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Black Nights 2023 / Critics’ Picks


15 articles available in total starting from 11/10/2023. Last article published on 23/11/2023.

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Janez Burger  • Director of Observing

Interview: Janez Burger • Director of Observing

"How can people watch a crime on social media without helping or calling the police?"

The Slovenian filmmaker discusses his film, based on a vicious crime after two friends beat a colleague and broadcast the event on Facebook Live to 20,000 people  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

Niki Nikitin  • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

Interview: Niki Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

"The Critics' Picks section represents global diversity in every sense, especially in the artistic and geopolitical realms"

The curator breaks down the second edition of the festival's new competitive strand devoted to powerful and artistically outstanding works that might otherwise be overlooked  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

Review: The Old Man and the Land

Review: The Old Man and the Land

Nicholas Parish’s feature debut is a laudable attempt at audio-driven film storytelling, occasionally reaching something unique in its tale of an intransigent English farmer  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

Interview: Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

“Directors should only make films about the things they know”

The Hungarian director immortalises a train-ticket scam in this animation for adults, the first-ever animated flick to be shown in Critics’ Picks  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Natálie Císařovská • Director of Her Body

Interview: Natálie Císařovská • Director of Her Body

“I would like the audience to understand that it’s also about her soul”

In this compassionate debut feature by the Czech director, the human body can be a tool, or an obstacle  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Lessons of Tolerance

Review: Lessons of Tolerance

Arkadiy Nepytaliuk's single-location comedy shows a working-class Ukrainian family aiming to rid itself of homophobia and prejudice  

20/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

Phedon Papamichael  • Director of Light Falls

Interview: Phedon Papamichael • Director of Light Falls

"It's a very violent film where the First World clashes with the Third World"

The Greek helmer follows a young couple on holiday as they explore an abandoned hotel; however, an accident and a clash of different worlds set off a spiral of violence and revenge  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

Review: Light Falls

Review: Light Falls

The latest directorial effort from cinematographer Phedon Papamichael tries to mask its ugly essence with lots of craft and style  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Review: The Milky Way

Review: The Milky Way

Maya Kenig examines motherhood, capitalism and social differences using a dystopian take on the concept of the human milk bank as the starting point  

16/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Szabolcs Hajdu  • Director of Kalman's Day

Interview: Szabolcs Hajdu • Director of Kalman's Day

“We go where the audiences are”

The Hungarian director has made a new chamber film about the nature of relationships, which he himself stars in  

16/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

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