BLACK NIGHTS 2019 Competición Óperas primas

El Black Nights de Tallin completa su selección de la Competición Óperas primas

22/10/2019 - El festival estonio ha añadido diez nuevos títulos, que incluyen ocho estrenos internacionales, a la lista de cintas de su segunda sección más importante

Finky, de Dathai Keane

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Topping off the list of already announced titles – including Matías Ganz’s A Dog’s Death [+lee también:
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Isaac [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] 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 [+lee también:
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Italy’s Emanuela Rossi will switch things up with her “fairy tale for grown-up children” called Darkness [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], 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 [+lee también:
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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 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], 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 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – 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.”