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, 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, Opening Film and Special Screenings, Rebels With A Cause, Science360°, Screen International Critics' Choice, Shorts, Spotlight: Brazil, The Golden Ratio. Three Films with Lembit Ulfsak, Youth Competition, Youth Programme

Wake Me Wake Me
Wake Me and Typist Artist Pirate King
About Us But Not About Us (Country: Philippines; Year: 2022; Director: Jun Robles Lana; Writer: Jun Robles Lana; Stars: Romnick Sarmenta, Elijah Canlas)
Two men and a mysterious manuscript.
The Bone Breakers (Spaccaossa) (Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Vincenzo Pirrotta; Writer: Ignazio Rosato; Stars: Vincenzo Pirrotta, Selene Caramazza, Aurora Quattrocchi, Antonino Bruschetta, Giovanni Calcagno, Simona Malato, Luigi Lo Cascio, Maziar Firouzi, Filippo Luna, Paride Cicirello, Maurizio Bologna, Gabriele Cicirello, Claudio Collovà, Rossella Leone)
A criminal gang recruits people to have their bones broken in order to claim on the insurance.
Call Of God (Köne Taevast) (Country: Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Lithuania; Year: 2022; Director: Kim Ki-duk; Writer: Kim Ki-duk; Stars: Abylai Maratov, Omurbek Nurdinov, Zhanel Sergazina, Artykpai Suyundukov)
A young woman and an older man embark upon a relationship which becomes emotionally overwhelming for them both.
Out of competition
The Chambermaid (Sluzka) (Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Mariana Čengel Solčanská; Writer: Mariana Čengel Solčanská; Stars: Dana Droppová, Radka Cadlová, Vica Kerekes, Zuzana Mauréry, Anna Geislerová)
Melodrama about 15-year-olds Anka and wealthy-born Res who, though from opposite ends of the social ladder, fall in love but tragedy strikes.
A Childless Village (Sonsuz) (Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Reza Jamali; Stars: Hamdollah Salimi, Behrouz Allahverdizadeh, Maryam Momen, Safat Ahari, Naser Mohebi)
Twenty years ago, in a remote village, an old filmmaker named Kazem made a film on the sterility of the women villagers, but in order to protect their dignity, the women stole the footages and burnt them. Now, after two decades, the villagers find out that the men are barren and there is nothing wrong with the women. With the help of his assistant, Kazem tries to record some interviews with the infertile men to unfold the truth…
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About Us But Not About Us and Sparta
Conversations On Hatred (Conversaciones sobre el odio) (Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Vera Fogwill; Writer: Vera Fogwill; Stars: Cecilia Roth, Maricel Álvarez)
A real-time story of a farewell between two terminally ill women.
The Good Person (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Eitan Anner; Writer: Eitan Anner; Stars: Moran Rosenblatt, Rami Heuberger, Lia Barnett, Uri Gottlieb)
An art house producer on the brink of bankcruptcy gets an opportunity when she is asked to collaborate with a director who wants to make a comeback.
In The Morning Of La Petite Mort (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2021; Director: Wang Yu-Lin; Writer: Wang Yu-Lin; Stars: Yûsuke Fukuchi, Yunzhi Wang, Ivy Yin, Jan Hui-ling, King Jieh-Wen, Angie Wang, Cres Chuang)
The intertwining stories of a Japanese food delivery man, a Taiwanese sex worker and a Filipino cleaner.
Karaoke (Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Moshe Rosenthal; Writer: Moshe Rosenthal; Stars: Sasson Gabay, Rita Shukrun, Lior Ashkenazi)
A comedy about a married middle-class suburban couple in their 60s who are drawn to their new neighbour, a charismatic bachelor who has karaoke evenings at his apartment.
Out of competition
The Rise And Fall Of Comrade Zylo (Shkelqimi dhe renia e shokut Zylo) (Country: Albania; Year: 2022; Director: Fatmir Koçi; Writer: Dritëro Agolli, Mike Downey, Fatmir Koçi; Stars: Aleks Seitaj, Donald Shehu, Amos Muji Zaharia, Enisa Hysa, Jorida Meta, Xhoana Karaj, Kastriot Çipi, Mateo Llupa, Endri Cela, Sokol Angjeli, Armand Xhuli, Petrit Malaj, Kastriot Çaushi, Samuel Vargu, Armin Vargu)
Satire about an bureaucrat and a speechwriter.
Roxy (Country: Germany, Belgium, Cyprus; Year: 2022; Director: Dito Tsintsadze; Writer: Dito Tsintsadze; Stars: Devid Striesow, Ivan Shvedoff, Waléra Kanischtscheff, Camilla Borghesani, Michele Rauhut, Vakho Chachanidze, Sandro Kekelidze, Valliamma Zwigart, Nicolos Tsintsadze, Raphael Zhambakiyev)
A taxi driver finds himself involved with a group of Russians on the run... and their dog Roxy.
Sparta (Country: Austria, Germany, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ulrich Seidl; Writer: Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl; Stars: Georg Friedrich)
A man in his 40s leaves his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree existence. But the distrust of the villagers is soon awoken.
Out of competition
Suna (Country: Turkey; Year: 2022; Director: Çigdem Sezgin; Writer: Çigdem Sezgin; Stars: Nurcan Eren, Tarik Pabuccuoglu, Firat Tanis, Erol Babaoglu, Erdem Akakçe)
A depressed woman finds her life changing with the arrival of a new neighbour.
Typist Artist Pirate King (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Carol Morley; Writer: Carol Morley; Stars: Monica Dolan, Kelly Macdonald, Gina McKee, Kieran Bew, Christine Bottomley, Judith Chandler, Gary Bates, Orla Cottingham, Dawn Butler, Kya Brame, Anand Toora, Pauline Whitaker, Neal Barry, Issam Al Ghussain, Gavin Kitchen)
A road movie which draws from the archives of artist Audrey Amiss.
Wake Me (Zbudi me) (Country: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia; Year: 2022; Director: Marko Šantić; Writer: Marko Šantić, Goran Vojnović, Sara Hribar; Stars: Jure Henigman, Živa Selan, Timon Šturbej, Nataša Barbara Gračner, Jurij Drevenšek)
A man suffering from memory loss finds himself facing up to unpalatable truths about his past actions.
The Young Arsonists (Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Sheila Pye; Writer: Sheila Pye; Stars: Maddy Martin, Jenna Warren, Sadie Rose, Madison Baines, Aaron Poole)
Four girls form an obsessive bond after trauma that will be tested over the course of a summer.
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