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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2024

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024

Rebels With A Cause

Programme

10 films

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Carole & Grey

The made-for-TikTok, oddball adventures of a man fetching his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend’s dog across NYC.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jon Bass; Writer: Jon Bass; Stars: Jon Bass, Steve Buscemi, Mary Wiseman, Rosaline Elbay, Dario Ladani Sanchez, Alex Mickiewicz, Sebastian Arroyo, Michael Buscemi, Natalie Liconti, Viktorija Mickute, Rhys Mitchell, Doug Moffitt, Martin Urbano)

Contact Lens

Getting rid of your contact lens as a way of breaking free.

(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Ruiqi Lu; Writer: Ruiqi Lu; Stars: Fan Chen, Yanni Dai, Shiqi Wu, Yunxi Zhong)

Everything That Will Happen Has Happened Already

In a post-pandemic world, a young scholar and a nameless stranger explore love amid urban desolation.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Vladan Nikolic, Julie Deffet, Shireen Khaled, Tal Shamir, Luz Marina Zamora; Writer: Vladan Nikolic, Shireen Khaled, Julie Deffet, Luz Marina Zamora; Stars: Austin Chick, Didier Flamand, Jessica Lee, Agnes Artych, Nada Abou Farhat, Christopher Mowod, Tatiana Mabo, Majdi Machmouchi, Henry Watkins, François-Michel Van der Rest, Alison Ishtar)

I Can't Have Sex

Bel Gatti can’t have sex, so her therapist suggests she make a film about it, turning her supposed external trauma into a boomerang.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Bel Gatti; Writer: Bel Gatti; Stars: Bel Gatti, Verónica Rubano, Juana Ferrero Venier, Maruja Bustamante)

The Memory Boom

What is inside the brain of a man whose memory is fading?

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Xenia Glen; Writer: Xenia Glen, Antosh Wojcik; Stars: Antosh Wojcik, Paul Antony Foster, Venus Foster, Crediton Tea Rooms)

Okamoto

Yakuza with a twist of strangeness.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Soujiro Sanada; Writer: Soujiro Sanada; Stars: Soujiro Sanada, Masaki Miura, Natsuko, Kentaro Tomita, Kazuhiko Kanayama)

Protected Men (Die geschützten Männer)

Satirical thriller set in a hypothetical world ruled by women.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Irene von Alberti; Writer: Robert Merle, Irene von Alberti; Stars: Britta Hammelstein, Mavie Hörbiger, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Bibiana Beglau, Godehard Giese, Julika Jenkins, Michaela Caspar, Sina Martens, Ruby Commey, Johanna Polley, Bastian Reiber, Roland Bonjour, Mathias Herrmann, Florian Appelius, Timo Jacobs)

A Sip Of Hell

Niko is tired of being offered the same roles time and again. Frustrated by social injustice, she agrees to star in a debut feature but soon retreats to a remote wooden house to recharge, analyse the script, and rehearse alone. Suddenly, the filthy Rafa knocks on her door, shattering the calmness of her solitude.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Mariano Asseff, Pilar Boyle; Writer: Pilar Boyle; Stars: Pilar Boyle, Romina Sznaider, José Luis Arias, Ignacio Torres, Melina Loscalzo, Mercedes Moltedo, Brenda Lafalle, Manuela Obrego, Rosario Boyle, Adrian Uribe, Fernanda Rodriguez, Cristian Cabrera, Florencia Naftulewicz, Julio Gutierrez, Julieta Lloret)

Tesa Man

Experimental music film.

(Country: Latvia; Year: 2024; Director: Ugis Olte; Writer: Ugis Olte; Stars: Agate Marija Buksa, Darta Cirule, Burmeisters Davis, Andris Eglitis, Milta Elizabete, Dace Everss, Kitija Geidane, Burmeisters Janis, Tone Karlis, Klavs Mellis)

Yellow

Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel, Albert Oehlen; Writer: Albert Oehlen; Stars: Ben Becker, Birgit Minichmayr, Charlotte Taschen, Christoph Dreher, Thomas Fehlmann, Julia Rüther, Karlotta Frahm, Thomas Grünfeld, Maya Oehlen, Rüdiger Carl, Sven Ake Johansson, Jutta Koether, Simon Hemmer, Daniela Henke, Thomas Houseago, Steamboat Switzerland, Marino Pliakas, Dominik Blum, Lucas Niggli)