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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces its 2023 First Features Competition lineup. The selection includes 11 world premieres and 5 international premieres, and all of the authors will be present in Tallinn.
According to Festival Director Tiina Lokk, the 16-film competition strand is an assorted global programme with outstanding artistic value. "Each year, the First Feature Competition is something truly special. We can’t wait to introduce these emerging talents to the world," she adds.
The First Feature Competition programme curator, Triin Tramberg, elaborates: "Every debut work from this year's programme has a very solid and distinctive director's handwriting. As all of the films include memorable stories, each one of them is an audience film with distribution value."
Black Nights Film Festival holds its 27th edition in 2023 and runs from November 3-19 in Tallinn, Tartu and Ida-Viru region, Estonia. The full programmes of films will be announced on the 27th of October. International press and professionals will have the opportunity to watch much of the competition programmes online, as well as in press screenings onsite in Tallinn.
First Feature Competition Programme lineup:
All, Or Nothing At All - 2023, China, dir: Jiajun ‘Oscar’ Zhang, World Premiere
Body Odyssey - 2023, Italy/Switzerland, dir: Grazia Tricarico, World Premiere
Cat Call - 2023, Hungary, dir: Rozália Szeleczki, International premiere
Dilli Dark - 2023, India, dir: Dibakar Das Roy, International premiere
Endless Summer Syndrome- 2023, Czech Republic/France, dir: Kaveh Daneshmand, World premiere
Falling Into Place - 2023, Germany, dir: Aylin Tezel, International premiere
Giant's Kettle - 2023, Finland, dir: Markku Hakala & Mari Käki, International premiere
Inpaintings - 2023, Turkey, dir. Ozan Yoleri, World premiere
Mo Mamma - 2023, Estonia, dir: Eeva Mägi, World premiere
Mr . and Mrs. Stodola - 2023, Czech Republic/Slovakia, dir: Petr Hátle, World premiere
Tentigo - 2023, Sri Lanka/India, dir: Ilango Ram, World premiere
The Fisherman's Daughter - 2023, Colombia/Puerto Rico/Brazil/Dominican Republic, dir: Edgar de Luque Jácome, World premiere
The Moon is Upside Down - 2023, New Zealand, dir: Loren Taylor, World premiere
The Quiet Maid - 2023, Spain, dir: Miguel Faus, World premiere
Unmoored - 2023, UK, dir: Carolina Ingvarsson, International premiere
Vera And The Pleasure of Others - 2023, Argentina, dir: Romina Tamburello & Federico Actis, World premiere
