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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

11 November – 27 October 2022

This year's Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will run from November 11 to 27. Its selection this year includes a new strand, Critics' Picks. We'll be bringing you coverage soon, please bear with us while we input the programme. It will open with My Neighbor Adolf and the country focus this year is Israel.

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  • The Coffee Table
    Review preview for The Coffee Table

    It’s cleverly written, beautifully performed and quite unforgettable, and yet I hesitate to recommend that anybody watch it.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Black comedy about a couple facing a tricky moment in their relationship.
  • The Eight Mountains
    Review preview for The Eight Mountains

    In their quietly devastating manner, Groeningen and Vandermeersch examine the fluid nature of our confusion and confidence over our place in the world.

    Jeremy Mathews · 5 out of 5
    The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home.
  • About Us But Not About Us
    Review preview for About Us But Not About Us

    A smart little thriller which asks some uncomfortable questions.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Two men and a mysterious manuscript.
  • Linoleum
    Review preview for Linoleum

    By the time that West is ready to show his hand directly, most viewers will be so wrapped up in Linoleum that that details will scarcely matter.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    When a satellite falls from orbit and crashes into the suburban home of a dysfunctional family in Ohio, the father seizes the opportunity to fulfil his dream of becoming an astronaut by re-building it into his own rocket ship. While his wife and daughter believe he's experiencing a midlife crisis, surreal events begin to unfold around him.
  • My Love Affair With Marriage
    Review preview for My Love Affair With Marriage

    If there’s a single word to describe the latest film from Signe Baumane, it’s vibrancy.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Some people spend their lives wondering why a marriage didn’t last. Signe Baumane set out to get some answers. The result is this animated film, which combines ancient mythology and contemporary neuroscience.
  • A Letter From Helga
    Review preview for A Letter From Helga

    A film as interested in the dynamics of romance as it is in romance itself.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Two very different, married people fall in love in a remote Icelandic community.
  • Pensive
    Review preview for Pensive

    Shooting much of this at night on a low budget, Trukanas pulls off some impressive work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A graduation weekend away goes drastically wrong when a masked killer shows up.
  • Typist Artist Pirate King
    Review preview for Typist Artist Pirate King

    Much more of a natural crowd-pleaser than her previous works, this might be Morley’s most successful film to date.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A road movie which draws from the archives of artist Audrey Amiss.
  • Victim
    Review preview for Victim

    Blasko tells the story with a plainness which adds to its power, sometimes using news-style framing as if to remind us of the political moment which we’re living through.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A Ukranian immigrant faces racism as she seeks justice.
  • The Whale
    Review preview for The Whale

    A film that often lacks subtlety in its execution despite the performances and impressive make-up craft.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

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