Saturday, November 29--------The main competition program at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, which began last night, is EurAsia, new films from the European and Asian continents. Estonia sits at a great divide between East and West, and has stood as a way-station between those two nexuses for the past thousand years. The Festival encourages a mutually supportive point of view that sees both the differences and connections between European and middle Asian culture. The Festival is presenting 18films, most making their Eastern European premieres at the eent, include:

ASBE DU-PA / TWO LEGGED HORSE / Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf / Iran;
GENOVA / Dir: Michael Winterbottom / Great Britain;
GULABI TALKIES / Dir: Girish Kasavalli / India;
L’HEURE D’ETE / SUMMER HOURS/ Dir: Oliver Assayas / France;
HUNGER / Dir: Steve McQueen / Great Britain, Ireland;
IL DIVO / Dir: Paolo Sorrentino / Italy, France;
KOLME VIISASTA MIESTÄ / THREE WISE MEN / Dir: Mika Kaurismäki / Finland;
LØNSJ / COLD LUNCH / Dir: Eva Sorhaug / Norway;
MAN JEUK / SPARROW / Dir: Johnnie To / Hong Kong, China;
MOZART TOWN / Dir: Jeon Kyu-hwan / South-Korea;
MUHA / MUKHA / Dir: Vladimir Kott / Russia;
THE PHOTOGRAPH / Dir: Nan Triveni Achnas / Indonesia, France, Netherlands, Šwitzerland, Sweden;
SHUREITACHI / VERMILION SOULS / Dir: Masaki Iwana / Japan;
SNIJEG / SNOW / Dir: Aida Begic / Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, France, Iran;
SONBAHAR / AUTUMN / Dir: Özcan Alper / Turkey;
THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER / SVETAT E GLOJAM SPASENIE DEBNE OTVSJAKADE / Dir: Stephan Komandarev / Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia;
WALTZ WITH BASHIR / Dir: Ari Folman / Israel, France, Germany, USA;
DIE WELLE / THE WAVE / Dir: Dennis Gänsel / Germany

Sandy Mandelberger, Tallinn Black Night FF Dailies