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Our dirty questions to Paolo Marinou-Blanco

 

Victor Fraga - 09-12-2024

Victor Fraga talks to the Greek-Portuguese director of assisted suicide comedy Dreaming of Lions about laughing away your pain, the questionable interests of the wellness industry, Yorgos Lanthimos and why it's ok not to be ok - live from the 4th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Seven years of shared passion and commitment

 

Victor Fraga - 25-11-2024

DMovies attends the 28th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, solidifying even further a robust relationship built ver seven years [Read More...]

A Real Pain

Jesse Eisenberg
2024

Paul Risker - 25-11-2024

Two Americans take a long journey in order to reconnect with their heritage, until a Holocaust tour group throws them off-piste - in cinemas on Friday, January 17th [Read More...]

Never Too Late

Lizhu Yang
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 25-11-2024

Chinese octogenarian surprises everyone by announcing her intention to divorce in a documentary that balances old with new - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

It all happened in the dead of the night!

 

Jeremy Clarke - 25-11-2024

Shall we talk about the weather? Jeremy Clarke finds this year's Critics’ Picks at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival all about vanishing corpses and disappeared people. [Read More...]

The Brutalist

Brady Corbet
2024

Paul Risker - 25-11-2024

Image and sound are brilliantly interwoven in the real-life story of architect László Tóth, before the film succumbs to indulgence and hubris - in cinemas on Friday, January 24th [Read More...]

Or dirty questions to Jon Bass

 

Joshua Bogatin - 24-11-2024

Joshua Bogatin talks to New York based director of Carole & Grey, Jon Bass; they talk about making films for TikTok, working with a three person crew, filming in New York, and much more! [Read More...]

Documentaries that deepen the views on humanity

 

Eoghan Lyng - 24-11-2024

Eoghan Lyng comments on the winners and his dirty favourites from the brand new Doc@PÖFF section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

I, the Song

Dechen Roder
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 24-11-2024

Extraordinary doppelgänger drama from Bhutan blends devices from Hitchcock's Vertigo, Psycho and (possibly fake?) revenge porn - from the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Carole & Grey

Jon Bass
2024

Joshua Polanski - 23-11-2024

TikTok movie challenges the old frame ratio orthodoxy, while also diffusing instant gratification and maximum sensory overload with its black-and-white colour palette - from the 24th edition of REC Tarragona [Read More...]

Sun Never Again (Sunce Nikad Više)

David Jovanović
2024

Paul Risker - 23-11-2024

Art, narrative and politics are threaded together in this deeply humanistic and captivating Serbian film - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Lotus

Signe Birkova
2024

Paul Risker - 23-11-2024

Full-blooded arthouse film about cinema and propaganda revels in the contradictions of what a movie can be - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Corina

Urzula Barba Hopfner
2024

Paul Riskeer - 23-11-2024

Mexican woman breaks away from her tight bubble, in this charming and energetic tale of empathy and compassion - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Dreaming of Lions (Sonhar com Leões)

Paolo Marinou-Blanco
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 23-11-2024

Terminal cancer patient fails in her repeated attempts at taking her own life, in this dark and yet profound comedy about euthanasia - from the 4th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Hani

Hou Dasheng
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 23-11-2024

Fourteen-year-old in a remote Chinese mountain village needs the money for the dowry of his beloved 12-year-old wife-to-be – from the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Two of Me (Mind on Kaks)

Raul Esko and Romet Esko
2024

Paul Risker - 22-11-2024

Filmmaking twins from Estonia dare to dream big and to turn their aspirations into reality, in this piece of meta-cinema - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Mousetrap

Serhii Kastornykh
2024

Victor Fraga - 22-11-2024

Ukrainian soldier gets trapped with a mouse inside an underground shaft, in this very lame allegory of war - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Protected Men (Die Geschützten Männer)

Irene von Alberti
2024

Steve Naish - 22-11-2024

Can you imagine a society entirely ruled by women? German filmmaker Irene von Alberti did just that, in her biting satire of gender roles - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Brothers Kitaura

Masaki Tsujino
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 22-11-2024

A 40-year-old accidentally kills his father, then enlists his brother to dispose of the body, in this greasy Japanese thriller of sorts - won Best Film in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Memory Boom

Xenia Glen
2024

Anton Bitel - 22-11-2024

Xenia Glen’s experimental film essay traces the cluttered memories of an old man whose mind is in collapse - from the 24th REC Tarragona International Film Festival [Read More...]

