Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024

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Girls Will Be Girls Girls Will Be Girls
Girls Will Be Girls and Young Hearts
And Their Children After Them (Leurs Enfants Après Eux) (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma; Writer: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma, Nicolas Mathieu; Stars: Paul Kircher, Angélina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Memmi)
In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake.
Cells At Work! (Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Hideki Takeuchi; Writer: Akane Shimizu, Yûichi Tokunaga; Stars: Sadao Abe, Mana Ashida, Kyôko Fukada, Satoshi Fukase, Wataru Ichinose, Rihito Itagaki, Ainosuke Kataoka, Ryô Katô, Seishirô Katô, Wakana Matsumoto, Mei Nagano, Riisa Naka, Shinya Niiro, Maju Ozawa, Maika Pugh)
The story of human cells.
Girls Will Be Girls (Country: India; Year: 2024; Director: Shuchi Talati; Writer: Shuchi Talati; Stars: Kani Kusruti, Jitin Gulati, Kesav Binoy Kiron, Preeti Panigrahi)
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
Holy Cow! (Vingt Dieux!) (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Louise Courvoisier; Writer: Louise Courvoisier, Théo Abadie; Stars: Clément Faveau, Maïwène Barthelemy, Luna Garret, Mathis Bertrand, Dimitry Baudry), Trailer
After the sudden death of his father an 18-year-old finds himself looking after his sister... and changing his life.
It's Okay! (Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Kim Hye-young; Writer: Hongjun Cho, Kim Hye-young; Stars: Lee Jeong-Ha, Re Lee, Jin Seo-yeon, Chung Su-bin, Son Suk-ku)
One year after the tragic loss of her mother, In-young finds herself without a home. She takes shelter in the building of her dance school, but her secret sanctuary is in peril when the choreographer, Seol-ah, discovers her.
Kneecap Kneecap
Kneecap and Holy Cow!
Kneecap (Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Rich Peppiatt; Writer: Rich Peppiatt; Stars: Michael Fassbender, Simone Kirby, Jessica Reynolds, Josie Walker, Cliodhna McCorley, Mo Chara, Cathal Mercer, Móglaí Bap, Emer Casey, DJ Próvai, Arlene Martine Morris, Donagh Deeney, Saorlaoith Brady, Paul Murphy, Paul P. McCrystal)
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
Panopticon (Panoptikon) (Country: Georgia, France, Italy, Romania; Year: 2024; Director: George Sikharulidze; Writer: George Sikharulidze; Stars: Data Chachua, Vakhtang Kedeladze, Ia Sukhitashvili, Malkhaz Abuladze)
After his father leaves the family to devote himself to God, a neglected teenager begins to explore his sexuality and develop an intense friendship with a young right wing radical.
Skatergirls-Get Up (Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Lea Becker; Writer: Lea Becker, Christine Heinlein, Alexander Dydyna, Grit Fischer; Stars: Lena Mantler, Lisa Mantler, Sinje Irslinger, Jobel Mokonzi, Anton Kappler, Florence Kasumba, Katrin Röver, Thekla Viloo Fliesberg, Geronimo Höhner, Bella Kress, Alexander Prince Osei, Sophia Schober, Christian Skibinski)
Summer puts the friendship of three skateboarding teens to the test.
Tomorrow Somewhere By The Sea (Morgen irgendwo am Meer) (Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Patrick Büchting; Writer: Patrick Büchting, Adriana Popescu; Stars: Sophia Münster, Jonas Kaufmann, Carlotta Weide, Louie Betton, Elias Grünthal, Alex Freeman, Sami Kjell Köppe, Wolfgang Vogler)
Four teens take a road trip during the summr holidays.
Winners (Sieger Sien) (Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Soleen Yusef; Writer: Soleen Yusef; Stars: Dileyla Agirman, Andreas Döhler, Fatima Hamieh, Sherine Merai, Amira Shamieh, Ravand Zaid)
Mona has fled Syria with her Kurdish family and ends up in a primary school in Berlin-Wedding. Things are tough in the school. Everyone on Mona’s all-girls football team plays against each other. But only “team work makes the dream work”.
Young Hearts (Junge Herzen) (Country: Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Anthony Schatteman; Writer: Anthony Schatteman; Stars: Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg, Emilie De Roo, Dirk van Dijck)
A 14-year-old boy feels attracted to his new neighbour, Alexander. Soon he realises that he's truly in love for the first time, but interactions with his friends and family bring more questions than answers.
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