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Black Nights 2023 / Competition


23 articles available in total starting from 13/10/2023. Last article published on 21/11/2023.

Review: Consent

Review: Consent

Vanessa Filho’s second feature tells the horrific but well-known story of a teenage girl seduced by an older influential writer  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Forever Hold Your Peace

Review: Forever Hold Your Peace

Montenegrin filmmaker Ivan Marinović’s dark comedy alights upon some very unhappy nuptials  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Jaap van Heusden and Rogier de Blok • Director and screenwriter of The Man from Rome

Interview: Jaap van Heusden and Rogier de Blok • Director and screenwriter of The Man from Rome

"With so much bullshit flooding in, you can't operate a society or a democracy if nobody knows what to believe in"

The Dutch filmmakers discuss their film centred on a priest, a modern-day crusader on a quest to save mankind from darkness  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: The Man from Rome

Review: The Man from Rome

Jaap van Heusden’s latest feature is a gripping psychological drama about a priest seeking the truth behind a mysterious Crying Madonna  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Oxygen Station

Review: Oxygen Station

Ivan Tymchenko tells the story of the Crimean Tatar political activist Mustafa Dzhemilev as a tense piece of a crime fiction and political thriller  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Patient #1

Review: Patient #1

With his latest feature, Rezo Giginieshvili has something to say about the past, the present and the never-changing nature of power that cannot be given away  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Misericordia

Review: Misericordia

Emma Dante confirms her full expressive force by way of her third feature film, which depicts a harsh reality steeped in poverty, ignorance and violence against women  

10/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Manuel Martín Cuenca  • Director of Andrea’s Love

Interview: Manuel Martín Cuenca • Director of Andrea’s Love

“All families are constantly being built and rebuilt”

The Spanish director unpicks his latest work, which features young first-timers in the lead roles  

09/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Andrea’s Love

Review: Andrea’s Love

Spanish filmmaker Manuel Martín Cuenca once again tackles family conflicts, but from the perspective of a teen who wants parental affection and does not understand the world of adults  

27/10/2023 | Seminci 2023

Review: Teresa

Review: Teresa

Spanish director Paula Ortiz once again spares no expense in aestheticism with her new film, full of intense dialogue and hallucinatory visions of the saint  

24/10/2023 | Seminci 2023

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