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Two international premieres in Tallinn

The FF Black Nights Tallinn (Nov 11 -27, 2016) opens its 20th edition! The festival traditionally presents Slovak films and this year is not an exception. Slovak films The Red Captain by Michal Kollár and Little Feather by Lucia Klein Svoboda, Petr Klein Svoboda will be introduced here in the international premieres.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is a unique event combining a feature film festival with the sub-festivals of animated films, short films and children / youth films. The Slovak-Czech-Polish coproduction title The Red Captain (d. Michal Kollár) vies in the First Feature Competition. The thriller set in the long hot summer of 1992 tells a story of detective Richard Krauz when he is handed a case of a mysterious body, found in the course of the reconstruction of a cemetery. The film will be introduced by Michal Kollár, Anna Fifíková, Jana Kľuková, Michal Křeček and Andrea Shaffer.

Little Feather (d. Lucia Klein Svoboda, Petr Klein Svoboda) will be screened in the sub-festival Just Film focusing on children / youth audiences. The debut film follows Martina, who is leaving a foster home in Eastern Slovakia as she has reached adulthood, and now she plans to live her dream life. But life waiting outside is not going to be easy at all.

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, the event organized for film professionals in the framework of the festival, will host Peter Bebjak´s upcoming project The Line within the section Works in Progress.

Festival programme: http://2016.poff.ee/eng/films

AIC database film links::

The Red Captain (d. Michal Kollár)
Little Feather (d. Lucia Klein Svoboda, Petr Klein Svoboda)
The Line (d. Peter Bebjak)

Related AIC articles:
Slovak films at Black Nights Tallinn 2014
Slovak films at Black Nights Tallinn 2011
Slovak films at Black Nights Tallinn 2010


published: 11.11.2016
updated: 23.11.2016