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Black Nights 2024


69 articles available in total starting from 01/10/2024. Last article published on 12/05/2025.

Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

Interview: Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

"Hope and faith have a transformative power"

The Czech filmmaker delves into his newest film, about a little girl in a strict socialist orphanage who tries to overcome fears, insecurity and loneliness  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

Interview: Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

"I wanted the story to be a clash between art and money"

The filmmaker discusses his follow-up to his Cannes Directors' Fortnight entry Oleg, about a German organist who discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

Interview: Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

"I tried to show how brutal a man's world can be without women in a rural area of Turkey"

The Turkish filmmaker discusses his new feature, a daring boy's journey against the cruel entanglements of deception and disabilities of the adult world  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Some Nights I Feel Like Walking

Review: Some Nights I Feel Like Walking

The newest film by Petersen Vargas is an attempt at blending social drama and urban road movie, set on the fringes of Manila  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Review: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Israeli director Eran Riklis’ film about the female condition in Iran is certainly topical, but it doesn’t convey the repressive insanity of religious and patriarchal dogmas  

21/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Lotus

Review: Lotus

Latvia’s Signe Birkova draws inspiration from surrealism, expressionism and silent film to create a visually radical feature about a female avant-garde pioneer  

21/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | First Feature Competition

Review: Sun Never Again

Review: Sun Never Again

The topics of parenthood, nature and resisting an invasive mining corporation are tackled with grittiness and magical realism in David Jovanović’s directorial debut  

21/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | First Feature Competition

Review: Never Alone

Review: Never Alone

Klaus Häro relates a little-known episode in Finland’s World War II experience, where a business proprietor toiled to save the country’s small Jewish population  

21/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Baltic Film Competition

Review: Ciao bambino

Review: Ciao bambino

Edgardo Pistone’s debut film is a thrilling dark tale which speaks of love and desperation in Naples’ criminal underworld  

21/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | First Feature Competition

Review: Pink Lady

Review: Pink Lady

In Israeli filmmaker Nir Bergman's latest, a young ultra-Orthodox couple is thrown into disarray when the husband’s hidden queerness is discovered  

21/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

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