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is held for the 17th time, 12 – 16 November 2016

International Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers brings together a versatile mixture of world class short films, among them both new discoveries and already highly reputable films. The festival week also hosts exciting workshops and special events.

FILM PROGRAMMES

The central core of the festival is – as always – our four competition strands. The International Competition is a celebration of some of the very best films from across the globe while our Baltic Sea Competition recognises the unique sensibilities of films that come from the countries that lay next to that body of water. The Student Competition&²Ô²ú²õ±è;– a long an important focus of the festival – proves that shorts are much, much more than the practise before a ‘real film’ while the National Competition shows there is an abundance of talent in our small country.

Alongside the competition programmes Sleepwalkers festival is showing the European Film Academy SHORT MATTERS! programme, consisting of the recent nominees for the Academy award. The European short documentaries programme brings together the best documentaries and the focus programme of 2016 brings some of the best French short films to Sleepwalkers. The Vitamin programme will spice up the dark November nights and if the cold has taken over whilst walking from one cinema to another in Tallinn, the warmth will undoubtedly return after some coffe and short films at Caffeine cafés.

EVENTS AT THE FESTIVAL

The festival is traditionally introduced by a Dream Seminar&²Ô²ú²õ±è;– where dreams, creativity and the film world merge into one another. This is an excursion onto the borders of reality and the magical.

Our guests have a chance to continue lucid dreaming throughout the festival and especially during the Night Cinema, where a vibrant short film programme together with a homely atmosphere at the venue offer a truly unique film watching experience.

Welcome to Tallinn and to the mystical black nights that celebrate film in all its shapes and sizes!

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