Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023

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The Diary Of Paulina P. (Country: Croatia; Year: 2023; Director: Neven Hitrec; Writer: Dora Delbianco, Ivan Turkovic Krnjak; Stars: Petar Atanasoski, Ljiljana Bogojevic, Josip Brakus, Domagoj Brekalo, Denis Brizic, Helena Buljan, Niksa Butijer, Areta Curkovic, Ivan Drmic, Aria Dunda, Judita Frankovic, Dusan Gojic, Ramona Ivanda, Iskra Jirsak, Slavica Knezevic)
The adventures of a schoolgirl.
Excursion (Country: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar; Year: 2023; Director: Una Gunjak; Stars: Asja Zara Lagumdzija, Maja Izetbegovic, Nadja Spaho, Mediha Musliovic, Izudin Bajrovic, Muhamed Hadzovic, Vedran Tuce)
A teenager seeking validation reveals she had sex for the first time during a game of 'truth or dare' among middle schoolers. Trapped in her own lie, she invents a pregnancy making things worse.
Forever Hold Your Peace (Živi i zdravi) (Country: Montenegro, Serbia, Czech Republic, Croatia, North-Macedonia, Slovenia; Year: 2023; Director: Ivan Marinović; Writer: Ivan Marinović; Stars: Tihana Lazović, Goran Slavić, Momčilo Pićurić, Goran Bogdan, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov, Dragana Dabović, Nikola Ristanovski, Mirjana Joković, Dejan Đonović)
Trouble brews at a wedding.
Guardians Of The Formula (Čuvari formule) (Country: Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia; Year: 2023; Director: Dragan Bjelogrlić; Writer: Vuk Ršumović, Ognjen Sviličić, Dragan Bjelogrlić, based on the novel by Goran Milašinovićm; Stars: Alexis Manenti, Radivoje Raša Bukvić, Lionel Abelanski, Ognjen Mićović, Anne Serra, Jérémie Laheurte)
October 1958. A group of young communist scientists get irradiated with a lethal dose of uranium. They are sent to Paris for medical treatment by Prof Mathé. Certain that they were making a nuclear weapon, Mathé proposes the first bone marrow transplant. Is it an experiment with living humans or does he truly want to help them?
Housekeeping For Beginners (Domakinstvo za Pocetnici) (Country: North Macedonia, Sweden, Kosovo, Poland, Serbia, Croatia; Year: 2023; Director: Goran Stolevski; Writer: Goran Stolevski; Stars: Rozafa Celaj, Sara Klimoska, Anamaria Marinca, Mia Mustafi, Aleksandra Pesevska, Samson Selim, Alina Serban, Vladimir Tintor, Ajse Useini)
A lesbian suddenly finds herself responsible for her partner’s two daughters.
Lost Country (Country: France, Serbia, Luxembourg, Croatia; Year: 2023; Director: Vladimir Perisic; Writer: Vladimir Perisic, Alice Winocour; Stars: Boris Isakovic, Jasna Djuricic, Marija Skaricic, Jovan Ginic)
The sensorial, emotional and political formation of a boy born at the beginning of the Eighties in Tito's Yugoslavia, growing up in a Yugoslav Communist family as the political system around him radically changes.
Observing (Opazovanje) (Country: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia; Year: 2023; Director: Janez Burger)
The true story of a live streaming of a beating that went viral is the starting point for this thriller.
Supermarket (Country: Montenegro; Year: 2023; Director: Nemanja Becanovic; Writer: Nemanja Becanovic; Stars: Branimir Popovic, Bojan Zirovic, Ana Pejovic)
A man makes himself at home in a closed supermarket, but gradually begins to suspect he is being watched.
Sweet Sorrow (Sunce mamino) (Country: Serbia, Croatia; Year: 2023; Director: Kosta Djordjević; Stars: Pavle Cemerikic, Branka Katic, Denis Muric, Alisa Radakovic)
After the death of his grandmother, Relja is faced with the dilemma of organizing her funeral, as his mother, Olga, refuses to do so.
The Working Class Goes To Heaven ( La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso) (Country: Italy; Year: 1971; Director: Elio Petri)
An injury transforms the life of an assembly line worker.
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