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23 articles available in total starting from 13/10/2023. Last article published on 21/11/2023.

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Review: White Flag

Review: White Flag

With his sophomore feature, Swiss-Mongolian filmmaker Batbayar Chogsom sheds light on the marginalisation of queerness in Mongolia  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Natasha’s Dance

Review: Natasha’s Dance

The latest feature by veteran filmmaker Jos Stelling is an uneven movie that tells the tragicomic love story of two outcasts – a Dutch man and a Russian woman  

20/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Gust Van den Berghe  • Director of The Magnet Man

Interview: Gust Van den Berghe • Director of The Magnet Man

"I thought it would be interesting, in the era of superhero movies, to create a superhero who is actually not useful"

The director of the Best Original Score winner at Tallinn breaks down his film about a human magnet who struggles to find his place as an artist  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Batbayar Chogsom  • Director of White Flag

Interview: Batbayar Chogsom • Director of White Flag

"In this film, nobody loses anything, but they do find something - their real selves"

The Mongolian director delves into his Tallinn Competition entry, which hinges on two young women trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Ivan Tymchenko  • Director of Oxygen Station

Interview: Ivan Tymchenko • Director of Oxygen Station

"The main message of the film is still relevant, regardless of the war"

The Ukrainian helmer discusses his Tallinn Competition entry, which follows a Crimean Tatar political activist who is now a people’s deputy of the Ukrainian parliament  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

Interview: Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

"This is a personal story, but with fictional elements"

The Romanian Golden Bear winner discusses his latest work, which follows a filmmaker trying to make a film about the lives of his parents in the most dangerous years of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Familiar

Review: Familiar

The new family drama by Romanian filmmaker Călin Peter Netzer shows how harsh communist realities still poison the present  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: The Magnet Man

Review: The Magnet Man

Gust Van den Berghe’s latest feature is a melancholic fairytale paying homage to circus and cinema  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Ivan Marinović • Director of Forever Hold Your Peace

Interview: Ivan Marinović • Director of Forever Hold Your Peace

"It's a comedy, but it's almost like a disaster movie, where the 'Godzilla' is a traditional Montenegrin wedding"

The Montenegrin director discusses his heartwarming and explosive comedy about a very special wedding  

16/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Emma Dante  • Director of Misericordia

Interview: Emma Dante • Director of Misericordia

“This story came about in the darkness and obscurity of the theatre, on a very stripped-back stage”

The Sicilian theatre and film director chatted to us about the origins of her latest project, based on the 2020 play of the same name  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

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