Can I Get a Witness?

Ann Marie Fleming
2024

Victor Fraga - 22-11-2024

In the near future, humans must die at the age of 50 in order to help our planet and our people to cope with multiple challenges - arthouse sci-fi is in the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Silent City Driver

Sengedorj Janchivdorj
2024

Victor Fraga - 22-11-2024

Former inmate and hearse driver finds a refreshing sense of purpose in the company of a Buddhist monk and a solitary young woman - Mongolian drama is in the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Are you friend of foe? Film industry and AI put their relationship to the test

 

Redmond Bacon - 22-11-2024

Loved and loathed in equal measure, AI is bound to change the way we make and see film; Redmond Bacon talked to the technology champions, the early adopters and the end-users during the Industry Innovation Forum at the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Moor (Mavr)

Adilkhan Yerzhanov
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 22-11-2024

Kazakh mercenary returns from war to the big city to in order to rescue his in-laws, in Adilkhan Yerzhanov's new action movie (with a very peculiar genre approach) - from the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Watchman (Le Veilleur)

Lou Du Pontavice, Victoire Bonin
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 22-11-2024

Chinese parents brace themselves for the next stage of their lives as their only child packs up for a solitary adventure - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

No Dogs Allowed (Koertele Keelatud)

Steve Bache
2024

Paul Risker - 22-11-2024

Teen establishes a genuine friendship with a much older paedophile, in this tough German film about judgment errors and self-made prisons - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Southern Chronicles

Ignas Miškinis
2024

Marina Richter - 21-11-2024

Aspiring rugby player discovers his writing talent after falling for a literature-loving, middle-class girl - Ignas Miskinis’s impressive feature is in the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Black Velvet

Liene Linde
2024

Marina Richter - 21-11-2024

An aspiring director loses her compass while desperately trying to make her first movie become reality - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Johatsu

Lina Lužytė, Nerijus Milerius
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 21-11-2024

A woman checking bodies in the morgue is convinced that one corpse has been registered under a false name - Lithuanian crime thriller is in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Trains

Maciej J. Drygas
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 21-11-2024

Sifting through an archive of past images, Maciej J. Drygas pieces together a work bolstered by scenes of locomotives in action - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Anna LOL

Ivars Tontegode
2024

Marina Richter - 21-11-2024

Latvian teen on the path to self-destruction seeks help from shamans, healers and fortune-tellers, before turning to men with highly questionable intentions - from the Baltic Competition of Tallinn Black Nighs Film festival  [Read More...]

Contact Lens

Ruiqi Lu
2024

Joshua Polanski - 21-11-2024

Contact lenses become a proxy for both liberation and imprisonment, in this Chinese tribute to Chantal Akerman's most famous film - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

With My Open Lungs

Yana Sad
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 21-11-2024

A war survivor and a cancer patient battle their demons together, as they gradually open their lungs and their hearts to the outside world - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Buzzheart

Dennis Iliadis
2024

Victor Fraga - 20-11-2024

Dennis Iliadis's latest creation, a film about behaviourism and human testing, is a solid addition to the Greek Weird Wave - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Loop

Sang Beom-koo
2024

Victor Fraga - 20-11-2024

Korean student becomes prime suspect in the murder of his Filipino classmate, in this elliptical allegory of school bullying - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Occhio

Giulia Falciani
2024

Joshua Bogatin - 20-11-2024

The road towards eye damage recovery is a protracted and painful one, eye-opening documentary finds out - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Being John Smith

Olla John Smith
2024

Joshua Bogatin - 20-11-2024

Possessing the most common name in the Anglophone world isn't quite an advantage, British artist finds out - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Life & Love

Helen Takkin
2024

Joshua Polanski - 20-11-2024

Romantic drama set during the Great Depression navigates the psychology of desire, power dynamics, and the pains of love - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Nobody Likes Me (Nikdo Mne Nemá Rád)

Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 20-11-2024

Military woman develops full-blown physical relationship with an outsider, in a deeply provocative European drama with a touch of Nicolas Roeg - from the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

My Partners

Eva Kübar
2024

Marina Richter - 19-11-2024

Estonian director asks in her contrived documentary whether polyamorous relationships are entirely voluntary - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival  [Read More...]

