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Tag: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

First time around, in more ways than one

 

Paul Risker - 25-11-2024

Paul Risker, who attended PÖFF for the first time, looks back on an impressive First Feature Competition lineup filled with riches from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The filmmaker, the writer and the queer

 

Paul Risker - 19-12-2023

Romas Zabarauskas talks about the eclectic inspirations behind Lithuanian LGBT drama The Writer. not seeing cinema as creative expression, being careful about using metaphors, and much more - in exclusive interview [Read More...]

Misericordia

Emma Dante
2023

Victor Fraga - 11-11-2023

Italian prostitutes raise a mentally handicapped man as if he was their baby, in this raw and tender tale of motherly affection in the most unlikely of places - Best Picture Award winner at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Lucky Girl

Marysia Nikitiuk
2022

Paul Risker - 24-11-2022

A shock diagnosis for a cruel media celebrity seduces the cold and distant audience to feel empathy, in an emotionally impactful survivalist nightmare - German Ukrainian film is in the Official Competition of the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. [Read More...]

Solastalgia

Marina Hufnagel
2022

Paul Risker - 23-11-2022

Reality and fiction merge in a captivating experimental work about humanity’s fast expiring choice to preserve a future – German docufiction premieres from the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. [Read More...]

Quake (Rappumine)

2021
 

Paul Risker - 28-11-2021

Engaging Icelandic mystery-drama about a fearful yet resilient woman strikes beats of positivity and inspiration - from the Current Waves section of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Estonian Dispatch: The First Feature Competition Round-Up

 

Redmond Bacon - 28-11-2021

A dark and damp November is once again spiced up by a fantastic First Feature Selection at Tallinn Film Festival. Here's our verdict! [Read More...]

Killing the Eunuch Khan

Abed Abest
2021

Paul Risker - 27-11-2021

The seductive aesthetic of a nightmarish vision fails to engage with ideas and themes - rudderless Iranian film plays in the Official Competition section of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

The Wedding Day (Wesele)

Wojciech Smarzowski
2021

Paul Risker - 26-11-2021

Humorous beats of debauchery at a wedding offsets the visceral memories of ethnic cleansing in Poland - plays in the Official Competition section of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, running from 12-28th November. [Read More...]

The Red Tree (El árbol rojo)

Joan Gómez Endara
2021

Redmond Bacon - 25-11-2021

This Colombian road trip is both an exploration of nation and character, a modest yet touching drama — live from Tallinn Film Festival! [Read More...]

Immersion (Inmersión)

Nicolás Postiglione
2021

Redmond Bacon - 23-11-2021

This Chilean drama is the kind of well-made thriller that makes you think while you squirm — live from Tallinn Film Festival. [Read More...]

Memoria

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2021

Redmond Bacon - 23-11-2021

One of the 21st century's greatest directors returns with, unsurprisingly, another masterful work of slow cinema - now on various VoD platforms [Read More...]

Blind Love

Damian Hauser
2021

Redmond Bacon - 22-11-2021

This impressive Kenyan debut explores magic and alcoholism in fascinating ways — straight from Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. [Read More...]

Life Suits Me Well (La vie me va bien)

Al Hadi Ulad-Mohand
2021

Redmond Bacon - 22-11-2021

A touching portrait of mental deterioration and its effect on family in 1990s Morocco. Live from the Tallinn Film Festival! [Read More...]