Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025

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The Baronesses (Les Baronnes) (Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France; Year: 2025; Director: Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui)
Four grandmas decide to perform Hamlet.
Blindsight (Piatră Foarfecă Hârtie) (Country: Romania, Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Adrian Sitaru; Writer: Adrian Sitaru)
Road movie shot from different characters' perspectives.
La Carn (Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Joan Porcel; Writer: Joan Porcel, Pere Antoni Sastre, Lluís Garau; Stars: Lluís Garau)
Lluís Garau, a young dancer, has created a performance inspired by Chatroulette, a platform that connects strangers at random via video call. In his restless search for connection and meaning, he becomes entangled in a series of increasingly unsettling encounters.
Emergency Exit (Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Lluís Miñarro; Writer: Lluís Miñarro)
A joyful gang embarks on an enigmatic trip.
Leleka (Country: Canada, France, Spain, Ukraine, US; Year: 2025; Director: Harald Hutter)
Sasha is a Ukrainian sculptor living in Paris who is haunted by absence and the war. Inspired by the death of her grandmother, she creates a sculpture and travels home to honour her memory. Margaux, a Belgian friend, accompanies her, carrying an old Bolex camera.
Lo-Fi (Country: Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Alican Durbaş)
Emre, a man in his early thirties, is moving out of his apartment... but is he ready to move?
The Megalomaniacs (Country: Greece, Cyprus, Colombia; Year: 2025; Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos)
A collaboration between an archaeologist and a potter begins as scholarly curiosity and evolves into a seductive duel of wit, vanity, and power.
MieMie ~She Can See~ (見え見え) (Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Katsutoshi Furuya)
Romantic fantasy revolving around a woman who sees ghosts.
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.
Rebels With A Cause - Catalonia
Turn Up The Sun (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jamie Adams)
A couple of artists arrive at a manor once frequented by royalty with a perfect plan. He is taking the trendy pictures for her new, chic pop album. It seems to be an ideal weekend, but then more people arrive at the mansion, and the game begins – a psychological game, for example.
Out of competition
Umbracle (Year: 1972; Director: Pere Portabella)
Christopher Lee, freed from narrative ties, drifts through a spectral Barcelona.
Rebels With A Cause - Catalonia
Vache Folle (Country: France, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: Hugo Diego Garcia, Lorenzo Bentivoglio)
A broken young father tries to win back his daughter from a violent rival.
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