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Vache Folle

Hugo Diego Garcia, Lorenzo Bentivoglio
2025

Anton Bitel - 13-11-2025

Damaged war-veteran-turned-cowherd reluctantly fights for his dreams, in this dirty gem of a Franco-Swiss production - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Invisibles

Junna Chif 
2025

Victoria Luxford - 13-11-2025

A Montreal sex worker finds new direction when she takes on a different kind of client, in this sweaty and passionate drama – from the Critics' Picks section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival  [Read More...]

18 Holes to Paradise (18 Buracos para o Paraíso)

João Nuno Pinto
2025

Victor Fraga - 13-11-2025

Portuguese family test their values, ambitions and allegiances as they spend one last summer together in their posh villa - from the Official Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Emergency Exit

Lluís Miñarro
2025

Anton Bitel - 13-11-2025

Top-drawer ensemble takes a bizarre coach trip to the other side, in this metacinematic arthouse fare from Spain - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

One Day I Wish To See You Happy

Maryna Nikolcheva
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 13-11-2025

Separated by geography and war, a filmmaker records conversations with her husband in their shared pursuit of happiness - from the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Anemone

Ronan Day-Lewis
2025

Paul Risker - 13-11-2025

Man's search for his brother is thematically elusive and with too few redeeming qualities tests - from the Best of Festivals at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Mo Papa

Eeva Mägi
2025

Victoria Luxford - 13-11-2025

A touching, beautiful follow up to Estonian hit Mo Mamma, Eeva Mägi’s second in a thematic trilogy is just as magnificent - opening film of the Critics' Picks section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Lost Stars of the Horoscope

Katrina Lehismäe
2025

Marina Richter - 13-11-2025

Ukrainian immigrants find shelter and solace in Estonia, despite tussling with non-belonging sentiments - from Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Hungarian Wedding (Magyar Menyegző)

Csaba Káel
2025

Victor Fraga - 13-11-2025

Young Hungarian rocker asks for the hand of Romanian girl in exchange for a very peculiar something, in this music-infused and harmless crowdpleaser - from the Official Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Electing Ms Santa

Raisa Răzmeriță
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 13-11-2025

Political hopeful has to overcome gender prejudices by dressing up as a Christmas icon if she has any hope of becoming mayor - Moldovan documentary premieres in the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Happiness is Living in our Land (Õnn on Elada me Maal)

Indrek Spungin
2025

Joshua Polanski - 13-11-2025

Appropriately messy and entertaining doc about Estonian punk band that supposedly helped to trigger the demise of the USSR lacks in historicity - Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Laguna

Sharuna Bartas
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 12-11-2025

Sharuna Bartas and his daughter embark on a self-appointed pilgrimage to Mexico in order to honour their late Ina Marija, killed at just 24 - filthy genius doc shows in the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Edge of the Night (Ööäär)

Vladimir Loginov
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 12-11-2025

From sex parties to rubbish collection: documentarist uncovers the dark secrets of the cold Estonian night - from the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

No Other Choice

Park Chan-wook
2025

Paul Risker - 12-11-2025

Park Chan-wook's revenge thriller has its playful moments but wears its audience down with an indulgent streak - in cinemas on Friday, January 23rd [Read More...]

Far Away

M. Tayfur Aydın
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 12-11-2025

A Turkish director returns to the town he once called home, and encounters a place horribly scarred by an armed conflict - from the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

My Family and Other Clowns (Minu Pere ja Muud Klounid)

Heilika Pikkov, Liina Särkinen
2025

Marina Richter - 12-11-2025

The family life of Estonia's top two clowns isn't all smiles and laughter - from the DOC@PÖFF Baltic Competition of 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Eyes of the Forest (Metsasilmad)

Anna Veisman
2025

Lotta Raidna - 12-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: young woman searches for a man gone missing in the forest at night, in Estonian film packed with meaningful colours and supernatural elements - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Don’t Look Away (Ära Vaata Eemale)

Joonas Lind
2025

Alice Lokk - 12-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: tension quickly builds as a young streamer uses his camera as a catalyst for danger - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Peanuts (Maapähklid)