Ice Aged

Alexandra Sell
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 19-11-2024

In this charming exploration of age and sport, six skaters take to the ring in order to prove that passion triumphs over ageism - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF Competition at the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Boy with the Pink Pants (Il Ragazzo dai Pantaloni Rosa)

Margherita Ferri
2024

Victor Fraga - 19-11-2024

Nerdish teen endures horrific bullying due to his perceived homosexuality, in this tragic real-life story from Italy - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Pyre

Vinod Kapri
2024

Victor Fraga - 19-11-2024

Old Himalayan couple long for their son to return before they depart this life, in this extraordinarily beautiful and heartbreaking ode to hope - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. [Read More...]

Easy as sausage? Taste the complex flavours of German film production!

 

Redmond Bacon - 19-11-2024

Just as German Films celebrates its 70 anniversary, Redmond Bacon surveys the international outlook of German cinema at the Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event; he uncovers a prolific industry, innovative co-productions, large tax rebates, and... abundant red tape! [Read More...]

Freight

Max Carlo Kohal
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 19-11-2024

Adolescents board a ship, traipsing on a long and demanding external journey, as well as a vital trip of self-discovery - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Mongrels

Jerome Yoo
2024

Paul Risker - 18-11-2024

Korean immigrants in Canada seek to exterminate "big bad rodents", in a very twisted and sick pursuit of power - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Shadow (Vari)

Jaak Kilmi
2024

Victor Fraga - 18-11-2024

Estonian poet Juhan Liiv becomes a proxy for Baltic nationalism, in this very conventional historical drama - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Tesa Man

Uģis Olte
2024

Joshua Polanski - 18-11-2024

Highly audacious, experimental and "silent" film captures post-metal band from Latvia performing in the middle of nowhere - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

I Can’t Have Sex (No Puedo Tener Sexo)

Bel Gatti
2024

Marina Richter - 18-11-2024

Argentinian woman seeks emotional healing by making a documentary about her sexless life - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Seed of the Desert

Sebastian Parra R
2024

Victor Fraga - 18-11-2024

Exquisitely painted and finely acted Colombian petrol gangster drama is a real delight to watch - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The young, the bold and the beautiful

 

Redmond Bacon - 18-11-2024

On the ground at the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Redmond Bacon looks at the picture of state funding for Europe's young and emerging talent, and reveals the best springboards for their gorgeous and audacious creations [Read More...]

The Body (Il Corpo)

Vincenzo Alfieri
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 18-11-2024

The body of a rich industrialist’s wife vanishes from the morgue after her death – filthy genius giallo premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Fishgirl (Alucina)

Javier Cutrona
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 17-11-2024

Enter the surreal world of a young Ecuadorian woman beset by bizarre visions of a giant fish following her down the streets - recipient of a Special Mention in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. [Read More...]

Streets of Glória (Ruas da Glória)

Felipe Sholl
2024

Jeremy Clarke - 17-11-2024

Brazllian man mourning his grandmother embarks on a wild relationship with an escort - dirty gem premieres in the Critics' Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Touched by Eternity

Marcis Lācis
2024

Joshua Polanski - 17-11-2024

Latvian vampires up the ante by combining immortality and livelihood, in Mārcis Lācis's blood-sucking comedy - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Yellow

Oliver Hirschbiegel, Albert Oehlen
2024

Anton Bitel - 17-11-2024

Oliver Hirschbiegel and Albert Oehlen’s experimental broad-strokes biopic paints Vincent van Gogh as an artist caught between his own and our times - from the Rebels With a Cause Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The End (Beigas)

Māris Maskalāns
2024

Anton Bitel - 17-11-2024

Māris Maskalāns’s documentary shows, through five people working close to death, the meaning of mortality - reflective Latvian film is in the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The House With No Address (Adresi Olmayan Ev)

Hatice Aşkın
2024

Paul Risker - 17-11-2024

Justice system punishes criminals by erasing their existence, in Turkish director's dystopian and Kafka-esque debut - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Deaf Lovers

