Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces the first seven films to join its main Official Selection competition programme.

Driving Mum (Á ferð með mömmu)

Writer/director Hilmar Oddsson’s road trip black comedy [shot by Ottar Gudnason, IKS] is an Icelandic/Estonian co-production, coming to the Official Selection for its world premiere this November. Driving Mum plays out an intensely personal, dreamlike journey against the stunning backdrop of Icelandic nature. Untethered from the one strongest connection in his life, Jon must follow through on his mother’s final, dying wish: to be buried in the village of her birth. The ensuing long, cross-country odyssey is a profoundly effecting and amusing rumination on loss, loneliness and confronting change.

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