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

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 Critics' Picks section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights 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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