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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2023

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023

Children's Rights Programme

Programme

9 films · 1 review

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Captain (Kapitan)

Eleven-year-old Isa is absolutely convinced that he will soon be playing for the Iranian national football team. Nothing can shake his confidence. Not even the fact that he is on a cancer ward...

(Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Mohammad Hamzei; Writer: Amir Mohammad Abdi; Stars: Pantea Panahiha, Pejman Bazeghi, Sepideh Eydi, Amir Hossein Bayat, Parham Gholamlou, Amir Ali Moghadam, Mahbod Byour, Arghavan Shabani)

Clenched Fist (Les Poings Serrés)

An 11-year-old encounters his jailbird dad at his gran's funeral and decides to start seeing him again, but at what cost?

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Vivian Goffette; Writer: Vivian Goffette; Stars: Yanis Frisch, Lucie Debay, Wim Willaert, Mila De Mol, Laurent Capelluto, Paulo Schmit)

It's Always Been Me (Forvandlingen - Frihed kommer indefra)

Documentary about two transgender youngsters as they face choices.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Julie Bezerra Madsen)

Role Model

(Country: Slovenia, Serbia, Czechia, Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Nejc Gazvoda; Writer: Nejc Gazvoda, Tomislav Zajec; Stars: Mojca Funkl, France Mandic, Jure Henigman, Marina Redzepovic, Vesna Pernarcic, Klara Kuk, Matej Puc, Mirjam Korbar, Luka Cimpric, Spela Rozin, Alenka Kraigher)

Sand Flakes

A teenager starts publishing stories about his family on an online forum but becomes increasingly fearful he will be exposed.

(Country: Israel; Year: 2023; Director: Gitit Kabiri, Yahel Kabiri; Writer: Gitit Kabiri; Stars: Shani Cohen, Yossi Marshek, Ori Pfeffer, Lucy Aharish, Yonatan Lahav-Weisberg)

The Teachers' Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer)

Review preview for The Teachers' Lounge

Thrums from start to almost finish with the sweaty tension of a looming maths test.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: İlker Çatak; Writer: İlker Çatak; Stars: Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer, Anne-Kathrin Gummich)

This Is Going To Be Big

Portrait of neurodiverse teens with big dreams preparing for their school’s quirky musical about Australia’s favourite son, John Farnham.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Thomas Charles Hyland)

We Will Not Fade Away

For five teenagers living in the war-torn Donbas region of Ukraine, a Himalayan expedition provides a brief escape from reality.

(Country: Ukraine, Poland, France; Year: 2023; Director: Alisa Kovalenko; Writer: Alisa Kovalenko; Stars: Alisa Kovalenko)

Who Am I Smiling For?

Mari, a young woman facing last stage cancer, is fighting fiercely over the custody rights of her children, trying to prove that in spite of her condition, she is still a fully capable mother. I

(Country: Estonia; Year: 2023; Director: Eeva Mägi; Stars: Oliver Cypriano, Mari Minn, Urmas Minn, Maie Minn, Martin Minn)