28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Best of Festivals: 28 publications

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 - on all major VoD platforms on Monday, March 17th [Read More...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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 Tiff Romania [Read More...]

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...]

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 - in cinemas on Friday, July 4th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-09-2024

Joshua Oppenheimer's first incursion into the world of fiction is a pointless and pretentious post-apocalyptical potboiler - at Tiff Romania/ on Apple TV [Read More...]

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...]

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...]

Victor Fraga - 06-09-2024

Highly conversational Norwegian drama riffs on the tribulations of casual sex and cancer (it just doesn't show much!) - in cinemas Friday, August 15th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 01-09-2024

BEST INTERNATIONAL PICTURE OSCAR WINNER: 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 - on VoD on Monday, April 21st [Read More...]

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...]

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...]

Eoghan Lyng - 16-08-2024

Two girls aching for a world beyond their town take to modelling, in this Lithuanian feature about adolescence - on VoD from Wednesday, August 6th [Read More...]

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...]

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...]

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 - On all major VoD platforms on Monday, March 17th [Read More...]

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...]

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 - in cinemas on Friday, April 4th [Read More...]

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...]

Eoghan Lyng - 18-05-2024

A deeply scarred Renate Reinsve delivers an impressive performance, in this ambitious classroom drama - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]

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...]

Eoghan Lyng - 17-05-2024

A bereaved son must make some hard-earned cash, and sees cheese as his answer - on VoD on Monday, September 8th [Read More...]

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 is on various VoD platforms [Read More...]

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...]

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 is now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

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...]