Started in 1997, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with the two sub-festivals, Just Film and PÖFF Shorts, has grown into one of the biggest film festivals in Northern Europe and busiest regional industry platforms. The 27th edition will take place from the 3th until the 19th of November, while the festival’s industry platform Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event will run from 13th until the 17th of November.
Goes to Cannes
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Projects
Goes to Cannes
Autumn
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Antonio Sequeira
Produced by: Joana Domingues, Steven Flynn (Caracol Studios Kurious Studios)
Country of production: Portugal, United Kingdom
Original title: OUTONO
Language: Portuguese, English
Runtime: 120 min
Completed in: 2023
A small town Portuguese family have to confront their new life and some uncomfortable truths after their son leaves to London for university. As he returns home at the end of each trimester for the school breaks (Winter, Spring, Autumn) he discovers that he is not the only one going through changes.
Goes to Cannes
Broken
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Facundo Escudero Salinas
Produced by: Nicolás Münzel Camaño (Pensilvania Films)
Country of production: Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Germany
Original title: FRAGMENTADA
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 105 min
Completed in: 2023
A police woman returns with her daughter to her hometown, from which she always wanted to escape in the Patagonia, to take care of her dying mother. The murder of an old friend’s daughter will keep her in that place longer than expected. She will try to solve a case that seems to matter to no one.
Goes to Cannes
Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Tomas Vengris
Produced by: Uljana Kim, Alicia Ní Ghráinne, Roberts Vinovskis + Studio Uljana Kim / Tiger Darling Productions / Studio Locomotive
Country of production: Lithuania, Ireland, Latvia
Original title: PENKIOS SU PUSE MEILĖS ISTORIJOS, NUTIKUSIOS VIENAME VILNIAUS BUTE
Language: Lithuanian, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish
Runtime: 112 min
Completed in: 2023
Five guests experience a crisis of love in an AirBnB in Vilnius; unaware of the stories that have transpired within the same walls and under the same bedsheets. Between each, the quiet cleaning lady, Jolanta, arrives to clean away the debris, while her own silent love story unfolds.
Goes to Cannes
One-dimensional Man
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Andres Puustusmaa
Produced by: Katerina Monastyrskaya, Roberts Vinovskis (Leo Films, Studio Locomotive)
Country of production: Estonia, Latvia
Original title: ÜHEMÕÕTMELINE MEES
Language: Estonian, English, Russian, Chinese
Runtime: 105 min
Completed in: 2023
Raul was raised in a violent and pathological attitude, blindly driven by communist ideology. Driven by his jealousy of his wife and her bohemian lifestyle, Viktor, being a high ranking KGB officer, stated her as a predator against the Soviet nation, and one early morning she is taken by KGB agents.
Goes to Cannes
TWO SISTERS
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Lukasz Karwowski
Produced by: Nadia Korotushka, Anastasiia Lodkina, Serg Demidov + FILM.UA Group, Ukraine, ZOOM MEDIA, Poland
Country of production: Ukraine, Poland
Original title: DWIE SIOSTRY / ДВІ СЕСТРИ
Language: Polish, Ukrainian
Runtime: 110 min
Completed in: 2023
A road movie about two Sisters – Polish and Ukrainian who set off from Poland to Ukraine to get their wounded father back home. They travel by car, hitchhike, on foot through destroyed Ukraine, while avoiding getting raped by Russians.