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 [+leggi anche:
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