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29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Baltic Competition: 13 publications

Tallinn Baltic Competition: high production standards and women’s voices

 

Joshua Polanski - 22-11-2025

Joshua Polanski delivers his verdict of the Baltic Competition, at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival; the remembers the hidden gems and reveals his dirty favourites [Read More...]

Renovation (Renovacija)

Gabriele Urbonaite
2025

Joshua Polanski - 21-11-2025

Gabrielė Urbonaitė’s latest film is an aching and poetic detour into the bewilderment of turning 30, desire, and other sentiments - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Borderline (Siena)

Ignas Jonynas
2025

Joshua Polanski - 21-11-2025

An ornithologist is forced into the world of crime, in Lithuania's weird and porous border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart

Alise Zariņa
2025

Joshua Polanski - 20-11-2025

Woman in her 30s struggles with physical image, health and love, in this Latvian film drawing parallels the collapse of the body and of the country - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Becoming

Zhannat Alshanova
2025

Joshua Polanski - 19-11-2025

Teen swimmer finds peculiar way of getting a hormonal boost and fulfilling her career ambitions, in this slow and patient coming-of-age tale from Kazakhstan - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Red Code Blue (Tumšzilais Evaņģēlijs)

Oskars Rupenheits
2025

Joshua Polanski - 19-11-2025

Latvian thriller points to heavenly justice, as a guilt-ridden police officer fails to deliver its earthly version - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

New Money (Uus Raha)

Rain Rannu
2025

Joshua Polanski - 19-11-2025

Estonians wake up filthy rich and imbecilically squander their fortune, in a comedy featuring some of country's finest actors - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Fränk

Tõnis Pill
2025

Joshua Polanski - 18-11-2025

First loves go unrequited and impossible, in this utterly vile "coming-of-age" tale from Estonia - in the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Hunger Strike Breakfast (Badautojų Namelis)

Karolis Kaupinis
2025

Joshua Polanski - 17-11-2025

Media workers go on a awkwardly uncomfortable hunger strike after the Soviet Union attacks a newly independent Lithuania - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Therapy (Terapia)

Paavo Westerberg
2025

Joshua Polanski - 15-11-2025

Two relationship therapists watch their own marriage break into pieces, in this amusing Finno-Estonian co-production - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Activist (Aktyvistas)

Romas Zabarauskas
2025

Joshua Polanski - 14-11-2025

The final instalment of Romas Zabarauskas's queer trilogy is a multifaceted and inventive crime thriller - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Baltic Competition reveals 11 titles

 

Joshua Polanski - 29-10-2025

Baltic film enthusiast Joshua Polanski looks at the newly announced Baltic Film Competition, from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Visitor (Svečias)

Vytautas Katkus
2025

Victor Fraga - 07-07-2025

Lithuanian migrant in Norway struggles to reconnect with his birth nation as he returns in order to sell his family property, in this quiet and observational drama - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]