Yesterday, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announced the full line-up of its First Feature Competition. The upcoming edition of the gathering will unspool from 11-27 November in the capital and in Tartu, the country’s second-largest city.

In detail, this year’s selection includes ten world premieres and eight international ones, with two of the latter screening out of competition. The festival will show 20 debuts and promises to deliver “a diverse, global programme that is of a consistently high artistic standard, but also surprises and delights with fresh insight and perspective”.

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Festival director Tiina Lokk said: “Every year, I look at the programme we have assembled and feel we’ve taken a huge step forward as a festival. It’s an unfortunate reality of working at this level that we always have too many good films to squeeze them all into our competitions. What that does mean is that the new voices we have selected for this year’s First Feature section are truly special. We can’t wait to introduce these films to the world.”

Among the world premieres of European title sare Zuzana Piussi’s The Unbalanced [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Switzerland/Kosovo), which digs deep into a very dark subject (namely, the exhumation of a Balkan mass grave), unravelling the familial clues and secrets uncovered within; and Titas Laucius’ Parade [+lee también:
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Meanwhile, the festival will host the much-anticipated international premieres of European pictures such as Neil Maskell’s Klokkenluider [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (UK), which revolves around a whistleblower Brit and his outspoken Flemish wife who are in hiding, tensely awaiting the arrival of the journalist who will tell all; Erika Calmeyer’s Storm [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Norway), a tale that questions whether the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter can overcome anything; and Katharina Woll’s Everybody Wants to Be Loved [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Germany), presented as “a deeply truthful tragicomic tale of a psychologist who needs one herself”.

The full festival programmes will be announced at the start of November.

Here is the list of the titles announced for the First Feature Competition:

First Features – in competition

Amar Colony – Siddharth Chauhan (India)
The Unbalanced [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Zuzana Piussi (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
Pelican [+lee también:
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entrevista: Filip Heraković
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The Accident – Bruno Carboni (Brazil)
The Land Within [+lee también:
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entrevista: Fisnik Maxville
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The Man Without Guilt [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ivan Gergolet
ficha de la película] – Ivan Gergolet (Slovenia/Italy/Croatia)
Parade [+lee también:
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entrevista: Titas Laucius
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entrevista: Alejandro Rojas y Juan Seb…
ficha de la película] – Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez (Spain)
The Other Widow [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Maayan Rypp (Israel/France)
Amusia [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Marescotti Ruspoli (Italy)
Klokkenluider [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Neil Maskell (UK)
The Hatcher – Grzegorz Molda (Poland)
Punch – Welby Ings (New Zealand)
Everybody Wants to Be Loved [+lee también:
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entrevista: Katharina Woll
ficha de la película] – Katharina Woll (Germany)
Double Life – Enen Yo (Japan)
Until Branches Bend [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Sophie Jarvis (Canada/Switzerland)
The Other Child – Kim Jing-young-IV (South Korea)
Storm [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Erika Calmeyer (Norway)

First Features – out of competition

Phi 1.618 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Theodore Ushev (Bulgaria/Canada)
Barren – Mordechai Vardi (Israel)