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Tag: 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Main Competition

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

‘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...]