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BLACK NIGHTS 2018

Tallinn reveals its full Official Selection

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- After adding another 11 titles, the Estonian event's main competition strand now features 19 films, including ten European entries

Tallinn reveals its full Official Selection
Still River by Angelos Frantzis

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has rounded off its Official Selection by adding another 11 titles after the initial eight announced last week (see the news). In the newly unveiled group of films, five are European. 

Rocking up straight after its world premiere at Thessaloniki, Still River [+see also:
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interview: Angelos Frantzis
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, the fifth feature by Greek director Angelos Frantzis (SymptomaIn the Woods [+see also:
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), is a story about Anna and Petros, a Greek couple who recently moved to an industrial town in Siberia and are shocked to discover that Anna is pregnant with no prior intercourse. The film is a co-production between Greece, France and Latvia. 

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Another film dealing with pregnancy, but in a very different, humorous way, is The Story of a Summer Lover [+see also:
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 by Romania's Paul Negoescu (Two Lottery Tickets [+see also:
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, Never Let It Go
). The story is about a maths professor in the midst of a mid-life crisis who is about to leave his girlfriend, but whose plans change when he finds out that she is pregnant. The movie first screened at the Transilvania Film Festival in June this year.

Sunburn [+see also:
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interview: Vicente Alves do Ó
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, the fifth feature by Portugal's Vicente Alves do Ó (Al Berto [+see also:
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interview: Vicente Alves do Ó
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), set to have its world premiere at Tallinn, is set in an upmarket rental villa on a hot summer’s day, where four friends are waiting for a fifth, who has had an unforgettable emotional impact on all of them in the past.

Polish filmmaker Adrian Panek is coming to Tallinn with his second film, Werewolf [+see also:
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, which recently landed him the Best Directing Award at Gdinya. It's a World War II thriller about eight children who have escaped from a concentration camp and are hiding in a secluded villa to avoid the bloodthirsty hounds that have been released by the SS officers before their retreat. 

Two Men in Suits [+see also:
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interview: Josef Bierbichler
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, the second directorial effort by Germany's Josef Bierbichler, best known as an actor (The White Ribbon [+see also:
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interview: Michael Haneke
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), is set in Bavaria in the summer of 1984, where an embittered father and his estranged son are staying behind at the funeral of their wife and mother after the guests have left. In an attempt to reconnect with his son, the father tells him his life story and his perspective on the life-changing events in German history that he has witnessed.

Another five of the titles announced hail from Asia: Asandhimitta by Sri Lanka's Asoka Handagama, the UAE-US co-production AWAKEN by Tom LoweKadakh by India's Rajat KapoorSheeple by Iran's Hooman Seyedi, and Winter's Night by Korean filmmaker Woo-jin Jang

Wrapping up the selection is the Australian production Slam [+see also:
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interview: Partho Sen-Gupta
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, directed by Indian-born Partho Sen-Gupta

Here is the full list of titles in the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Official Selection:

AsandhimittaAsoka Handagama (Sri Lanka)
A Shelter Among the Clouds [+see also:
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interview: Robert Budina
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]
Robert Budina (Albania) 
A Place to LiveBernard Émond (Canada)
AWAKEN - Tom Lowe (United Arab Emirates/USA)
Bad Poems [+see also:
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Gábor Reisz (Hungary)
KadakhRajat Kapoor (India)
SheepleHooman Seyedi (Iran)
Slam [+see also:
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interview: Partho Sen-Gupta
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]
Partho Sen-Gupta (Australia/France)
Still River [+see also:
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interview: Angelos Frantzis
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Angelos Frantzis (Greece/France/Latvia) 
Sunburn [+see also:
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interview: Vicente Alves do Ó
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]
Vicente Alves do Ó (Portugal)
The Guest - Hadi Elbagoury (Egypt) 
The Human Part [+see also:
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interview: Juha Lehtola
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]
Juha Lehtola (Finland) 
The Story of a Summer Lover [+see also:
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Paul Negoescu (Romania)
Two FridasIshtar Yasin (Costa Rica) 
Two Men in Suits [+see also:
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interview: Josef Bierbichler
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]
Josef Bierbichler (Germany) 
Until We Fall [+see also:
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interview: Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm
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]
Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm (Denmark)
Wandering Girl [+see also:
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interview: Rubén Mendoza, Sofía Paz Ja…
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]
Rubén Mendoza (Colombia/France) 
Werewolf [+see also:
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interview: Adrian Panek
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]
Adrian Panek (Poland) 
Winter’s NightWoo-jin Jang (South Korea)

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