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Tallinn Black Nights Fest’s First Feature, Doc Competitions Include a Student Academy Award Nominee, an EFA Winner and Estonia’s Ambitious EskoBros
Also making the cut: Chilean buzz title ‘A Yard of Jackals,’ an anti-Russian invasion essay
Among the six doc world premieres are Germany’s “With My Open Lungs”, a personal essay from Russian-born Yana Sad against war in Ukraine and in favour of love, “Murmuring Hearts”, the raw portrait of addiction by Vytautas Puidokas (“El Padre Medico”), and “Freight” by Switzerland-based U.S. born Max Carlo Kohal, about a teenage crew aboard a container ship. “Through the character of Raúl, an ordinary man caught in an extraordinary situation, we explore the moral decay left behind by the [Pinochet] dictatorship, and how that violence infiltrates not just the centres of power, but also the everyday lives of citizens,” said Alejandro Ugarte of Infractor Films, picked by Variety as one of 10 Chilean producers to track in 2020. “Black Gold”(Takashi Sugimoto, Portugal, WP)The Lisbon-based Japanese helmer delivers an aesthetically striking portrait of rural India, establishing a link between a mother’s combing of her daughters’ hair with faith, sacrifice and trade.
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