Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2020

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Wendy and County Lines
Big Boys Don't Cry (Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Steve Crowhurst; Writer: Kal Bonner, Steve Crowhurst; Stars: Daniel Adegboyega, Victoria Alcock, Andrew Baguley, Julie Binysh, Archie Bradfield, Hollie Burrows, Ray Calleja, Theo Collins, Paul Connolly, Joshua Coombes, Tasha Cowley, Barbara D'Alterio, Lucinda Davidson, Robert Donald, John Ellis-Hall)
Based on true events, Paul is forced to recall his harrowing childhood growing up in a children’s home, when a police investigation into his boyhood friend’s suicide opens old wounds.
County Lines (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Henry Blake; Writer: Henry Blake; Stars: Harris Dickinson, Marcus Rutherford, Ashley Madekwe, Clay Milner Russell, Conrad Khan, Chizzy Akudolu, Shauna Shim, Carlyss Peer, Johanna Stanton, Mika Wingate, Stephen Leask, Fen Wilson, Anthony Adjekum, Michael Oku, Sean Berry)
Drama about a boy, 14, who is used as a drugs mule by traffickers.
My Life As A Comedian (En komikers uppväxt) (Country: Sweden; Year: 2019; Director: Rojda Sekersöz; Writer: Jonas Gardell; Stars: Jakob Eklund, Arvin Kananian, Johan Rheborg, Gizem Erdogan, Fredrik Hallgren, Anna Bjelkerud, Leif Edlund, Maria Sid, Teo Dellback, Loke Hellberg, Ulla Skoog, Kerstin Gandler, Cilla Thorell, Klara Zimmergren, Ulf Rönnerstrand)
A comic who used to be a class joker gets a visit from an old friend that forces him to return home and deal with his past.
Needle Park Baby (Platzspitzbaby) (Country: Switzerland; Year: 2020; Director: Pierre Monnard; Writer: André Küttel, Michelle Halbheer, Franziska K. Müller; Stars: Luna Mwezi, Jerry Hoffmann, Sarah Spale, Anouk Petri, Esther Gemsch, Michael Schertenleib, Caspar Kaeser, Delio Malär, Thomas Hostettler, Jorik Wenger, Lea Whitcher, Emilio Marchisella, Luna Mwezi, Jerry Hoffmann, Sarah Spale)
A girl and her heroin addict mum are relocated to the countryside, where the youngster forms new friendships.
One For All (Country: Spain; Year: 2020; Director: David Ilundain; Writer: Coral Cruz, David Planell, Valentina Viso; Stars: David Verdaguer, Patricia López Arnaiz, Clara Segura, Betsy Túrnez, Ana Labordeta, Jorge Pobes, Valèria Endrino, Vega Vallés, Néstor Romero, David Verdaguer, Patricia López Arnaiz, Clara Segura, Betsy Túrnez, Ana Labordeta, Jorge Pobes)
A substitute teacher takes on a class of sixth graders in a town completely new to him. When he discovers that he has to reintegrate a sick student into the classroom he stumbles on an even bigger problem: none of his classmates wants him to return.
Oskar And Lilli (Where No one Knows Us) (Country: Austria; Year: 2020; Director: Arash T Riahi; Writer: Arash T Riahi, Monika Helfer; Stars: Rosa Zant, Leopold Pallua, Anna Fenderl, Simone Fuith, Viktor Krüger, Ines Miro, Alexandra Maria Nutz, Christine Ostermayer, Sonja Romei, Alice Marie Schneider, Rainer Wöss, Markus Zett, Rosa Zant, Leopold Pallua, Anna Fenderl)
A couple of kids who are due to be deported are separated after she attempts suicide.
Tell Her (Country: Russia; Year: 2020; Director: Aleksandr Molochnikov; Writer: Aleksandr Molochnikov, Alexander Talal, Ilya Tilkin; Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Wolfgang Cerny, Igor Chernevich, Annaka Fourneret, Kay Aleks Getts, Marina Ignatova, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Marik Knight, Mark Krenik, Lloyd McCullough, Kenneth J. Morgan, Laurie Morgan, Irina Romasheva, Irina Rozanova, Aleksey Serebryakov)
Tug-of-love drama.
Vacarme (Country: Canada; Year: 2020; Director: Frederick Neegan Trudel; Writer: Jonathan Lemire, Frederick Neegan Trudel; Stars: Rosalie Pépin, Sophie Desmarais, Kelly Depeault, Rosalie Julien, Rudi Loup Duperré, Christophe Levac, Gabriel Verdier, Kimia Esfahani, Jacques Beverley, Alexis Lefebvre, Gus Logan, Karl Farah, Rosalie Pépin, Sophie Desmarais, Kelly Depeault)
A teenager in a group home is desperate to flee her new reality but music lessons offer her fresh hope.
Wendy (Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Benh Zeitlin; Writer: Benh Zeitlin, Eliza Zeitlin; Stars: Devin France, Yashua Mack, Gavin Naquin, Gage Naquin, Shay Walker, Tommie Lynn Milazzo, Stephanie Lynn Wilson)
Lost on a mysterious island where ageing and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril of growing up. The classic story of Peter Pan is wildly reimagined in this ragtag epic.
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