Never Alone and My Name Is Dingo to premiere in Tallinn
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has several Finnish films in its program. The festival takes place November 8–24, 2024.
Image: Never Alone, Andres Teiss / MRP Matila Röhr Productions
Never Alone, written and directed by Klaus Härö, is the opening film of the Baltic Film Competition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Set during the Second World War, the film follows Abraham Stiller, a business man who helped Jewish refugees in Finland. The film is produced by MRP Matila Röhr Productions. The domestic premiere is on January 17.
Klaus Härö is known for The Fencer (2015), nominated for a Golden Globe, and My Sailor, My Love (2022), his first English-language film. Never Alone is Härö’s 9th feature film.
My Name Is Dingo, directed by Mari Rantasila, is presented in the Special Screenings. Written by Hanna Leivonniemi, the fiction film follows the breakthrough of Dingo, one of the most popular Finnish pop groups of the 1980s. It is produced by Yellow Film & TV and it premieres domestically on Christmas Day, December 25.
All Finnish films playing at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (program section in brackets):
Feature films
- Teemu Nikki, 100 Litres of Gold (Official Selection – Competition)
- Mika Kaurismäki, Long Good Thursday (Official Selection – Out of Competition)
- Klaus Härö, Never Alone (Baltic Film Competition)
- Mari Rantasila, My Name Is Dingo (Special Screenings)
- Kari Juusonen & Jørgen Lerdam, Niko – Beyond the Northern Lights (Juniors’ Competition Programme)
- Miia Tervo, Missile (Best of Festivals)
- Alexandros Avranas, A Quiet Life (Critics’ Pick – Out of Competition) – minority co-production
- Anastasia Lapsui & Markku Lehmuskallio, Seven Songs from the Tundra (Old Gold: Classic Films Come to Life)
- Virpi Suutari, Once Upon a Time in a Forest (Environmental Film Programme)
Short films
- Elli Vuorinen, Flower Show (Shorts Animation Competition)
- Johanna Vuoksenmaa, It Is What It Is (Shorts Live-Action Competition)
- Rujitanont Thanut, The Announced Tragedy (Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation)
- Iiti Yli-Harja, I Smell a Mouse (Doc@Shorts)
- Veera Lamminpää, Fish River Anthology (Shorts Panorama)
Series
- Juha Wuolijoki, Valhalla Project (TV Beats Screening Day)