Tallinn features
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FeaturesWhy Tallinn Black Nights festival has adjusted its strategy with emerging filmmakers
“We want to select films with clear stories that are easy to sell.”
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FeaturesHow Tallinn Black Nights is putting sustainability, diversity and inclusion at the forefront of everything it does
The festival has created its first sustainability, diversity and inclusion officer.
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Features“Be kind, attentive, and not an asshole”: Industry@Tallinn’s Marge Liiske sets the tone for Black Nights platform
Industry head Marge Liiske talks bringing new participants to the platform, and continued high costs.
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FeaturesTallinn director Tiina Lokk on running a festival amid global conflicts: “I have to be ready for everything”
Lokk talks about global tensions around Gaza; plus how she programmed Banksy for the opening night.
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FeaturesEmerging filmmakers from Pitch_It@Berlinale arrive in Black Nights
Inaugural edition features 12 projects from Hungary, Czech Republic and Germany.
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Features“British filmmakers should resist becoming homogenised by the US streamers,” says Carol Morley
The UK director is at the Black Nights festival with new film ‘Typist Artist Pirate King’.
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FeaturesIndustry@Tallinn reshapes schedule, gifts and dinners to adjust to Estonia’s rising costs
The industry programme is four packed days compared to eight in previous years.
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FeaturesIndia’s Sudhanshu Saria talks Tallinn Black Nights competition drama ‘Sanaa’
Filmmaker talks tackling stories of female empowerment.
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FeaturesTallinn Black Nights director Tiina Lokk on creating an international festival on a tight budget
Founder and long-time festival director talks crisis guidelines, budget boost and a new section.
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FeaturesFinnish director Aku Louhimies on telling a story of female desire in ‘The Wait’
Actress/writer Inka Kallén stars in the adaptation of a classic novel, which will premiere at Tallinn Black Nights.
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FeaturesBFI’s Mia Bays and Neil Peplow head to Tallinn Black Nights’ industry showcase
The BFI has a delegation of 19 UK film prodcuers and filmmakers taking part in the festival.
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FeaturesTallinn Black Nights Film Festival opens with exemption from any new Covid measures
The festival has a new green focus and increased prize money
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FeaturesRising Icelandic filmmaker Tinna Hrafnsdóttir talks about her directorial debut ‘Quake’
Icelandic psychological mystery is premiering at Estonia’s Black Nights Film Festival.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Estonian film head Edith Sepp on her love of yoga, jazz and her ambition to become a film editor
The Estonian Film Institute CEO reveals her favourite films, proudest moment and why Christopher Nolan should direct her biopic.
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FeaturesWhy the Black Nights Discovery Campus is the cornerstone of Tallinn festival’s industry focus
The new talent initative is designed to give regional talent an international boost.
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Features“I was very nervous”: How Tallinn staged a hybrid festival amid Estonia’s second wave
“Every day when I woke up, I’m asking whether we have to cancel the festival or move it online.”
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FeaturesViesturs Kairish talks about love, language and humour in ‘The Sign Painter’
“It was a political and aesthetic choice to shoot in Lagalian Latvian.”
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FeaturesMika Kaurismäki on why he hit the bar in lockdown with ‘Gracious Night’
A planned shoot in Dubai became a lockdown film in the bar the Finnish director owns in Helsinki.
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FeaturesHow Tallinn’s Black Night Stars showcase is nurturing new Baltic talent
New wave of acting talent emerging from the largely untapped Baltic region.
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FeaturesTurkish filmmaker Nisan Dag on falling for Istanbul’s hip-hop scene in ’When I’m Done Dying’
”I met these people who were so cool I almost didn’t want to get out of the slums.”