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REPORT: Black Nights 2022

Cineuropa is covering the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival live with reviews, interviews and news...

REPORT: Black Nights 2022
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76 articles available in total starting from 20/06/2022. Last article published on 13/12/2022.

Juraj Lehotský • Director of Plastic Symphony

Interview: Juraj Lehotský • Director of Plastic Symphony

“Every film I make reflects a specific phase in people's lives”

Cineuropa talks to the Slovak director about his latest fiction film, which was shot during the pandemic and which stars Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia in the lead role  

13/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Fatmir Koci • Director of The Rise & Fall Of Comrade Zylo

Interview: Fatmir Koci • Director of The Rise & Fall Of Comrade Zylo

"This impossible love story set during the Albanian dictatorship chimes with today"

The Albanian filmmaker discusses his comedy reflecting the dark side of the common history in Eastern Europe  

09/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics' Picks

Review: The Chambermaid

Review: The Chambermaid

Although focused on a lesbian relationship in an unusual context, Mariana Cengel-Solcanská’s film remains a clichéd period drama  

06/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics’ Picks

At Tallinn, Beta Film and ZDF Studios share their production and distribution challenges, and new joint-venture shows

At Tallinn, Beta Film and ZDF Studios share their production and distribution challenges, and new joint-venture shows

The case-study panel zoomed in on how the two German companies turned from competitors into allies and began working together on ambitious new projects  

02/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

At Industry@Tallinn, Belarusian independent filmmakers talk about the struggles of producing films and fighting for freedom

At Industry@Tallinn, Belarusian independent filmmakers talk about the struggles of producing films and fighting for freedom

The speakers discussed their experiences in exile, how the government controls cinema and uses it as a propaganda tool, and their political battles  

02/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Mona J Hoel • Director of Night

Interview: Mona J Hoel • Director of Night

"I developed this story out of my own experience of domestic violence"

The Norwegian director discusses her newest feature, which portrays the struggles of a married woman who is forced to travel to the faraway place where her husband lives to face him  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Ivan Gergolet • Director of The Man Without Guilt

Interview: Ivan Gergolet • Director of The Man Without Guilt

"The way out of revenge, of being hurt and feeling devastated, is forgiveness"

The Italian filmmaker talks about his first feature, which follows the journey through loss and suffering of a widow of a worker who died from an asbestos-related disease  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

Carol Morley • Director of Typist Artist Pirate King

Interview: Carol Morley • Director of Typist Artist Pirate King

“It was impossible to make an ordinary film about such an extraordinary woman”

British artist Audrey Amiss was recognised only after her death, thanks to filmmaker Carol Morley, who made a movie about her and disclosed some interesting details to Cineuropa  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Sashenka

Review: Sashenka

Olexandr Zhovna’s sophomore feature shows enough to unsettle, but things get too convoluted and confusing along the way  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

Interview: Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

“I believe in focused and high-quality curating with diverse representation”

We caught up with the head programmer of PÖFF’s brand-new strand dedicated to powerful and artistically outstanding works that might otherwise be overlooked  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics’ Picks

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