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Black Nights Film Festival sub-festival Sleepwalkers 
is held for the 16th time, 17 – 21 November 2015. 

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  and .

This year festival will screen over 150 films from 39 different countries as part of its entire programme and will currently play host to 37 Baltic Premieres, 4 European Premieres, 11 International Premieres and 5 World Premieres.

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 â€“ 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 theEuropean 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 2015 concentrates on The Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film at Georgia State University, bringing some of the best to Sleepwalkers. The  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 a  at Caffeine café.

EVENTS AT THE FESTIVAL

This year’s festival is once more, as it was 2014, introduced by a â€“ where dreams, creativity and the film world merge into one another. This excursion onto the borders of reality and the magical is guided by specialists of various fields relating to the subject, giving a wide spectrum of ideas about both dreams and films.

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

On the last evening we are happy to invite you to join us and the PÖFF sub-festival Animated Dreams for a dancing nihtg out at .

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