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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has selected 16 films including seven world premieres for its Baltic Film Competition.

The section will open with the world premiere of Second World War drama Never Alone, from Finnish stalwart Klaus Haro.

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Partly filmed in Estonia, the film tells the true story of Finnish Jewish businessman Abraham Stiller who struggled to protect Jewish refugees seeking shelter from the Nazis in Finland. The Playmaker Munich handles world sales, with Nordisk Film Distribution releasing in Scandinavia.

Haro has represented Finland four times in the Oscar best...

Seven young directors will discuss their latest films with producers, industry experts and audiences.

Nordic Film Days’ industry programme Lübeck Meetings is running a new initiative, Future North, at next month’s event targeted at young directors underrepresented areas of Northern Europe.

Future North has invited seven young directors to discuss the status of their latest films with producers, industry experts and audiences.

The seven directors come from the Baltic countries, Greenland, Sápmi, the Faroe Islands and Schleswig-Holstein.

The directors taking part are: Armands Začs (Latvia), Gailė Garnelytė (Lithuania), Helen Takkin (Estonia), Inuk Jörgensen (Greenland), Johannes Vang (Sàmi), Pola Rader...

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event also selects new Liliana Torres, Dzintars Dreibergs films.

Miriam Heard’s After The Fog, a Chile-uk-France co-production, is among 13 films selected for the Works in Progress strand of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, the industry programme of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff).

Currently in post-production, Spanish-language drama After The Fog (Spanish title: Despues de la niebla) bears witness to the experiences of Chilean citizens in 1988, when the country ousted military dictator Augusto Pinochet after 16 years.

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It is written and directed by Heard, and produced by Heard for...

Estonia’s Taska Film, the production company behind local box-office hits such as medieval crime thriller “Melchior the Apothecary,” hits Locarno’s Match Me! industry sessions with a slate that includes Jaak Kilmi’s “Dirt in Your Face,” a coming-of-age rock drama set in the twilight of the Soviet Union backed in part by Apollo, the largest cinema chain in the Baltic region.

The film follows 17-year-old Mihkel and his band as they go on a journey full of alcohol, protest and music to impress a Western producer visiting a rock festival in 1980s Soviet Estonia. In their struggle to keep the band together, the group inadvertently help split the Soviet Union apart.

“Dirt in Your Face” is written by Martin Algus and based on the bestseller of the same name by Mihkel Raud, a former member of the ’80s band Golem (pictured) on whom the movie is based. It...

An adaptation of Vladimir Sorokin’s bestselling novel The Norm is among eight film projects to be presented at a pitching forum in Venice by Roskino in cooperation with the Venice Film Market on Sept 6 .

Producers Uliana Kovaleva and Antonio Piccoli will be looking for co-producers from Germany for Matrioshka, which is based on the fifth novel by Sorokin who is regarded as the most scandalous Russian novelist of the post-Communist era.

According to Russian scholar David Gillespie, The Norm, which was written between 1979 and 1984 and only published in full for the first time in 1994, is “a statement on the Soviet collective and individual psyche in the last years of the Soviet power”.

The Venice forum will also see producers Nikolay Bunkin, Igor Fokin and Vladislav Pasternak of Hhg Film Company looking to attract international partners for Konstantin Shelepov’s futuristic drama Censor, while Star Media’s Vlad Ryashin, the producer of Renat Davletyarov’s war drama...