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Original title: Director: : Cinematographers: Mart Taniel E.S.C Taniel Mart Art Director: Editor: Sound: Main cast: Producers: Maiken Schmidt Co-producer: Produced by: Premiere: Productions (Finland) Festivals: Palm Springs IFF (USA), Cleveland FF (USA), Trondheim Trondheim (USA), FF Cleveland (USA), IFF Springs Palm (India), IFF Chennai FF(Poland), Camerimage (Egypt), IFF IFF (Norway), Festival of Tole of Festival (Norway), IFF 100 / DolbyDigital min/DCP Contact Taska Film 10150 Tallinn, Estonia mnt 18-51 Phone: +372 5203000 E-mail: [email protected] www.taska.ee Tambet Tasuja Tambet Jyrki Rahkonen Jyrki Elmo Nüganen Kristjan Üksküla, Kaspar Velberg, February 20, 2015 20, February Let’s Cee FF (Austria), Arras FF (France), Cairo Cairo (France), FF Arras (Austria), FF Cee Let’s

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6 feature 2015 I sportsman andcoach EndelNelis(1925-1993). Soviet Unionreallycometoasmalltown. toinvestigate,whydidthechampion ofthe a grudgeandstarts a waytodealwitheverydaygrim.The defeatedprincipalisholding becomes atherapyforthechildren aswelltheteacher himself– manages togetapermitteach fencingforchildren. Slowlyit through alot. The Fencer man it is hard to get contact with thechildren who havebeen man itishardtogetcontact toworkasaphysical trainingteacher.Haapsalu For anintrovert n 1952ayoungfencingchampion Endelarrivesinasmalltown The Fencer In spiteoftheoppositionprincipalschool, Endel ispartlybasedontruelifeeventsofanEstonian category atthe Oscars chosen torepresent Finland in the bestforeignfilm Bergman himself. Härö’s first twofeatures were man prize, the winnerofwhich is chosen byIngmar In 2003Klaus Härö wasawarded the IngmarBerg successful with bothcritics and audiences. festivals all overtheworld, and theyhavebeen 60prizesin films. Hisfilmshavewonmore than Jacob (2005), As IfIWasn’t There Helsinki. He hasdirected four featurefilms seminars at theUniversity of Industrial Arts in studied directing and attended screen writing Director (2009) as well as documentaries andshort as welldocumentaries (2009) The NewMan Klaus Härö (2002), (2007), Mother of Mine Letters toFather Elina:

- Original title: Director: Screenwriter: Art Director: Cinematographer: Sound: Editor: Music by: Main cast: Producers: Hendrik Toompere, Lembit Ulfsak Production companyies: (Finland), (Finland), Festivals andawards: Premiere: Sudbury’s 27th edition, Beirut IFF (Lebanon), Festival du du Festival (Lebanon), IFF Beirut 27th edition, Sudbury’s IFF (The Netherlands), Kyoto Historica IFF (Japan), Arras FF FF Arras (Japan), IFF Kyoto Historica Netherlands), (The IFF Leiden IFF(Brazil), Paulo Sao (Belgium), Asbl historique film (France) - Prix du public, Northern FF (The Netherlands), Cairo Cairo Netherlands), (The FF Northern public, du - Prix (France) wa (Canada) - Audience Award, Chennai IFF (India), AFI EU EU AFI (India), IFF Chennai Award, - Audience (Canada) wa Otta FF– Union European (India), IFF, Goa India (Egypt), IFF Showcase (USA), Una finestra sul nord (Italy), Munich IFF IFF Munich (Italy), nord sul finestra Una (USA), Showcase (Germany) - German Film Award for Peace – Special Prize Prize –Special Peace for Award Film - German (Germany) Light FF (USA), Finnish entry for the Academy Awards® Awards® Academy the for entry Finnish (USA), FF Light Nordic (USA), FF Valley Mill (USA), IFF Springs 2015, Palm 2016 - Best Foreign Film, Golden Globe Nomination 2016 – Nomination Globe Golden Film, 2016 Foreign -Best Best Foreign Film 95 min / DCP /1:2.35 /5.1 95 min/DCP Tambet Tasuja, Ueli Christen Ueli Tasuja, Tambet Maik Siegle, Peter Riegel Klaus Härö Gert Wilden jr. Gert Kick Film (Germany), (Germany), Film Kick Märt Avandi, , Ratasepp, Ursula Avandi, Märt March 11, March 2015