Loviisa Jännes
2025

Eloise Kello - 12-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: young and timid woman feels shunned at her own birthday party, but tables are about to turn - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Wishful Thinking

Gergana Dyankova
2025

Susanna Teimann - 12-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: mother and daughter engage in a fierce duel for a magically conjured male - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Lunch: a Letter to America

Gianluca Vassallo
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 11-11-2025

Italian filmmaker captures fragments of country riven by political clashes; the outcome is a movie that's funny, poetic and yet over simplistic - from the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Time to the Target (Chas Pidlotu)

Vitaly Mansky
2025

Nataliia Serebriakova - 11-11-2025

Vitaly Mansky’s new film extends his long-standing exploration of post-Soviet identity and human endurance into the deeply personal terrain of his native Lviv, in Western Ukraine - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Stiina

Elisabeth Kužovnik
2025

Helen Murd - 11-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: young mother has to prioritise her nanny job ahead of her own daughter, in this harsh yet hopeful Estonian film - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Last Will (Testaments)

Jānis Ābele
2025

Marina Richter - 11-11-2025

Latvian erotic and crime writer Anatols Imermanis died in 1989 without visiting the Pigalle; now a group of artists have set out to scatter his ashes there - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Plans for Tomorrow (Plaanid Homseks)

Jasmin Kulagina
2025

Villem Vesingi - 11-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: two friends anxiously wait for their fling to show up at their boozy party, in a film with strong echoes of a big Estonian hit - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Am I Ukrainian Enough? (Kas ma Olen Piisavalt Ukrainlane?)

Kateryna Hantseva
2025

Getriin Kotsar - 11-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Ukrainian filmmaker returns home, and investigates language as a resistance weapon - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

10,000 Steps to Smoking Area

Manfred Vainokivi
2025

Katrin Luuken - 11-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHP: a cigarette becomes the lifeline of an elderly radio star, in this thoughtful meditation on the failing human body - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Friction!

Chingiz Pasha
2025

Chingiz Pasha - 11-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: in a dystopian future, down-to-earth Alvar is made to choose between eternal love and gardening - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Microphone in the Head (Mikrofon Peas)

Robert Raska Ly
2025

Piret Ilves - 11-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: the sudden death of a man triggers a chain of absurd events, in a movie overflowing with symbolisms, topics and messages - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Border

Sasha Shprotser
2025

Matthias Veinmann - 11-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: young woman filmmaker undertakes a dangerous journey from her native Estonia to her gran's grave in Russia, in a movie bursting with originality and heartfelt simplicity - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Goodnight Kiss (Irena)

Giedrė Žickytė
2025

Anton Bitel - 11-11-2025

Giedrė Žickytė’s documentary portrait of late Lithuanian intellectual Irena Veisaitė is both a celebration and a lament - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Death is Harder Than a Broken Heart

Indrek Spungin
2025

- 11-11-2025

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: mother has to come to terms with her mortality and with the figurative death of her son, in this heartwarming black comedy - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Goodbye Sisters

Alexander Murphy
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 10-11-2025

Two siblings venture up the Himalayas in search of a fungus/insect hybrid, in a spiritual journey with parallels to the Spanish Camino - filthy genius doc premieres in the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Terra Vil

Luis Campos
2025

Edin Custo - 10-11-2025

Portuguese riverside turns sombre and gloomy as young boy struggles with alcoholic father - from the Just Film Youth and Children Film Festival, a sub-festival of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Not Made for Politics

Volia Chajkouskaya
2025

Nataliia Serebriakova - 10-11-2025

Women became the face of resistance as Belarus fought against Lukashenko, in this dirty doc dedicated to female Belarusians involved in politics - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

It’s Winter

Sajad Imani
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 09-11-2025

High up on the mountains of Iran where men call the shots, an adolescent prepares herself for the forthcoming snow - immersive doc premieres in the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Days of Wonder (Päivien Lumo)

Karin Pennanen
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 09-11-2025

Finish woman pays tribute to her reclusive and artistic late uncle by trying to piece together his long-forgotten writings and clips - from the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Miss Jobson

