Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2020

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And Tomorrow The Entire World (Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Julia von Heinz; Writer: John Quester, Julia von Heinz; Stars: Mala Emde, Noah Saavedra, Tonio Schneider, Andreas Lust, Matthias Emberger, Lee Huang, Frieda Knabe, Raffael Armbruster, Mala Emde, Noah Saavedra, Tonio Schneider, Andreas Lust, Matthias Emberger, Lee Huang, Frieda Knabe)
A woman begins to go to extremes to fight the extreme right.
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Country: Germany, Netherlands; Year: 2020; Director: Burhan Qurbani; Writer: Martin Behnke, Burhan Qurbani, based on the novel by Alfred Döblin; Stars: Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Martin Wuttke, Nils Verkooijen, Welket Bungué, Joachim Król, Lukhanyo Bele, Benny O.-Arthur, Annabelle Mandeng, Mira Elisa Goeres, Lena Schmidtke, Thomas Lawinky, Derek Meisenburg, Faris Saleh, Richard Fouofié Djimeli)
Modern adaptation of Weimar Republic era novel set in the present day.
Black Milk (Schwarze Milch) (Country: Germay, Mongolia; Year: 2020; Director: Uisenma Borchu; Stars: Gunsmaa Tsogzol, Uisenma Borchu, Terbish Demberel, Franz Rogowski, Borchu Bawaa)
After years of living in Germany a woman returns to Mongolia where she begins to strike up a connection with an older man.
Cocoon (Kokon) (Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Leonie Krippendorff; Stars: Lena Urzendowsky, Jella Haase, Lena Klenke, Elina Vildanova, Anja Schneider)
Nora grows through observation. Always at her big sister’s side, she drifts around the housing blocks and sees people being in love, being high, spiteful and tender. When Nora meets Romy, she suddenly feels trapped in her own skin, and she starts to recognize her true self.
Cortex (Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Moritz Bleibtreu; Writer: Moritz Bleibtreu; Stars: Anna Bederke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marc Hosemann, Martin Klempnow, Emily Kusche, Jannis Niewöhner, Nicholas Ofczarek, Nadja Uhl, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Anna Bederke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marc Hosemann, Martin Klempnow, Emily Kusche, Jannis Niewöhner)
A labyrinthine psycho-thriller in which the lives and dreams of two men intertwine.
Curveball - A True Story. Unfortunately (Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Johannes Naber; Writer: Oliver Keidel, Johannes Naber; Stars: Sebastian Blomberg, Franziska Brandmeier, Jeff Burrell, Marcus Calvin, Mike Davies, Simon Kerrison, Virginia Kull, Thorsten Merten, Dar Salim, Michael Wittenborn, George W. Bush, Joschka Fischer, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Gerhard Schröder)
Satire centred on a weapons inspector and an Iraqi asylum seeker.
Enfant Terrible (Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Oskar Roehler; Writer: Klaus Richter, Oskar Roehler; Stars: Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, Felix Hellmann, Anton Rattinger, Erdal Yildiz, Markus Hering, Michael Klammer, Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Jochen Schropp, Lucas Gregorowicz, Simon Böer, Antoine Monot Jr., Désirée Nick, Michael Ostrowski)
A portrait of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Exile (Exil) (Country: Germany, Belgium, Kosovo; Year: 2020; Director: Visar Morina; Writer: Visar Morina; Stars: Misel Maticevic, Sandra Hüller, Rainer Bock, Uwe Preuss, Stephan Grossmann, Thomas Mraz, Flonja Kodheli, Daniel Sträßer, Piet Fuchs, Christian Skibinski, Misel Maticevic, Sandra Hüller, Rainer Bock, Uwe Preuss, Stephan Grossmann)
A chemical engineer feeling discriminated against and bullied at work plunges into an identity crisis.
Home (Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Franka Potente; Writer: Franka Potente; Stars: Kathy Bates, Jake McLaughlin, Lil Rel Howery, James Jordan, Katie McCabe)
A man returns home after 20 years in jail, prepared to take accept the repercussions of his past.
Rivale (Year: 2020; Director: Marcus Lenz; Writer: Lars Hubrich, Marcus Lenz; Stars: Yelizar Nazarenko, Udo Samel, Maria Bruni, Nina Kastorf, Evhen Chernykov, Rost Vasylyev, Anatoliy Marempolskiy, Hendrik Massute, Felix Knöpfle, Jule Böwe, Anatoly Bachinskyi, Yelizar Nazarenko, Udo Samel, Maria Bruni, Nina Kastorf)
When a boy follows his illegally working mum to Germany, he begins to forge a bond with the widower she works for... but trouble lies ahead.
Undine (Country: Germany, France; Year: 2020; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold; Stars: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz, Anne Ratte-Polle, Rafael Stachowiak, José Barros, Julia Franz Richter, Gloria Endres de Oliveira, Enno Trebs, Christoph Zrenner, Stefan Walz, Bita Steinjan)
Undine is a city historian on urban development in a Berlin museum, the 'place by the swamp'. When her boyfriend leaves her, she vows to kill the faithless man but soon meets another.
Walchensee Forever (Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Janna Ji Wonders; Writer: Nico Woche, Janna Ji Wonders)
Documentary charting the women in the director's family over the last century.
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