Estonian Films 2015-2016 Eesti filmid 2015-2016 Estonian Films 2015-2016 Eesti filmid 2015-2016 Features Shorts Animation Documentaries Editorial staff: Eda Koppel, Birgit Pajust Design and layout: Profimeedia All photos courtesy of production companies Estonian Film Institute Tallinn 2016 ISSN 1406-8505 Printed in Estonia by Ecoprint 1944 The Fencer The Secret Society of Souptown 2015-2016 Roukli Ghost Mountaineer features Angry Painter Dawn The Poet and the Spy Mother Ready or Not, Happy You Are Class Reunion November The Polar Boy Bodom The Days that Confused Dearest Sister Magic Kimono The End of the Chain Seneca’s Day Pretenders 3 1944 2015 he last year of war on Estonian turf. Men are fighting on the boarder of Original title: 1944 Europe and Russia. Some have been taken to the Red Army, some to Director: Elmo Nüganen feature feature Waffen SS. Today 70 years on, the filmmakers, try to show the Screenwriter: Leo Kunnas T Cinematographers: Rein Kotov E.S.C, hopes, aims and drama of these men as objectively as possible. The film has become the most successful Estonian film in local box office Mart Taniel E.S.C Art Director: Kalju Kivi history. Sound: Jyrki Rahkonen Editor: Tambet Tasuja Main cast: Kristjan Üksküla, Kaspar Velberg, Maiken Schmidt Producers: Kristian Taska, Maria Avdjushko Co-producer: Ilkka Matila Produced by: Taska Film (Estonia), MRP Matila Röhr Productions (Finland) Premiere: February 20, 2015 Festivals: Let’s Cee FF (Austria), Arras FF (France), Cairo IFF (Egypt), Camerimage FF(Poland), Chennai IFF (India), Palm Springs IFF (USA), Cleveland FF (USA), Trondheim IFF (Norway), Festival of Tole rance (Croatia) 100 min / DCP / Dolby Digital Contact Sales Taska Film Eyewell AB Tartu mnt 18-51 Upplandsgatan 69 Director Elmo Nüganen 10150 Tallinn, Estonia SE-113 28 Stockholm, is the creative director of Tallinn City Theater. His Phone: + 372 520 3000 Sweden first feature film Names in Marble (2002) broke all E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] audience records in Estonia, which was followed www.taska.ee Phone: +46 70 733 2855 up by the success of current film1944 . Skype: m.werner.eyewell 4 The Fencer 2015 n 1952 a young fencing champion Endel arrives in a small town Original title: Miekkailia / Vehkleja Haapsalu to work as a physical training teacher. For an introvert Director: Klaus Härö feature feature man it is hard to get contact with the children who have been Screenwriter: Anna Heinämaa I Cinematographer: Tuomo Hutri F.S.C through a lot. In spite of the opposition of the principal of the school, Endel Art Director: Jaagup Roomet Sound: Maik Siegle, Peter Riegel manages to get a permit to teach fencing for children. Slowly it Music by: Gert Wilden jr. becomes a therapy for the children as well as the teacher himself – Editor: Tambet Tasuja, Ueli Christen a way to deal with everyday grim. The defeated principal is holding Main cast: Märt Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, a grudge and starts to investigate, why did the champion of the Hendrik Toompere, Lembit Ulfsak Soviet Union really come to a small town. Producers: Kai Nordberg, Kaarle Aho, Jörg Bundschuh, Ivo Felt The Fencer is partly based on true life events of an Estonian Production companyies: Making Movies sportsman and coach Endel Nelis (1925-1993). (Finland), Kick Film (Germany), Allfilm (Estonia) Premiere: March 11, 2015 Festivals and awards: Cambridge FF, IFF by the Sea, Cinefest Director Klaus Härö Sudbury’s 27th edition, Beirut IFF (Lebanon), Festival du studied directing and attended screen writing film historique Asbl (Belgium), Sao Paulo IFF(Brazil), Leiden seminars at the University of Industrial Arts in IFF (The Netherlands), Kyoto Historica IFF (Japan), Arras FF Helsinki. He has directed four feature films Elina: (France) - Prix du public, Northern FF (The Netherlands), Cairo As If I Wasn’t There (2002), Mother of Mine IFF (Egypt), India IFF, Goa (India), European Union FF– Otta- (2005), The New Man (2007), Letters to Father wa (Canada) - Audience Award, Chennai IFF (India), AFI EU Jacob (2009) as well as documentaries and short Showcase (USA), Una finestra sul nord (Italy), Munich IFF films. His films have won more than 60 prizes in (Germany) - German Film Award for Peace – Special Prize festivals all over the world, and they have been 2015, Palm Springs IFF (USA), Mill Valley FF (USA), Nordic successful with both critics and audiences. Light FF (USA), Finnish entry for the Academy Awards® In 2003 Klaus Härö was awarded the Ingmar Berg- 2016 - Best Foreign Film, Golden Globe Nomination 2016 – man prize, the winner of which is chosen by Ingmar Best Foreign Film Bergman himself. Härö’s first two features were chosen to represent Finland in the best foreign film 95 min / DCP / 1:2.35 / 5.1 category at the Oscars 6 Contact Making Movies Oy Allfilm Torkkelinkatu 3 Saue 11 00500 Helsinki, Finland Tallinn 10612, Estonia Phone: +358 40 507 3936 Phone: +372 672 