Tallinn Black Nights 2024: Five French-Speaking Belgian Productions Selected!
The Estonian festival PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights has included no fewer than five French-speaking Belgian productions in the program for its 28th edition!
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is a unique event combining a feature film festival with the sub-festivals of animated films, student films and children/youth films. The festival aims to present Estonian audiences a comprehensive selection of world cinema in all its diversity with the emphasis on European films, providing a friendly atmosphere for interaction between the audience, Estonian filmmakers and their colleagues from abroad.
The Watchman by Lou du Pontavice and Victoire Bonin has been selected for the Doc@PÖFF Competition at the Estonian festival. The documentary is produced by Belgica Films and internationally distributed by CAT&Docs.
Guangdong and his wife Baoyan have organized their entire lives with the sole purpose of supporting the education of their only son, a student at the prestigious Beijing Academy of Music. But now that Zhaohang is finally realizing his parents' dream and going abroad to pursue his career, they will have to confront and make sense of this absence.
Don't Worry by Solange Cicurel, produced by Beluga Tree, has been selected for the International Youth Competition and the Children's Rights Programme. The film was released on October 9 in Belgium.
Confident and popular sixteen-year-old Emma is in a coma. Why? What happened to her? To find out, she becomes an invisible ‘ghost’ for a few days, where she can see all, hear all, and dive back into her memories to rebuild her story.
Nicolas Gemoets' animated short Muscle Man in: Metal Mayhem will be featured in the Shorts Alternatives section. The film is produced by La Cambre. It was part of the 2024 selection at Curtas Vila do Conde and IndieLisboa.
Muscle Man, the world's cleanest superhero, embarks on an exhilarating battle against a giant robot determined to reduce the city to rubble, but his obsession with order could lead to his downfall.
Pumpkin, directed by Chloé Larrère and produced by Initial Films, has been selected in the Shorts Panorama section. The short film was previously selected at the FIFIGROT 2024 and won an award at the BSFF 2024.
Since the release of L’ombre au mois d’août, a critically acclaimed film in which Valentine played the lead role, she has not been working. In this period of stagnation and melancholy, she is asked to audition for a major French film alongside a dog—even though she doesn’t particularly like dogs. Driven by her depression and existential anxiety as an actress, she embarks on an absurd canine quest around Brussels.
Finally, the documentary Among the Wolves by Tanguy Dumortier and Olivier Larrey, produced by Belgica Films, has been selected for the Environmental Film Programme.
To share an entire year in the life of a wolf pack, immersing in a wild landscape inhabited by brown bears and wolverines across all four seasons. It’s somewhere in the no man's land between Finland and Russia that Olivier, the photographer, and Yves, the painter, lock themselves in a hide just a few square meters in size. Voluntarily confined and nearly invisible, they have front-row seats to witness the intimate and extraordinary daily lives of Europe’s largest predators.
Let's also note the presence of the French-speaking Belgian co-production The Most Precious of Cargoes by Michel Hazanavicius (Les Films du Fleuve, Best of Festivals).
See you in Tallinn from November 8 to 24, 2024!
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