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Holy Destructors

Holy Destructors

A Baltic film festival would be incomplete without a documentary in the poetic tradition of the Baltic countries.

Becoming

With such a descriptive title, it’s no surprise that Zhannat Alshanova’s feature directorial debut is a coming-of-age story. The action takes place in Kazakhstan during the post-Soviet era. Seventeen-year-old Mila (Tamiris Zhangazinova) is a talented swimmer and a stereotypically ornery teenage daughter. Her mother (Assel Kaliyeva) isn’t

New Money

Two normal people wake up with inordinate wealth.

Hunger Strike Breakfast

Hunger Strike Breakfast

A cinéma vérité approach and adds a dose of absurdism to the crucial Lithuanian historical events of January 1991.

Therapy

Some activities are intrinsically more cinematic than others. Boxing, for example, with its crunched yet still kinetic space and big lights, is naturally more cinematic than the much less physically dramatic chess. Group therapy is difficult to place on this spectrum of anti-cinematic activities on one hand and inherently cinematic

The Activist

It can be tender. It can be classically dramatic. It can be sexy. And it can be thrilling.

Happiness is Living in our Land

Happiness is Living in our Land

Appropriately messy and entertaining doc about Estonian punk band...

Vera and the Pleasure of Others

Spanish Language Cinema

Vera and the Pleasure of Others

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Deaf Lovers

Contact Lens

The contacts work as metaphors for both seeing the world differently and the imprisoning cycle of routine.

Carole & Grey

TikTok is going to change the way movies are watched and made. And Carole & Grey, a film conceived of in 45 clips meant for the easily digestible TikTok, is the first film to fully embrace the coming change.

Life & Love

A good film about the psychology of desire, enticing and toxic power dynamics, and the messy pain of love.

Tesa Man

The music speaks clearly enough.

Touched by Eternity

Touched by Eternity

Touched by Eternity doesn’t fully commit to any single type of comedy.

Never Alone (Ei Koskaan Yksin)

Never Alone (Ei Koskaan Yksin)

PӦFF (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ) Interview: Director Deimantas Narkevičius on Twittering Soul

PӦFF (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ) Interview: Director Deimantas Narkevičius on Twittering Soul

Very rarely does a screening of a film become an essential cinephile event.

The 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF)

The 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF)

The only International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) A-list film festival in Northern Europe or the Baltic, Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival just wrapped up its 27th year and celebrated by breaking all major attendance records from the festival’s history, as PӦFF director Tiina Lokk-Tramberg shared

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Amal & Cat Call

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Amal & Cat Call

Amal is the kind of film I expect to see a lot more of from French-speaking Europe over the next decade: well-intended, competently-made, and incredibly simplistic films that divide the rising Islamic community in Europe into either the good European progressives that hide all religiosity from the p

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Dark Paradise

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Dark Paradise

One of the most discussed Estonian films of the year, Dark Paradise is a strange beast from one of the country’s most promising and rising young talents, Triin Ruumet. The 35-year-old’s second feature doesn’t tiptoe around such complex and controversial topics like Neo-Nazism, kink, BDSM, and half-sibling

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Guardians of the Formula and Fez Summer '55

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Guardians of the Formula and Fez Summer '55

The “Balkan Oppenheimer” is both an exceptional medical procedural and nuclear film, likely making it one of a kind in this respect.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: The Zone of Interest

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: The Zone of Interest

I’m not convinced that The Zone of Interest, the first film in a decade from provocateur Jonathan Glazer, is a film about the banality of evil per se. It’s more of a horrific record of of the banality — and that distinction matters.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: The Peasants

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: The Peasants

The Welchmans formal innovations breathe new life into the seventh art, and The Peasants is a magnificent example of what it is the artform can achieve and how it can still surprise.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell & Ten Months

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell & Ten Months

INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (2023) — dir. Pham Thien An The winner of the Caméra d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell will surely join the ranks as the latest surefire Letterboxd-type cinephile slow-cinema favorite. A Vietnamese language film co-produced by Vietnam, Singapore,

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Hada & The Writer

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Hada & The Writer

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF) runs in-person in Tallinn, Estonia from November 3-19. The Boston Hassle’s Joshua Polanski will be reviewing and interviewing live from Estonia as part of his multi-outlet coverage of the festival. Be sure to check out his website for updates on additional coverage.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: How to Have Sex

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: How to Have Sex

Vacation in Malia on the Greek island of Crete, a British tourist hub that might as well be hedonism incarnate, doesn’t end well for the three teen girls who travel there on holiday break in Molly Manning Walker’s directorial debut How To Have Sex. The title, however, is