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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2021

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2021

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3 films · 3 reviews

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Bestia

Review preview for Bestia

Emotions here are betrayed by the twitch of a knife, a violent dream, an envelope crumpled in a hand or a long toke on a cigarette.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
A trip into the psyche of a Chilean torturer.

(Country: Chile; Year: 2021; Director: Hugo Covarrubias; Writer: Hugo Covarrubias, Martín Erazo)

Night Bus

Review preview for Night Bus

The setting has an immediacy, we've all been in one of these stations late at night, with its flickering lights and eerie stillness.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Trouble brews on a bus after a pearl necklace goes missing.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2020; Director: Joe Hsieh; Writer: Joe Hsieh)

Steakhouse

Review preview for Steakhouse

Čadež employs the gouts of smoke to disturbing effect, fogging up the action and making passive aggression feel like a punch.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Trouble brews when a woman is late home for her birthday dinner.

(Country: Slovenia, Germany, France; Year: 2021; Director: Spela Cadez; Writer: Gregor Zorc)