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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.

Black Nights showcases Sisu: Road to Revenge as a benchmark for Estonian production quality and cash rebates

Black Nights showcases Sisu: Road to Revenge as a benchmark for Estonian production quality and cash rebates

Experts highlighted Estonia's strengths, which involve fast rebate processes and local crews' effectiveness  

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

Review: My First Love

Review: My First Love

Norwegian director Mari Storstein’s very personal debut questions how open the open-minded are, while ironically condemning the institutional desexualisation of disabled people  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Christian Bonke • Director of Hercules Falling

Interview: Christian Bonke • Director of Hercules Falling

"I hope that politicians will realise that it's expensive to turn a human being into a soldier, but that it also takes funds to convert a soldier back into a human being"

The Danish director discusses blending fiction and reality to portray veterans’ PTSD and the masculinity barriers that keep many from seeking help  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

REPORT: Baltic Event Works in Progress 2025

REPORT: Baltic Event Works in Progress 2025

We focus on the six projects from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that were featured in the 23rd edition of the showcase unspooling alongside Tallinn Black Nights  

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

REPORT: Industry@Tallinn Works in Progress 2025

REPORT: Industry@Tallinn Works in Progress 2025

We delve deep into five of the international projects that were presented at the Estonian event, representing Europe and South America  

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

Review: The Frog and the Water

Review: The Frog and the Water

Blending whimsy with quiet emotional truth, Thomas Stuber’s pic offers a tender portrait of unexpected companionship  

25/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Review: Sunday Ninth

Review: Sunday Ninth

Kat Steppe’s debut is a moving philosophical reflection on memory and reconciliation, buoyed by an excellent leading duo  

24/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: The Moon Is a Father of Mine

Review: The Moon Is a Father of Mine

A father and son get to know one another on the eve of various tragedies in George Ovashvili’s fifth feature film  

24/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Abu Bakr Shawky • Director of The Stories

Interview: Abu Bakr Shawky • Director of The Stories

"Everybody is the hero of their own story"

We spoke to the Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker about portraying small people in big times, and the sacrifices needed to tell such a tale  

24/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Review: China Sea

Review: China Sea

Jurgis Matulevičius’s second feature embarks on an ambitious cross-cultural tale centred on a fallen martial arts champion, stylised as a Baltic noir  

24/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics’ Picks

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