Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Créé en 1997, le Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, avec ses deux sous-festivals, Just Film et PÖFF Shorts, est devenu l’un des plus grands festivals du film d’Europe du Nord et l’une des plateformes industrielles régionales les plus actives. La 28e édition aura lieu du 8 au 24 novembre, tandis que la plateforme industrielle du festival, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, se déroulera du 18 au 22 novembre.

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Projects

Goes to Cannes

Father

Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Tereza Nvotová

Produced by: Veronika Paštéková, Anton Škreko, Karel Chvojka, Miloš Lochman, Mariusz Wlodarski, Marta Gmosińska | DANAE Production, Moloko film, Lava Films

Country of production: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland

Original title: Otec

Genre: Drama

Language: Slovak

Runtime: 90'

Completed in: 2024

A story unfolds about a man who seemingly has it all, until one fateful summer day when he tragically realizes that his infant daughter, whom he thought he had dropped off at nursery, is actually still locked in the back of his car.

Goes to Cannes

The Activist

Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Romas Zabarauskas

Produced by: Romas Zabarauskas, Gabriele Miseviciute, Glenn Elliott | Naratyvas

Country of production: Lithuania

Original title: Aktyvistas

Genre: Thriller

Language: Lithuanian

Runtime: 93'

Completed in: 2024

A young man infiltrates a radical neo-Nazi group to find the killer of his LGBT+ rights activist boyfriend.

Goes to Cannes

Mo Papa

Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Eeva Mägi

Produced by: Sten-Johan Lill, Eeva Mägi | Kinosaurus Film Oü, Kultuurikuur Oü

Country of production: Estonia

Original title: Mo Papa

Genre: Drama

Language: Estonian

Runtime: 90'

Completed in: 2024

Eugen is released from prison at 28 years old, he has no one except his father Helmar who abandoned him when he was born, and friends Stina and Riko from the orphanage. Eugen attempts to begin a new life and contacts his father, but he finds himself returning to an endless cycle of violence.

Goes to Cannes

Dreaming of Lions

Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Paolo Marinou-Blanco

Produced by: Justin Amorim, Paolo Marinou-Blanco, Eduardo Rezende, Luis Ortas Pau | Promenade, Darya Films, Capuri, Cinètica Produccions

Country of production: Portugal, Brazil, Spain

Original title: Sonhar com Leões

Genre: Tragicomedy

Language: Portuguese, Spanish

Runtime: 90'

Completed in: 2024

Dreaming of Lions is an absurdist tragicomedy about euthanasia and assisted suicide. Gilda and Amadeu meet at an underground organisation that helps the terminally ill kill themselves painlessly. When they discover it’s a scam, they escape to Mallorca to die, falling in love along the way.

Goes to Cannes

The Evil That Binds Us (WT)

Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Nico Postiglione

Produced by: Dominga Ortuzar, Florencia Rodríguez, Juan Bernardo González, Arturo Pereyra | Whisky Content, Oro Films

Country of production: Chile, Mexico

Original title: Todos Los Males (WT)

Genre: Dramatic Thriller

Language: Spanish, German

Runtime: 110'

Completed in: 2024

In 1950s rural southern Chile, the peace of a German family fractures when a city-born relative arrives. The teenager’s bond with a farmhand’s daughter reveals hidden racism and a history of violence within the family, unleashing the boy’s wrath despite efforts to conceal the truth.