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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2023

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023

Rebels With A Cause

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13 films · 1 review

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The Book Of Solutions

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(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Michel Gondry; Writer: Michel Gondry; Stars: Pierre Niney, Blanche Gardin, Camille Rutherford and Vincent Elbaz)

Out of Competition

The End (Artificial Fragments Of Human Kind)

Surreal drama

(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Aurélien Héraud, Olivier Héraud; Writer: Aurélien Héraud, Olivier Héraud; Stars: Clara Noël, Nicolas Girard-Michelotti, Charlotte Erika, Jérôme Cusin, Adeline Chagneau)

Everything, Everywhere

Mixes testimonies of real witnesses of the Balkan War with minimalist sci-fi.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Kah Wai Lim; Writer: Kah Wai Lim; Stars: Adela Sou, Shogen, Ying Jiang)

Five And A Half Love Stories In An Apartment In Vilnius, Lithuania (Penkios su puse meilės istorijos, nutikusios viename Vilniaus bute)

An empty flat is rented to various guests from Israel, Hungary, Poland, and Ireland. With every online reservation, a new story of love, hate, hope, and guilt evolves between the walls of the old building.

(Country: Lithuania, Ireland, Latvia; Year: 2023; Director: Tomas Vengris; Writer: Tomas Vengris, Tatia Rosenthal; Stars: Velta Žygure, Vidas Petkevičius, Valene Kane, Jonas Braškys, Alison Oliver)

The Ghosts Cult And Big Brother: Mad On The Final Black Night

Experimental film.

(Country: South Korea, Albania, Kosovo; Year: 2023; Director: Green Geng; Writer: Green Geng; Stars: Ekrem A Xani, Kim Yonghu, Chen Jieming, David Copo)

Good Savage

A young couple from the US, struggling with their marriage, decide to move to Mexico. As liberal artists, they seek inspiration and freedom but the reality is far from what they are imagining.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2023; Director: Santiago Mohar Volkow; Writer: Santiago Mohar Volkow, Andrew Leland Rogers; Stars: Naian González Norvind, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Andrew Leland Rogers, Alejandro Edda, Manuel García Rulfo)

I Don't Expect Anyone To Believe Me (No Voy A Pedirle A Nadie Que Me Crea)

A young man is ready for his PhD studies in Barcelona. But before he leaves Mexico, he’s carried away by thugs. They have a special request while they hold him and his cousin at gunpoint. It’s just the starting point of the absurd and sinister turns his life is taking.

(Country: Mexico, Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Fernando Frias; Writer: Maria Camila Arias, Fernando Frias; Stars: Darío Yazbek, Natalia Solián, Ana Castillo, Alexis Ayala, Carmen Beato, Ivano Palatucci, Juan Minujín, Bruna Cusí)

Out of Competition

I Trust You (En vos confío)

Documentary hybrid about Susana and Nélida who met in a convent. They abandoned their calling and adopted three-year-old Erika. They were happy, but in 2006, the women were accused of a crime and sentenced to 20 years in prison, although they maintained their innocence.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Agustín Toscano; Writer: Agustín Toscano)

King Khat

Review preview for King Khat

Marantz obviously shares Shalev's viewpoint on the subject but even if you don't, the personal nature of this pacy film is a large part of what makes it so enjoyable.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A young scientist becomes fascination by the psychoative properties of the khat plant and discovered it was a legal drug to make. This hybrid film considers what happens next

(Country: Israel, Portugal; Year: 2023; Director: Uri Marantz; Writer: Uri Marantz; Stars: Oshri Cohen, Hadar Diamond)

Full review See: Uri Marantz on making King Khat.. and why it's not a documentary

Life's A Bitch (Chiennes De Vie)

Three stories of humans and their dogs.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Xavier Seron; Writer: Xavier Seron; Stars: Jean-Jacques Rausin, Mara Taquin, Aurora Marion, Ninon Borseï, Arieh Worthalter, Louise Manteau)

Supermarket

A man makes himself at home in a closed supermarket, but gradually begins to suspect he is being watched.

(Country: Montenegro; Year: 2023; Director: Nemanja Becanovic; Writer: Nemanja Becanovic; Stars: Branimir Popovic, Bojan Zirovic, Ana Pejovic)

The Waves, The Sand, and Two Lovers in the Middle Of...

The sound of waves echoes in the silence. Yeong-jin and Jae-yeon go to the beach to sleep togethe

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Hong Ji-Yeong; Writer: Hong Ji-Yeong; Stars: Sunhee Bae, Han Hye-Ji)

Winter Howl (Aullido De Invierno)

Drama about two senior survivors of Colonia Dignidad.

(Country: Chile, Colombia, Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Matías Rojas Valencia; Writer: Matías Rojas Valencia; Stars: Ingrid Zsurgelies, Franz Bäar, Paulina García, Amalia Kassai, Patricia Cuyul, Clara Larraín)