Boris Guts
2024

Victor Fraga - 17-11-2024

Deaf Ukrainian woman and Russian man start a fiery relationship in Istanbul, in this well-meaning, audacious and vaguely cumbersome anti-war statement - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Pink Lady

Nir Bergman
2024

Victor Fraga - 17-11-2024

Orthodox Jewish community brutally suppresses both male and female desire, in this deeply humanistic and superbly constructed LGBT+ film from Israel - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Torn

Kullar Viimne
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 16-11-2024

Estonian tower builder uses his immediate surroundings in order to overcome a very personal tragedy, in this slow and holistic creation - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF at the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Never Alone (Ei Koskaan Yksin)

Klaus Härö
2024

Joshua Polanski - 16-11-2024

Finnish hero fights in order to stop authorities from handing Jews over to Nazis, in this very familiar battle of good versus evil - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Lioness (Emalõvi)

Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo
2024

Susanne Gottlieb - 16-11-2024

Estonian filmmaker explores the fragile relationship between a mother and her rebellious daughter, with some shocking truths bubbling just beneath the surface - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Ciao Bambino

Edgardo Pistone
2024

Paul Risker - 16-11-2024

Stylish and energetic crime story from Italy has a gluttonous appetite to combine drama, philosophy and art - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Eran Riklis
2024

Victor Fraga - 16-11-2024

Literature professor and her students confront the Islamic regime, just as it first seeks to normalise female oppression - real-life drama is in the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Everything That Will Happen has Happened Already

Vladan Nikolic
2024

Steve Naish - 16-11-2024

Anthology divided into three short films filmed during the pandemic offers a world view as seen through the lens of globalisation, capitalism, and migration - from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Sip of Hell (Un Trago de Infierno)

Pilar Boyle, Mariano Asseff
2024

Anton Bitel - 16-11-2024

Pilar Boyle and Mariano Asseff’s psychodrama sees an actress finding her part and losing herself - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Girl America (Amerikánka)

Viktor Tauš
2024

Victor Fraga - 16-11-2024

Czechoslovakian girl fantasises about [Read More...]

Out of Control

Anne Le Ny
2024

Victor Fraga - 16-11-2024

Adultery morphs into something far more sinister, in this simple and very effective French drama - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

100 Litres of Gold

Teemu Nikki
2024

Anton Bitel - 15-11-2024

Sisters are ruining it for themselves, in Teemu Nikki’s tragicomic allegory of a nation unable to recognise or shake its own alcoholic tendencies - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Black Gold (Ouro Negro)

Takashi Sugimoto
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 15-11-2024

Directed with attention to detail, Takashi Sugimoto allows his native Japanese stylings guide this beautiful depiction of rural India - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Rebel with a Bow Tie (Kikilipsuga Mässaja)

Jaan Tootsen
2024

Anton Bitel - 15-11-2024

Jaan Tootsen’s insider documentary offers an intimate, often very funny look at a very unconventional world leader - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Carnival is Over (Os Enforcados)

Fernando Coimbra
2024

Victor Fraga - 15-11-2024

Brazilian blend of psychosexual thriller, gangster caper, horror and Neo-noir reveals a little-known facet of Rio de Janeiro - from the Best of Festivals section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Empire of the Rabbits

Seyfettin Tokmak
2024

Victor Fraga - 15-11-2024

Children and rabbits bond in complicity as they evade their tormentors, in this poetic drama from Turkey - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Yard of Jackals (Patio de Chacales)

Diego Figueroa
2024

Paul Risker - 15-11-2024

The Chilean junta is seen through the prism of horror, in a movie that explores the limitations of cinema - from the First Feature Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Full Support

Michal Cohen
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 15-11-2024

In this mostly clean documentary, Israeli women reveal their breasts and their truths to an unsuspecting viewership - from the Doc@PÖFF Competition at the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

I Was Born In A Garage (Ma Sündisin Garaažis)

Arko Okk
2024

Anton Bitel - 15-11-2024

Arko Okk’s experimental 3D documentary offers a tour of Tallinn with one of its leading architects as guide - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Filn Festival [Read More...]

