Tina Lokk, director of the festival, said,"As always, the Black Nights competitions represent a wide and diverse range of films and we're proud that such a broad spectrum of cinema gets the opportunity to win some wonderful awards. We're grateful to our sponsors for making the awards happen and we look forward to our juries and audience enjoying all that we have to offer."
The complete list of competition films follows:
Tridens Baltic Feature Film Competition
BARZAKH
Dir. Mantas Kvedaravicius, Finland/Lithuania
CUBATON (EL MEDICA- THE CUBATON STORY)
Dir. Daniel Fridell, Sweden/Finland/Estonia, 2011
A MONUMENT TO PLEASE EVERYONE (ET MEELDIKS KÕIGILE)
Dir. Kristina Norman, Estonia, 2011
THE IDIOT (IDIOOT)
Dir. Rainer Sarnet, Estonia, 2011
33 ANIMALS OF SANTA CLAUS (33 ZVERI ZIEMASSVETKU VECTITIM)
Dir. Laila Pakalnina, Latvia, 2011
THE KAPLINSKY SYSTEM (KAPLINSKI SÜSTEEM)
Dir. Raphael Gianelli-Meriano, Estonia, 2011
LETTERS TO ANGEL (KIRJAD INGLILE)
Dir. Sulev Keedus, Estonia, 2011
HOW ARE YOU DOING, RUDOLF MING? (TEV KLAJAS, RUDOLF MING?)
Dir. Roberts Rubins, Latvia, 2010
THE BOOK SMUGGLERS (KNYGNESIAI)
Dir. Jeremiah Cullinane, Ireland/Lithuania, 2011
RAMIN
Dir. Audrius Stonys, Latvia/Georgia, 2011
TADAS BLINDA. THE LEGEND (TADAS BLINDA. PRADZIA)
Dir. Donatas Ulvydas, Lithuania, 2011
THE NEW WORLD (UUS MAAILM)
Dir. Jaan Tootsen, Estonia, 2011
International Competition EurAsia
ADALBERT'S DREAM (VISUL LUI ADALBERT)
Dir. Gabriel Achim, Romania, 2011
AKKYZ
Dir. Zhanabek Zhetiru, Kazakhstan, 2011
THE ARTIST
Dir. Michel Hazanavicks, France, 2011
LATE LIFE (KETŠIKKAN HAJOT )
Dir. Ayub Shahobiddinov, Uzbekhistan, 2011
THE IDIOT (IDIOOT)
Dir. Rainer Sarnet, Estonia, 2011
DOUBLE STEPS (LOS PASOS DOBLES)
Dir. Isaki Lacuesta, Spain, 2011
ELENA
Dir. Andrei Zvjagintsev, Russia, 2011
BUSONG (PALAWAN FATE)
Dir. Auraeus Solito, The Phillipines, 2011
LETTERS TO ANGEL (KIRJAD INGLILE)
Dir. Sulev Keedus, Estonia, 2011
KOTOKO
Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan, 2011
MOURNING
Dir. Morteza Farshbaf, Iran, 2011
A SIMPLE LIFE (TAOJIE)
Dir. Ann Hui, Hong Kong/China, 2011
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Dir. Lynne Ramsay, UK, 2011
SONS OF NORWAY (SONNER AV NORGE)
Dir. Jens Lien, Norway, 2011
LAND OF OBLIVION (TERRE OUTRAGEE)
Dir. Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine, 2011
ROSE
Dir. Wojciech Smarzowski, Poland, 2011
VOLCANO (ELDFJALL)
Dir. Runar Runarsson, Iceland, 2011
North American Independent Film Competition
50/50
Dir. Jonathan Levine, USA , 2011
388 ARLETTA AVE
Dir. Randall Cole, Canada, 2011
BELLFLOWER
Dir. Evan Glodell, USA, 2011
THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY
Dir. Joe Maggio, USA, 2011
WIN WIN
Dir. Thomas McCarthy, USA, 2011
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
Dir. Sean Durkin, USA, 2011
STARBUCK
Dir. Ken Scott, Canada, 2011
DOPPELGÄNGER PAUL
Dirs. Kris Elgstrand & Dylan Akko Smith, Canada, 2011
ANOTHER EARTH
Dir. Mike Cahill, USA, 2011
MOTH DIARIES
Dir. Mary Harron, Canada/Ireland, 2011
