The first online Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event saw over 35 000 virtual attendances, resulting from a record 1600 accredited professionals across industry events and the film festival. The number plays a significant part in setting a record also for Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, with an estimated 101 833 physical and virtual attendances this year.

The year 2020 brought many innovations to Industry@Tallinn along with new developments of the program. Among them was PÖFF Black Room which dives into the wonders of cinema’s visual language. The program is dedicated to Art Department and sets out to deepen the knowledge about the unique craft that combines art, design, architecture and a lot of intrepid creativity.

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The Tallinn Lab of the European Genre Forum training programme has kicked off with an aim to boost the careers of future players in the genre film industry. This year the programme includes mainly sci-fi films and psychological trillers from Belgium, Lithuania, Holland, Slovenia, Italy, the Czech, Austria and Japan.

For the very first time, the Russian presence at one of the largest European venues for audiovisual content will be super ambitious and on a grand scale. Under the RUSSIA IN FOCUS brand, the talented directors, actors, and producers, will present their projects in a number of the forum’s sections.