Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025

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The Good Daughter The Good Daughter
The Good Daughter and The Virgin Of The Quarry Lake
Anguish (Country: Spain; Year: 1987; Director: Bigas Luna)
A mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.
Beef (Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Ingride Santos)
A young rapper must confront her mother to succeed in the world of freestyle.
The Boy At The Edge Of The World (Country: Poland, Turkey, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Grzegorz Wacławek, Marta Szymańska)
Would you go to the end of the world to save your sister?
Emergency Exit (Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Lluís Miñarro; Writer: Lluís Miñarro)
A joyful gang embarks on an enigmatic trip.
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.
Sirât Sirât
Sirât and Romería
Forastera (Country: Italy, Sweden, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias; Writer: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias; Stars: Lluís Homar, Núria Prims, Zoe Stein, Mata Angelat, Nonni Ardal Hammarström)
During her Mallorca summer, Antonia recognises similarities with her late grandma. She develops an influence over her mourning grandpa through dress-up, blurring who inhabits who.
Frontier (Frontera) (Country: Spain, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Judith Colell)
A Spanish customs officer risks everything to help Jews escape Nazi-occupied France across the Pyrenees.
The Good Daughter (Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Júlia de Paz Solvas; Writer: Núria Dunjó, Júlia de Paz Solvas; Stars: Kiara Arancibia, Janet Novas, Julián Villagrán, Petra Martínez)
A teenager finds herself being manipulated by her violent father after her parents divorce.
In A Glass Cage (Country: Spain; Year: 1986; Director: Agusti Villaronga; Writer: Agusti Villaronga)
A doctor from a Nazi death camp who fled to Spain continues his horrific activities, only to find himself in an iron lung.
Last Night I Conquered The City Of Thebes (Country: Spain, Portugal; Year: 2025; Director: Gabriel Azorín)
A group of Portuguese friends crosses the border into Spain to wander through the ruins of a Roman baths.
Leo & Lou (Country: Spain, UK, Romania; Year: 2025; Director: Carlos Solano)
Two lost souls end up on a life-changing adventure.
Life In Shadows (Country: Spain; Year: 1949; Director: Lorenzo Llobet Gracia)
An portrait of a man in love with the cinema.
Los Tarantos (Country: Spain; Year: 1963; Director: Francesc Rovira Beleta)
Romeo and Juliet adaptation.
Magellan (Country: Philippines, Spain, Portugal, France; Year: 2025; Director: Lav Diaz; Writer: Lav Diaz; Stars: Gael García Bernal, Amado Arjay Babon, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Hazel Orencio, Ronnie Lazaro, Rafael Morais, Bong Cabrera, Tomás Alves, Ivo Arroja, Valdemar Santos, Sasa Cabalquinto, Mario Castro, Paulo Calatré, Max Grosse Majench)
Magellan is a navigator rebelling against the power of the King, due to his humanism and belief in justice. But once he is finally in command of the Spice Fleet, in which he will make the first circumnavigation of the Earth, what will his journey unravel about himself?
Maria Rosa (Year: 1965; Director: Armando Moreno)
Marsal, at night and without witnesses, kills a man and driven by his passion for María Rosa, causes conclusive evidence of his crime to fall on Andrés, her husband.
Miss Jobson (Country: Jamaica, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Amanda Sans Pantling)
The life, laughter, and legacy of Bob Marley’s fearless lawyer, 80-year-old Miss Jobson.
Nomad Shadow (Country: US, Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Eimi Imanishi; Writer: Eimi Imanishi)
A young and magnetic Sahrawi woman, Mariam, is deported from Spain back to her family home in Western Sahara.
Nothing Personal (Country: Spain, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Javier Marco)
Lina, a well-known TV host, appears at Pedro’s doorstep to confront him about a cruel message he posted about her online. What begins as a showdown soon turns into an awkward living arrangement...
Ocaña, An Intermittent Portrait (Country: Spain; Year: 1978; Director: Ventura Pons)
Documentary focused on Ocaña, a painter from Andalusia who found the artistic freedom he lacked in the South in Barcelona.
Olivia And The Invisible Earthquake (Country: Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Chile, France; Year: 2025; Director: Irene Iborra, Irene Iborra Rizo)
Twelve-year-old Olivia, her little brother Tim, and their mother are forced to leave their apartment and move to a new neighbourhood. In an attempt to shield Tim from the distress of the situation, Olivia convinces him that it is all part of a film.
Romería (Country: Spain, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Tristán Ulloa, José Ángel Egido, Sara Casasnovas, Miryam Gallego, Janet Novás, Mitch Martín, Celine Tyll, Mitch Robles, Llúcia Garcia, Sergio Quintana, David Saraiva)
Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met.
Sirât (Sirat) (Country: Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Óliver Laxe; Writer: Santiago Fillol, Óliver Laxe; Stars: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez)
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Strange River (Estrany riu) (Country: Spain, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Jaume Claret Muxart; Writer: Jaume Claret Muxart, Meritxell Colell; Stars: Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Francesco Wenz, Jordi Oriol, Bernat Solé, Roc Colell)
Sixteen-year-old Dídac and his family are spending the summer holidays on a cycling trip along the Danube. An unexpected encounter with another boy changes the course of the journey.
They Will Be Dust (Country: Spain, Switzerland, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet)
After a woman and her husband decide to head to a euthanasia clinic, their daughter goes with them.
Things I Never Told You (Year: 1996; Director: Isabel Coixet)
Ann, a cute video camera store clerk, moves to a strange city just to be closer to Bob, her boyfriend. Trouble starts when Bob breaks up with her.
Three Goodbyes (Tre Ciotole) (Country: Italy, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Isabel Coixet; Writer: Enrico Audenino, Isabel Coixet, based on the book by Michela Murgia; Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Silvia D'Amico, Galatea Bellugi, Francesco Carril, Sarita Choudhury)
As her partner embarks on a new restaurant venture, a teacher discovers that she's facing serious health problems.
The Treasure Of Barracuda (Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Llanos Campos)
Captain Barracuda is obsessed with finding the treasure, to achieve this, he enlists the help of Spark, a young girl pretending to be a boy in order to fit in with Barracuda’s savage pirate crew.
Umbracle (Year: 1972; Director: Pere Portabella)
Christopher Lee, freed from narrative ties, drifts through a spectral Barcelona.
The Virgin Of The Quarry Lake (Country: Argentina, Spain, Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Laura Casabe; Writer: Benjamín Naishtat; Stars: Fernanda Echevarría, Dady Brieva, Dolores Oliverio, Luisa Merelas, Agustín Sosa)
In 2001, three teenagers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all fall in love with Diego. Natalia has always had the most chemistry with him, but when it seems inevitable that their friendship will turn into something more, the older and more experienced Silvia appears and soon captures Diego’s attention.
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