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Black Nights 2025 / First Feature Competition

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9 articles available in total starting from 02/10/2025. Last article published on 24/11/2025.

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 | 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 | 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 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: Hercules Falling

Review: Hercules Falling

Christian Bonke’s feature debut is a raw, realistic drama exploring a veteran’s PTSD, blending fiction and a real rehabilitation centre  

18/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: Interior

Review: Interior

House break-ins and occupant surveillance for scientific purposes set off a chain of events in Pascal Schuh’s courageous debut feature  

18/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: Elena’s Shift

Review: Elena’s Shift

Maria Dragus carries Stefanos Tsivopoulos’s debut feature, about a Romanian single mother struggling in crisis-riddled Greece  

17/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: A Safe Place

Review: A Safe Place

Romanian filmmaker Cecilia Ștefănescu’s debut feature explores petty-bourgeois boredom through an anaemic love triangle  

14/11 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Tallinn Black Nights unveils its First Feature Competition line-up

Tallinn Black Nights unveils its First Feature Competition line-up

Thirteen debut films from across the globe will be competing at this year’s festival, bringing bold, unsettling and deeply human stories to the fore  

07/10 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Review: Easy Girl

Review: Easy Girl

Hille Norden’s drama film delves deep into the emotional inner life of a young woman who tries to repress the memories of her past through a life of excess  

02/10 | Hamburg 2025

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