The Exalted

Juris Kursietis
2024

Victor Fraga - 14-11-2024

Corruption allegations rock the relationship of a powerful Latvian businessman and his German organist wife, in this cringe drama about religion, tradition and cultural divides - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Paradise Not Lost (Gabrielius is Neprarastojo Rojaus)

Linas Mikuta
2024

Anton Bitel - 14-11-2024

Linas Mikuta’s documentary tracks a devout, divorcing couple’s attempts to maintain a happy environment for a son with special needs - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Some Nights I Feel Like Walking

Petersen Vargas
2024

Victor Fraga - 14-11-2024

Filipino rent boys make ends meet inside the gents and the local porn cinema, in this queer tale of fractured fraternity - from the Official Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Murmuring Hearts

Vytautas Puidokas
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 13-11-2024

Patients in a rehabilitation centre discover religion and farm life, in this Lithuanian documentary - from the brand new Doc@PÖFF section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

I am a Flower

Ariel Victor Arthanto
2024

Pilleriin Raudam - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: in this poetic animation from Germany, flower people struggle to find their identity, with some refusing to blossom - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Roots Unearthed (Kökleri Dışarıda)

Baran İsmail Ulaş
2024

Anna Tarnašinskaja - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: tribute to the fading culture and identity of rural communities seeks to memorialise the fleeting beauty of life - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Ada

Pahriya Ghalip
2024

Anastasia Senina - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Chinese film offers a playful yet introspective exploration of two young Uyghur women’s journey to understand love - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Min’s Day Off

Joāo Londres
2024

Eik Tammemäe  - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: a loner delivers a sorrowful karaoke rendition, eliciting little empathy from the apathetic audiences - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Nostalgia in Red

Carmen-Louise Suuroja
2024

Milani Perara - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Estonian film offers a quiet and compelling exploration of memory and longing ,narrated within the progression of one single night - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

August

Pauline Kokla
2024

- 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: all-male family of three grapples with grief, alcohol, the inability to communicate and to move on - Estonian drama premieres in the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Jackpot

Vasile Todinca, Vlad Popa
2024

Madli Raig - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: two Romanian workers ponder the repercussions of hitting the jackpot, while imprisoned inside a cacophony of urban sounds - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Driving Lessons

Anastasiya Gruba
2024

Ursula Toomri - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: father and daughter share life lessons as they navigate the war-ravaged streets of their city - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

When They Bloom

Gvozden Ilic
2024

Astrid Mutt - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: gorgeous feelings blossom with the arrival of the summer sun, in this wispy teen drama from Serbia - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Actor

Damjan Kozole
2024

Justine Fruytier - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: an actor is mysteriously tied to the fate of his characters, in this cleverly structured Slovenian film - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Cry For Me

Annina Juuso
2024

Piia Parktal - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Estonian filmmaker shines the spotlight on a very old and peculiar tradition, in this intimate, generation-bonding, and therapeutic short film - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Third Wheel (Kolmas Ratas)

Rauno Laikjõe
2024

Grete Kaio - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: audiences are thrown into the heart of a love triangle, in a Estonian film bursting with youthful energy and spontaneity - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

A Flower’s Journey

Ilanna Barkusky
2024

Heli Valgeväli - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: Canadian-born, US-based director celebrates the life cycle of a flower with movement and dance, in a movie bursting with lyricism - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

How Much For This?

Johanna Viskar
2024

Mirel Mesila - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: a beach peddler reassesses his ways after a kind missionary approaches his prospective buyers with a very unusual proposition - Estonian parable is in the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Car That Came Back From the Sea

Jadwiga Kowalska
2024

Tatiana Tarasova - 13-11-2024

FILM REVIEW WORKSHOP: minimalistic animation set in Poland during the 1980s shows a drab and listless nation, contrasted against the colourful dreams of Western Europe - from the PÖFF Shorts section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Tasty (Gardutė)

Eglė Vertelytė
2024

Marina Richter - 12-11-2024

Two friends scam their way into a popular cooking competition on television, in this acidic criticism of the entertainment industry – from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival  [Read More...]

Mrs President (Prezidentka)

Marek Šulík
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 09-11-2024

Cameras follow the Slovakian leader for the best part of two hours, and she remains a force of impressive honesty throughout - from the Doc@PÖFF Competition at the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The place where all genres meet!

