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Black Nights 2024


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

Review: 100 Litres of Gold

Review: 100 Litres of Gold

Teemu Nikki’s drunken comedy with elements of ethnic exoticism and a dose of local pride makes fun of habits, traumas and stereotypes  

18/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Nobody Likes Me

Review: Nobody Likes Me

Petr Kazda and Tomáš Weinreb follow up their breakthrough debut I, Olga Hepnarová with an intimate psychological drama tackling a taboo issue  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Review: The Exalted

Review: The Exalted

Juris Kursietis' sophomore feature boasts a solid premise but ultimately struggles to be more than a finely crafted character study  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Empire of the Rabbits

Review: Empire of the Rabbits

A boy growing up in extreme poverty defies his father and the whole corrupt system in Turkish filmmaker Seyfettin Tokmak's new feature  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Tallinn, Cork and Cottbus title Tasty

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Tallinn, Cork and Cottbus title Tasty

Egle Vertelyte’s sophomore feature is a culinary comedy that tells the story of two best friends who stumble into a cooking-show contest  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024

Marek Šulík • Director of Ms. President

Interview: Marek Šulík • Director of Ms. President

“People can hate women in power because they’ve been told to hate them”

We talked to the Slovak filmmaker, whose documentary has already triumphed in Ji.hlava, about the challenges of filming the former leader of his country  

14/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Doc@PÖFF

Review: Spilt Milk

Review: Spilt Milk

In his feature debut, Brian Durnin takes us to 1980s Dublin to tell a story of friendship, the drug-use epidemic, family ties and a sense of community  

14/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Just Film

Latvian cinema heads to Tallinn Black Nights en masse

Latvian cinema heads to Tallinn Black Nights en masse

This year’s Latvian presence at the Estonian gathering is unprecedented, comprising 14 features, three shorts, one mini-series and several new projects in the works  

06/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024

Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

Interview: Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

“The selection this year is wonderfully colourful, diverse, surreal, action-packed and extremely funny”

We caught up with the head programmer of PÖFF’s strand dedicated to powerful and artistically outstanding works that might otherwise be overlooked  

05/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Ms. President

Review: Ms. President

Marek Šulík's time-lapse documentary provides a measured portrait of Zuzana Čaputová's historic and turbulent tenure as Slovakia’s first female head of state  

30/10/2024 | Jihlava 2024

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