Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF)
November 16 - 30, 2011
Tallinn / Estonia
With more than 30 documentary films scattered in its various programmes, the 15th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival presented a survey of the latest documentary films from the Baltic region, as well as from the international festival circuit.
Tridens Baltic Film Competition
Best Film (EUR 5000)
FIPRESCI Award
Barzakh
Finland, Lithuania, 2011, 60 min, DCP, Human Rights, Social Issues
In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. The peope, trying to find him, are drawn into a world where they see encounters, diviners and legal advisors, the torturers and the tortured, secret prisons and mythical lakes. When the missing ones appear in those people's dreams, they say, they come from Barzakh - a land between the living and the death.
Best Film (EUR 5000)
33 Animals of Santa Claus
33 Zvēri ziemassvētku vecītim , Latvia, 2011, 50 min, DCP, Digi Beta, Creative, Portrait
Santa Claus lives on the 4th floor of an apartment house. Santa owns 7 dogs, 6 cats, 2 rabbits, 1 crow, 1 pigeon, 1 chinchilla, 1 guinea pig, 10 degus and some fish.
You can read more about all PÖFF winners here.
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