9070 E-mail: E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] www.allfilm.ee www.mamo.fi The Secret Society of Souptown 2015 he Secret Society of Souptown is a story of a 10-year- Original title: Supilinna salaselts old smart and brave girl Mari who lives in Tartu, area called Director: Margus Paju feature feature Souptown. Her parents are obsessed with work so she Screenwriters: Mihkel Ulman & Christian Gamst Miller-Harris T Cinematographer: Meelis Veeremets E.S.C spends most of her time with her grandfather Peeter, the profes- sor at a local University. Mari has three best friends and togeth- Art Directors: Jaagup Roomet, Kaisa Mäkinen Editor: Harri Ylönen & Marion Koppel er they form a secret society to play scavenger hunt games her Sound: Matis Rei grandfather is inventing for them. Music by: Liina Kullerkupp One day their city is attacked by a mysterious poison which Principal cast: Olivia Viikant, Arabella Antons, Hugo Soosaar, turns adults into children. The kids embark on an adventure to Karl Jakob Vibur, Mirtel Pohla discover the antidote. Producers: Esko Rips, Diana Mikita Co-producer: Jesse Fryckman Production companies: Nafta Films (Estonia), Solar Films Inc. (Finland) Premiere: May 11, 2015 Festivals and awards: Zurich FF (Switzerland) - Audience Director Margus Paju Award, Schlingel FF (Germany) - Audience Award, International is representing a new generation of Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! (Poland) - Special Award, Estonian film-makers. He graduated in IFF Juniorfest (Germany) - The Main Festival Prize, Riga IFF film directing from Baltic Film and Media (Latvia), Cinekid (The Netherlands), Chicagi IFF (USA), Listapad School and is currently completing his (Belorussia), Reykjavik FF (Iceland), Cottbus FF (Germany) Master’s Degree. Since 2008 Margus is an in-house director at Nafta Films. Together 105 min / DCP / Cinemascope / Dolby Digital 5.1 with Nafta and producer Esko Rips, Margus has directed several short films, two scien- Contact Sales tific documentaries, TV series and a great Nafta Films Claudia Schmitt number of commercials. Besides directing Soo 4, Tallinn 10414, Estonia Beta Film GmbH Margus also writes scripts, film reviews and Phone: +372 525 6323 Gruenwalder Weg 28d, Munich/Ober- articles about film history for several Estoni- E-mail: [email protected] haching 82041, Germany an culture magazines. www.nafta.ee Phone: +49 896 7346 9825 E-mail: [email protected] www.betafilm.com 8 Roukli 2015 small farm community is on the brink of getting swallowed by raging war. Original title: Roukli Lives of the frightened locals get shaken by the arrival of two men on the Director: Veiko Õunpuu feature feature run from the mysterious, apparently vengeful Peedu. Screenwriter: Veiko Õunpuu A Cinematographer: Erik Põllumaa E.S.C Following events delve into the fine ties of human relationships and the meaning of individual existence lurking behind them. A seemingly pessimistic Art Director: Veiko Õunpuu Editor: Liis Nimik premise of the film slowly turns into something much more complex – a work Principal cast: Juhan Ulfsak, Mirtel Pohla, that depicts the frailty of deep human connection and reaffirms it as a legitimate Eva Klemets, Peeter Raudsepp, Lauri Lagle, possibility once we learn to let go. Meelis Rämmeld Producer: Tiina Savi Produced by: Filmiühistu Roukli Premiere: July 2015, Palic Film Festival Festivals: Palic IFF /Serbia), Tokyo IFF (Japan), Helsinki IFF (Finland), Tallinn BNFF (Estonia), Cottbus FF (Germany), Muces IFF (Spain) Director Veiko Õunpuu’s 99 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / Dolby debut feature Autumn Ball premiered at Venice IFF in 2007 and won the Orizzonti Award. He received the European Contact Talent Award for The Temptation of St Tony, which later Tiina Savi premiered internationally in Sundance in 2011 and was nom- Filmiühistu Roukli inated for the Best Production Design at the European Film Phone: +372 5399 3411 Awards. Õunpuu was chosen as one of the 100 most intrigu- E-mail: [email protected] ing contemporary film directors in the book10*10 in Film by www.facebook.com/rouklitammik Phaidon Publishing. His previous title Free Range: Ballad on Approving of the World premiered at Berlinale 2013 and has been circulating festivals since and won numerous awards. Filmography: Empty (2006, short film),Autumn Ball (2007), The Temptations of St Tony (2009), Free Range/ Ballad on Approving of the World (2013), Roukli (2015) 10 Ghost Mountaineer 2015 host Mountaineer is a youth film with elements of horror. The film is Original title: Must alpinist based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era. It tells Director: Urmas Eero Liiv feature feature the story of an Soviet Estonian student hiking group which gets caught Screenwriter: Urmas Eero Liiv G Cinematographer: Ants Martin Vahur E.S.C up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle disappears on the last day in the mountains.