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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.

Ali Vatansever • Director of LifeLike

Interview: Ali Vatansever • Director of LifeLike

"The human condition is much richer than stripped-down concepts of life"

The Turkish director shared with us why he celebrates life more than the concepts of it — and why audiences should experience their own feelings rather than be told what to feel  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Petter Næss • Director of No Comment

Interview: Petter Næss • Director of No Comment

"This is a message to politicians: take yourselves and your job seriously"

We chatted to the Norwegian director to discuss his sharp political satire, which casts politicians as adult children  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Samuel Abrahams • Director of Lady

Interview: Samuel Abrahams • Director of Lady

"My film deals with visibility and the longing to be seen"

We spoke with the British director about the script and the meta structure of his gloriously oddball debut  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Hille Norden • Director of Easy Girl

Interview: Hille Norden • Director of Easy Girl

"Talking helps, and listening heals"

We sat down with the emerging German director to talk about her striking debut, a bold mix of sexuality, beauty and pain  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Artur Wyrzykowski • Director of This Is Not Happening

Interview: Artur Wyrzykowski • Director of This Is Not Happening

“All I really wanted, as a first-time feature film director, was a story that would be cheap from a production standpoint”

The Polish director reflected on crafting his contained thriller about parental desperation, and developing an upcoming comedy involving an android boyfriend  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Kat Steppe • Director of Sunday Ninth

Interview: Kat Steppe • Director of Sunday Ninth

“I know that when something is real, it has a direct impact”

The Belgian director breaks down how she bridged fiction and reality inside a fully operational care home  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: Hungarian Wedding

Review: Hungarian Wedding

Csaba Káel's newest feature puts a Hungarian song-and-dance twist on the classic fake-dating scenario  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

REPORT: Just Film Works in Progress 2025

REPORT: Just Film Works in Progress 2025

We take a deep dive into the five children’s and youth film projects presented in this segment of the Industry@Tallinn forum  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui • Directors of The Baronesses

Interview: Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui • Directors of The Baronesses

"We have to assert our right to fiction"

The Belgian filmmaker co-directed his new movie with his mother, and the duo talk to us about this experience  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Rebels with a Cause

Review: This Is Not Happening

Review: This Is Not Happening

In Artur Wyrzykowski's film, a father shields his murderous son in a tightly contained psychological drama about moral conflicts  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

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