From talking trees, to a bus full of mourners to unexpected nights with the noisy neighbours from upstairs, day 2 at Black Nights is all about eclectic ensembles. A famous one among them is the Liverpoolian band The Real Thing, once dubbed 'the black Beatles' by the press, who rose from working-class boys from one of Liverpool’s toughest neighbourhoods to Britain’s most-celebrated originators of soul, funk and disco.
Check out some of the quirky films we recommend from today's programme below, and find the full programme HERE
14:30 (parts 1-3) & 18:30 (parts 4-7) | Artis 2
17:30 | Virtual Hall
“About twenty years ago – I was just fourteen, maybe fifteen, and afflicted by an almost murderous puberty – I came across Alfred Döblin’s ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’ during the course of my very un-academic, extremely personal literary journey, governed entirely by my own instinctive associations.“
This is how Rainer Werner Fassbinder remembers his first encounter with the novel from which he created his own 15½-hour television adaptation. Today we screen this cult piece as a special screening related to this year's German Focus.
16:00 | Apollo Solaris 3
Are trees able to talk? Do they have a memory and a social life? The forester and bestselling author Peter Wohlleben gets to the bottom of these questions and opens our eyes to the hidden world of the woods.
Part of our new Environmental Films Programme and #PÖFFTRENDING.
18:00 | Apollo Solaris 6
Part of the new #PÖFFTRENDING programme is the story of the first black band to score a #1 hit. The press dubbed them ‘The Black Beatles’ – Eddy, Chris, Dave and Ray – four working-class boys from one of Liverpool’s toughest neighbourhoods. Their photos appeared on the bedroom walls of white, teenage girls - which meant a shift in racial tensions of the era.
18:00 | Kohtla-Järve Kultuurikeskus
21:00 | Apollo Solaris 3
15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway. The bus driver who was involved in the tragic accident. Tsoi’s wife and her new boyfriend, his mistress, his producer, his young son and an obsessed photographer – are all part of the trip back with Tsoi's body to Leningrad. And it's going to be a trip!
18:30 | Apollo Solaris 3
21:45 | Virtual Hall
The story of Polish fitness star Sylwia is simultaneously a portrait of our times. With 600,000 followers she can rightly be called an influencer. But how much of herself does she really show and what emotions lie beneath her self-assured image? It all comes to a breaking point when Sylwia is confronted with a stalker.
20:30 | Coca-Cola Plaza 2
A bickering, loveless couple and their next-door neighbours - a younger couple - get together. The evening will end in a cathartic way.
20:30 | Apollo Solaris 3
23:30 | Virtual Hall
You know how it goes... You think you are going to spend a careless summer holiday with your girlfriend, but instead, on full moon night, you are scratched by an unknown beast. What will become of social outcast Teddy, who starts to feel more and more animalistic as the days pass?