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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.