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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2020

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2020

Midnight Shivers

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4 films · 3 reviews

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Hunted

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Raw, immediate and unrelenting, Hunted is a film designed to speak directly to the wild part within each one of us.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A woman who trusted the wrong man must use all her resources to survive - but the forest is on her side.

(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2020; Director: Vincent Paronnaud; Writer: Vincent Paronnaud, Léa Pernollet; Stars: Lucie Debay, Arieh Worthalter, Ciaran O'Brien)

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Mosquito State

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The film's distanced, sometimes esoteric approach does nothing to diminish the sense of threat.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
August 2007. Isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns. His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation that attends his psychological meltdown.

(Country: Poland, US; Year: 2020; Director: Filip Jan Rymsza; Writer: Filip Jan Rymsza, Mario Zermeno; Stars: Beau Knapp, Charlotte Vega, Jack Kesy, Olivier Martinez, Audrey Wasilewski, Daisy Bishop, Dominika Kachlik, Maximilian Kubiak, Seetharaman Krishna, Hai Hung Dinh, Wojciech Bocianowski, Krystin Goodwin, Kelly Dean Cooper, Carolina Espiro, Mark McKinnon)

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Sweetie, You Won't Believe It

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If you're a fan of Three Stooges-style silent slapstick but wish it came with a lot more gore, then, Sweetie, you won't believe what a treat you are in for

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
It all starts off quite trivially, with a young married couple’s quarrel. The husband decides to get away with two friends on a fishing trip but mysterious events await them.

(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2020; Director: Yernar Nurgaliyev; Writer: Zhandos Aibassov, Yernar Nurgaliyev, Daniyar Soltanbayev, Il'yas Toleu, Anuar Turizhigitov, Alisher Utev)

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Teddy

A mysterious wolf is frightening the inhabitants of a small village in the Pyrenees. When a local 19-year-old is scratched by an unknown beast, he starts to feel strange impulses.

(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma; Writer: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma; Stars: Anthony Bajon, Christine Gautier, Ludovic Torrent, Guillaume Mattera, Jean-Michel Ricart, Alain Boitel, Noémie Lvovsky, Anthony Bajon, Christine Gautier, Ludovic Torrent, Guillaume Mattera, Jean-Michel Ricart, Alain Boitel, Noémie Lvovsky)