The official line-up in the Baltic Competition strand at this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival which kicks off in the Estonian capital next month.
Presenting the very best and freshest output from the festival’s home region, this year’s Baltic Competition programme includes one world premiere and four international premieres, along with a host of previously critically-acclaimed releases.
This year’s reconfigured programme includes non-Baltic directors leading Baltic co-productions, lining up with Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event’s co-production market’s selection criteria and featuring films from Armenia, Iceland, Croatia and Belarus. This year also features only fiction and animation, with Baltic documentary films stepping into the festival’s DOC@PÖFF strand.
The competition will be opened by the world premiere of Lithuania’s The Poet and a screening of Estonia’s Kalev. Both hark back, from quite different perspectives, to pivotal moments in Baltic history, which continue to cast a long shadow over current events.
The festival runs from November 11-27, 2022.
Here’s the ‘Baltic’ line-up.
Baltic Competition
The Poet – 2022, Lithuania, directors: Giedrius Tamoševi?iu, Vytautas V. Landsbergis | World premiere
A Letter from Helga – 2022, Iceland, Netherlands, Estonia, director: Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir | International premiere
Lovable – 2022, Latvia, Estonia, director: Sta?islavs Tokalovs | International premiere
The Taste of Water – 2022, Latvia, director: Matiss Kaža | International premiere
Pensive – 2022, Lithuania, director: Jonas Trukanas | International premiere
January – 2022, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, director: Viesturs Kairišs
Kalev – 2022, Estonia, director: Ove Musting
Vesper – 2022, Lithuania, Belgium, France, directors: Kristina Buožyt?, Bruno Samper
My Love Affair with Marriage – 2022, Latvia, United States, Luxembourg, director: Signe Baumane
Aurora’s Sunrise – 2022, Armenia, Lithuania, Germany, director: Inna Sahakyan
Melchior the Apothecary – 2022, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, director: Elmo Nüganen
Traces – 2022, Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia, director: Dubravka Turic
Minsk – 2022, Estonia, Russia, director: Boris Guts
Remember to Blink – 2022, Lithuania, director: Austeja Urbaite
The Bog – 2022, Estonia, director: Ergo Kuld
