The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (16 November-3 December) has revealed the first eight films that will take part in its main competition section, the Official Selection. Seven of these movies will have their world premieres at Tallinn, and four of them are European, while one is a European minority co-production.

Probably the hottest title on the list is Until We Fall [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm
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intervista: Samanou Acheche Sahlström
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Gábor Reisz, who provided Hungarian cinema with a breath of fresh air with his quirky 2014 Karlovy Vary comedy For Some Inexplicable Reason [+leggi anche:
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In seasoned Finnish writer Juha Lehtola's second film as a director, The Human Part [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: Aki Kaurismäki
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Albanian director Robert Budina, whose debut, Agon, was the country's Oscar submission in 2013, will take part in the competition with his sophomore feature, A Shelter Among the Clouds [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]. Set in the Albanian Alps, it is a story about a shepherd, woodcarver and devout Muslim with a slight intellectual disorder, whose life is thrown out of kilter after the death of his father and the return of his multi-faith family, who have their hearts set on seizing the old house.

The Colombian-French co-production Wandering Girl [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], the eighth feature-length film by Rubén Mendoza (The Stoplight Society and Miss Maria, Skirting the Mountain), is a road movie about four step-sisters from different mothers who are brought together by the death of their father and who embark on a journey to take the youngest of them to live with an aunt in the countryside.

Topping off the first Tallinn selection announcement are A Place to Live by Canada's Bernard Émond, The Guest by Egypt's Hadi Elbagoury and Two Fridas by Costa Rica's Ishtar Yasin.

The full line-up of the Official Selection will be announced on 18 October.

Here is the list of titles announced so far:

A Shelter Among the Clouds [+leggi anche:
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A Place to Live – Bernard Émond (Canada) 
Bad Poems [+leggi anche:
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The Guest – Hadi Elbagoury (Egypt)
The Human Part [+leggi anche:
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Two Fridas – Ishtar Yasin (Costa Rica)
Until We Fall [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm
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Wandering Girl [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rubén Mendoza, Sofía Paz J…
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