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Black Nights 2023


86 articles available in total starting from 23/01/2023. Last article published on 27/03/2024.

Review: Cat Call

Review: Cat Call

The first feature by Hungarian filmmaker Rozália Szeleczki is a Sleeping Beauty type of fairy tale about a princess bewitched by both childhood trauma and an enigmatic black cat  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Review: The Old Man and the Land

Review: The Old Man and the Land

Nicholas Parish’s feature debut is a laudable attempt at audio-driven film storytelling, occasionally reaching something unique in its tale of an intransigent English farmer  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

Interview: Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

“Directors should only make films about the things they know”

The Hungarian director immortalises a train-ticket scam in this animation for adults, the first-ever animated flick to be shown in Critics’ Picks  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Review: White Flag

Review: White Flag

With his sophomore feature, Swiss-Mongolian filmmaker Batbayar Chogsom sheds light on the marginalisation of queerness in Mongolia  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Natálie Císařovská • Director of Her Body

Interview: Natálie Císařovská • Director of Her Body

“I would like the audience to understand that it’s also about her soul”

In this compassionate debut feature by the Czech director, the human body can be a tool, or an obstacle  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Volia Chajkouskaya  • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival

Interview: Volia Chajkouskaya • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival

“For us, it’s important to highlight that we’re being welcomed in the European film-festival community”

In Tallinn, we spoke about this year’s hybrid festival, run by filmmakers in exile and showcasing the best of Nordic-Baltic cinema to Belarusian audiences  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Triin Ruumet • Director of Dark Paradise

Interview: Triin Ruumet • Director of Dark Paradise

“Bad things can be fun”

The Estonian filmmaker makes a case for facing your fears as she follows two siblings who are dealing with grief in unusual ways  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Baltic Film Competition

Grazia Tricarico • Director of Body Odyssey

Interview: Grazia Tricarico • Director of Body Odyssey

"We wanted to create the voice of the body"

The Italian director talked to us about what bodies are able to tell us, as well as her experience with the bodybuilding world and her artistic approach to it  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Caroline Ingvarsson • Director of Unmoored

Interview: Caroline Ingvarsson • Director of Unmoored

“When you are constantly lying to yourself, you can’t be free”

It’s time for a reckoning in this feature debut, a drama about a woman who finally confronts her husband  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Aylin Tezel and Yvonne Wellie • Director and producer of Falling into Place

Interview: Aylin Tezel and Yvonne Wellie • Director and producer of Falling into Place

"I think there is a form of magic in films with small budgets"

We met up with the makers of this multi-layered love story set in Scotland and the UK  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

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