Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2026

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Tin Castle and Candidates Of Death
American Doctor (Country: US, Palestinian Territory, Malaysia, Qatar, Denmark, Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Poh Si Teng)
When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
The Beauty Of Errors (Country: Finland, Sweden, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen; Writer: Jukka Kärkkäinen; Stars: Tero Pihkakoski, Henri Pihkakoski)
Observational documentary about three generations of a family.
Burgundy (Country: France; Year: 90; Director: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw; Stars: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw)
The story of Burgundy’s most extraordinary characters and a celebration of the pleasure that defines their lives.
Candidates Of Death (Country: Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Maciej Cuske)
A father goes on holiday with his son and two of his friends, during which time they make an amateur horror film together. As the years pass, they continue to shoot scenes for their “handcrafted,” carefree, imaginative horror project, with even more passion, dutiful consistency, and unwavering commitment: the documentary chronicles a decade of this adventure.
Closure (Country: Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Michał Marczak)
After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
Closure Closure
Closure and Letters from the Silenced Country
Daughters Of The Forest (Country: Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Otilia Portillo Padua; Writer: Sheerly Avni, Greg Boustead, Sara Dosa; Stars: Eliseete Ramirez Carbajal, Julia Dolores Raimundo, Julieta Serafina Amaya, Olivia Ayala Vázquez)
Deep in Mexico's forests, two Indigenous mycologists seek to reconcile the past and present while reimagining the future for themselves and the changing world they inhabit.
The History Of Concrete (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: John Wilson)
After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.
Letters from the Silenced Country (Listy) (Country: Poland, Germany, Lithuania; Year: 2026; Director: Andrei Kutsila; Writer: Andrei Kutsila)
A hybrid documentary portraying contemporary Belarus through the individuals who have endured imprisonment, repression, and exile — voices from a silenced country, suffocated by the regime.
Nino - A Film About Nino Rota (Nino - Un Film Su Nino Rota) (Country: Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Walter Fasano; Stars: Nino Rota, Park Chan-wook, Alexandre Desplat, Vince Mendoza)
Documentary about the life of Italian composer Nino Rota, whose scores included La Strada and La Dolce Vita.
The Siege of Paradise (Country: Ireland, Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Gar O'Rourke; Writer: Gar O'Rourke; Stars: Gar O'Rourke)
In Cinque Terre on Italy’s northern Riviera, fewer than 3,000 locals endure over four million tourists each summer. Across one chaotic season, six very different lives play out in parallel.
American Doctor American Doctor
American Doctor and The History Of Concrete
Tin Castle (Irish Travellers) (Country: Ireland, France; Year: 2026; Director: Alexander Murphy; Writer: Alexander Murphy, Jean-Baptiste Plard)
Along a long-forgotten road, the O’Reillys live in a rundown trailer stranded in the middle of the fields. Pa’, Lisa, and their ten children weather the seasons in their tin castle, heirs to a way of life on borrowed time. Under threat of eviction, their tenuous balance falters, yet – steadfast in their tradition – they resist.
Traces (Country: Ukraine, Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Alisa Kovalenko, Marysia Nikitiuk)
Documentary shines a light on Ukrainian women who, after surviving conflict-related sexual violence and torture during the Russian war of aggression, refuse to remain silent.
Whispers In May (Chun Ri Huan You) (Country: Hong Kong, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, China; Year: 2026; Director: Dongnan Chen; Stars: Mathxiemop Atnyop, Qi Huo, Lhithxamop Itgop, Lhithxamop Itsi)
In the remote Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends set out to find a skirt for her rite of passage. What begins as a small quest drifts into a suspended space of childhood, where time slows and the world is vast.
Yo (Love Is A Rebellious Bird) (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Anna Fitch, Banker White; Stars: Yolanda Shea, Anna Fitch, Dylan White)
Through beautifully constructed miniature sets and puppets, directors Anna Fitch and Banker White craft an elegy to the life and times of Anna’s beloved friend, Yo.
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