 

Redmond Bacon - 05-11-2024

Just as he prepares to attend the next edition of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, Redmond Bacon dissects the European Genre Forum, while also identifying some exciting new trends  [Read More...]

Tallinn Critics’ Picks selection: so good it’s almost impossible to beat

 

Jeremy Clarke - 31-10-2024

Goldfinger said: [Read More...]

Documentaries that deepen the meaning of cinema

 

Eoghan Lyng - 18-10-2024

As the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces its brand new documentary strand, Eoghan Lyng discusses the foibles and the grandeur of a genre that can "easily escape the confines of budget" [Read More...]

A Woman With the Influence

 

Susanne Gottlieb - 18-10-2024

Susanne Gottlieb interviews Marge Liiske, the woman at the helm of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, one of the largest, most exciting and fastest-growing such events of Northern Europe; they discuss “democratic networking”, cooperating with the European commission, supporting regional filmmakers, the joys and the pitfalls of AI, and… why we should throw film professional into the ice-cold Baltic sea!!! [Read More...]

‘Tis the time to brighten up the Black Nights!

 

Victor Fraga - 18-10-2024

Always look at the bright side: the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has announced the 18 titles of its Main Competition, with a selection catering for genre fans and arthouse sensibilities alike [Read More...]

Witness the beginnings: Tallinn announces First Feature Competition titles

 

Paul Risker - 17-10-2024

Ahead of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Paul Risker takes a glimpse at the always exciting First Feature Competition of Northern Europe's favourite cinema bonanza - just as he prepares to attend the very familiar event in person for the first time [Read More...]

Dear Beautiful Beloved

Juri Rechinsky
2024

Nataliia Serebriakova - 16-10-2024

Harrowing documentary exposes the brutality of the Ukraine war in graphic detail, allowing no room for indifference - from Locarno, IDFA and the Black Nights [Read More...]

U are the Universe

Pavlo Ostrikov
2024

Nataliia Serebriakova - 02-10-2024

A solitary Ukrainian astronaut desperately seeks to reach the only other surviving human, in this tasteful blend of survival drama and dark comedy - from the 4th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Bound in Heaven (Kun Bang Shang Tian Tang)

Xin Huo
2024

Victor Fraga - 28-09-2024

Young Chinese woman "prohibits" her terminal cancer-ridden lover from dying, in this epic urban drama with impressive artistic values - from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Super Happy Forever

Kohei Igarashi
2024

Susanne Gottlieb - 27-09-2024

A widower returns to the seaside town where he fell in love with his wife, in Kōhei Igarashi's quiet and empathetic examination of loss - from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The End

Joshua Oppenheimer
2024

Victor Fraga - 22-09-2024

Joshua Oppenheimer's first incursion into the world of fiction is a pointless and pretentious post-apocalyptical potboiler - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Gülizar

Belkıs Bayrak
2024

Victor Fraga - 21-09-2024

Turkish bride-to-be travels to Kosovo in order to meet her future husband, only to find out that she has little ownership over her body and her decisions - from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Conclave

Edward Berger
2024

Victor Fraga - 20-09-2024

Ralph Fiennes stars as a dignified dean charged with moderating the papal conclave from hell - on VoD on Monday, December 30th [Read More...]

I believe the children are the present

 

Susanne Gottlieb - 17-09-2024

Movies unite and create memories. And not just for adults. A vibrant audience is often pushed to the side. Tallinn has set out to change this! [Read More...]

Love (Kjærlighet)

Dag Johan Haugerud
2024

Victor Fraga - 06-09-2024

Highly conversational Norwegian drama riffs on the tribulations of casual sex and cancer (it just doesn't show much!) - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)

Walter Salles
2024

Victor Fraga - 01-09-2024

THREE OSCAR NOMINATIONS: in a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama - from the 68th BFI London, and also the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Fedstioval [Read More...]

And Their Children After Them (Leurs Enfants Apres Eux)

Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma
2024

Victor Fraga - 31-08-2024

Feuding teens see their paths collide more than once, in this very long and (mostly) accomplished French drama - from Tallinn [Read More...]

