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View other Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Films by strand: Baltic Competition, Best Of Fest, Children's Competition, Children's Rights Programme, Critics' Picks Competition, Doc@Just, Doc@PÖFF, Environment Agency Environmental Film Programme, Estonian Olympic Committee Sports Film Programme, First Feature Competition, Flowers are not silent. Resistance films of Belarus, In Focus: Israel, Just Film Youth Programme, Midnight Shivers, Opening Film and Special Screenings, Rebels With A Cause, Science360°, Screen International Critics' Choice, Shorts, Spotlight: Brazil, The Golden Ratio. Three Films with Lembit Ulfsak, Youth Competition, Youth Programme
The Wastetown and Driving Mum
578 Magnum (578: Phat dan cua ke dien)
(Country: Vietnam; Year: 2022; Director: Dung Luong Dinh; Writer: Dung Luong Dinh; Stars: Jessica Minh Anh, Anh Tuan Hac Martial Art, Alexandre Nguyen, Hoang Phuc Nguyen, H'Hen Niê, Nguyen Lam Thao Tam)
A truck driver goes on a revenge mission.
And Yet We Were All Blind (Toi non plus tu n'as rien vu)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Béatrice Pollet; Writer: Béatrice Pollet; Stars: Fatima Adoum, Kelly Bellacci, Grégoire Colin, Pascal Demolon, Ophélia Kolb, Roman Kolinka, Géraldine Nakache, Cécile Rittweger, Maud Wyler)
After a newborn is found a woman finds herself on trial, claiming she didn't know she was pregnant.
Ann
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2022; Director: Ciaran Creagh; Writer: Ciaran Creagh; Stars: Eileen Walsh, Zara Devlin, Ian Beattie)
Tale following a pregnant teenager, who is about to give birth.
Bungalow (Bangalo)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Lawrence Côté-Collins; Writer: Alexandre Auger, Lawrence Côté-Collins; Stars: Sonia Cordeau, Guillaume Cyr, Geneviève Schmidt, Ève Landry, Benoit Mauffette)
A young couple buys a rotten house with the intention of turning it into their dream home. But the more the renovations progress, the more their life turns into a nightmare.
Cold As Marble
(Country: France, Azerbaijan; Year: 2022; Director: Asif Rustamov; Writer: Roelof Jan Minneboo, Asif Rustamov; Stars: Natavan Abbasli, Elshan Askerova, Gurban Ismailov)
When a father is unexpectedly released from prison after serving ten years for killing his wife, his son wants to find out why he did it.
A Cup Of Coffee And New Shoes On
(Country: Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Gentian Koçi; Writer: Gentian Koçi; Stars: Edgar Morais, Rafael Morais, Drita Kabashi)
Deaf twin brothers find their world closing in after a devastating diagnosis.
Driving Mum (Á Ferð með Mömmu)
(Country: Estonia, Iceland; Year: 2022; Director: Hilmar Oddsson; Writer: Hilmar Oddsson; Stars: Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Hera Hilmar, Tómas Lemarquis, Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson, Pálmi Gestsson, Björn Stefánsson, Elva Ósk Ólafsdóttir, Ágúst Þór Ámundason, Magnús Ólafsson, Halldór Gylfason, Kjartan Bjargmundsson, Harpa Arnardóttir, Jóhann Sigurðsson, Guðlaug Elísabet Ólafsdóttir)
The death of Jon's mum forces him to take a trip with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish, with a dog along for the ride.
Ducks, An Urban Legend
(Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Shahar Rozen; Writer: Dudu Busi, Shahar Rozen; Stars: Roi Miller, Diana Abramov, Erez Drigues, Rinat Matatov, Sarel Piterman)
Black comedy set in Tel Aviv about five characters across three interwoven stories.
The Fox (Der Fuchs)
(Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Adrian Goiginger; Writer: Adrian Goiginger; Stars: Simon Morzé, Maximilian Reinwald, Karl Markovics, Karola Niederhuber, Marko Kerezovic)
Story of a young soldier's friendship with a fox, which leads to his past catching up with him.
Ginji The Speculator
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Ryuichi Mino; Writer: Ryuichi Mino; Stars: Yu Uemura, Yuki Morinaga, Sei Matobu, Hikari Kuroki, Tomoya Maeno)
A farm boy tries to make it big at the rice exchange in this historical comedy drama.
Hit Big
(Country: Finland; Year: 2022; Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää; Writer: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää; Stars: Pääru Oja, Johannes Holopainen, Outi Mäenpää, Jukka-Pekka Palo, Ilkka Heiskanen, Jari Pehkonen)
A former Miss Finland runner-up who is running a bar in Spain embarks on an unexpected heist.
