The Wolf Pack is coming together with a mission-driven spirit to unite film lovers, companies, organizations, festival guests, and the volunteers and interns – PÖFF’s greatest friends. They are the ones who help us sustain and grow the festival – thanks to them, we exist! It is an opportunity to be part of something bigger and help develop one of the world’s leading film festivals.
See how the Wolf Pack operates and how you can contribute to PÖFF!
Your support becomes even more important as our capacity to maintain PÖFF as you know and love it – with its exciting, diverse, and wide-reaching film program and filmmakers arriving from all over the world – is diminished due to cultural budget cuts and tax policy changes in Estonia.
But PÖFF is far from finished, even as we approach our 30th anniversary in 2026. We have plenty of ideas on how to develop it further. Your support would give us strength and confidence to continue down the chosen path – to create an even better festival together.
What have we achieved so far?
PÖFF is one of the 14 A-category film festivals in the world and the most internationally recognized cultural event in Estonia. In 2024, media outlets in 70 countries covered the festival, with a potential audience reach of 19.5 billion.
For years, PÖFF has been part of the representative body of FIAPF, one of the world’s most powerful film organizations, which regulates, coordinates, and develops the activities of international film festivals.
Variety, a leading film industry magazine, named PÖFF’s director Tiina Lokk among the 50 most influential women in global entertainment.
PÖFF is a key promoter of the film industry in this region.
PÖFF helps prevent the marginalization of Estonia, being deeply connected to the international film network and shaping the trends in global auteur cinema. In 2024 alone, we screened 249 feature films and 323 short films, including 131 premieres, and hosted over 1,700 film professionals from 65 countries.
PÖFF is an economic engine, returning 12 million euros to the Estonian economy in 2024 alone.
PÖFF is an important broadener of worldviews and a revitalizer of local film distribution: we ensure that in addition to well-known film countries, cinema from distant cultures – like South America, Asia, and Africa – also reaches Estonian screens. For example, in 2024, PÖFF featured films from 81 countries.
PÖFF is a leader and developer in film education and professional training in Estonia.
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A thousand thanks