The Tallinn Black Nights Film Event (PÖFF) has actually exposed the Rebels With a Cause and Movie Critics’ Pics Competitors programs for its 30 th edition , occurring Nov. 6-22, including its Baltic Movie Competitors.
The 2026 Rebels With a Reason Competition will evaluate 9 world premieres that discover “unconventional approaches to filmmaking,” coordinators of the Estonian fest claimed on Wednesday. Curated by Javier Garcia Puerto, the program has been celebrating filmmakers who challenge motion picture conventions, bringing together arising voices and well-known supervisors.
Among this year’s lineup is Lithuanian filmmaker Emilija Škarnulytė’s Seems of the Desert , a Lithuanian-Norwegian co-production, which expands the existence of Baltic movie theater beyond PÖFF’s regional competition , and Dylan Stephen Levers’ launching function Pop Pop from the united state. The last is defined by the event as “a mash-up of viral meme society and social media sites referrals, embeded in a makeup digital atmosphere with a retrofuturistic aesthetic, [that] makes us dive into the facility layers of harmful manliness, terminate culture, and extreme positioning, going beyond the standards of black comedy.”
At the same time, curated by Nikolaj Nikitin, the Critics’ Picks Competition will certainly present 10 opening night from emerging and developed filmmakers. The area is created to highlight “movies with a clear creative vision that check out genre conventions while engaging in dialogue with movie background.”
This year’s option features productions and co-productions from Japan, China, Morocco, Mexico and Uruguay, alongside European titles. Estonia is represented by Eeva Mägi’s Mo Amor
Look into the complete schedules for the PÖFF Rebels With a Cause and Movie Critics’ Picks Competition listed below.
Critics’ Picks Competitors
Apart (Cyprus, UK, Greece)– dir. Stelana Kliris
IOU (China)– dir. Steven Zhang Zhonghua
Jimoto Loophole (Japan)– dir. Masaya Tsutsumi
Kidney (India)– dir. Aakarsh Sansanwal, Agrim Sansanwal
Mo Amor (Estonia)– dir. Eeva Mägi
One Month (Bulgaria, Romania, Spain)– dir. Maya Vitkova-Kosev
Rahma (Türkiye, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy)– dir. Faysal Soysal
The Great Family (Mexico, Italy)– dir. Matías Meyer
Until Dawn (Morocco)– dir. Mohamed Zineddaine, Rachida Saadi, Matilde Bonnes
When I Existed (Uruguay, Spain)– dir. Alejandro Damiani, Martin Avdolov
Rebels With a Reason
Fragrance (Republic of Korea, United States, France)– dir. Xue Ma
Arrowhead for a Rock Heart (Brazil)– dir. Luiza Calagian
Beril_XXX (Türkiye)– dir. Can Evrenol
Irreversible (Colombia)– dir. Klych López
Lamb (Spain)– dir. Christian Checa, Sol Picó
Night Vision (Belgium)– dir. Christopher Yates
Pop Pop (USA)– dir. Dylan Stephen Levers
Sounds of the Desert (Lithuania, Norway)– dir. Emilija Škarnulytė
The Two Hornets (Slovakia)– dir. Dominik György
