# Meet the Estonian Folklore Characters Helping to Celebrate the 30th Tallinn Fest – and Their Animator

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/meet-the-estonian-folklore-characters-helping-to-celebrate-the-30th-tallinn-fest-and-their-animator/
- Published: 2026-10-28T07:01:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T07:54:04+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tallinn-poff-30-poster-folklore-characters-estonian-animator-1236739899/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- Priit Pärn created PÖFF’s first festival-wide visual identity.
- The design features the folkloric Kilplased making a film.
- The 30th Tallinn festival runs from 6 to 22 November.

## Summary

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has commissioned its first festival-wide visual identity for its 30th anniversary, turning to Estonian cartoonist and animation filmmaker Priit Pärn. His design features the Kilplased, comic figures from Estonian folklore, bringing the festival’s cinema celebration together with a distinctly local artistic tradition.

Pärn said he chose the characters because they had never promoted a film festival or been shown making one, and the idea took him about five minutes. He has depicted the Kilplased since 1974 in films, comics and illustrations. The characters will appear across the festival’s advertisements, decorations and other visuals; the festival runs from 6 to 22 November.

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