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Commenting on the selected program, the director of the festival Tīna Lokk admits that this year has been special: “This year with its falls and ups and downs will definitely be recorded in our memory. We also felt the impression of a global pandemic And what was more pleasant was our surprise when we started receiving film applications from the authors again after the summer solstice. I’m really excited about this year’s program, which could be described as a proof of author’s cinema, so this program is likely to provoke a variety of discussions and opinions, but it is actually a good cinematic task. It is nice that there are personalities among the participants. friends, “and their company will be perfectly complemented by new talent.”
The Tallinn Film Festival “Black Nights” has already announced the format of this year’s event, which will be adapted to the current situation, but also live events, including film premieres. Therefore, the festival has acquired two new partners – private laboratories from Estonia that are committed to providing face masks and COVID-19 testing.
A well-known Latvian director in the world Laila Pakalniņa is also one of the “permanent authors of the festival” mentioned by Tina Lokk, the world premiere of Pakalniņa ‘s previous feature film “Ausma” (2015), which received an award for the best cinematography, also had a world premiere. The feature film “In the Mirror” is an adventurous experiment with the classic Snow White motif, and the visuality of the film also surprises with its modernity Gints Bērziņš The whole film is taken as a chain of selfies of its characters. The film “In the Mirror” was made with the support of the National Cinema Center, the project was selected and funded in a special thematic competition in the autumn of 2018.
The latest film “Final Report” by the Hungarian film classic Istvan Szabó and other directors will also have the world premiere at the Tallinn Festival competition – the first press conference of the festival also named Georgi Mindadze and Anna Melikjana from Russia, Croatian director Dalibor Matanić, Portuguese TV film director Leonardo António, Turkish director Nisan Dağ and Adilkhan Yerzhanov from the strong Kazakh cinema.
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