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29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Rebels with a Cause: 12 publications

Tallinn Rebels with a Cause: transgression in its DNA

 

Anton Bitel - 22-11-2025

Anton Bitel delivers his verdict on the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black NIghts Film Festival, including the award winners and his personal favourites [Read More...]

The Baronesses (Les Baronnes)

Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui
2025

Anton Bitel - 20-11-2025

Mokhtaria Badaoui and Nabil Ben Yadir’s Brussels-set meta-theatrical tragicomedy has four Muslim grandmothers restaging Shakespeare - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival/ REC Tarragona [Read More...]

Blindsight (Piatră Foarfecă Hârti)

Adrian Sitaru
2025

Anton Bitel - 19-11-2025

Romanian o(d)dyssey offers a nostalgic family portrait and a kaleidoscope of distorted memories, in a movie that will have you wanting to watch it again - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Harald Hutter and Olga Kviatkovska

 

Nataliia Serebriakova - 19-11-2025

Nataliia Serebriakova interviews the director and lead actress of deeply experimental feature Leleka; they discuss leaving Ukraine without a destination, PTSD, a stork's nest, shooting on film, Abbas Kiarostami, and more [Read More...]

MieMie ~She Can See~

Katsutoshi Furuya
2025

Anton Bitel - 18-11-2025

Katsutoshi Furuya’s weightless multi-genre mash-up makes a spirit war and a monster movie of a young modern romance - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Turn Up the Sun

Jamie Adams
2025

Anton Bitel - 18-11-2025

Improvised feature from Britain starring James McAvoy sees different artists coming together in a manor house haunted by a tragic history - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Lo-Fi

Alican Durbaş
2025

Anton Bitel - 17-11-2025

Experimental feature debut shows an apartment echoing with memories, and its occupant caught in lovesickness and loneliness - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Leleka

Harald Hutter
2025

Anton Bitel - 16-11-2025

Harald Hutter’s abstract road movie takes two female friends on a trans-European odyssey towards war-torn Ukraine - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

La Carn

Joan Porcel
2025

Anton Bitel - 15-11-2025

Young gay dancer risks losing himself as he cruises the virtual meat market, in this thoughtful drama from Spain - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Megalomaniacs

Spiros Stathoulopoulos
2025

Anton Bitel - 15-11-2025

Spiros Stathoulopoulos’ strange, quirky and at times irritant sort-of sex comedy finds in its present (and future) endless echoes of the past - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Vache Folle

Hugo Diego Garcia, Lorenzo Bentivoglio
2025

Anton Bitel - 13-11-2025

Damaged war-veteran-turned-cowherd reluctantly fights for his dreams, in this dirty gem of a Franco-Swiss production - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Emergency Exit

Lluís Miñarro
2025

Anton Bitel - 13-11-2025

Top-drawer ensemble takes a bizarre coach trip to the other side, in this metacinematic arthouse fare from Spain - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]