Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has unveiled the full line-up for its official selection, featuring 19 world premieres, with the festival set to run from November 11-27.
World premieres include Finnish director J.-P. Valkeapää’s Hit Big, a Finland-Estonia-Spain co-production. Valkeapää’s credits include Dogs Wear Pants and They Have Escaped. The new film is about a Finnish former beauty pageant star, who left Finland for Spain’s Costa del Sol, finds her family’s murky criminal past starts to unravel. Charades is handling sales.
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There are three Ukrainian world premieres – Ukrainian filmmaker Marysia Nikitiuk’s Lucky Girl, about a TV star who throws herself into her career when faced with various health issues, Sashenka, from Alexander Zhovna, that’s based on a true Soviet murder story; and Jailbird, an Italy-Ukraine co-production from Italian filmmaker Andrea Magnani in his follow-up to his debut, Locarno premiere Easy. It follows an institutionalised child who grows into a distinctive adult.
From Ireland comes the world premiere of Ciaran Creagh’s Ann, set in 1980s Ireland, and looking at the last days of a pregnant teenager.
The festival announced its first seven features in the competition line-up in September, that included the return to Tallinn of Japan’s Ryuichi Mino for a second consecutive year with Ginji The Speculator and Iranian filmmaker Ahmad Bahrami’s The Wastetown. As also previously announced, the 26th edition of the festival will introduce a new competition programme, Critics’ Picks, starting with 15 arthouse features. This year’s Baltic Competition will exclusively screen fiction films and also considers minority Baltic co-productions.
Tallinn Black Nights official selection 2022
*denotes world premiere
Hit Big (Fin-Est-Sp)*
Dir. J.-P. Valkeapää
And Yet We Were All Blind (Fr)*
Dir. Béatrice Pollet
Jailbird (It-Ukr)*
Dir. Andrea Magnani
Piece Of My Heart (Neth-Belg)*
Dir. Dana Nechushtan
The Fox (Ger-Austria)*
Dir. Adrian Goiginger
Lucky Girl (Ukr)*
Dir. Marysia Nikitiuk
Night (Nor)*
Dir. Mona Hoel
Bungalow (Can)*
Dir. Lawrence Cote Collins
Cold As Marble (Azerbaijan-Fr)*
Dir. Asif Rustamov
Sanaa (India)*
Dir. Sudhanshu Saria
Ann (Ire)*
Dir. Ciaran Creagh
Sashenka (Ukr)*
Dir. Alexander Zhovna
Ducks An Urban Legend (Isr)*
Dir. Shachar Rozen
Plastic Symphony (Slovakia-Czech-Pol)*
Dir. Juraj Lehotský | world premiere
Servus Papa, See You in Hell (Germ)
Director. Christopher Roth
Stiekyt (S Afr)
Dir. Etienne Fourie
Official selection 2022 – previously announced
Driving Mum (Ice-Est)*
Dir. Hilmar Oddsson
A Cup Of Coffee And New Shoes On (Alb)*
Dir. Gentian Koçi
The Wastetown (Iran)*
Dir. Ahmad Bahrami
River of Desire (Bra)*
Dir. Sergio Machado
Ginji The Speculator (Jap)*
Dir. Ryuichi Mino
578 Magnum (Viet)
Dir. Lương Đình Dũng
The Punishment (Chile)
Dir. Matias Bize
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