Awards - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - 2014-2023
National Awards
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- Academy Awards
- Independent Spirit Awards
- European Film Awards
- César Awards
- Goya Awards
- German Film Awards
- Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- Jussi Awards
- Czech Lion Awards
- Sun in a Net Awards
- Polish Film Awards
- Hungarian Motion Picture Awards (Hungarian Film Awards)
- Filmfare Awards
- Guldbagge Awards
- Amanda Awards
- AACTA International Awards
- Hong Kong Film Awards
Film Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
- Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF)
- Zurich Film Festival
- San Sebastián International Film Festival
- Sitges Film Festival
- Shanghai International Film Festival
- Warsaw International Film Festival
- Miami Film Festival
- Montreal World Film Festival
- Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)
- Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
- Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
- Zlín Film Festival
- FAMUfest
- Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund
- Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival
Critics Awards
- Golden Globes
- Critics Choice Awards
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Czech Film Critics Awards
Genre / Special Awards
Anti-awards
2023 - 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
Best Baltic Film
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
Best Director
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Music
Best Production Design
Best Baltic Producer for Co-production
First Feature Competition - Special Jury Prize
Rebel With A Cause Award for Best Film
Rebel with a Cause Award for Best Director
Rebel with a Cause Award for Best Short Film
NETPAC Award
Critic's Picks Competition Award for Best Film
Critic's Picks Competition (Jury Special Mention)
Critic's Picks Competition Award for Best Director
FIPRESCI Award
Audience Award
Children’s and Youth Film Festival Just Film Award
Children’s and Youth Film Festival Just Film - Special Mention
2022 - 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
Best Baltic Film
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
Best Director
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Music
Best Production Design
Best Baltic Producer for Co-production
Special Jury Prize
Rebel With A Cause Award for Best Film
Rebel with a Cause Award for Best Short Film
Rebel With A Cause - Jury Special Mention
Critic's Picks Competition Award for Best Film
Critic's Picks Competition (Jury Special Mention)
FIPRESCI Award
Audience Award
Lifetime Achievement Awards of the festival
Children’s and Youth Film Festival Just Film Award
DDA Spotlight Award
2021 - 25th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Director
Grand Prix
- Dear Thomas (Andreas Kleinert)
- Animals (Nabil Ben Yadir)
- Big Night (Jun Lana)
- The List of Those Who Love Me (Emre Erdoğdu)
- Songs for a Fox (Kristijonas Vildžiūnas)
- A Vanishing Fog (Augusto Sandino)
- Killing the Eunuch Khan (Abed Abest)
- The Gentiles (Santi Amodeo)
- No.10 (Alex van Warmerdam)
- Mukagali (Bulat Kalymbetov)
- Make the Devil Laugh (Ryuichi Mino)
- No Looking Back (Kirill Sokolov)
- A Place Called Dignity (Matías Rojas Valencia)
- Wesele (Wojciech Smarzowski)
- What Went Wrong? (Liliana Torres)
Best Baltic Film
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
Best Director
Best Script
Best Cinematography
Rebel With A Cause Award for Best Film
FIPRESCI Award
Ecumenical Jury Prize
Best Short Film
Best Animation
Live Action Short - Jury Mention
Children’s and Youth Film Festival Just Film Award
New Talents Competition - Best Student Short
DDA Spotlight Award
Work in Progress
2020 - 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
- Fear (Ivaylo Hristov)
- The Road to Eden (Bakyt Mukul, Dastan Zhaparuulu)
- Armugan (Jo Sol)
- Baby (Juanma Bajo Ulloa)
- Bedridden (Byamba Sakhya)
- When I'm Done Dying (Nisan Dag)
- Caged Birds (Oliver Rihs)
- Mother at War (Henrik Ruben Genz)
- Fan Girl (Antoinette Jadaone)
- In the Mirror (Laila Pakalniņa)
- Beasts (Naël Marandin)
- In Winter (Dalei Zhang)
- Love Song 1980 (Feng Mei)
