Celebrating its 21st year, the Tartuff Love Film Festival kicks off on 8 August, offering eight straight nights of free film screenings. Tartu\u2019s popular Elektriteater will be one of the two main cinema locales, while the Town Hall Square itself will be the other, offering nearly a thousand seats for the general public.<\/p>\n
The name \u201cTartuff\u201d is not simply the Italian word for truffle\u2014tartufo\u2014but it is a very valuable, and long-awaited \u201cfilm festival\u201d, which is clearly where the \u201cff\u201d comes from. As for the \u201clove\u201d film festival, it\u2019s not so much about romcoms or love stories, but these films deal with relationships in general, be they family structures, friendships, or even dangerous obsessions. Let\u2019s face it, there\u2019s not much romance happening in \u201cCape Fear\u201d, which will be screened on Town Hall Square on 13 August.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Tartuff will feature 22 screenings, representing 30 countries. If the math seems off here, keep in mind that some films are collaborations between multiple countries. While European cinema will be dominant at this European film festival, there are films from such exotic locations as Thailand, China, and even Syria. Short films will also be featured at this year\u2019s festival for the first time. Eight short films, ranging in length from three minutes, to 21 minutes.<\/p>\n
Tartuff is part of the Dark Nights Film Festival, or P\u00d6FF, which over the years has grown to become one of the world\u2019s preeminent film festivals, on par with Cannes or Tribeca. The complete schedule as well as more information are available here<\/span><\/a><\/span>, and notice that a few of the films are labeled as \u201cscreening with guests\u201d, meaning someone connected with the production of the film will be there to answer questions from the audience.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Celebrating its 21st year, the Tartuff Love Film Festival kicks off on 8 August, offering eight straight nights of free … Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":161291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[22437,22624,28021,13270,13290,15735,15737,15739,16020,18660],"class_list":["post-161290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-events-in-tartu","tag-outdoor-cinema","tag-summer-in-tartu","tag-tartu-2","tag-poff-3","tag-elektriteater","tag-tartuff-2","tag-film-festival","tag-cinema","tag-movie"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t