Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022

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Burial Burial
Burial and Holy Shit!
Burial (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Ben Parker; Writer: Ben Parker; Stars: Tom Felton, Harriet Walter, Charlotte Vega, Barry Ward, Bill Miller, Dan Renton Skinner)
A small group of Russian soldiers have the task of taking Hitler's discovered remains back to Stalin in Moscow.
H4z4rd (Hazard) (Country: Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Jonas Govaerts; Writer: Trent Haaga; Stars: Tom Vermeir, Frank Lammers, Jennifer Heylen, Monic Hendrickx)
A man who who really loves his girlfriend, his daughter, and his car, accepts a driving job and gets into a race which will result in either losing his life, his family or his beloved car.
Holy Shit! (Ach Du Scheisse!) (Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Lukas Rinker; Writer: Lukas Rinker; Stars: Gedeon Burkhard, Friederike Kempter, Micaela Schäfer, Uke Bosse, Rodney Charles)
A man wakes up from a drunken stupor to find himself trapped in a portaloo, and realises that if he can't escape within an hour, it will explode.
Onpaku (Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2022; Director: Shugo Fujii; Writer: Shugo Fujii; Stars: Josie Ho, Lawrence Chou, Kazuya Takahashi, Tomoka Kurokawa, Yoshi Sakou)
A woman heading to Japan to buy into investment property runs into trouble.
Safe Word (Itoshi Teru!) (Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Kôji Shiraishi; Writer: Kôji Shiraishi, Kohei Taniguchi; Stars: Otsuha Ai, Kawase Chisako, Torinomi Nagisa, Ryuchell, Masahiro Takashima)
Underground idol Misa is headhunted by a BDSM club for her supposed—or rather, anticipated—talents as a dominatrix. Seeing the prospect as a challenge at first, the young woman soon uses the S&M sessions to expand her erotic and sexual self-perception.
Venus (Country: US, Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Jaume Balagueró; Writer: Fernando Navarro; Stars: Ester Expósito, Ángela Cremonte, Fernando Valdivielso, Federico Aguaro)
Horror invades the concrete corridors of a cursed apartment complex on the outskirts of Madrid.
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