Jaagup Roomet Jaagup Kai Nordberg, Kaarle Aho, Jörg Bundschuh, Ivo Felt Ivo Bundschuh, Jörg Aho, Kaarle Nordberg, Kai Miekkailia / Vehkleja Miekkailia Anna Heinämaa Tuomo Hutri F.S.C F.S.C Tuomo Hutri Cambridge FF, IFF by the Sea, Cinefest Cinefest Sea, the by FF, IFF Cambridge

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- 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 8 feature 2015 T discover theantidote. turns adultsintochildren. The kidsembarkonanadventureto grandfather isinventingforthem. er theyformasecretsocietytoplayscavengerhuntgamesher sor atalocalUniversity. Marihasthreebestfriendsandtogeth spends mostofhertimewithgrandfatherPeeter, theprofes Souptown of Society Secret The One day their city is attacked byamysteriouspoisonwhichOne daytheircityisattacked Souptown. Herparentsareobsessedwithworksoshe old smartandbravegirlMariwholivesinTartu, areacalled he Secret Society ofSouptown Society he Secret an culturemagazines. articles about filmhistory forseveral Estoni Margus also writes scripts, film reviews and number ofcommercials. Besides directing TVseries andagreat tific documentaries, has directed several shortfilms, twoscien andproducerEskoRips, Margus with Nafta Films. Togetherin-house director atNafta Master’s Margusisan Degree. Since2008 School andiscurrently completing his Baltic Film andMedia film directing from Estonian film-makers. He graduated in is representing a newgeneration of Director isastoryof10-year- Margus Paju - - - - Original title: Director: : Art Directors: Cinematographer: Editor: Music by: Sound: Principal cast: Producers: Pohla Mirtel Vibur, Jakob Karl Co-producer: Production companies: Premiere: (Finland) Festivals andawards: Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! (Poland) - Special Award, Award, -Special (Poland) Kino! Ale Festival Film Young Audience International Award, - Audience (Germany) FF Schlingel Award, IFF Juniorfest (Germany) - The Main Festival Prize, IFF IFF Riga Prize, Festival Main -The (Germany) Juniorfest IFF (Belorussia), Reykjavik FF (Iceland), Cottbus FF (Germany) FF Cottbus (Iceland), FF Reykjavik (Belorussia), Listapad (USA), IFF Chicagi Netherlands), (The Cinekid (), 105 5.1 / CinemascopeDolby Digital min/DCP Nafta Films Nafta Contact Soo 4,Tallinn 10414, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 5256323 www.nafta.ee Harri Ylönen Harri & Koppel Marion Matis Rei Matis Margus Paju Margus Liina Kullerkupp Liina May 11, May 2015

Esko Rips, Diana Mikita Diana Rips, Esko Supilinna salaselts Jaagup Roomet, Kaisa Mäkinen Mihkel Ulman & Christian Gamst Miller-Harris Jesse Fryckman Olivia Viikant, Arabella Antons, Hugo Soosaar, Soosaar, Hugo Antons, Arabella Viikant, Olivia Meelis Veeremets E.S.C Zurich FF (Switzerland) - Audience - Audience (Switzerland) FF Zurich

Nafta Films (Estonia), (Estonia), Films Nafta www.betafilm.com E-mail: [email protected] 9825 7346 896 Phone: +49 Germany haching 82041, Gruenwalder Weg 28d,Munich/Ober Film GmbH Beta Claudia Schmitt Sales Solar Films Inc.

