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85 articles available in total starting from 18/02/2025. Last article published on 19/08/2026.

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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 just entertainment, "it is urgency, emotion, and the bold insistence that our inner lives matter"  

26/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics' Picks

Tallinn panel examines the gap between theatrical and streaming releases, with a focus on children’s films

Tallinn panel examines the gap between theatrical and streaming releases, with a focus on children’s films

During Just Film Industry Days, the panellists debated theatrical and streaming windows, streamer influence, cinema survival and marketing challenges  

26/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Ukraine preps a €50 million cultural fund and 30% cash rebate to re-energise international production

Ukraine preps a €50 million cultural fund and 30% cash rebate to re-energise international production

The new fund will support a wide range of cultural activities, spanning film, literature and theatre, among others  

26/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Review: The Megalomaniacs

Review: The Megalomaniacs

Spiros Stathoulopoulos’ third feature sees a stubborn spitfire and a grumpy recluse joining forces in a rare directorial endeavour whose quirks overshadow the final outcome  

26/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Rebels with a Cause

Ali Vatansever • Director of LifeLike

Interview: Ali Vatansever • Director of LifeLike

"The human condition is much richer than stripped-down concepts of life"

The Turkish director shared with us why he celebrates life more than the concepts of it — and why audiences should experience their own feelings rather than be told what to feel  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Petter Næss • Director of No Comment

Interview: Petter Næss • Director of No Comment

"This is a message to politicians: take yourselves and your job seriously"

We chatted to the Norwegian director to discuss his sharp political satire, which casts politicians as adult children  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

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

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