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The Old Man
and the Land

Director – Nicholas Parish – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** As he works on the land, an aging farmer hears his two adult children argue about the future of the family farm – plays UK cinemas from Friday, September 20th 2024, with previews from Monday, September 16th following its premiere in […]

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The Picks that spoiled our film critic!

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 21 2023
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Tallinn viewed from the Nordic Hotel Forum.

Jeremy Clarke returns to the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in order to cover the Critics’ Picks section (which is now on its second year); he encounters what’s probably the strongest section of the event Some people have a fear of flying. I don’t, but dislike of all the bureaucratic paraphernalia that surrounds airports. Not […]

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Mrs.

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 17 2023
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Director – Arati Kadev – 2023 – India – Cert. none – 111m **** After getting married, a woman is expected to work cheerfully from dawn to dusk, waiting on the menfolk of the house hand and foot – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival This is […]

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Fez Summer ’55
(” 55″ خمسة وخمسين)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 17 2023
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Director – Abdelhai Laraki – 2023 – Morocco – Cert. none – 114m **** An 11-year-old boy navigates the rooftops of a Moroccan city while insurgents plot the overthrow of French colonialists in private courtyards and sometimes confront the occupying police in the streets – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn […]

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The Land
Where Winds
Stood Still
(Zhel Toqtaghan Zher)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 16 2023
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Where Winds
Stood Still
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Director – Ardak Amirkulov – 2023 – Kazakhstan – Cert. none – 108m ***** A Kazakh mother made homeless by Soviet policy must protect her two sons in the harsh environment of the Steppes – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival An historical, period, survival movie. In […]

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Observing
(Opazovanje)

Director – Janez Burger – 2023 – Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia – Cert. none – 83m ***** A paramedic must deal with the aftermath of a man being kicked unconscious after people watch the incident on social media livestreaming – plays in the spirit of the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black […]

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Nobody Leaves Alive
(Ninguém Sai Vivo Daqui)

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Post date November 15 2023
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Director – André Ristum – 2023 – Brazil – Cert. none – 86m **** After a woman is incarcerated in Brazil’s notorious Colonia psychiatric hospital simply because she is pregnant outside of marriage, her hold on reality starts to disintegrate – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival […]

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Light Falls

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Post date November 15 2023
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Director – Phedon Papamichael – 2023 – Georgia, Greece, Albania, Germany – Cert. none – 90m***** A Greek island, a lesbian couple from L.A., migrant Albanian workers, a racist cop, and an abandoned brutalist hotel… What could possibly go wrong? – terrific thriller premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights […]

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The Milky Way
(Halav)

Director – Maya Kenig – 2023 – Israel, France – Cert. none – 94m *** In need of income to feed her baby, a mother gets a job in a factory breast-pumping out human milk for sale to rich mother clients – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film […]

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Daaaaaali! (Daaaaaali!)

Director – Quentin Dupieux – 2023 – France – Cert. none – 77m ***** Dali, played by five actors, repeatedly stalls a journalist’s attempts to film an interview with him, and a priest describes a dream over a meal – plays in the spirit of the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights […]

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