Maria

Pablo Larrain
2024

Victor Fraga - 29-08-2024

Angelina Jolie and Maria Callas engage in a fierce battle for the spotlight, in Pablo Larrain's uneven biopic of the tragic diva - in cinemas on Friday, January 10th [Read More...]

Toxic (Akiplėša)

Saule Bliuvaite
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 16-08-2024

Two girls aching for a world beyond their town take to modelling, in this Lithuanian feature about adolescence - from the 28th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Drowning Dry (Seses)

Laurynas Bareiša
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 12-08-2024

In this non-linear exploration of grief, two sisters stay true to their bond through good times and bad - Lithuanian drama is in the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Gender Reveal

Mo Matton
2024

Victor Fraga - 10-08-2024

Three extravagant, non-binary queers struggle to survive a very boring, heteronormative gender reveal party - wacky Canadian short shows in Tallinn [Read More...]

Death Will Come (La Mort Viendra)

Christoph Hochhäusler
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 10-08-2024

A contract killer finds herself in a world of sleaze and violence, in a movie that fails to hit viewers - from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Girls Will Be Girls

Shuchi Talati
2024

Victor Fraga - 17-06-2024

Gifted teen decides to explore her sexuality at her own accord, but any missteps could have serious consequences for her and her family - Indian coming-of-age drama is on VoD on Monday, December 23rd [Read More...]

All We Imagine As Light

Payal Kapadia
2024

Joshua Polanski - 27-05-2024

Filthy genius movie from India bludgeons the beauty standards of both Bollywood and Hollywood, while refreshingly allowing women to find pleasure in sex - in cinemas on Friday, November 29th [Read More...]

Nasty: More Than Just Tennis

Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, Tudor D. Popescu
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 26-05-2024

Biography of bullish Romanian tennis player Ilie Năstase looks back at his sport achievements as well as at his less praiseworthy - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

The Most Precious of Cargoes (La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises)

Michel Hazanavicius
2024

Victor Fraga - 26-05-2024

Holocaust animation about a baby thrown out of a train window offers a slimmer of hope to audiences, in this unusual addition to the Official Competition of the 77th Cannes International Film Festival (also showing at the Tallinn Black Nights) [Read More...]

Flow

Gints Zolbalodis
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 25-05-2024

A boat full of cats, dogs and birds struggle to survive, in a world drowning under floods - Latvian animation shows in the 24th REC Tarragona International Film Festival [Read More...]

Anora

Sean Baker
2024

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2024

New York pole dancer marries the spoiled child of a Russian millionaire, in Sean Baker's high-octane class struggle comedy (a movie with a crucial touch of empathy, and many parallels to Tangerine) - Palme d'Or winner is on all major VoD platforms on Monday, January 20th [Read More...]

Armand

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 18-05-2024

A deeply scarred Renate Reinsve delivers an impressive performance, in this ambitious classroom drama - from the 24th REC Tarragona International Film Festival [Read More...]

Oh Canada

Paul Schrader
2024

Victor Fraga - 18-05-2024

Not even Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi and Uma Thurman rescue Paul Schrader's unreliable memory drama from utter boredom - from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux)

Louise Couvoisier
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 17-05-2024

A bereaved son must make some hard-earned cash, and sees cheese as his answer - from Tallinn [Read More...]

When the Light Breaks

Rúnar Runarsson
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 16-05-2024

In his cinematic dissertation of grief, Rúnar Rúnarsson focuses his attention on two young women shedding tears for the same person each in their own way - humbling Icelandic drama shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

The Editorial Office (Redaktsiya)

Roman Bondarchuk
2024

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2024

Biologist-turned-journalist living in Southern Ukraine seeks truth and justice, is this extremely clumsy political comedy - from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

My Favourite Cake (Keyke Mahboobe Man)

Maryam Moghaddam Behtash Sanaeeha
2024

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2024

Iranian widow seeks love and affection in a society that blatantly denies women autonomy, freedom and the simple pleasures of life - gently subversive drama shows at the 24th REC Tarragona International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Teacher

Farah Nabulsi
2023

Victor Fraga - 07-12-2023

Palestinian teacher grapples with his own secrets and emotions as he desperately fights to protect one of his students - fiery activist drama shows in the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]