Il Black Nights di Tallinn annuncia la line up del Concorso opere prime

di Davide Abbatescianni

14/10/2022 - Il festival estone promette un programma ricco e diversificato che comprende 20 opere prime, tra cui dieci anteprime mondiali e otto internazionali

Il Black Nights di Tallinn annuncia la line up del Concorso opere prime

The Land Within di Fisnik Maxville

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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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Czech Republic/Slovakia), described as “a socio-political drama edging into tragicomedy, focused on a divorcee single mum”; Fisnik Maxville’s The Land Within [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Fisnik Maxville
scheda film] (Switzerland/Kosovo), which digs deep into a very dark subject (namely, the exhumation of a Balkan mass grave), unravelling the familial clues and secrets uncovered within; and Titas Laucius’ Parade [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Lithuania), which zooms in on divorced exes who, after reuniting many years after the fact, find themselves closer than they ever had been before.

Meanwhile, the festival will host the much-anticipated international premieres of European pictures such as Neil Maskell’s Klokkenluider [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (UK), which revolves around a whistleblower Brit and his outspoken Flemish wife who are in hiding, tensely awaiting the arrival of the journalist who will tell all; Erika Calmeyer’s Storm [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Norway), a tale that questions whether the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter can overcome anything; and Katharina Woll’s Everybody Wants to Be Loved [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Katharina Woll
scheda film] (Germany), presented as “a deeply truthful tragicomic tale of a psychologist who needs one herself”.