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Black Nights 2024 / Competition

22 articles available in total starting from 25/10/2024. Last article published on 26/11/2024.

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Review: Silent City Driver

Review: Silent City Driver

Mongolian filmmaker Janchivdorj Sengedorj depicts a hypnotic, spiritual journey undertaken by a fallen angel, unfurling a crime epic by means of a parable  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Buzzheart

Review: Buzzheart

Dennis Iliadis’s latest effort is another in the long line of “weird” Greek films, characterised by a well-crafted, eerie atmosphere but lacking originality  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Teemu Nikki • Director of 100 Litres of Gold

Interview: Teemu Nikki • Director of 100 Litres of Gold

“The world feels bleak right now, but as long as there’s laughter, there’s hope, too”

The Finnish director shares some insights into the process underlying the creation of his tragicomic characters and discusses juggling Finnish stereotypes  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Jaak Kilmi • Director of The Shadow

Interview: Jaak Kilmi • Director of The Shadow

"I wanted an entertaining way to approach a divine Estonian poet"

The Estonian director delves into his latest film, a portray of Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and unlikely detective who lived in his country during the Tsar's crumbling empire  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: The Mousetrap

Review: The Mousetrap

With his fiction feature debut, Serhii Kastornykh tells the story of a Ukrainian soldier trying to survive after most of his trench collapses in combat  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Sengedorj Janchivdorj’s Silent City Driver wins the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Sengedorj Janchivdorj’s Silent City Driver wins the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

The Best First Feature Award went to Steve Bache’s No Dogs Allowed, whilst a Special Prize for Directing was handed to Edgardo Pistone for Ciao bambino  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Awards

Boris Guts • Director of Deaf Lovers

Interview: Boris Guts • Director of Deaf Lovers

"My characters are in limbo, walking from heaven to hell"

The Russian-born filmmaker discusses his a tale of a Ukrainian woman and a Russian man, both deaf, who meet in Istanbul while there’s a war going on back home  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

Interview: Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

"Hope and faith have a transformative power"

The Czech filmmaker delves into his newest film, about a little girl in a strict socialist orphanage who tries to overcome fears, insecurity and loneliness  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

Interview: Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

"I wanted the story to be a clash between art and money"

The filmmaker discusses his follow-up to his Cannes Directors' Fortnight entry Oleg, about a German organist who discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

Interview: Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

"I tried to show how brutal a man's world can be without women in a rural area of Turkey"

The Turkish filmmaker discusses his new feature, a daring boy's journey against the cruel entanglements of deception and disabilities of the adult world  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

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