Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025

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Cuba & Alaska Cuba & Alaska
Cuba & Alaska and 2000 Meters To Andriivka
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.
Cuba & Alaska (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Yegor Troyanovsky)
Documentary following the friendship of two paramedics on the frontline in Ukraine.
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.
Dovzhenko. First Sight (Country: Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia; Year: 2025; Director: Kostiantyn Konovalov)
A closer look at the life of the legendary Ukrainian filmmaker.
Lost Stars Of The Horoscope (Country: Estonia; Year: 2025; Director: Katrina Lehismäe)
Follows three Ukrainian girls, Iryna, Sasha and Masha and their families over the course of a year as they attempt to build their new lives in Estonia.
One Day I Wish To See You Happy (Country: Ukraine, France; Year: 2025; Director: Maryna Nikolcheva; Writer: Maryna Nikolcheva)
In the quiet of their home, filmmaker Maryna Nikolcheva documents her husband Max as he drifts through a midlife crisis.
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.
Time To The Target (Country: Latvia, Czechia, Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Vitaly Mansky)
The daily struggle in Lviv.
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