czechia
The jury commented: “This challenge provides a grounded, socially aware heist narrative that compellingly displays the precarity of younger adults trapped by debt, underpaid work, and housing insecurity.”
Winner: Vesna
Author and Director: Rostislav Kirpicenko
Producer: Stasys Baltakis, Vitalii Sheremetiev, Helena Pokorny, Oleksii Zgonik
Manufacturing firm: Movie Jam, Matka Movies, Ukraine, France, Lithuania
The jury commented: “Vesna is an genuine drama with emotional depth exploring the problem to outlive below Russian occupation.”
Baltic Occasion Co-Manufacturing Market Public Favourite Award:
Winner: The Queen of England Stole My Dad and mom
Author: Aleksandra Chmielewska
Director: Ernestas Jankauskas
Author-Producer: Gabija Siurbytė
Producer: Viktorija Rimkute
Manufacturing firm: Dansu Movies, Lithuania, Poland
The general public favorite award winner within the Baltic Occasion Co-Manufacturing Market class will obtain an award value 4,500 euros from Gorodenkoff Productions that consists of utilizing their digital manufacturing studio for in the future.
