Tag: 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

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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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Your Mother’s Son
(Anak Ka Ng Ina Mo)

Director – Jun Robles Lana – 2023 – Philippines – Cert. none – 100m **** An intense cocktail of two uneasy, polyamorous relationships erupts into jealousy, betrayal and violence – sexually explicit political allegory of nepotism in Filipino politics plays in the spirit of the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film […]

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Pelikan Blue
(Kék Pelikan)

Pelikan Blue (Kék Pelikan) Director – László Csáki – 2023 – Hungary – Cert. none – 79m **** How three friends wanting to travel to the West after Hungary opened up in 1985 stumbled onto a lucrative scam forging rail tickets – innovative documentary employing animation premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th […]

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Everything, Everywhere

Director – Lim Kah Wai – 2023 – Japan – Cert. none – 88m ** A woman meets, loses then searches for a film director who makes films by travelling around finding places and people around which and whom to make films – premieres in the Rebels With A Cause Competition in the 27th Tallinn […]

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Her Body
(Její Telo)

Director – Natálie Císarovská – 2023 – Czechia, Slovakia – Cert. 18 – 105m **** Olympic diving champion Andrea Absolonová, forced by injury to abandon that career, reinvents herself as a porn actress – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Based on the real life story of […]

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Kalman’s Day (Kálmán-nap)

Director – Szabolcs Hajdu – 2023 – Hungary, Slovakia, US – Cert. none – 72m ***** In Kálmán and his wife’s house, another couple gather to celebrate his birthday in what turns out to be a devastating drama about relationships falling apart and coming to an end – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at […]

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Great Sertão
(Grande Sertão)

Director – Guel Arraes – 2023 – Brazil – Cert. none – 114m ***** The constantly shifting relationship between a man and his friend constantly shifts against the backdrop of a war between a street gang protecting their turf and an army trying to impose law and order – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition […]

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Lessons of Tolerance
(Uroky Tolerantnosti)

Director – Arkadii Nepytaliuk – 2023 – Ukraine – Cert. none – 95m ***** To help pay off her family’s debt with the accompanying grant, an exasperated teacher enlists her sceptical family in a state LGBT+ awareness training course – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition in the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival NSFW. […]

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PÖFF’s
Critics’ Picks Competition:
pick me again

Pelikan Blue

Jeremy Clarke anticipates his return visit to Tallinn to cover the second year of its Critics’ Picks strand Last year, I was privileged to be invited for the first time by DMovies.org’s publisher-editor Victor Fraga to attend the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. This year I’m back again, the major difference being that I have […]