This year's selection includes fresh titles from Europe, Asia and North-America.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival unveils the full lineup of the Official Selection Competition of it’s 27th edition, adding 11 world premieres and 5 international premieres to the previously announced teaser selection. The Grand Prix for the Best Film (Grant of 20,000 Euros) will be handed over by Tallinn City Council.
The Official Selection Competition has been run in its present form since the festival received it’s ‘A-category’ status from FIAPF in 2014. Ever since, the Official Selection Competition has been curated without any geographic restrictions. This year, the programme includes world and international premieres of those established filmmakers that the festival’s programming team wishes to highlight for the audience, film critics and the international film industry.
Festival director and head of programme, Tiina Lokk, shares her excitement over the selection: "This year's diverse programme has remarkably high artistic value with a sharp social perspective. Each film tackles contemporary and relevant issues with a stimulating, fresh angle. At the same time, our Official Selection aims to connect high-quality narrative films with auteur cinema. Hence, new artistic approaches and cinema languages have always caught our attention." She adds humorously: "Everything that's currently in the air, will end up on the screens of the Tallinn Black Nights cinemas."
FULL LINEUP AND FILM DETAILS (including the 4 previously announced films)
Amal | International premiere; Belgium, 2023. director: Jawad Rhalib
Andrea's Love | International Premiere; Spain, 2023. director: Manuel Martín Cuenca
Bad Actor | World Premiere; Mexico, 2023. director: Jorge Cuchi
Ben-Joe | World Premiere; Japan, 2023. director: Akira Iwamatsu
Consent | International Premiere; France, 2023. director: Vanessa Filho
Familiar | World Premiere; Romania; France, Taiwan, 2023. director: Călin Peter Netzer
Forever Hold Your Peace | World Premiere; Montenegro, Serbia, Czech Republic, Croatia, North-Macedonia, Slovenia, 2023. director: Ivan Marinović
Invisible Windows | World Premiere; India, 2023. director: Dr. Bijukumar Demodaran
Misericordia | International Premiere; Italy, 2023. director: Emma Dante
Natasha's Dance | International Premiere; Netherlands, 2023. director: Jos Stelling
October Metafiction | World Premiere; South Korea, 2023. director: Kyu-jun Cho
Once Again (for the very first time) | World Premiere; USA, 2023. director: Boaz Yakin
Oxygen Station | World Premiere; Ukraine, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia, 2023. director: Ivan Tymchenko
Patient #1 | World Premiere; Georgia, 2023. director: Rezo Gigineishvili
Ten Months | World Premiere; Israel, 2023. director: Idan Hubel
Teresa | International Premiere; Spain, 2023. director: Paula Ortiz
The G | World Premiere; Canada, 2023. director: Karl R. Hearne
The Man from Rome | International Premiere; Netherlands, Germany, 2023. director: Jaap van Heusden.
The Magnet Man | World Premiere; Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, 2023. director: Gust Van den Berghe
White Flag | World Premiere; Mongolia, Switzerland, Japan, 2023. director: Batbayar Chogsom