Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023

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Between The Rains Between The Rains
Between The Rains and Songs Of Earth
Between The Rains (Country: Kenya; Year: 2023; Director: Andrew H Brown, Moses Thuranira)
A coming-of-age documentary following a young member of a formerly nomadic northern Kenyan community as they deal with the environmental and psychological effects of climate change.
Earth Protectors (Country: US, Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Anne de Carbuccia; Writer: Anne de Carbuccia, Dan Crane, Luigi Montebello; Stars: Roberto Ambrosini, Mariasole Bianco, Tashi Bista, Jared Cairuna Cauper, Dasha Filippova, Pilar Pandini, Julie Pullen, Liliana Rodriguez Cortes, Maxim Savchenko, Alexandria Villasenor)
Addresses our need to adapt as a species to the Anthropocene: the new era in which the impact of humans overwhelms natural cycles.
Mighty Afrin: In The Time Of Floods (Country: Greece, France; Year: 2023; Director: Angelos Rallis; Writer: Angelos Rallis; Stars: Afrin Khanom, Bonna Akter, Feroza Begum, Badal Sholid, Shorna Akter Asha, Abdul Al Jobayed, Golam Hasib, Taufik Emon, Rabiul Hasan, Shohan Hossen)
Climate change sends a 12-year-old on a journey to the city in this hybrid film.
Plastic Fantastic (Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Isa Willinger; Stars: Joshua Baca, Michael Braungart, Ingemar Bühler)
A documentary about the shocking scale of the plastics crisis, with insights into the hidden structures and systematic failures of a business model which works against real change and is actually driving increased plastics production.
Songs Of Earth (Fedrelandet) (Country: Norway; Year: 2023; Director: Margreth Olin; Writer: Margreth Olin; Stars: Jørgen Mykle)
Being connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.
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