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Black Nights 2024 / Critics’ Picks

11 articles available in total starting from 22/10/2024. Last article published on 03/12/2024.

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Miroslav Mogorovic • President, Critics’ Picks jury, Tallinn Black Nights

Interview: Miroslav Mogorovic • President, Critics’ Picks jury, Tallinn Black Nights

“With such a wonderful, rich and diverse selection, it was great to see that my colleagues and I were on the same artistic wavelength”

The president of the Critics’ Picks jury details his approach to his job and how he thinks the festival’s role in promoting emerging filmmakers has evolved over the years  

03/12/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

Interview: Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

"How do we answer the question of what makes life worth living?"

The Portuguese director shares some insights into his film, a surreal and heartwarming comedy about euthanasia  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Review: I, the Song

Review: I, the Song

In Dechen Roder’s slow yet persistent sophomore feature, one woman's search to clear her name becomes an existential quest to discover the truth behind her doppelgänger’s disappearance  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Review: Moor

Review: Moor

Adilkhan Yerzhanov heads to an urban setting for the first time to tell the story of a “Kazakh Rambo” on a mission to save his brother’s wife and child from the mafia  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Dechen Roder • Director of I, the Song

Interview: Dechen Roder • Director of I, the Song

"What can we do in this mean world, with all these issues of copying, recording private things, secret songs?"

One of the first female directors from Bhutan discusses her second feature, a tale of Buddhist karma, doppelgangers and melancholic Dzongkha songs  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

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

Review: The Body

Review: The Body

The newest movie by Vincenzo Alfieri is a remake of Oriol Paulo’s mystery film but in a steamy erotic-thriller mode  

20/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Dreaming of Lions

Review: Dreaming of Lions

Portuguese director Paolo Marinou-Blanco’s satirical black comedy imagines a motivational seminar to help the terminally ill end their lives  

19/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Nobody Likes Me

Review: Nobody Likes Me

Petr Kazda and Tomáš Weinreb follow up their breakthrough debut I, Olga Hepnarová with an intimate psychological drama tackling a taboo issue  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

Interview: Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

“The selection this year is wonderfully colourful, diverse, surreal, action-packed and extremely funny”

We caught up with the head programmer of PÖFF’s strand dedicated to powerful and artistically outstanding works that might otherwise be overlooked  

05/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

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