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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

15 November – 1 December 2019

Tallinn Black Nights film festival notches up its 23rd year, opening on November 15 and closing on December 1.

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  • In The Strange Pursuit Of Laura Durand
    Review preview for In The Strange Pursuit Of Laura Durand

    There is a tension between two worlds here.

    Jane Fae · 2.5 out of 5
    A pair of bandmates, obsessed with a porn star from the Nineties, find themselves on an unexpected journey round Greece.
  • The Longest Wave
    Review preview for The Longest Wave

    You don't need to be a fan of board sports to enjoy the latest documentary from Joe Berlinger, but if you are you'll certainly get plenty of added value

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    World champion windsurfer Robby Naish aims to surf the world's longest wave.
  • Deerskin
    Review preview for Deerskin

    The director proves a master of the tragicomic as he observes one man's slip from midlife crisis to madness by way of obsession.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Georges, 44, and his jacket, 100 per cent deerskin, have a plan.
  • State Funeral
    Review preview for State Funeral

    What the cumulative effect of masterfully restored newsreel may lack in action, it more than makes up for with the numbing, slow-burn sensation of being drawn under the spell of state-orchestrated mass mourning.

    Matthew Anderson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
  • Changing The Game
    Review preview for Changing The Game

    Barnett excels at capturing nuances of expression and action.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Transgender high school athletes from across the US compete at the top of their fields, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.
  • The Exception
    Review preview for The Exception

    What might have been an edgy little thriller is transformed by Borgen director Jesper W Nielsen into the kind of bitchy workplace drama that will make many viewers grateful for the Covid lockdown.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Death threats see suspicion grow between four women in an NGO.
  • Savage
    Review preview for Savage

    Although as a genre cinema, Kelly's film fits into the current wave of new gangster cinema, one cannot help but feel that the creator wanted to put a little too much into his work.

    Mateusz Tarwacki · 2 out of 5
    Hard-hitting drama tracks the three decades that shaped the feared leader of a biker gang.
  • The Painted Bird
    Review preview for The Painted Bird

    Smutný gives us faces that will stories even when they're still, the weight of long experience etched into every line.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A lone Jewish boy has to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.
  • iHuman
    Review preview for iHuman

    iHuman is worthy, and good, but not worthwhile, nor very good.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    Exploring the artificial intelligence revolution and its implications.
  • Space Dogs
    Review preview for Space Dogs

    As in much Russian science fiction, the tone here is darker and yet vastly more alert to the wonders of the universe than is usual in the Western equivalent.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    According to myth, Laika, the first dog sent to space, returned to earth as a ghost that has roamed Moscow since... this film is told from the perspective of her descendants, two street dogs in today's city.

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