Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022

View other Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Films by strand: Baltic Competition, Best Of Fest, Children's Competition, Children's Rights Programme, Critics' Picks Competition, Doc@Just, Doc@PÖFF, Environment Agency Environmental Film Programme, Estonian Olympic Committee Sports Film Programme, First Feature Competition, Flowers are not silent. Resistance films of Belarus, Just Film Youth Programme, Midnight Shivers, Official Selection, Opening Film and Special Screenings, Rebels With A Cause, Science360°, Screen International Critics' Choice, Shorts, Spotlight: Brazil, The Golden Ratio. Three Films with Lembit Ulfsak, Youth Competition, Youth Programme

Abulele Abulele
Abulele and My Neighbour Adolf
Abulele (Country: Israel; Year: 2015; Director: Jonathan Geva; Writer: Jonathan Geva; Stars: Yoav Sadian, Idan Barkai, Bar Minali, Makram Khoury, Nati Kluger, Micha Celektar), Official Site
A boy whose family is in crisis after his brother's death begins to put his life back together after meeting a friendly monster - but the monster may need his help.
Atash (Thirst, Tzimaon) (Country: Israel, Palestine; Year: 2004; Director: Tawfik Abu Wael; Writer: Tawfik Abu Wael; Stars: Hussein Yassin Mahajne, Amal Bweerat, Roba Blal, Jamila Abu Hussein, Ahamed Abed Elrani)
Members of an Arab family thirst for water, freedom and acceptance.
Avanti Popolo (Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Michael Wahrmann; Writer: Michael Wahrmann; Stars: André Gatti, Carlos Reichenbach, Eduardo Valente)
A son tries to reconnect with his father in a film that explores the nature of film.
Barren (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Mordechai Vardi; Writer: Mordechai Vardi; Stars: Mili Eshet, Yoav Rotman, Ilanit Ben-Yaakov, Nevo Kimchi, Gil Frank, Golan Azulai, Renana Raz, Henry David, Yana Yossef, Michael Weigel)
A childless young ultra-orthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment to help them conceive.
Big Eyes (Einayim G'dolot) (Country: Israel; Year: 1974; Director: Uri Zohar; Writer: Yaakov Shabtai, Uri Zohar; Stars: Uri Zohar, Arik Einstein, Elia Zohar, Tzvi Shissel, Talia Shapira)
A basketball coach faces choices.
Atash Atash
Atash and Avanti Popolo
Ducks, An Urban Legend (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Shahar Rozen; Writer: Dudu Busi, Shahar Rozen; Stars: Roi Miller, Diana Abramov, Erez Drigues, Rinat Matatov, Sarel Piterman)
Black comedy set in Tel Aviv about five characters across three interwoven stories.
The Good Person (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Eitan Anner; Writer: Eitan Anner; Stars: Moran Rosenblatt, Rami Heuberger, Lia Barnett, Uri Gottlieb)
An art house producer on the brink of bankcruptcy gets an opportunity when she is asked to collaborate with a director who wants to make a comeback.
In Bed (Ke’elu En Machar) (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Nitzan Gilady; Writer: Nitzan Gilady; Stars: Israel Ogalbo, Dean Miroshnikov, Moran Rosenblatt, Tom Baum, Dalia Beger)
After a shooting at a gay Pride event two friends take a third man home, who is in shock, entering a night of drugs and paranoia.
June Zero (Country: Israel, US; Year: 2022; Director: Jake Paltrow; Writer: Jake Paltrow, Tom Shoval; Stars: Koby Aderet, Adam Gabay, Tzahi Grad, Tom Hagi, Rotem Keinan, Yoav Levi, Noam Ovadia, Joy Rieger, Ami Smolartchik)
Drama about the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Karaoke (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Moshe Rosenthal; Writer: Moshe Rosenthal; Stars: Sasson Gabay, Rita Shukrun, Lior Ashkenazi)
A comedy about a married middle-class suburban couple in their 60s who are drawn to their new neighbour, a charismatic bachelor who has karaoke evenings at his apartment.
June Zero June Zero
June Zero and Karaoke
My Neighbour Adolf (Country: Israel, Colombia, Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Leon Prudovsky; Writer: Dmitry Malinsky, Leon Prudovsky; Stars: David Hayman, Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled, Danharry Colorado)
A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbour is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he commences an independent investigation in an effort to prove his claim.
The Other Widow (Country: Israel, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ma'ayan Rypp; Writer: Ma'ayan Rypp, Anat Gafni; Stars: Dana Ivgy, Ania Bukstein, Itamar Rotschild, Irit Gidron)
A woman who was having a long-term affair with a man who dies, attends his Shiva while masking her identity.
Summer Nights (Country: Israel, Eswatini; Year: 2021; Director: Ohad Milstein; Writer: Ohad Milstein)
A window into the world of a six-year-old.
The Taste Of Apples Is Red (Country: Israel, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Ehab Tarabieh; Writer: Sol Goodman, Ehab Tarabieh; Stars: Ruba Blal, Soheil Hadad, Shaden Kanboura, Makram Khoury, Tarik Kopty)
A sheikh finds himself in a moral quandary when a face from his past arrives on his doorstep.
Valeria Is Getting Married (Valeria Mithatenet) (Country: Israel, Ukraine; Year: 2022; Director: Michal Vinik; Writer: Michal Vinik; Stars: Lena Fraifeld, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Dasha Tvoronovich, Avraham Shalom Levi)
Christina is a Ukrainian woman who moved to Israel through a ‘bride-to-order’ kind of deal. Things work out well until her sister also arrives as a result of matchmaking.
Virginity (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Maor Zaguri; Writer: Maor Zaguri; Stars: Maor Levi, Liana Ayoun, Amos Tamam, Chen Amsalem-Zaguri, Or Adi, Itamar Kigler)
Drama about a boy discovering his sexuality at the same time as losing his mother.
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