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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2013

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2013

Developing Countries in Focus

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9 films · 1 review

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Before Snowfall (Før snøen faller)

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Zaman is not looking to rush to judgement of his characters but to explore what makes them tick and give a feel for how traditions get passed down the generations.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A youngster from Kurdistan tracks his sister across Europe after she flees before her wedding.

(Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq; Year: 2013; Director: Hisham Zaman; Writer: Kjell Ola Dahl, Hisham Zaman; Stars: Billey Demirtas, Eva Medusa Gühne, Suzan Ilir, Nazmi Kirik, Jin Musa, Bahar Ozen, Volga Sorgu, Abdullah Taher, Mohammed Tejir, Birol Ünel)

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Grisgris

A partially paralysed man who dreams of becoming a dancer is drawn into crime after his uncle becomes seriously ill.

(Country: Chad; Year: 2013; Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun; Stars: Soulémane Démé, Mariam Monory, Cyril Guei, Anaïs Monory, Marius Yelolo)

Harmony Lessons (Uroki Garmonii)

A brutally bullied teenager struggles to avoid getting drawn into a cycle of violence.

(Country: Kazakhstan, Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Emir Baigazin; Writer: Emir Baigazin; Stars: Timur Aidarbekov)

In Bloom

Two young women come of age in the troubled time following Georgian independence.

(Country: Georgia, Germany, France; Year: 2013; Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß; Stars: Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria)

My Sweet Pepper Land

A Kurdish war hero turned police chief runs into trouble in his posting in the lawless borderlands.

(Country: France, Germany, Iraq; Year: 2013; Director: Hiner Saleem; Writer: Hiner Saleem, Antoine Lacomblez; Stars: Korkmaz Arslan, Golshifteh Farahani, Suat Usta)

The Old Man (Shal)

Story of a shepherd, loosely based on Hemingway's Old Man And The Sea.

(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2012; Director: Ermek Tursunov; Writer: Ermek Tursunov; Stars: Erbulat Toguzakov)

The Patience Stone (Syngué Sabour)

An Afghan woman tending to her comatose husband gradually finds the means to confound the patriarchal society around her and assert her own voice.

(Country: France, Afghanistan, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Atiq Rahimi; Writer: Atiq Rahimi, Jean-Claude Carrière; Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamidreza Javdan, Massi Mrowat)

Potosí

The lives of a goat herder, a housewife and a peasant intersect in an accident.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Alfredo Castruita; Writer: Jose Lomas-Hervert; Stars: Arcelia Ramírez, Aldo Verastegui, Don Margarito Sánchez, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Gerardo Taracena, Sonia Couoh, Francisco Barreiro, Mario Zaragoza, Fernando Becerril, José Sefami, Harold Torres, Melissa Alvarado Ramos, Luisa Huertas, Ursula Peña)

Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)

A young man in Kabul seduces a girl. When she tells him she’s pregnant, he questions having taken her virginity. Then her father arrives, and a timeless, archaic violence erupts – possibly leading to a crime, and even a sacrifice.

(Country: Afghanistan; Year: 2013; Director: Barmak Akram; Writer: Barmak Akram; Stars: Wajma Bahar, Mustafa Abdulsatar, Haji Gul, Breshna Bahar)