29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Best of Festivals: 30 publications

Eoghan Lyng - 17-11-2025

Glen Powell is miscast in this turgid adaptation of a Stephen King book - Edgar Wright's un-British new creation is on VoD on Thursday, January 1st [Read More...]

Paul Risker - 16-11-2025

Energetic story about a series of bizarre deaths struggles to make an everlasting impression - now on various VoD platforms [Read More...]

Paul Risker - 13-11-2025

Man's search for his brother is thematically elusive and with too few redeeming qualities tests - from the Best of Festivals at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 21-09-2025

Angelina Jolie and South Sudanese newcomer Anyier Anei star in tender French-American drama about the pitfalls of fashion and the pains of cancer - from the Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 04-09-2025

Three Afghan brothers devote their lives to the Taliban's interpretation of the Quran, in this intimate doc about the casualness of indoctrination - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-09-2025

Five-year-old girl trapped inside car with six dead relatives begs for help over the telephone, in Kaouther Ben Hania's horrifyingly real register of the Gaza Genocide - in cinemas on Friday, January 16th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 02-09-2025

The spectacularisation of violence becomes a weapon for social change, in Gus Van Sant’s deliciously cathartic real-life drama - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 31-08-2025

Quiet spin doctor helps Putin to strengthen his grip on power, in Olivier Assayas's star-studded and lifeless political thriller - from the 5th Red Sea International Fil;m Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2025

A black cloud hangs over the head of those living near the Vesuvius, while time conveys both healing and destruction - Gianfranco Rosi's quiet and observational doc shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-08-2025

Rural tradition and TikTok sensibilities clash to explosive results, in this very clever and uplifting comedy from North Macedonia - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 18-08-2025

Orphaned teen seeks to reconnect with his hesitant half-brother and cousins, in this thoughtful and heartwarming social realist drama from Ireland - on various VoD platforms on Monday, October 27th (also showing at the Tallinn Black Nights) [Read More...]

André Vital Pardue - 14-08-2025

Aided by an invisible friend, a desperate man searches for his missing daughter - monumental ode to the aimless souls of Georgia shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Daniel Theophanous - 13-08-2025

Two unlikely Belarusian lovers bond over their otherworldly appearance and lifestyle, in this heartwarming piece of autofiction - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 09-07-2025

Lesbian singer confronts Iranian censorship with her voice, in a movie that sets out to break (nearly) every conceivable film taboo - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 06-07-2025

Russian aggression defaces Ukrainian landscape and wildlife, in his non-narrative, sensory and hypnotic doc - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2025

Russian director dissects the heart of the unrepentant "Angel of Death", in this disturbingly vivid biopic - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2025

Eighteen-year-old Marina retraces the footsteps of her biological parents in Galicia (Northwestern Spain) - Carla Simon's heartbreakingly honest, semi-autobiographical new film shows in various festivals [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 19-05-2025

A recovering alcoholic and former poet is charmed by a student's writings, but finds himself in hot water when she too takes to wine - from Tallinn [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-05-2025

BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR WINNER AT CANNES: Kleber Medonca Filho's crime drama about a dignified researcher on the run pays tribute to the films and the cinemas of yore, while also celebrating the director's native Recife, in Northeastern Brazil - in cinemas on Friday, February 20th [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 16-05-2025

In 1980s' Chile, the child of a queer family wants to discover the cause of the "plague" villagers talk about - dazzling drama shows in various film festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-05-2025

European whims are shattered into pieces, in Oliver Laxe's hauntingly beautiful and disturbing allegory of life on the edge - showing at various film festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 15-05-2025

Young and dignified lawyer confronts Stalin's corrupt establishment, in Sergei Loznitsa's profound and sombre new film - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 14-05-2025

Aesthetically astounding German drama seamlessly blends the visual and the tactile, just as it weaves together three families from different eras - from various festivals [Read More...]

Marina Richter - 30-03-2025

Twelve-year-old has to find hope living inside a minuscule hostel apartment with his dysfunctional, all-American parents - heart-shattering doc shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Lida Bach - 25-03-2025

Small-town teacher Pavel Talankin exposes Putin's militarisation of schools, in this extremely brave documentary about state propaganda - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Lida Bach - 22-03-2025

Afghan Ambassador to Austria finds herself powerless as a deeply misogynistic regime that few countries recognise takes over - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-02-2025

Young people forge a sense of normalcy despite the looming war, in this documentary about life in Ukrainian schools - from the 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2025

Clever granny evades old-age "colony" established by Brazil's authoritarian government, in this gently dystopian drama set in a terrifyingly near future - from various festivals [Read More...]

John Bleasdale - 04-02-2025

Igor Bezinović’s hybrid documentary takes on a key episode on the road to fascism and renders it both hilarious and terrifying - in cinemas on Friday, November 28th (also showing at the Tallinn Black Nights) [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-05-2023

Teacher at an upper-class school convinces a small group students that they are better off without food at all, in Jessica Hausner's bizarre mockery of anti-capitalistic conspiracy - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]