'Borderline'

Source: POFF

‘Borderline’

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (POFF) has selected 11 fiction features and 11 documentaries for its two Baltic Competitions. 

The fiction strand has three world premieres.

They are: Ignas Jonynas’s Borderline, a Lithuanian thriller about an ornithologist who is forced into the world of smuggling illegal contraband as he cares for his mentally vulnerable daughter; Latvian comedy-drama Flesh, Blood, Even A Heart from Alise Zariņa, about a 30-year-old woman struggling with her body image; and Paavo Westerberg’s Therapy, about four couples who try to save their marriages on a five-day wellness retreat.

The latter is a Finland-Estonia co-production.

The strand will open with Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, screening out of competition. The film premiered in competition at Cannes where it topped the Screen jury grid and won the Francois Chalais Prize.

Documentary competition 

For the first time, Tallinn is presenting two separate Baltic competitions, one for fiction and one for documentary.

The Baltic fiction jury comprises Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze, Turkish director Gözde Kural and executive producer Montse Triola.

The Baltic documentary jury will be UK-based doc consultant Ana Fernández Saiz, US curator and journalist Pamela Cohn and Dutch filmmaker Koen Suidgeest.  

The festival runs November 7-23. 

Baltic Competition (fiction) 

Bordeline (Lith)
Dir: Ignas Jonynas

Flesh, Blood, Even A Heart (Lat)
Dir. Alise Zariņa 

Therapy (Fin-Est)
Dir. Paavo Westerberg 

Red Code Blue (Lat)
Dir. Oskars Rupenheits 

The Activist (Lith)
Dir. Romas Zabarauskas 

New Money (Est)
Dir. Rain Rannu 

Becoming (Fr-Kaz-Neth-Lith)
Dir. Zhannat Alshanova 

Hunger Strike Breakfast (Lith)
Dir. Karolis Kaupinis 

Renovation (Lith)
Dir. Gabrielė Urbonaitė

Fränk (Est)
Dir. Tõnis Pill

The Visitor (Lith-Nor-Fr)
Dir. Vytautas Katkus 

Baltic Competition (documentary)  

A Goodnight Kiss (Lith-Est),
Dir: Giedrė Žickytė

BIX Almost Nirvana (Lith)
Dir: Emilis Vėlyvis

Happiness Is Living In Our Land (Est)
Dir: Indrek Spungin

Holy Destructors (Lith-Fr)
Dir: Aistė Žegulytė

Laguna (Fr-Lith)
Dir: Sharunas Bartas

The Last Will (Lith)
Dir: Jānis Ābele

Lost Stars Of The Horoscope (Est)
Dir: Katrina Lehismäe

My Family And Other Clowns (Est)
Dir: Heilika Pikkov, Liina Särkinen

Not Made For Politics (Belarus)
Dir: Volia Chajkouskaya

Scarecrows (Lat-Lith)
Dir: Laila Pakalnina, Laila Pakalniņa

Time To The Target (Lat-Czech-Ukr)
Dir: Vitaly Mansky

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