Welcome to Pärnu Film Festival!

XXXIX Pärnu Documentary and Science Film Festival will take place on October 5–12, 2025 in Pärnu and on air of Estonian Television, followed October 13–19, 2025 in other locations of Estonia. The awarded docs will be screened at the Estonian Art Museum in Tallinn as well as at the Estonian National Museum in Tartu.

We await submissions from all over the world. In the year 2025, our special focus will be on indigenous peoples and their disappearing cultures.

Early submission’s entry fee is 10 euros up to April 1, 2025.

Late submission’s entry fee from April 2 to June 1, 2025, is 20 euros.

Student films submitted during this period qualify for a reduced entry fee of 10 euros.

Filmmakers residing in Ukraine may submit their films free of charge.

The selection committee will announce their decision latest by August 1, 2025.

We hope to compose a powerful program of docs of high artistic and scientific quality. From the very beginning, our focus has been on folk arts, disappearing cultures as well as future of young people. In the time of bloody wars, we seek docs with messages for a peaceful world.