Yesterday, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announced the full line-up of its First Feature Competition. The upcoming edition of the gathering will unspool from 11-27 November in the capital and in Tartu, the country’s second-largest city.

In detail, this year’s selection includes ten world premieres and eight international ones, with two of the latter screening out of competition. The festival will show 20 debuts and promises to deliver “a diverse, global programme that is of a consistently high artistic standard, but also surprises and delights with fresh insight and perspective”.

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Festival director Tiina Lokk said: “Every year, I look at the programme we have assembled and feel we’ve taken a huge step forward as a festival. It’s an unfortunate reality of working at this level that we always have too many good films to squeeze them all into our competitions. What that does mean is that the new voices we have selected for this year’s First Feature section are truly special. We can’t wait to introduce these films to the world.”

Among the world premieres of European title sare Zuzana Piussi’s The Unbalanced [+lire aussi :
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Meanwhile, the festival will host the much-anticipated international premieres of European pictures such as Neil Maskell’s Klokkenluider [+lire aussi :
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The full festival programmes will be announced at the start of November.

Here is the list of the titles announced for the First Feature Competition:

First Features – in competition

Amar Colony – Siddharth Chauhan (India)
The Unbalanced [+lire aussi :
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Pelican [+lire aussi :
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interview : Filip Heraković
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The Accident – Bruno Carboni (Brazil)
The Land Within [+lire aussi :
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The Man Without Guilt [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ivan Gergolet
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Parade [+lire aussi :
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interview : Titas Laucius
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Upon Entry [+lire aussi :
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The Other Widow [+lire aussi :
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Amusia [+lire aussi :
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Klokkenluider [+lire aussi :
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The Hatcher – Grzegorz Molda (Poland)
Punch – Welby Ings (New Zealand)
Everybody Wants to Be Loved [+lire aussi :
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Double Life – Enen Yo (Japan)
Until Branches Bend [+lire aussi :
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The Other Child – Kim Jing-young-IV (South Korea)
Storm [+lire aussi :
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First Features – out of competition

Phi 1.618 [+lire aussi :
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Barren – Mordechai Vardi (Israel)