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Director – Jurgis Matulevičius – 2025 – Lithuania, Taiwan, Poland, Czechia – 96m ***** A former champion kickboxer whose career has been destroyed by his poor anger management attempts to find direction in life – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival World champion kickboxer Osvald Gurevicious (Marius Rapsys) has it all, but […]

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Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 18 2025
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Director – Eeva Mägi – 2025 – Estonia – 88m ***** A young ex-con imprisoned as a teenager for killing his younger brother tries to make his way in present-day Tallinn – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival I am wary of unscripted feature films. There is a reason why […]

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