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Black Nights 2025 / Critics' Picks

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7 articles available in total starting from 21/10/2025. Last article published on 26/11/2025.

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

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

"To curate is to care — about stories, about voices, about the emotions we dare to show"

We met up with the curator of the festival section, for whom cinema is not entertainment, "it is urgency, emotion, and the bold insistence that our inner lives matter"  

26/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics' Picks

Review: China Sea

Review: China Sea

Jurgis Matulevičius’s second feature embarks on an ambitious cross-cultural tale centred on a fallen martial arts champion, stylised as a Baltic noir  

24/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics’ Picks

Laurent Micheli • Director of Nino in Paradise

Interview: Laurent Micheli • Director of Nino in Paradise

"I liked the contrast between its nigh-on social-documentary side and its fictional lyricism"

We sat down with the Belgian director, who’s returning with another story focusing on young people  

24/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Nino in Paradise

Review: Nino in Paradise

Belgian director Laurent Micheli paints a flamboyant portrait of a weakened but not beaten younger generation  

21/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Oh, What Happy Days!

Review: Oh, What Happy Days!

Secrets from the past, class and political conflict, and complicated family relations are the main elements fuelling Homayoun Ghanizadeh’s avantgarde film  

18/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Mo Papa

Review: Mo Papa

In Eeva Mägi’s second feature, a young man re-entering society grapples with old wounds and destructive patterns in a striking, snowy setting  

14/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics’ Picks

Tallinn Black Nights reveals line-ups for Critics’ Picks and Rebels With a Cause competitions

Tallinn Black Nights reveals line-ups for Critics’ Picks and Rebels With a Cause competitions

The newest films by Laurent Micheli, Jurgis Matulevičius, Lluís Miñarro, Adrian Sitaru and Spiros Stathoulopoulos feature in the two sections  

21/10 | Black Nights 2025

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