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Black Nights 2023 / First Feature Competition

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20 articles available in total starting from 06/10/2023. Last article published on 23/11/2023.

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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

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

Review: Cat Call

Review: Cat Call

The first feature by Hungarian filmmaker Rozália Szeleczki is a Sleeping Beauty type of fairy tale about a princess bewitched by both childhood trauma and an enigmatic black cat  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Grazia Tricarico • Director of Body Odyssey

Interview: Grazia Tricarico • Director of Body Odyssey

"We wanted to create the voice of the body"

The Italian director talked to us about what bodies are able to tell us, as well as her experience with the bodybuilding world and her artistic approach to it  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Caroline Ingvarsson • Director of Unmoored

Interview: Caroline Ingvarsson • Director of Unmoored

“When you are constantly lying to yourself, you can’t be free”

It’s time for a reckoning in this feature debut, a drama about a woman who finally confronts her husband  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Aylin Tezel and Yvonne Wellie • Director and producer of Falling into Place

Interview: Aylin Tezel and Yvonne Wellie • Director and producer of Falling into Place

"I think there is a form of magic in films with small budgets"

We met up with the makers of this multi-layered love story set in Scotland and the UK  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Review: Giant’s Kettle

Review: Giant’s Kettle

Marku Hakala and Mari Käki’s debut is a meaningful and enthusiastic experiment that blends retro-futurism, a dark fairy tale and a love story  

20/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Review: Body Odyssey

Review: Body Odyssey

Grazia Tricarico’s debut is an overly ambitious tale about a forty-something bodybuilder obsessed with perfection  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

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