BLACK NIGHTS 2025 Critics' Picks
Nikolaj Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights
"To curate is to care — about stories, about voices, about the emotions we dare to show"
by Ana Stanic
We met up with the curator of the festival section, for whom cinema is not entertainment, "it is urgency, emotion, and the bold insistence that our inner lives matter"
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We met up with Nikolaj Nikitin, curator of the Black Nights Film Festival's section Critics’ Picks. For him, cinema is not entertainment, "it is urgency, emotion, and the bold insistence that our inner lives matter". According to him, the section chose ten world premieres that spoke not of trends, but of truth. The jury honoured Jurgis Matulevičius' China Sea [+see also:
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