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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF27) 2023

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Vera and the Pleasure of Others

Spanish Language Cinema

Vera and the Pleasure of Others

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: 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.