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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2018

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2018

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11 films · 8 reviews

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Anote's Ark

Review preview for Anote's Ark

This quiet, documentary takes the viewer on an interesting, intriguing journey, ending on a question mark.

Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
A documentary looking at the impact of climate change on the island nation of Kiribati.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Matthieu Rytz)

Bixa Travesty

Review preview for Bixa Travesty

The directors take what is primarily an observational approach, with only intermittent scenes clearly set up to encourage specific discussions. In return for this they get intimate access to their star's day to day life.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2018; Director: Kiko Goifman, Claudia Priscilla; Writer: Claudia Priscilla, Linn da Quebrada; Stars: Linn da Quebrada, Jup do Bairro, Liniker)

Carmine Street Guitars

Review preview for Carmine Street Guitars

Becky Parsons and John M Tran's cinematography brings out every detail of the crowded rooms before us and puts us to close to the grain of the wood that we can almost smell it.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A shop resisting gentrification.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Ron Mann; Writer: Len Blum; Stars: Rick Kelly, Jim Jarmusch, Charlie Sexton, Eszter Balint, Dave Hill, Jamie Hince, Kirk (The Roots) Douglas, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Lenny Kaye, Cindy Hulej, Eleanor Friedberger, Stewart Hurwood, Christine Bougie, Travis Good)

Chef Flynn

Review preview for Chef Flynn

There's an impressive range of mouthwatering dishes on display, constantly being adapted and upgraded.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A documentary following a talented child chef who is determined to make it to the top of his chosen profession.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Cameron Yates; Stars: Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry, Paris McGarry)

The Greenaway Alphabet

A candid look at the cinema, artistic point of view, relationships and family life of innovative director Peter Greenaway.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2017; Director: Saskia Boddeke)

Kailash (The Price Of Free)

Review preview for Kailash

There is also no mistaking the challenge to us, the viewers, regarding our own awareness of where products come from and our, albeit unwitting, culpability in child exploitation.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Portrait of Kailash Satyarthi, who has made it his life's work to end child slavery and exploitation.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Derek Doneen)

Putin's Witnesses (Svideteli Putina)

Review preview for Putin's Witnesses

Mansky's bigger picture about the manipulation of a nation is crystal clear.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Considering the Russian president's time in power.

(Country: Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic; Year: 2018; Director: Vitaly Mansky)

The Trial (Process)

Documentary

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2018; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)

When Lambs Become Lions

Review preview for When Lambs Become Lions

Offering a clear-sighted view of the situation that calls to mind executive producer Matthew Heinemann’s approach to the drug trade in Cartel Land, Kasbe digs at the complexity of the poaching problem.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
In the Kenyan bush, a crackdown on ivory poaching forces a silver-tongued second-generation poacher to seek out an unlikely ally in this fly-on-the-wall look at both sides of the conservation divide.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Jon Kasbe)

Wild Heart

A documentary about the band Feine Sahne Fischfilet whose singer Jan “Monchi” Gorkow has become an unlikely force against racism and anti-Semitism

(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Charly Hübner, Sebastian Schulz)