After announcing the first batch of Official Selection titles (see the news), the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (16 November-3 December) has revealed the first seven films that will be taking part in its First Feature Competition. There are three countries that will be competing in this section for the first time: Lithuania, Denmark and Slovenia.

The Lithuanian-Finnish co-production Sasha Was Here [+lire aussi :
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Having its international premiere at Tallinn, Lifeboat [+lire aussi :
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Another co-production, this time between Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, Erased [+lire aussi :
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Two more international premieres hail from Germany and Russia. German director Henning Gronkowski's Yung [+lire aussi :
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Russian writer-director Kirill Sokolov’s Why Don't You Just Die! [+lire aussi :
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The remaining two titles come from Asia and will have their world premieres in the section: Kejal by Iran's Nima Sar and Wasted Eggs by Japan's Ryo Kawasaki.

Here is the list of titles announced so far: 

Erased [+lire aussi :
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Kejal - Nima Yar (Iran)
Lifeboat [+lire aussi :
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Sasha Was Here [+lire aussi :
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Wasted Eggs - Ryo Kawasaki (Japan)
Why Don't You Just Die! [+lire aussi :
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Yung [+lire aussi :
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