Jailbird
(Country: Italy, Ukraine; Year: 2022; Director: Andrea Magnani; Writer: Andrea Magnani, Nicos Panayotopoulos; Stars: Adriano Tardiolo, Giovanni Calcagno, Nina Naboka, Barbora Bobulova, Maksim Kostyunin, Orest Syrvatka, Aylin Prandi, Stefano Cassetti, Gianluca Gobbi)
A boy who was born in and grew up in prison, ventures out into the world.
Lucky Bird
(Country: Ukraine; Year: 2022; Director: Marysia Nikitiuk; Writer: Marysia Nikitiuk; Stars: Ksenia Khyzhniak, Oleksiy Tritenko, Maxym Panchenko, Liliya Nesterenko, Kseniya Braginets, Igor Koltovskiy)
Nina is a young and successful TV star. She has everything in her life, until her life suddenly changes after she is receives a diagnosis.
Night
(Country: Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Mona J Hoel; Writer: Mona J Hoel; Stars: Henrik Rafaelsen, Jørgen Langhelle, Guri Glans, Marie Louise Tank)
A neurologist gets a diagnosis that turns her life on its head and she finds herself trying to stop her ex-husband from gaining custody of their children.
Piece Of My Heart
(Country: Belgium, Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Dana Nechushtan; Writer: Roos Ouwehand; Stars: Elaine Meijerink, Roos Englebert, Katelijne Damen, Peter Paul Muller, Daniël Boissevain)
A friendship between two ballet dancers is tested by ideas of toxic beauty.
Plastic Symphony (Applause)
(Country: Slovakia, Czechia, Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Juraj Lehotský; Writer: Juraj Lehotský; Stars: Bartosz Bielenia, Vojtěch Zdražil, Sabin Tambrea, Judit Bárdos)
A frustrated muscian struggles to find happiness.
The Punishment (El Castigo)
(Country: Argentina, Chile; Year: 2022; Director: Matías Bize; Writer: Coral Cruz; Stars: Antonia Zegers, Néstor Cantillana, Yair Juri, Catalina Saavedra, Santiago Urbina)
Ana and Mateo search for their son after leaving him alone for a few minutes as a punishment for misbehaving.
River Of Desire (O Rio Do Desejo)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Sérgio Machado; Writer: Sérgio Machado, George Walker Torres, Maria Camargo, Milton Hatoum; Stars: Sophie Charlotte, Daniel De Oliveira, Gabriel Leone, Romulo Braga)
Captain Dalberto quits his job and buys a boat after falling in love with Anaíra. The newlywed couple moves in with Dalberto’s two close brothers. At first, the situation is harmonious, but an inevitable family tragedy unfolds when the three men find themselves completely in love with the same woman.
Sanaa
(Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Sudhanshu Saria; Writer: Sudhanshu Saria; Stars: Radhika Madan, Sohum Shah, Pooja Bhatt, Shikha Talsania, Nikhil Khurana)
A successful woman battles hidden trauma.
Sashenka
(Country: Ukraine; Year: 2022; Director: Olexandr Zhovna; Writer: Olexandr Zhovna; Stars: Milena Kompaniiets, Dmitry Orlov, Dmitry Nizhelsky, Oxana Burlay-Piterova, Viktor Rybchinskiy)
After a double murder, the secret life of a family is revealed.
Servus Papa, See You In Hell
(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Christopher Roth; Writer: Christopher Roth, Jeanne Tremsal; Stars: Clemens Schick, Jana McKinnon, Aenne Schwarz, Hanns Zischler, Ina Paule Klink, Julia Anna Grob, Julia Hummer, Steffen Wink, Jeanne Tremsal, Arsseni Bultmann, Patrick Schorn, Anne-Marie Lux, Miriam Schiweck, Silva Bieler, Stefanie Früchtenicht)
Drama set within a cult commune revolving around a woman who falls in love in an environment where love is forbidden.
Stiekyt
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2022; Director: Etienne Fourie; Writer: Etienne Fourie; Stars: Llandi Beeslaar, Jacques Bessenger, Paul du Toit, Charlton George, Roberto Kyle, Herman Lensing, Albert Pretorius, Wessel Pretorius, Illse Roos, Cintaine Schutte, Carla Smith, Frannie van der Walt)
A struggling actor becomes a lip-synching drag queen in secret leading to a fresh set of challenges.
The Wastetown
(Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Ahmad Bahrami; Writer: Ahmad Bahrami; Stars: Baran Kowsari, Ali Bagheri, Babak Karimi, Behzad Dorani)
Bemani has spent ten years in jail for killing her husband. Her child was taken away in prison and allegedly given to her husband’s family. Temporarily released, she immediately starts looking for her son.
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