Join us again today for a cinematic trip around the world. Find out what day 12 at Black Nights Film Festival has in store for you.
The last week of the festival is on its way, but we’re not all out of premieres yet! One of the last films premiering at the festival is centering on a family affair in Kyrgyzstan, while several other competition films have their second or third run - a Kafkaesk Danish debut, for the intellectually critical viewer, or an experimental road movie that takes us to a modern tribe on a deserted island.
Join us again for a cinematic trip around the world! Find today’s full programme here
18:15 | Artis 2
Marisol (Alejandra Herrera) is caught between her possessive and aggressive cousin, Mauro (Eduardo Mendizábal), and passionate but inert lover, Mundo (Noé Hernández). Violence is a constant presence in their rural Mexican town, with gangs and guerilla fighters a steady presence. When Mundo has to flee, their connection turns from physical to digital even when Marisol is held captive by her cousin.
18:15 | Coca-Cola iSense + Q&A with Samara Imamadin Kyzy
With soul-nourishing sensitivity, the film presents the story of renowned writer Kubat who is losing people from beside him every day of his retirement. Kubat has to choose whether to give up his last property to save his fellow writer and friend or his younger brother. The like-minded writer who is fighting for his life in a sickbed is ready to carry on Kubat’s mental legacy, while his brother, fleeing huge debts and the fists collecting those debts, would help preserve family ties.
Part of Official Selection - Competition
18:45 | Coca-Cola Plaza 8
The filmmaker, Andrei, and his girlfriend, Paula, face the news of becoming parents. While the future mother is struggling with no worthy role models in her broken family, the soon-to-be father must come to terms with his own, long-lost father, now a monk on Mount Athos.
Andrei’s visits to the monastery seek to solve the mystery of his father’s leaving the family when Andrei was only six. Could this be the key to learning how to become the father he never had?
19:00 | Apollo Solaris 4
In fulfilling his everyday duties, the most common of common communal clerks ends up in a huge building to check the water meter. That task turns out to be the last fragment of the man’s everyday routine – he is imprisoned in a house to escape from which he must chew his way through the toughest knots of human existence. In the search for a way out, the audience is guided by the knowledge that the house stands for a system cast in concrete, the dramaturgic room layout of which adheres to the theory of psychoanalysis on the grassroot level.
Part of First Feature Competition
19:00 | Coca-Cola Plaza 6 + Q&A with Clara Brandt, Boris Baum, Sebastien Tixador
Marcelo likes to play black metal with his solo band, tinker with amateur science and wear a suit whenever it seems even the least bit appropriate. His destitute situation in a conformist Belgian suburb pales compared to his uncle who prefers to wear dresses and sometimes even naughty fishnet stockings. At the beginning of summer, an unexpected message arrives about the death of Marcelo’s father who was an anthropologist. That gives the dynamic duo an opportunity to escape the debilitating mediocracy and to travel to a faraway island to find out the truth about what happened.