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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022

View other Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Films by strand: Baltic Competition, Best Of Fest, Children's Competition, Children's Rights Programme, Critics' Picks Competition, Doc@Just, Doc@PÖFF, Environment Agency Environmental Film Programme, Estonian Olympic Committee Sports Film Programme, First Feature Competition, Flowers are not silent. Resistance films of Belarus, In Focus: Israel, Just Film Youth Programme, Midnight Shivers, Official Selection, Rebels With A Cause, Science360°, Screen International Critics' Choice, Shorts, Spotlight: Brazil, The Golden Ratio. Three Films with Lembit Ulfsak, Youth Competition, Youth Programme

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Abulele and Monica
186 Kilometers (Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse, Jan Uuspõld Goes to Tartu) (Country: Estonia; Year: 2007; Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk; Writer: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk, Jan Uuspõld; Stars: Tiina Vilu Demjanov, Jan Uuspõld, Allar Remma, Veke Ahtiainen, Toomas Kirss, Madis Rästas, Terje Kissa, Arno Saar, Paul Hendrik Maimik, Doris Vahtra, Sonja Maria Sutt, Roman Baskin, Rita Raave, Mait Malmsten, Lembit Ulfsak)
A comedian whose life is going wrong is happy to be offered a role... but he has to hitchhike across the country to get it.
Abulele (Country: Israel; Year: 2015; Director: Jonathan Geva; Writer: Jonathan Geva; Stars: Yoav Sadian, Idan Barkai, Bar Minali, Makram Khoury, Nati Kluger, Micha Celektar), Official Site
A boy whose family is in crisis after his brother's death begins to put his life back together after meeting a friendly monster - but the monster may need his help.
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Monica (Country: US, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Andrea Pallaoro; Writer: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado; Stars: Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close)
An intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother.
Full Review See: Interview with Trace Lysette about Monica
My Neighbour Adolf (Country: Israel, Colombia, Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Leon Prudovsky; Writer: Dmitry Malinsky, Leon Prudovsky; Stars: David Hayman, Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled, Danharry Colorado)
A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbour is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he commences an independent investigation in an effort to prove his claim.
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Opening film
Nobody Wanted To Die (Country: Soviet Union; Year: 1965; Director: Vytautas Zalakevicius; Writer: Vytautas Zalakevicius; Stars: Kazimieras Vitkus, Regimantas Adomaitis, Bruno O'Ya, Juozas Budraitis, Algimantas Masiulis, Donatas Banionis, Vija Artmane, Eugenija Sulgaite, Danguole Baukaite, Bronius Babkauskas, Regina Zdanaviciute, Laimonas Noreika, Antanas Surna, Vytautas Tomkus, Antanas Barcas)
A tale of revenge set in the post-war turmoil of Lithuania.
Showing in homage to Bruno O'Ya
Perfect Number (Liczba doskonala) (Country: Poland, Israel, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Krzysztof Zanussi; Writer: Krzysztof Zanussi; Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Jan Marczewski, Julia Latosinska, Jan Nowicki, Ihor Aronov, Krzysztof Bialowas, Anais Bondu, Martin Budny, Hanna Chojnacka, Marcin Czarnik, Marek Czetwertynski, Lidia Duda, Konrad Eleryk, Alice Lucia Facente, Vladimir Friedman)
When a young mathematician meets his much older distant cousin he starts to reconsider his priorities.
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