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10 feature 2015 A possibility oncewelearntoletgo. that depictsthefrailtyofdeephumanconnectionandreaffirmsitasalegitimate premise ofthefilmslowlyturnsintosomethingmuch morecomplex–awork meaning ofindividualexistencelurkingbehindthem.Aseeminglypessimistic Roukli Following eventsdelveintothefinetiesofhumanrelationshipsand runfromthemysterious,apparentlyvengefulPeedu. Lives ofthefrightenedlocalsgetshakenbyarrivaltwomenon small farmcommunityisonthebrinkofgettingswallowedbyragingwar. Approving of theWorld The Temptations of StTony Filmography: been circulating festivals since and wonnumerous awards. Approving of theWorld Phaidon Publishing. His previous title ing contemporary film directors inthebook Awards. Õunpuu was chosen asoneof the 100 mostintrigu inated forthe Best Production Design attheEuropean Film premiered internationally in Sundance in2011 andwas nom Talent Award for and wontheOrizzonti Award. He received theEuropean debut feature Director Veiko Õunpuu’s Autumn Ball

Empty The Temptation of StTony (2006, short film), (2006, (2013), premiered at Berlinale2013 and has premiered at Venice IFF in2007 premiered at Venice IFF (2009), (2009), Roukli Free Range/ Ballad on Ballad Free Range/ Free Range: Ballad on Ballad Free Range: (2015) Autumn Ball , which later 10*10 inFilmby (2007), - - Original title: Director: Screenwriter: Art Director: Cinematographer: Editor: Eva PeeterKlemets, Raudsepp, Lagle, Lauri Principal cast: Meelis Rämmeld Produced by: Producer: Premiere: Festivals: Cottbus FF (Germany), Muces IFF (Spain) IFF Muces (Germany), FF Cottbus (Estonia), BNFF Tallinn (Finland), IFF Helsinki 99 min / DCP /1:1.85Dolby min/DCP 99 Contact Filmiühistu Roukli Tiina Savi Phone: +372 3411 5399 E-mail: [email protected] www.facebook.com/rouklitammik Liis Nimik Veiko Õunpuu Tiina Savi Tiina July 2015, Palic Film Festival Film 2015, Palic July Palic IFF /Serbia), Tokyo IFF (Japan), (Japan), Tokyo IFF /Serbia), IFF Palic

Veiko Õunpuu Roukli Veiko Õunpuu

Filmiühistu Roukli Filmiühistu Juhan Mirtel Ulfsak, Pohla, Erik Põllumaa E.S.C Põllumaa Erik

12 feature 2015 G to undertake and later are unable to tackle. andlaterareunabletotackle. to undertake they do not know, which the hikers are faced withtheyat a task firstdonotwant seems tobeorchestrated bythemissingOlle.Inaforeignlandandamongpeople chain ofeventsisunleashedwhich toseekhelp.Aweird andinsane mountain and adventurousEeroguidesthedescendinghikersintoaBuryatevillageon His rival, liberal-minded on the last day in the mountains. leader Olle disappears up inaseriesofscaryeventsunfoldingwintrySiberia.The unpopulargroup Mountaineer Ghost the storyofanSovietEstonianstudenthikinggroupwhich getscaught based onreallifeeventswhich tookplaceduringtheSovietera.Ittells host Mountaineer isayouthfilmwithelementsofhorror. The filmis first full-length featurefilm. shows as a director/author and ahost. engaged inproduction of severalsuccessful documentary few years, he hasworkedin commercial TVchannels and been reached thehighest ratings inlocal TV channels. For the last that have and TV documentaries Estonian documentaries University majoring infilmdirecting. Heis anauthorofseveral graduated from Tartu University majoring inbiology and Tallinn Director Urmas Eero Liiv Ghost Mountaineer ishis Original title: Director: Screenwriter: Art Director: Cinematographer: Editor: Principal cast: Music by: Vadim Andreev, Liis Lass, Reimo Sagor, Sagor, Reimo Lass, Liis Andreev, Vadim Producer: Rait Õunapuu, Veiko Porkanen Co-producer: Produced by: Premiere: Decima Rosa (Italy) Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Film Nights Black Tallinn 103 / 1:1.85Stereo min/DCP Anneli Ahven Contact Kopli Kinokompanii Gonsiori 27, 10147 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 2041 5562 www.kinokompanii.ee facebook.com/mustalpinist Urmas Eero Liiv, Tambet Tasuja Tambet Liiv, Eero Urmas Urmas Eero Liiv Eero Urmas Tiit Kikas Tiit Anneli Ahven November 25, 2015, 25, November