Amanda Sans Pantling
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 08-11-2025

Bob Marley's friend and lawyer Diane Jobson lived a life far from the spotlight; now the 80-year-old showcases her work, religion, and learnings from the late Rasta - from the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Scarecrows (Putnubiedēkļi)

Laila Pakalnina
2025

André Vital Pardue - 08-11-2025

Airport workers negotiate the environmental conflicts of the shared airfield space, in this quirky Latvian documentary - from the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Feast of the Wolf

Jadran Boban
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 08-11-2025

A territory in Croatia is apparently haunted by wolves being flown in by helicopter, and maybe the EU is to blame for transporting the animals - from the Doc@PÖFF International Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Dream Machine

Dan Egan
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 07-11-2025

A mechanic and his wife watch cars literally fly up to the blue, as they grapple with problems closer to the ground - from LA Shorts [Read More...]

Divia

Dmytro Hreshko
2025

Joshua Polanski - 26-10-2025

Drone-shot, technology-infused "silent" film offers an intriguing register of Russian devastation on Ukrainian soil - from the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

All American

Mark Andrew Altschul
2025

Victoria Luxford - 21-10-2025

Young wrestlers become activists and well as contenders, in this all-American doc about overcoming obstacles in order to pursue dreams - from the Heartland Film Festival [Read More...]

A Way to Die: the Short-Films of Coil

Maxime Lachaud, Xavier Laradji
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 19-10-2025

Rockumentary explores two queer artists no longer living, and their shared taste for shock and experimental cinema - from the 12th Doc'n Roll Film Festival [Read More...]

Evidence

Lee Anne Schmitt
2025

Edward Frumkin - 15-10-2025

The political intertwines with the personal in Lee Anne Schmitt's feature-length self-reflexive documentary, as the American filmmaker explores her father's career in a business of very questionable ethics - from the New York International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Butthole Surfers Movie

Tom Stern
2025

André Vital Pardue - 12-10-2025

Tom Stern’s love letter to one of the strangest punk phenomena of the '80 and '90s perfectly matches the goofiness of the American band - from the 12th edition of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival [Read More...]

I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol

Nick Mead, Andre Relis
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 12-10-2025

Songwriting bassist Glen Matlock was evicted from the band he nourished, but he's here to tell his events the best way he knows how - from the 12th edition of the Doc' Roll Festival [Read More...]

A Beautiful Place

Isolde Woudstra
2025

André Vital Pardue - 10-10-2025

Dutch photographer-turned-filmmaker Isolde Woudstra follows mysterious Lebanese duo Hanover on their 2024 European tour, in this blend of talking heads and concert documentary - from the 12th Doc'n Roll Festival [Read More...]

Crying on Command

Nick Craven
2025

Paul Risker - 09-10-2025

Dreams hang by a thread, in this engaging and challenging short drama - from the Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Big Johnson

Lola Rocknrolla
2025

Victoria Luxford - 09-10-2025

Delicious celebration of LGBTQ+ underground culture shines a light on Dean Johnson, a queer musician well ahead of his time - from the 12th edition of the Doc'n Roll Festival [Read More...]

Boy George & Culture Club

Alison Ellwood
2025

Eoghan Lyng - 09-10-2025

Rockumentary reveals Culture Club as a smorgasbord of heritages and influences; this diversity made their music rich but also caused their egos to explode - from the 12th Doc'n Roll Festival [Read More...]

Barrio Triste

Stillz
2025

Edward Frumkin - 06-10-2025

Four petty criminals operate under the purview of supernatural entities, in this Colombian blend of spiritual and gangster flick - from the New York International Film Festival [Read More...]

Gavagai

Ulrich Köhler
2025

Edward Frumkin - 29-09-2025

In his self-reflexive new film, German director Ulrich Köhler meditates on the neocolonial hierarchies that he himself helped to perpetuate - from the New York International Film Festival [Read More...]

A Private Life (Vie Privee)

Rebecca Zlotowski
2025

Victor Fraga - 27-09-2025

Jodie Foster is the unhinged shrink from hell, in this silly and fun French psychological thriller - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]