Topping off the list of already announced titles – including Matías Ganz’s A Dog’s Death [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Rene Pannevis, Lorni - The Flaneur by Wanphrang Diengdoh, Saul at Night by Cory Santilli as well as The Names of the Flowers by Bahman Tavoosi and Bernardo Barreto’s The Seeker – the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has completed the selection of its First Feature Competition section. It’s one that, as Cineuropa finds out, embodies the festival’s mission to “discover emerging creative voices from all over the world, offering them a first launchpad and help to gain international recognition” – as well as a €5,000 grant, to be shared by the director and producer of the title named Best Film.

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Isaac [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Lithuanian director Jurgis Matulevičius will celebrate its world premiere, diving into the darkness of 20^th-century history with its focus on a political activist called Andrius Gluosnis, who kills the title character during the infamous Lietūkis Garage Massacre in 1941. “We wanted to comprehend the everyday life of the post-war Soviet era and to better understand our parents, grandparents and the whole society of that time,” says the director. “However, the ideas of the film should be relevant to any historical period, as Isaac is about the constant fight within the human being, with himself and his environment.” In turn, in Tomorrow We Are Free [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], Hossein Pourseifi (who himself was only four when his family moved to Germany) will go all the way back to 1979, showing a woman from East Germany following her husband to Tehran in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. Another bout of time travelling will be provided by Stories From the Chestnut Woods [+lire aussi :
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Italy’s Emanuela Rossi will switch things up with her “fairy tale for grown-up children” called Darkness [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], loosely inspired by Pádraic Ó Conaire’s novel Deoraíocht, which sees a musician, crippled in an accident, suddenly recruited by an avant-garde circus. “The story of Finky is structured around a psychological exploration of guilt, and the search for forgiveness and redemption. Finky is punishing himself for his sins; will he be able to forgive himself and move on?” explains the director to Cineuropa. “He is a complex character – full of rage, yearning, loss and hope. He is neither a hero nor a villain. His journey is similar to that of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and he embarks on a twisted odyssey over the rainbow. It’s a feverish and frenetic opera of the street: Finky’s not in Kansas any more.” Another unusual protagonist will come courtesy of Elisa Mishto’s Stay Still [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], a portrait of an acid-tongued mental patient, known for seducing men and setting things on fire. That is, until she meets a nurse, and a full-blown rebellion ensues.

Soroush Sehat will talk about life while addressing the ever-difficult subject of death in Dance With Me, with a group of old friends meeting up for a birthday only to receive some difficult news. Tricky topics will also be dealt with in Zoltán Nagy’s debut, On the Quiet [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], where a teenage boy – a lead violinist in his conservatory’s orchestra – learns something unpleasant about a veteran conductor he has been treating as a father figure. Complicated tensions find their way into Obscure as well, with Kunlin Wang presenting the journey of a boy who discovers a sexual relationship between two people he has been looking up to. Finally, Poland’s Bartosz Kruhlik will show Supernova [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – a mixture of different genres concentrating on a few hours in the life of a rural community, affected by an accident. “The participation of Supernova in the debut competition at the Black Nights Film Festival is a great joy for us and for the whole team,” Kruhlik tells Cineuropa. “I am very happy because it will be our first encounter with a foreign audience, already at an ‘A’ festival. We are a ‘young’ film, and the Tallinn Film Festival is still a fairly young event. I hope that something interesting will come out of the combination of these two energies.”

Here is the full line-up:

First Feature Competition

Looted [+lire aussi :
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Mater [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jure Pavlović
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A Dog’s Death [+lire aussi :
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Lorni - The Flaneur - Wanphrang Diengdoh (India)
Saul at Night - Cory Santilli (USA)
The Seeker - Bernardo Barreto (Brazil)
Dust and Ashes - Park Hee-kwon (South Korea)
The Names of the Flowers - Bahman Tavoosi (Bolivia/Qatar/USA/Canada)
Dance With Me - Soroush Sehat (Iran)
Darkness [+lire aussi :
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Finky [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dathai Keane
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On the Quiet [+lire aussi :
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interview : Zoltán Nagy
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Isaac [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jurgis Matulevičius
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Obscure - Kunlin Wang (USA/China)
Stay Still [+lire aussi :
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Stories From the Chestnut Woods [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Gregor Božič (Slovenia/Italy/Germany)
Supernova [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bartosz Kruhlik
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Tomorrow We Are Free [+lire aussi :
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interview : Hossein Pourseifi
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