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Black Nights 2023


86 articles available in total starting from 23/01/2023. Last article published on 27/03/2024.

Review: Life and Death of a Christmas Tree

Review: Life and Death of a Christmas Tree

Georgian workers risk death to harvest fir seeds for affluent Danes to sell as Christmas trees in Arturas Jevdokimovas’s doc snapshot of two sides of capitalist Europe  

27/03/2024 | Vilnius 2024

Review: My Freedom

Review: My Freedom

A key figure in Latvia’s independence struggle contends with her era’s duplicity in Ilze Kunga-Melgaile’s smart debut historical drama  

26/03/2024 | Vilnius 2024

Review: Life's a Bitch

Review: Life's a Bitch

Xavier Seron is back with an episodic film about our sincere yet tortuous relationships with man’s best friend  

18/12/2023 | Les Arcs 2023

Chiara Zappalà  • Manager, European Film Factory project, Institut français

Interview: Chiara Zappalà • Manager, European Film Factory project, Institut français

“The programme offers an innovative and practical approach to supporting film education in Europe”

During Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, we delved into this ground-breaking European project supported by MEDIA and focused on film literacy  

24/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Rozália Szeleczki  • Director of Cat Call

Interview: Rozália Szeleczki • Director of Cat Call

"My basic idea is that the more absurd I make things, the more they somehow reflect reality"

The Hungarian filmmaker details her film, which follows a 30-year-old trapped in a world of her own imagination for whom everything changes when a talking black cat starts courting her  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Markku Hakala, Mari Käki  • Directors of Giant's Kettle

Interview: Markku Hakala, Mari Käki • Directors of Giant's Kettle

"Unfortunately, the dystopian world we built is strikingly similar to the one we live in"

The Finnish filmmaking duo discusses their film depicting an inhuman black-and-white bureaucratic ultrasound world where nobody uses any words  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Kaveh Daneshmand and Gem Deger • Director of and actor in Endless Summer Syndrome

Interview: Kaveh Daneshmand and Gem Deger • Director of and actor in Endless Summer Syndrome

"My idea was to create a new-age erotic thriller with fresh social themes"

The Czech Republic-based filmmaker and actor discuss their film, in which the mother of two adopted children learns that her husband may be having an affair with one of them  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Janez Burger  • Director of Observing

Interview: Janez Burger • Director of Observing

"How can people watch a crime on social media without helping or calling the police?"

The Slovenian filmmaker discusses his film, based on a vicious crime after two friends beat a colleague and broadcast the event on Facebook Live to 20,000 people  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

Eeva Mägi  • Director of Mo Mamma

Interview: Eeva Mägi • Director of Mo Mamma

“Watching cinema is like having butterflies in my stomach – it’s a feeling I would like to elicit with my films”

An intriguing new voice in Estonian cinema, the director reveals some of the secrets behind her deeply touching and personal movies  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

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

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

"The Critics' Picks section represents global diversity in every sense, especially in the artistic and geopolitical realms"

The curator breaks down the second edition of the festival's new competitive strand devoted to powerful and artistically outstanding works that might otherwise be overlooked  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

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