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Tallinn announces First Feature Competition line-up

Selection includes 10 world premieres

by Amber Wilkinson

Klokkenluider Photo: Courtesy of London Film Festival

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has announced its First Feature Competition titles.

The selection includes ten world premieres and eight international premieres in competition, with two international premieres screening out of competition, among the slate of 20 debuts.

Among the premieres are Fisnik Maxville’s The Land Within, which sees the direct move from documentary to fiction with the tale of the exhumation of a mass grave. Also moving from docs to fiction is Ivan Gergolet, who brings The Man Without Guilt, which the festival says is "a thoughtful and challenging appraisal of moving past tragic events".

There's one UK-made film in the line-up, comedy-thriller Klokkenluider, directed by actor-turned-director Neil Maskell (Kill List), which will make its international bow after premiering at the London Film Festival this month. It tells the story of a hapless government whistleblower and his partner who are hiding out in a remote Belgian cottage.

Festival Director Tiina Lokk commented, “Every year, I look at the programme we have assembled and feel we’ve taken a huge step forward as a festival. It’s an unfortunate reality of working at this level that we always have too many good films to squeeze them all into our competitions. What that does mean is that the new voices we have selected for this year’s First Features section are truly special. We can’t wait to introduce these films to the world.”

Black Nights Film Festival holds its 26th edition in 2022 and runs from November 11-27 in Tallinn & Tartu, Estonia. The full programmes of films will be announced at the start of next month.

First Features - In Competition