Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022

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, Official Selection, 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 Programme

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La Maternal and Linoleum
12 Dares (12 bragder) (Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Izer Aliu; Writer: Izer Aliu; Stars: Gorgees Khoshaba, John Hanna, Gustav Tieleman, Ali Ridha Hussein, Elias Majdalany, Dani Barkho, Geggi Barkho, Rudi Abraham, Johannes Dogan, Özlem Göghan, Magda Said, Hafdis Arnarsdottir, Flora Hanota, Ronny Abraham, Ronny Fritsche)
A teenager tries to get himself back into a gang by taking on a dozen dares.
Larry (Country: Hungary; Year: 2022; Director: Szilárd Bernáth; Writer: Szilárd Bernáth, Gergö V. Nagy; Stars: Anna Szandtner, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Benett Vilmányi)
A stutterer discovers hip hop is a way to get rid of his speech impediment.
Linoleum (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Colin West; Writer: Colin West; Stars: Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush, Amy Hargreaves, West Duchovny, Michael Ian Black, Tony Shalhoub, Elisabeth Henry, Roger Hendricks Simon)
When a satellite falls from orbit and crashes into the suburban home of a dysfunctional family in Ohio, the father seizes the opportunity to fulfil his dream of becoming an astronaut by re-building it into his own rocket ship. While his wife and daughter believe he's experiencing a midlife crisis, surreal events begin to unfold around him.
Listen (Akouse me) (Country: Greece; Year: 2022; Director: Maria Douza; Writer: Maria Douza; Stars: Evangelia Adreadaki, Yoanna Boukovska, Dimitris Kitsos, Nikos Koukas, Efthalia Papacosta, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos)
A hard of hearing teenager finds herself confronting prejudice, including her own, when she has to leave her school for a new one.
La Maternal (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Pilar Palomero; Writer: Pilar Palomero; Stars: Rubén Martínez, Ángela Cervantes, Olga Hueso, Pepe Lorente, Neus Pàmies, Carla Quílez, Gal·la Sabaté, Jordan Dumes)
Drama about a teenager who becomes unexpectedly pregnant and is sent to a centre to live with other expectant youngsters.
School Society (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Alexandre Castagnetti; Writer: Alexandre Castagnetti, Béatrice Fournera; Stars: Sarah Suco, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Oussama Kheddam, Cécile Rebboah, Gérald Laroche, Yannick Renier, Yannick Choirat, Constance Dollé, Sofia Bendra, Lili Aupetit, Ryan Khelif, Nah Bilé, Jérémie Gavrilovic, Gabin Jouillerot, Estelle Luo)
Virginie Thévenot, a somewhat special math teacher, takes advantage of a general strike in a college to try an extraordinary experiment with a small group of students.
Sisters (Masas) (Country: Latvia, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Linda Olte; Stars: Emma Skirmante, Gerda Aljēna, Katrīna Krēsliņa, Iveta Pole, Elita Kļaviņa, Victoria Mayers-Gray, Neil McGarry, Igors Šelegovskis, Indra Briķe)
Two sisters face adoption to the US but one is keener to go than the other.
Six Weeks (Country: Hungary; Year: 2022; Director: Noémi Veronika Szakonyi; Writer: Máté Artur Vincze, Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, Daoud Dániel; Stars: Katalin Román, Zsuzsa Járó, Lana Szczaurski, Mónika Balsai, András Mészáros, Katalin Takács, Anna Györgyi, Kitty Keresztesi, Kendra Molnár, Novák Laura, Tibor Bánky, Tímea Búza, Kata Füle, Marcsi Garay, Lajos Ottó Horváth)
A teenager who falls pregnant gives the baby up for adoption... but she legally has six weeks to change her mind.
Summer To Come (Jövő nyár) (Country: Hungary; Year: 2022; Director: György Mór Kárpáti; Writer: György Mór Kárpáti; Stars: Rea Albert, Czipa András, Hunyadi Beatrix, Orsolya Bukovszky, Falusi Csenge, Szöllösi Eszter, Bianka Farkas, Gálhidy Gizella, Brezovszky Dániel György, Bari István, Márton Kerekes, Diána Aida Kiss, Csaba Krisztik, Ágoston Liber, Bálint Maczky-Kö)
A love triangle and tensions brew at a drama camp.
Theo: A Conversation With Honesty (Theo: Eine Konversation Mit Der Ehrlichkeit) (Country: Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Damien Hauser; Writer: Damien Hauser, Esra Tas; Stars: Jakob Fessler, Fayrouz Gabriel, Julia Tremp, Jakob Fessler, Christian Sprecher, Hagar Admoni Schipper, Colin Vemba, David-Joel Oberholzer, Gizem Baruk, Claudia Mai, Luisa Wolf, Mehran Mahdavi, Lea Hilff, Benjamin Merz, Dave Pititto, Cordula C. Pozimowski, Petra Lossen, Franca Alicia, Christina Spaar, Shedea Dona Walser, Sira Topic, Fredy Kuttipurathu, Roger Nydegger, Norbert Gubser, Simon Roffler, Clovis Kasanda, Fali Thalong, Linus Cart, David Gees, Nino Ubezio, Ursin Schmid, Luca Przekoracki, Joel Krol, Roger Kolly, Jana Jankovska)
An inexperienced teenager runs into trouble during his first sexual encounter.
Virginity (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Maor Zaguri; Writer: Maor Zaguri; Stars: Maor Levi, Liana Ayoun, Amos Tamam, Chen Amsalem-Zaguri, Or Adi, Itamar Kigler)
Drama about a boy discovering his sexuality at the same time as losing his mother.
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