The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (13-29 November) has unveiled the inaugural Tridens First Features competition line-up. Festival director Tiina Lokk says, “The festival was looking for the birth of an artist with an original and strong vision and the ability to engage the audiences with universally graspable messages.”

The festival has selected 14 world and international premieres from diverse regions with an aim to discover and showcase new talent. Estonian documentary filmmaker Urmas E. Liiv’s debut Ghost Mountaineer [+leggi anche:
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The journey, in a physical and, even more so, a moral sense is also a central theme in the Russian feature The Find, directed by Viktor Dement, where a fishing and hunting inspector accidentally stumbles on an abandoned baby through the Siberian forests. Israel’s Tova Ascher makes her directorial debut with A.K.A. Nadia, telling a story about a Palestinian woman forced to change her identity. US drama Lost in the White City, directed by Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman presents a story about artistic, emotional and sexual self-discovery in Tel Aviv. Australian film Pawno, by Paul Ireland, depicts the intersection of small stories in metropolitan Melbourne, a melting pot of cultures, races and people. An afterglow of an ancient culture in decline can be felt in Paraguayan-Argentinian co-production Guaraniby director Luis Zorraquin. Delivery, by Columbian director Martin Mejira Rugeles, shot in 16mm, follows a pregnant woman living in a distant Columbian forest village. The change of ties with one's habitat is one of the central conflicts in the Iranian actress Soheila Golestani’s directorial debut Two. And Loev, by Indian director Sudhansu Saria, presents a story of the complex triangular relationship between three gay Indian men.

The section includes two films Out of Competition: French film All Three of Us [+leggi anche:
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