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BLACK NIGHTS 2021 Compétition Premiers films

Tallinn annonce sa sélection Compétition Premiers films

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- Dix des titres retenus feront là leur première mondiale et le festival a d’ores et déjà prévenu qu’il y aura "un nombre surprenant d’enterrements”

Tallinn annonce sa sélection Compétition Premiers films
Troubled Minds de Raitis Ābele et Lauris Ābele

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Poised to celebrate its 25th anniversary in November, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is ready to reveal its First Feature Competition. “Let’s face it – making a debut feature film isn’t easy at the best of times. But it’s pressure that makes diamonds,” noted festival director Tiina Lokk in a statement.

“We saw enough debuts of a sufficiently high quality that we could have filled up two competition programmes. It’s a genuine shame that we can’t give all of these new directors and their unique films the platform they deserve. What we do have is a real celebration of cinema and a feast for the senses.”

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As for the world premieres, the line-up includes Malachi Smyth’s UK title The Score [+lire aussi :
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interview : Malachi Smyth
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, described as a “heist musical”, as two crooks sing their way down quite different paths, as well as Alice, Through the Looking [+lire aussi :
critique
interview : Adam Donen
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, directed by Adam Donen. Labelled as a “Brexit-referencing Alice in Wonderland retelling”, it will boast Vanessa Redgrave as a narrator. The Red Tree by Joan Gómez Endara and the semi-horror feature Other Cannibals [+lire aussi :
critique
interview : Francesco Sossai
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by Francesco Sossai were also chosen, alongside the dramedy Troubled Minds [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
interview : Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele…
fiche film
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, a Latvian-Polish co-production courtesy of the Ābele brothers, offering “a psychedelic ego trip, in the best possible way”. Lithuania’s Feature Film About Life [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
interview : Dovile Sarutyte
fiche film
]
by Dovilė Šarutytė will see a woman being forced to organise a DIY funeral for her recently departed father. The film was already part of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event’s 2020 Works in Progress programme.

Among the international premieres, France’s Her Way [+lire aussi :
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by Cécile Ducrocq will spotlight Call My Agent! thesp Laure Calamy in the lead role as an exceptionally determined and fiercely independent mother. Precious Ivie [+lire aussi :
critique
interview : Sarah Blaßkiewitz
fiche film
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by Germany’s Sarah Blaßkiewitz tracks the shifting relationship between two Afro-German half-sisters brought together by the death of their father – and their experience of the harsh reality of everyday racism in a city not as modern as it seems on the surface – while Serge Mirzabekiantz’s Dark Heart of the Forest [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Serge Mirzabekiantz
fiche film
]
will lead its viewers, predictably, into the woods, with two troubled teens in love seeking the sense of family that they both never really had.

Celebrated documentary director Iker Elorrieta will experiment with fiction in The Radio Amateur [+lire aussi :
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, and in Occupation [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Michal Nohejl
fiche film
]
, hailing from the Czech Republic and directed by Michal Nohejl, the arrival of a distinctly unwanted Russian in a bar full of Czech drinkers brings forth a vodka-soaked clash of cultures. Finally, the much-anticipated Other People [+lire aussi :
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interview : Aleksandra Terpińska
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by Aleksandra Terpińska will round off the selection. Based on the novel by popular Polish writer Dorota Masłowska, it will show a rich, bored housewife taking on a wannabe rapper first as her handyman, and then as her lover. Blind Love [+lire aussi :
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, a co-production between Kenya and Switzerland by Damien Hauser, will celebrate its European premiere at the festival, which will run from 12-28 November in Tallinn and Tartu.

You can find the full line-up of the First Feature Competition below:

The Score [+lire aussi :
critique
interview : Malachi Smyth
fiche film
]
- Malachi Smyth (UK)
The Cloud & The Man - Abhinandan Banerjee (India)
Alice, Through the Looking [+lire aussi :
critique
interview : Adam Donen
fiche film
]
- Adam Donen (UK)
Who Is Sleeping in Silver Grey - Liao Zihao (China)
Feature Film About Life [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Dovile Sarutyte
fiche film
]
- Dovilė Šartytė (Lithuania)
Troubled Minds [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele…
fiche film
]
- Raitis Ābele, Lauris Ābele (Latvia/Poland)
The Red Tree - Joan Gómez Rojo (Colombia/Panama/France)
Other Cannibals [+lire aussi :
critique
interview : Francesco Sossai
fiche film
]
- Francesco Sossai (Germany/Italy)
Life Suits Me Well - Al Hadi Ulad-Mohand (Morocco)
Tenzin - Michael LeBlanc, Joshua Reichmann (Canada)
Her Way [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film
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- Cécile Ducrocq (France)
Immersion - Nicolás Postiglione (Chile/Mexico)
Precious Ivie [+lire aussi :
critique
interview : Sarah Blaßkiewitz
fiche film
]
- Sarah Blaßkiewitz (Germany)
Dark Heart of the Forest [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Serge Mirzabekiantz
fiche film
]
- Serge Mirzabekiantz (Belgium/France)
Dozen of Norths [+lire aussi :
bande-annonce
fiche film
]
- Koji Yamamura (Japan)
The Radio Amateur [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film
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- Iker Elorrieta (Spain)
Zuhal [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film
]
- Nazli Elif Durlu (Turkey)
Occupation [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Michal Nohejl
fiche film
]
- Michal Nohejl (Czech Republic)
Other People [+lire aussi :
critique
interview : Aleksandra Terpińska
fiche film
]
- Aleksandra Terpińska (Poland/France)
Blind Love [+lire aussi :
critique
fiche film
]
- Damien Hauser (Kenya/Switzerland)

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