This year's Black Nights Stars showcase eight rising actors from the Baltic Sea region: Miika Pihlak ("Kids Of The Night", "Estonian Crime Stories"), Sandra Guldberg Kampp ("Wildland", "The Rain", "Inherent"), Jan Hrynkiewicz ("Corpus Christi", "Labyrinth of Peace"", Doris Tislar ("The Class", Dawn Of War", "Süvahavva"), Tua El-Fawwal ("Skam", "Druck", "Kokon"), Viktoriya Miroshnichenko ("Beanpole"), Elias Westerberg ("The Other Side Of Hope", "Mental") and Kristina Morta Paskeviciute ("The Bad Gir"l, "The Truth Will Out").