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REPORT: Black Nights 2025

Cineuropa is covering the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival live with reviews, interviews and news...

REPORT: Black Nights 2025
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81 articles available in total starting from 18/02/2025. Last article published on 19/12/2025.

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Lluís Miñarro • Director of Emergency Exit

Interview: Lluís Miñarro • Director of Emergency Exit

“I prioritise creativity over the economic outcome”

The Catalonian producer is promoting his fifth feature as a director, into which he has poured his concerns and recurring motifs as an auteur, alongside a group of actor friends  

19/12 | /Spain

Trade journalists reveal the hidden mechanics behind a complex ecosystem at Black Nights

Trade journalists reveal the hidden mechanics behind a complex ecosystem at Black Nights

Amid shrinking budgets, AI-driven agendas and ever-rising competition, the panellists revealed how films actually break through the global noise today  

05/12 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

George Ovashvili • Director of The Moon Is a Father of Mine

Interview: George Ovashvili • Director of The Moon Is a Father of Mine

"The fight is to do your work and do it well — to make strong films"

The Georgian filmmaker opened up about his film’s autobiographical echoes and the collaborative weight of an intricate European co-production spanning six countries  

02/12 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Milena Džambasović, Danna Stern • Producers of Wool

Interview: Milena Džambasović, Danna Stern • Producers of Wool

“Humble beginnings and skilled hands can create something beautiful that connects generations and communities across countries”

The producing duo discuss their ambitious new drama series, which won the Council of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award in this year’s TV Beats programme  

02/12 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Siiri Halko • Director of The Well

Interview: Siiri Halko • Director of The Well

“I aim to create moments where your mind questions what is happening on screen, but your senses accept it as real”

The Finnish filmmaker discusses her psychological drama, which has just picked up the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event  

02/12 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Denys Sobolev • Director of Alice Wants to Live

Interview: Denys Sobolev • Director of Alice Wants to Live

“This is not a film about heroism, loss or battles; it is a film about the human, about what is most precious”

The Ukrainian director reflects on his new project, which received the Eurimages Special Co-Production Development Award at this year’s Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event  

01/12 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Nikolaj Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

Interview: Nikolaj Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

"To curate is to care — about stories, about voices, about the emotions we dare to show"

We met up with the curator of the festival section, for whom cinema is not just entertainment, "it is urgency, emotion, and the bold insistence that our inner lives matter"  

26/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics' Picks

Tallinn panel examines the gap between theatrical and streaming releases, with a focus on children’s films

Tallinn panel examines the gap between theatrical and streaming releases, with a focus on children’s films

During Just Film Industry Days, the panellists debated theatrical and streaming windows, streamer influence, cinema survival and marketing challenges  

26/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Ukraine preps a €50 million cultural fund and 30% cash rebate to re-energise international production

Ukraine preps a €50 million cultural fund and 30% cash rebate to re-energise international production

The new fund will support a wide range of cultural activities, spanning film, literature and theatre, among others  

26/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Review: The Megalomaniacs

Review: The Megalomaniacs

Spiros Stathoulopoulos’ third feature sees a stubborn spitfire and a grumpy recluse joining forces in a rare directorial endeavour whose quirks overshadow the final outcome  

26/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Rebels with a Cause

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