- Parquet (Aleksandr Mindadze)
- Sanremo (Miroslav Mandić)
- Submission (Leonardo António)
- The Translator (Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf)
- The Sign Painter (Viesturs Kairišs)
- Tooman (Morteza Farshbaf)
- Troe (Anna Melikyan)
- The Pit (Dace Pūce)
- Ulbolsyn (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
- The Dawn (Dalibor Matanić)
- On the Water (Пеэтер Симм)
- Gracious Night (Mika Kaurismäki)
- Final Report (István Szabó)
Best Baltic Film
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
Best Director
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Music
First Feature Competition - Special Mention
Rebel With A Cause Award for Best Film
Rebel with a Cause Award for Best Short Film
NETPAC Award
Jury Prize - Doc@Short
FIPRESCI Award
Ecumenical Jury Prize
Audience Award
Youth Jury Best Film Award
Lifetime Achievement Awards of the festival
Best Short Film
Children’s and Youth Film Festival Just Film Award
2019 - 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
- Kontora (Anshul Chauhan)
- Blind
- The Flying Circus
- Coming Home Again
- Fiela's Child
- Gipsy Queen
- Girl With No Mouth
- Golden Voices
- Gutterbee
- Malpaso
- Muscle
- When the Moon Was Full
- Through Black Glass
- Drowsy City
- The Coldest Game
- Dead Volume
Best Baltic Film
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
Best Director
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Music
First Feature Competition - Special Jury Prize
NETPAC Award
FIPRESCI Award
Ecumenical Jury Prize
Audience Award
Lifetime Achievement Awards of the festival
Children’s and Youth Film Festival Just Film Award
2018 - 22nd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Estonian Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
- Wandering Girl (Daniel Garcia, Rubén Mendoza)
- Winter's Night
- Werewolf
- Til vi falder
- Zwei Herren im Anzug
- Two Fridas
- The Story of a Summer Lover
- The Human Part
- The Guest
- Sunburn
- Still River
- Slam
- Sheeple
- Kadakh
- Bad Poems
- Awaken
- Asandhimitta
- A Shelter Among the Clouds
- Pour vivre ici
Best Estonian Film
- Ahto. Chasing a Dream (Jaanis Valk)
- Between Covers
- Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
- Phantom Owl Forest
- Fire Lily
- Take It or Leave It
- The Little Comrade
- Portugal
- Everyday Mysticism
Best Baltic Film
- Summer Survivors (Marija Kavtaradzė)
- 100 Years Together
- Ashes in the Snow
- Bille
- Breaking Into Marbles
- Baltic New Wave
- Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
- Foam at the Mouth
- Summer Survivors
- Take It or Leave It
- The Little Comrade
- To Be Continued
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
- Head Above Water (Tatiana Margaux Bonhomme, Caroline Bonmarchand)
- A March to Remember
- As I Fall
- Catharsys or The Afina Tales of the Lost World
- Cronofobia
- Erased
- Head Above Water
- Hello Arsi
- Kejal
- Lifeboat
- Lonesome Collectors
- Lorik
- Roads in February
- Sasha Was Here
- The Covenant
- Song of the Tree
- The Wild Fields
- Why Don't You Just Die!
- Yung
- Wasted Eggs
Best Director
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Music
First Feature Competition - Special Jury Prize
Rebel With A Cause Award for Best Film
NETPAC Award
FIPRESCI Award
Ecumenical Jury Prize
Audience Award
Lifetime Achievement Awards of the festival
Best Short Film
Best Animation
Children’s and Youth Film Festival Just Film Award
2017 - 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Estonian Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
- Night Accident (Temirbek Birnazarov)
- A Thought of Ecstasy
- Anarchist from Colony
- Asphyxia
- Bangzi Melody
- Children of the Fall
- Last Call
- Fork Lane
- Granny
- The Life Free
- Little Tito and the Aliens
- Newly Single
- Something Useful
- The Ball
- The Contestant
- The Eternal Road
- The Gateway
- The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow
- Vacuum
Best Estonian Film
- November (Rainer Sarnet)
- Green Cats
- The End of the Chain
- The Man Who Looks Like Me
- The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
- Different Kinds of Rain (Isa Prahl)
- Bingo: The King of the Mornings
- Buddha.mov
- The Seagull
- Before Memory
- Goodbye, Grandpa!
