Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019

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The Lighthouse The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse and After Midnight
After Midnight (Something Else) (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella; Writer: Jeremy Gardner; Stars: Henry Zebrowski, Justin Benson, Brea Grant, Jeremy Gardner)
A man struggles with loneliness, the possible collapse of his relationship and the fact that every night a monster tries to break into his house.
Baskin (Country: Turkey, US; Year: 2015; Director: Can Evrenol; Writer: Ogulcan Eren Akay, Can Evrenol; Stars: Muharrem Bayrak, Mehmet Akif Budak, Fadik Bülbül, Derin Cankaya, Mehmet Cerrahoglu)
A squad of unsuspecting cops goes through a trapdoor to Hell after stumbling upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.
Deerskin (Le Daim) (Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Writer: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Pierre Gommé, Laurent Nicolas, Coralie Russier, Stéphane Jobert, Franck Lebreton, Marie Bunel, Panayotis Pascot, Youssef Hajdi, Simon Thomas, Tom Hudson, Maryne Cayon, Thomas Blanchard)
Georges, 44, and his jacket, 100 per cent deerskin, have a plan.
First Love (Hatsukoi) (Country: Japan, UK; Year: 2019; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Masaru Nakamura; Stars: Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, Sakurako Konishi, Becky, Jun Murakami, Sansei Shiomi, Seiyo Uchino)
Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Little does Leo know, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads.
The Golden Glove (Country: Germany, France; Year: 2019; Director: Fatih Akin; Writer: Fatih Akin, Heinz Strunk; Stars: Marc Hosemann, Adam Bousdoukos, Jonas Dassler, Tristan Göbel, Margarete Tiesel, Katja Studt, Hark Bohm, Philipp Baltus, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Uwe Rohde, Dirk Böhling, Lars Nagel, Marc Hosemann, Adam Bousdoukos, Jonas Dassler)
Portrait of the infamous serial killer Fritz Honka.
Deerskin Deerskin
Deerskin and Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway
Happy Times (Nitra’e BeSmachot) (Country: US, Israel; Year: 2019; Director: Michael Mayer; Writer: Guy Ayal, Michael Mayer; Stars: Shani Atias, Michael Aloni, Iris Bahr, Stéfi Celma, Rigo Obezo, Kevin Thoms, Guy Adler, Griffin Kramer, Sophia Santi, Mike Burstyn, Liraz Chamami, Daniel Lavid, Alon Pdut, Ido Mor, Shani Atias)
Over the course of a Shabbat dinner at a fancy Hollywood Hills mansion, a toxic mix of alcohol, egos, cultural differences, lust and greed derails the evening.
Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway (Country: Spain, Estonia, Ethiopia; Year: 2019; Director: Miguel Llansó; Writer: Miguel Llansó; Stars: Agustín Mateo, Daniel Tadesse, Guillermo Llansó)
Two CIA agents are tasked with the perilous mission of destroying the Soviet Union, but as they enter a VR simulation their mission turns into a delirious trap, with the fabric of reality unravelling around them
The Lighthouse (Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Robert Eggers; Writer: Max Eggers, Robert Eggers; Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe)
A tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
The Lodge (Country: UK, US; Year: 2019; Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz; Writer: Sergio Casci, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz; Stars: Richard Armitage, Riley Keough, Alicia Silverstone, Jaeden Lieberher, Lia McHugh, Katelyn Wells, Lola Reid)
A young woman and her reticent new stepchildren find themselves isolated in the family’s remote winter cabin, locked away to dredge up the mysteries of her dark past.
The Wolf Wood (Myslennyy volk) (Country: Russia; Year: 2019; Director: Valeriya Gay Germanika; Writer: Yuriy Arabov; Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Liza Klimova, Asya Ozturk, Yuriy Turbin, Fyodor Lavrov, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Liza Klimova, Asya Ozturk, Yuriy Turbin, Fyodor Lavrov)
A story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love.
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