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Tallinn Black Nights film festival notches up its 23rd year, opening on November 15 and closing on December 1.
The programme has begun to be announced.
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- Baltic Film Competition
- Doc@PÖFF
- Estonian Olympic Committee Sports Film Programme
- First Feature Competition
- Fresh Currents
- In Focus: Sizzling Arabia
- Just Film Youth Competition
- Just Film: Children
- Just Film: Children's Rights
- Just Film: Doc@Just
- Just Film: Science 360
- Just Film: Youth
- Midnight Shivers
- MMF Arvo Pärt Centre film
- New German Cinema
- Official Selection
- Rebels With A Cause
- Screen International Critics' Choice
- Signatures
- Special Screenings
View previous years coverage of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival festival:
Black Nights Latest Reviews

Documentary about the Marcos family and Imelda's continued influence on politics in the Philippines.

A directionless call centre salesman gets more than he bargained for when he joins a local gym

Documentary about an underground Syrian hospital and its staff

Trouble brews on Father's Day when a woman returns to her family home for the first time in four years.

An ageing fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera's gaze.

Satire following a lonely boy and his imaginary friend Adolf Hitler, whose nationalistic views are challenged when he discovers his mum is hiding a young Jewish girl.

In 1845, a fisherman ends up on the run for crimes he didn't commit.

A Roma woman, who was the Roma Gypsy Queen, returns to boxing after becoming disillusioned with her life.

Amid the dust storms and economic depression of Dustbowl Era Oklahoma, Eugene Evans finds his family farm on the brink of foreclosure. His last bet to save the farm is the bounty on the head of fugitive bank robber Allison Wells.

A portrait of modern Icelandic society.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Features
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival News

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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