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Black Nights 2025 / First Feature Competition

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16 articles available in total starting from 02/10/2025. Last article published on 25/11/2025.

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Samuel Abrahams • Director of Lady

Interview: Samuel Abrahams • Director of Lady

"My film deals with visibility and the longing to be seen"

We spoke with the British director about the script and the meta structure of his gloriously oddball debut  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Hille Norden • Director of Easy Girl

Interview: Hille Norden • Director of Easy Girl

"Talking helps, and listening heals"

We sat down with the emerging German director to talk about her striking debut, a bold mix of sexuality, beauty and pain  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Artur Wyrzykowski • Director of This Is Not Happening

Interview: Artur Wyrzykowski • Director of This Is Not Happening

“All I really wanted, as a first-time feature film director, was a story that would be cheap from a production standpoint”

The Polish director reflected on crafting his contained thriller about parental desperation, and developing an upcoming comedy involving an android boyfriend  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Kat Steppe • Director of Sunday Ninth

Interview: Kat Steppe • Director of Sunday Ninth

“I know that when something is real, it has a direct impact”

The Belgian director breaks down how she bridged fiction and reality inside a fully operational care home  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: This Is Not Happening

Review: This Is Not Happening

In Artur Wyrzykowski's film, a father shields his murderous son in a tightly contained psychological drama about moral conflicts  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: My First Love

Review: My First Love

Norwegian director Mari Storstein’s very personal debut questions how open the open-minded are, while ironically condemning the institutional desexualisation of disabled people  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Christian Bonke • Director of Hercules Falling

Interview: Christian Bonke • Director of Hercules Falling

"I hope that politicians will realise that it's expensive to turn a human being into a soldier, but that it also takes funds to convert a soldier back into a human being"

The Danish director discusses blending fiction and reality to portray veterans’ PTSD and the masculinity barriers that keep many from seeking help  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: Sunday Ninth

Review: Sunday Ninth

Kat Steppe’s debut is a moving philosophical reflection on memory and reconciliation, buoyed by an excellent leading duo  

24/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Stefanos Tsivopoulos • Director of Elena's Shift

Interview: Stefanos Tsivopoulos • Director of Elena's Shift

"If silence is safety and finding your voice puts you at risk, what will you choose?"

We spoke with the Greek filmmaker about his debut feature, is a story of reclaiming voice, agency and the right to belong  

21/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: Lady

Review: Lady

Samuel Abrahams’ wild fantasy-comedy follows a filmmaker shooting a fly-on-the-wall doc on a mysterious aristocrat, played by Fleabag’s Sian Clifford  

21/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

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