Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2018

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Knife + Heart Knife + Heart
Knife + Heart and Under The Silver Lake
Climax (Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Gaspar Noé; Writer: Gaspar Noé)
Destroyer (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Karyn Kusama; Writer: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Scoot McNairy, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Toby Huss, Beau Knapp, Jade Pettyjohn, Shamier Anderson, James Jordan, Jay Hieron, Zach Villa, Mickey O'Hagan)
An LAPD detective whose undercover work ended in tragedy is faced to confront her past when the leader of the gang she was embedded in re-emerges.
Keep An Eye Out! (Au Poste!) (Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Writer: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize, Anaïs Demoustier, Orelsan, Philippe Duquesne, Jacky Lambert, Jeanne Rosa, Vincent Grass, Nahel Ange, July Messéan, Johnny Malle, Laurent Nicolas, Michel Hazanavicius, Pedro Winter)
A story that revolves around a mustachioed man who has found a body close to his home...
Knife + Heart (Un Couteau Dans Le Cour) (Country: France, Mexico; Year: 2018; Director: Yann Gonzalez; Writer: Yann Gonzalez, Cristiano Mangione; Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury, Noé Hernández, Pierre Emö, Pierre Pirol, Thibault Servière, Naëlle Dariya, Salim Torki, Jeremy Flaum, Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury, Noé Hernández, Pierre Emö, Félix Maritaud)
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald... then one of her actors is brutally murdered.
Mandy (Country: Belgium, US; Year: 2018; Director: Panos Cosmatos; Writer: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Bill Duke, Richard Brake, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouere, Hayley Saywell)
Pacific Northwest. 1983. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their haven is savagely destroyed by a cult, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance.
Tumbbad Tumbbad
Tumbbad and Suspiria
Perfect (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Eddie Alcazar; Writer: Eddie Alcazar, Ted Kupper; Stars: Abbie Cornish, Courtney Eaton, Maurice Compte, Tao Okamoto, Martin Sensmeier, Madeline Blake, Leonardo Nam, Shaun Ross, Rainey Qualley, Alicia Sanz, Hailee Keanna Lautenbach, Sarah McDaniel, Garrett Wareing, Victor Ortiz, Cazzey Louis Cereghino)
A nameless teenager is admitted to a special clinic. Hidden in the middle of vast jungle, young people come here to become better. Everyone has their story, our protagonist’s a little darker than others – he is admitted by his mother to stop him from killing again. An act he himself does not remember.
Suspiria (Country: Italy, US; Year: 2018; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, David Kajganich; Stars: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Christine Leboutte, Fabrizia Sacchi, Malgorzata Bela, Jessica Harper, Chloë Grace Moretz, Vanda Capriolo)
A nightmare brews in a dance company.
Tumbbad (Country: India; Year: 2018; Director: Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi, Adesh Prasad; Writer: Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi; Stars: Sohum Shah, Harish Khannaa, Anita Date, Mohd Samad, Jyoti Malshe, Deepak Damle, Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar, Sohum Shah, Harish Khannaa, Anita Date, Mohd Samad, Jyoti Malshe, Deepak Damle, Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar)
A greedy boy seeks out hidden riches in the dungeon beneath an ancestral house guarded by a terrifying deity.
Under The Silver Lake (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: David Robert Mitchell; Writer: David Robert Mitchell; Stars: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Patrick Fischler, Grace Van Patten, Callie Hernandez, Zosia Mamet, Jeremy Bobb, Sydney Sweeney, Jimmi Simpson, David Yow)
A man becomes obsessed with the strange circumstances of a billionaire mogul's murder and the kidnapping of a girl.
The World Is Yours (Le monde ou rien, Le Monde Est à Toi) (Year: 2018; Director: Romain Gavras; Writer: Karim Boukercha, Noé Debré, Romain Gavras; Stars: Karim Leklou, Vincent Cassel, Isabelle Adjani, François Damiens, Oulaya Amamra, Philippe Katerine, Michael John Treanor, Norbert Ferrer, Gabby Rose, Yun-Ping He, Karim Leklou, Vincent Cassel, Isabelle Adjani, François Damiens, Oulaya Amamra)
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