- Home
- Nearest and Dearest
- TOC - Transtornada Obsessiva Compulsiva
- Resurrection
- Secret Ingredient
- Summer Children
- Sunbeat
- The Faithful Son
- The Heat After the Rain
- The Marriage
Best Director
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Music
First Feature Competition - Best Directing
First Feature Competition - Best Ensemble of Cast
Rebel With A Cause Award for Best Film
NETPAC Award
FIPRESCI Award
Audience Award
2016 - 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Estonian Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
- A Quiet Heart (Eitan Anner)
- Breath
- Queen of Spades: The Dark Rite
- 7 Days
- A Quiet Dream
- At Your Doorstep
- The Chronicles of Melanie
- Lines
- Dark Fortune
- Tuos
- Eastern Business
- The Have-Nots
Best Estonian Film
- Mother (Kadri Kõusaar)
- The Days That Confused
- The Polar Boy
- The Spy and the Poet
- Pretenders
- Family Lies
- When You Least Expect It
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
- Duet (Navid Danesh)
- Gentle Breath
- Wedding Dance
- The White King
- The Traveller
- Sofichka
- Caina
- Man with the Binoculars
- Červený kapitán
- Home Is Here
- The Holy Biker
- Cockroach
- Paris la blanche
Best Director
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Music
First Feature Competition - Special Jury Prize
NETPAC Award
FIPRESCI Award
Ecumenical Jury Prize
Audience Award
2015 - 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Estonian Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
- The Throne (Joon-ik Lee)
- 28:94 Local Time
- Avalanche
- Black
- Ausma
- Epitaph
- Happy Hour
- Insight
- Let Her Cry
- Orizont
- Stranger
- The Automatic Hate
- The Bride
- The Paradise Suite
- The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father and His Son
- The Summer of Frozen Fountains
- Under the Sun
- Zinnia Flower
Best Estonian Film
- The Fencer (Klaus Härö)
- 1944: Forced to Fight
- Ghost Mountaineer
- Roukli
- The Secret Society of Souptown
- Zero Point
First Feature Competition - Best Film Award
- Delivery (Martín Mejía)
- A.K.A Nadia
- Anna
- Don't Look at Me That Way
- Food and Shelter
- Ghost Mountaineer
- Guaraní
- Loev
- The White City
- Pawno
- Road-Movie
- Staying Alive
- Nachodka
- Two
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Music
Special Jury Prize
Special Mention
First Feature Competition - Best Cinematography
First Feature Competition - Best Music
NETPAC Award
FIPRESCI Award
Ecumenical Jury Prize
Ecumenical Jury Award - Special Mention
Audience Award
Lifetime Achievement Awards of the festival
Bruno O'Ya award for Best Young Estonian Film Actor
Children’s and Youth Film Festival Just Film Award
International Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers Grand Prix
Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams “Heino Pars” Grand Prix
2014 - 18th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Grand Prix
Best Estonian Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Grand Prix
- Lucifer (Gust Van Den Berghe)
- Angels of Revolution
- Apostle
- Obywatel
- Elephant Song
- Seguir Viviendo
- In the Crosswind
- In the Sands of Babylon
- Inferno
- Itsi Bitsi
- Margarita with a Straw
- Move
- Over Your Dead Body
- Yokudô
- The Theory of Everything
- Today
- Valley
- Yvone Kane
Best Estonian Film
- In the Crosswind (Martti Helde)
- Cherry Tobacco
- I Won't Come Back
- Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady
- Landscape with Many Moons
Feature Debut from The Baltic Sea and Nordic Countries
- Life in a Fishbowl (Baldvin Zophoníasson)
- Amnesia
- Cherry Tobacco
- The Domino Effects
- Inbetween Worlds
- Name Me
- The Man in the Orange Jacket
- The Quiet Roar
- They Have Escaped
- When Animals Dream
North American Independent Competition Programme
- Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
- Allure
- Cold in July
- Felix and Meira
- I Origins
- Obvious Child
- Spring
- The Wanted 18
- You're Sleeping Nicole
- Whiplash
- Wild