{"id":135677,"date":"2026-07-27T01:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/135677\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T01:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:11:56","slug":"tallinn-black-nights-film-fest-rebels-with-a-cause-critics-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/135677\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn Black Nights Film Fest Rebels With a Cause, Critics’ Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 29th edition<\/a> of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival<\/a> (P\u00d6FF) has unveiled the selections for its Rebels With a Cause and Critics\u2019 Picks competitions, which celebrate \u201cdaring cinema and fearless storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe fourth edition of the\u00a0Critics\u2019 Picks competition\u00a0is \u201ca cinematic feast for the brave and the curious, offering 10 dazzling world premieres handpicked from across the globe and served fresh in Tallinn,\u201d organizers said.<\/p>\n

\n\tNikolaj Nikitin, curator of the program, describes this year\u2019s lineup as \u201cas wildly diverse as its passport stamps \u2014 from Iran to Peru, Canada to Tunisia, Mexico to Taiwan, France to Lithuania, and yes, Estonia too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPromising \u201cgenre-bending gems that defy borders and expectations,\u201d he added: \u201cFrom gritty noir and sharp political thrillers to sensual coming-of-age dramas and cinema-soaked thrill rides that remix the rules of storytelling \u2014 think of it as a gourmet menu for the cinephile palate: rich, risky, and radically original.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBhutanese director Dechen Roder,\u00a0German film journalist Thomas Schultze, and\u00a0French producer Jean-Baptiste Babin make up the jury for the Critics\u2019 Picks selection.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Rebels With a Cause competition\u00a0was launched in 2017, and this year, features an all-world-premiere lineup. \u201cRebels consolidates its commitment to the most daring films, combining powerful debuts \u2014 from Japan, Turkey, and Canada \u2014 with rebellious masters, such as Llu\u00eds Mi\u00f1arro, Jamie Adams, and Adri\u00e1n Sitaru,\u201d highlighted curator Javier Garcia Puerto. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe concluded: \u201cRebels\u2019 spirit goes beyond bold language and screen \u2014 featuring striking performances by James McAvoy<\/a>, choreographer Llu\u00eds Garau, and the posthumous appearance of Marisa Paredes<\/a>.\u201d McAvoy stars in Jamie Adams\u2019 Turn Up the Sun!, which will get an out-of-competition screening.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe jury for Rebels with a Cause\u00a0is made up of\u00a0Iranian director Ali Asgari,\u00a0British film critic and curator Rogan Graham, and\u00a0Spanish producer Alicia Reginato.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the full lineups for the two P\u00d6FF sections below. <\/p>\n

\n\tCritics\u2019 Picks
A Summer Tale<\/a>, dir. Mat\u00edas Szulanski (Argentina)
China Sea<\/a>, dir. Jurgis Matulevi\u010dius (Lithuania, Taiwan, Poland, Czechia)
Invisibles<\/a>, dir. Junna Chif (Canada)
Mo Papa<\/a>, dir. Eeva M\u00e4gi (Estonia)
Nino in Paradise<\/a>, dir. Laurent Micheli (Belgium, France)
Oh, What Happy Days<\/a>, dir. Homayoun Ghanizadeh (Iran, USA, France, Canada)
Round 13<\/a>, dir. Mohamed Ali Nahdi (Tunisia, Cyprus, Qatar, Saudi-Arabia)
Street Wanderers<\/a>,\u00a0 dir. Juan Martin Hsu (Argentina, Peru)
That Burning House<\/a>, dir. Yin-Chuan Tsai (Taiwan)
The Silent Virgin<\/a>, dir. Xavi Sala (Mexico)<\/p>\n

\n\tRebels With a Cause Competition:
Blindsight<\/a>, dir. Adrian Sitaru (Romania, Turkey)
Emergency Exit<\/a>, dir. Llu\u00eds Mi\u00f1arro (Spain)
La Carn<\/a>, dir. Joan Porcel (Spain)
Leleka<\/a>, dir. Harald Hutter (Canada, France, Spain, Ukraine, USA)
Lo-Fi<\/a>, dir. Alican Durba\u015f (Turkey)
MieMie ~She Can See~<\/a>, dir. Katsutoshi Furuya (Japan)
The Baronesses<\/a>, dir. Nabil Ben Yadir (Belgium)
The Megalomaniacs<\/a>, dir. Spiros Stathoulopoulos (Greece, Colombia)
Vache Folle<\/a>, dir. Hugo Diego Garcia, Lorenzo Bentivoglio (France)<\/p>\n

\n\tRebels with a Cause\u00a0\u2013 Out of Competition:
Turn Up the Sun!<\/a>, dir. Jamie Adams (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n

\n\tRebels with a Cause\u00a0\u2013 Catalonia Special
Umbracle, (1972), dir. Pere Portabella
Oca\u00f1a, an Intermittent Portrait, (1978), dir. Ventura Pons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (P\u00d6FF) has unveiled the selections for its Rebels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[89],"tags":[167,762,8077,166,4541],"class_list":["post-135677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallinn","tag-estonia","tag-international","tag-james-mcavoy","tag-tallinn","tag-tallinn-black-nights-film-festival"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116989286319267912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}