Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025

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Cutting Through Rocks Cutting Through Rocks
Cutting Through Rocks and Cuba & Alaska
2000 Meters To Andriivka (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Mstyslav Chernov)
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that this war may never end.
Andre Is An Idiot (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Anthony Benna)
Andre, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humour.
Below The Clouds (Sotto Le Nuvole) (Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Gianfranco Rosi; Writer: Gianfranco Rosi)
Documenting Vesuvius, featuring traces of history, the excavation of time, the remains of everyday life.
Cuba & Alaska (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Yegor Troyanovsky)
Documentary following the friendship of two paramedics on the frontline in Ukraine.
Cutting Through Rocks (Country: Qatar, Chile, Iran, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, US; Year: 2025; Director: Mohammad Reza Eyni, Sara Khaki)
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.
The Last Ambassador The Last Ambassador
The Last Ambassador and 2000 Meters To Andriivka
The Dating Game (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Violet Du Feng)
In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love.
Divia (Country: Poland, Ukraine, Netherlands, US; Year: 2025; Director: Dmytro Hreshko)
A look at the environmental impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the ways that nature has reclaimed abandoned areas.
Fiume O Morte! (Country: Croatia, Italy, Slovenia; Year: 2025; Director: Igor Bezinović)
Citizens of Rijeka, which Italians call Fiume, retell, reconstruct, and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in 1919 by the Italian poet, a dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D'Annunzio.
The Flight Of The Stork (Country: Spain, Qatar; Year: 2025; Director: Soumaya Hidalgo Djahdou, Berta Vicente Salas)
Between Barcelona and Algeria, a young woman seeks to reconcile three generations of women divided by faith and exile.
Kabul, Between Prayers (Country: Netherlands, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Aboozar Amini)
Documentary about a Taliban part-time soldier and his younger brother.
Kabul, Between Prayers Kabul, Between Prayers
Kabul, Between Prayers and Below The Clouds
The Last Ambassador (Country: Austria; Year: 2025; Director: Natalie Halla; Writer: Natalie Halla; Stars: Manizha Bakhtari, Naser Hotaki, Parnian Hotaki)
Profile of the Afghan ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, as she defies the incoming Taliban government and fights for women's rights.
Memory (Country: France, Netherlands; Year: 2025; Director: Vladlena Sandu)
Vladlena Sandu studies her traumatic memories of the war in Chechnya.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (Country: Czechia, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: David Borenstein, Pavel Ilyich Talankin; Writer: David Borenstein)
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
North South Man Woman (Country: Norway, Latvia, South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Sun Kim, Morten Traavik; Writer: Sun Kim, Morten Traavik)
North Korean women meet South Korean men in a look at love, business and geopolitics.
Silver (Country: Poland; Year: 2025; Director: Natalia Koniarz)
A look at the world of the inhabitants of the highest mine in Bolivia.
The Dating Game The Dating Game
The Dating Game and Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Tales Of The Wounded Land (Country: Lebanon; Year: 2025; Director: Abbas Fahdel)
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Timestamp (Strichka Chasu) (Country: France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Kateryna Gornostai; Writer: Kateryna Gornostai; Stars: Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets, Valeriia Hukova, Yelyzaveta Loza, Svitlana Popova, Mykola Shpak)
Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with pupils and teachers striving to carry on learning even under constant threat. The film is a mosaic of the everyday lives of teachers and students from different corners of Ukraine.
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