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Tag: 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics’ Picks Competition

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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

 

Jeremy Clarke - 31-10-2024

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