The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (16 November-2 December) has announced the line-ups of seven juries for films screening in the gathering’s five competition programmes. The prizewinners will be announced at the festival’s awards ceremony, which takes place on 1 December.

The Official Selection jury will have five members, headed up by Italian-US director-scriptwriter Andrea Pallaoro (Hannah [+lee también:
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The jury of the First Feature Competition is chaired by Dutch director Mike van Diem, who won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-language Film in 1998 with Character, and whose Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle [+lee también:
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The jury of the Baltic Competition programme will be presided over by US director-screenwriter-cinematographer Steven Bernstein, whose film Dominion earned Rhys Ifans the Best Actor Award in Black Nights’ Official Selection in 2016. He will be joined by Turkish filmmaker Pelin Esmer, who won the Best Script Award at Tallinn last year for Something Useful [+lee también:
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The festival’s other juries are as follows:

FIPRESCI Jury (evaluates the films in the First Feature Competition programme)

Alexandra Pütter (Germany)
Sunčica Unevska (Macedonia)
Annika Koppel (Estonia)

Jury for the Rebels With a Cause competition programme

Andrei Liimets (Estonia), film and culture critic, civic activist
Joonas Kiik (Estonia), film critic
Tõnu Karjatse (Estonia), film critic and culture journalist

Ecumenical Jury

Rainer Sarnet (Estonia), stage and film director (November [+lee también:
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Regina Hansen (Estonia), public relations specialist at the Consistory of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Erki Tamm (Estonia), reverend, president of the Union of Free Evangelical and Baptist Churches of Estonia
Madis Kolk (Estonia), editor-in-chief of the culture magazine Theatre. Music. Cinema
Marge-Marie Paas (Estonia), public relations specialist, Roman Catholic Church in Estonia

NETPAC Jury

Wong Tuck Cheong (Malaysia), editor, honorary secretary of NETPAC
Olga Khlasheva (Kazakhstan), film critic and producer (Owners, The Gentle Indifference of the World [+lee también:
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Maarja Hindoalla (Estonia), film critic, radio show editor, curator of the Film Archives of the National Archives of Estonia