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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2026

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2026

Youth Programme

Programme

8 films

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17

A 17-year-old hides a secret on a school trip.

(Country: Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia; Year: 2026; Director: Kosara Mitić; Writer: Kosara Mitić, Ognjen Sviličić; Stars: Eva Kostić, Martina Danilovska, Dame Joveski, Eva Stojčevska, Petar Manikj, Jovan Todorov, Irena Dimeska, Mina Jelušić Jerinić, Luna Bejkov, Hristijan Risteski, Alina Hristovska, Žaklina Stefkovska, Oliver Mitkovski, Ana Stojanovska, Saško Kocev)

Big Girls Don't Cry

Over one transformative summer in rural New Zealand in 2006, 14-year-old Sid Bookman discovers desire, identity, and the internet as she imitates the people she longs to be loved by.

(Year: 2026; Director: Paloma Schneideman; Writer: Paloma Schneideman; Stars: Ani Palmer, Rain Spencer, Noah Taylor)

Congo Boy

Tale of a teenage refugee, whose musical dreams face challenges in the Central African Republic.

(Year: 2026; Director: Rafiki Fariala)

Extra Geography

In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.

(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2026; Director: Molly Manners; Writer: Miriam Battye; Stars: Iyla Sundarsingh McKaig, Alice Englert, Galaxie Clear, Marni Duggan)

A Girl Unknown (Wu ming nü hai)

A Chinese girl grows up from the age of 6 to 18 across three families, each giving her a new name and a different life. As she searches for belonging and the possibility of love, she must face the weight of her past and and the uncertainty of her future - until she finds her own way.

(Country: China, France; Year: 2026; Director: Zou Jing; Writer: Zou Jing; Stars: Li Gengxi, Zu Feng, Shen Jiani, Cao Ruofan)

Mouse

When two girls' friendship is upended one forms a complicated relationship with the other one's mother.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson; Writer: Kelly O’Sullivan; Stars: Sophie Okonedo, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Chloe Coleman, Tara Mallen, Iman Vellani)

Oasis

When a viral video of a student threatening his classmates surfaces online, the school spirals into escalating violence. Crushed by the pressure of teachers and parents, three outcasts take refuge in a nearby forest.

(Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2026; Director: Jannis Lenz; Stars: Florian Geißelmann, Anton Petzold, Mathilda Smidt, Godehard Giese)

Tangles

When Alzheimer's disease begins to strip away her mother's vibrant personality, a headstrong young woman is forced to return to her oddball family in the conservative small town she recently fled in order to care for her

(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Leah Nelson; Writer: Leah Nelson, Trev Renney; Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Samira Wiley, Beanie Feldstein, Seth Rogen, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, Pamela Adlon, Sarah Silverman, Adam Shapiro, Fern Grandin)