About the festival

Tartu Love Film Festival Tartuff, organized by the Black Nights Film Festival, takes place in Tartu Town Hall Square (Raekoja plats) where the guests can enjoy films on the big screen set up specifically for the occasion. In addition, documentaries are shown in Tartu Elektriteater.

Viewers are invited to choose their favourite film among the films screened.

Tartuff 2024
18 screenings
9000 visits
Audience Award: "Chainsaws Were Singing" by Sander Maran (Estonia, 2024)

Tartuff 2023
20 screenings
9000 visits
Audience Award: "The Sales Girl" by Janchivdorj Sengedorji (Mongolia, 2022)

Tartuff 2022
22 screenings
14 100 visits
Audience Award: "Secret Name" by Aurélia Georgesi (France, 2021)

Tartuff 2021
17 screenings
8000 visits
Audience Award: "Diana’s Wedding” by Charlotte Blom (Norway, 2020)

Tartuff 2020
17 screenings
7500 visits
Audience Award: "The Goddess of Fortune" by Ferzan Özpetek (Italy, 2019)

Tartuff 2019
11 screenings
15 000 visits
Audience Award: "The Journey - A Story of Love" by Fanny Bräuning (Switzerland, 2018)

Tartuff 2018
16 screenings
19 300 visits
Audience Award: "Unga Astrid" by Pernille Fischer Christensen (Sweden, Denmark, 2018)

Tartuff 2017
18 screenings
17 000 visits
Audience Award: “Tanna” by Bentley Dean, Martin Butler (Australia, Vanuatu, 2015)

Tartuff 2016
19 screenings
18 000 visits
Audience Award: “Sing Street” by John Carney (Ireland, UK, USA, 2015)

Tartuff 2015
16 screenings
19 500 visits
Audience Award “X+Y” by Morgan Matthews (UK, 2014)

Tartuff 2014
15 screenings
25 000 visits
Audience Award: “Correction class” by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy (Russia, 2014)

Tartuff 2013
19 screenings
22 000 visits
Audience Award: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky (USA, 2012)

Tartuff 2012
26 screenings
17 930 visits
Audience Award: “Café de Flore” by Jean-Marc Vallée (France, Canada, 2011)

Tartuff 2011
27 screenings
21 337 visits
6 days full of workshops, concerts and movies. 11 000 cups of free coffee to the festival visitors.
Audience Award: “Waste Land” by Lucy Walker (Brazil, England 2010)

Tartuff 2010
22 screenings
30 428 visits
6 days full of workshops, concerts and movies. 12 000 cups of free coffee to the festival visitors.
Audience Award: “Paradise” by Jerzy Sladkowski (Sweden, Finland 2007)

Tartuff 2009
24 screenings
17 100 visits
6 days full of workshops, concerts and movies. 5500 cups of free coffee to the festival visitors.
Audience Award: “Glasses” by Naoko Ogigami (Japan, 2007)

Tartuff 2008
24 screenings
16 163 visits
Audience Award: “Taarka” by Ain Mäeots

Tartuff 2007
24 screenings
10 000 visits
2 days conference ”Tolerance of Religion”
Audience Award: “Harold and Maude” by Hal Ashby (USA 1971)

Tartuff 2006
24 screenings + Kieslowski “Decalogue”
10 000 visits
1 day conference “Tolerance of Culture”
Audience Award: “Volver” by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain 2006)