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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2025

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025

Rebels With A Cause

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12 films · 1 review

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The Baronesses (Les Baronnes)

Four grandmas decide to perform Hamlet.

(Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France; Year: 2025; Director: Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui)

Blindsight (Piatră Foarfecă Hârtie)

Road movie shot from different characters' perspectives.

(Country: Romania, Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Adrian Sitaru; Writer: Adrian Sitaru)

La Carn

Review preview for La Carn

The genre elements never quite lock into a clean payoff, but the refusal to resolve things neatly leaves the viewer in a similarly unstable, hyper-vigilant state.

Edin Custo · 4.5 out of 5
Lluís Garau, a young dancer, has created a performance inspired by Chatroulette, a platform that connects strangers at random via video call. In his restless search for connection and meaning, he becomes entangled in a series of increasingly unsettling encounters.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Joan Porcel; Writer: Joan Porcel, Pere Antoni Sastre, Lluís Garau; Stars: Lluís Garau)

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Emergency Exit

A joyful gang embarks on an enigmatic trip.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Lluís Miñarro; Writer: Lluís Miñarro)

Leleka

Sasha is a Ukrainian sculptor living in Paris who is haunted by absence and the war. Inspired by the death of her grandmother, she creates a sculpture and travels home to honour her memory. Margaux, a Belgian friend, accompanies her, carrying an old Bolex camera.

(Country: Canada, France, Spain, Ukraine, US; Year: 2025; Director: Harald Hutter)

Lo-Fi

Emre, a man in his early thirties, is moving out of his apartment... but is he ready to move?

(Country: Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Alican Durbaş)

The Megalomaniacs

A collaboration between an archaeologist and a potter begins as scholarly curiosity and evolves into a seductive duel of wit, vanity, and power.

(Country: Greece, Cyprus, Colombia; Year: 2025; Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos)

MieMie ~She Can See~ (見え見え)

Romantic fantasy revolving around a woman who sees ghosts.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Katsutoshi Furuya)

Ocaña, An Intermittent Portrait

Documentary focused on Ocaña, a painter from Andalusia who found the artistic freedom he lacked in the South in Barcelona.

(Country: Spain; Year: 1978; Director: Ventura Pons)

Rebels With A Cause - Catalonia

Turn Up The Sun

A couple of artists arrive at a manor once frequented by royalty with a perfect plan. He is taking the trendy pictures for her new, chic pop album. It seems to be an ideal weekend, but then more people arrive at the mansion, and the game begins – a psychological game, for example.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jamie Adams)

Out of competition

Umbracle

Christopher Lee, freed from narrative ties, drifts through a spectral Barcelona.

(Year: 1972; Director: Pere Portabella)

Rebels With A Cause - Catalonia

Vache Folle

A broken young father tries to win back his daughter from a violent rival.

(Country: France, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: Hugo Diego Garcia, Lorenzo Bentivoglio)