Katrin Sipelgas Must alpinist Urmas Eero Liiv Eero Urmas Priit Pius, Hanna Martinson, Martinson, Hanna Pius, Priit

Aurelio Laino Kopli Kinokompanii (Estonia), Ants Martin Vahur E.S.C Vahur Martin Ants

14 feature 2015 A and Tallinn. Painter Angry afatefulencounterofeventswithRussianKorean drugmobacrossSeoul killers PainterandDriverwithEstonianprostituteElbethatsetsinmotion hard-boiled eroticvengenacethrilleronthefatefulencounterofmystical Duk) and Sul Kyung-gu ( such asChoJae-hyunm ( director as heenteredthe industry as amanagerfor actors had auniquecareer path inbecomingan influential film Director feature. leading Korean independents. FineCut, representing directors such asKim-Ki Duk and other of hisfilms weresoldby Korea’s toparthousedistributor in Tallinn where Jeonpicked upthe Best Director prize. Both andBlackat numerous Nights other festivals including Busan Venice, where it picked uptheQueer Lion before appearing Festival in2012. Laterin2012, Jeon unveiled the Panorama section ofthe62ndBerlin International Film a woman. in India,to present atorrid love affairbetween a man and its direction and haditssetting at Varanasi, place asacred different approaches inallthree films. His2011 filmshifted citybyemploying hidden sides of amodern daymetropolitan method. His from 2010, by employinganindependent film production he madethe 2008, with ground. Starting directorial debut without any formal educationalback From Seoul to VaranasiFrom Seoul Town Trilogy Jeon Kyu-hwan Town Trilogy Mozart TownMozart Silmido, No Mercy The Isle, Bad Guy The Isle, Bad shedlighton the shadyand lonely Angry Painter including from 2009 and including from 2009 wasofficially invitedto , hisdebutfeature from , dir. KimKi ). He made his ishisseventh The Weight - at Original title: Director: Screenwriter: Editors: Cinematographer: Music by: Lia Bulynia, Yuju Shin Bulynia, Lia Main cast: Producer: Uku Toomet Co-producers: Produced by: Niijanaa Films (Estonia), (Estonia), Films Niijanaa Premiere: (Estonia) Tallinn Black Nights FF Nights Black Tallinn 100 / 1:1.85Dolby Surround min/DCP M-Line Distribution Sales 3F MidoBldg, 540-21 Shinsa-dong Gangnam-gu Shinsa-dong 540-21 Phone: +822796 2426 Seoul, Korea 135-889 E-mail: [email protected] Kyuhwan Jeon, Jaemin Ha Kyuhwan Jeon Junsik Kim, Sten Šeripov Sten Kim, Junsik Jungsang Yu, Jongwon Moon, Moon, Yu, Jongwon Jungsang Miae Choi Miae November 24,2015, November

Sungnan Hwaga Kyuhwan Jeon

TreeFilm Ltd (South Korea), Korea), (South Ltd TreeFilm Sten-Kristian Saluveer,

Jinkyong Kim Jinkyong Orbital Vox Studios Vox Studios Orbital

Dawn 2015

he film is based on Soviet propaganda story (most likely not too accurate) Original title: Ausma about Young Pioneer Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret Director: Laila Pakalnina feature feature police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the only moral Screenwriter: Laila Pakalnina T Cinematographer: Wojciech Staron duty of all good Soviet citizens: the good of the state is of the utmost importance. In the film 78 years later we call him little Janis. He is a pioneer, who lives in the Editor: Kaspar Kallas Main cast: Antons Grauds, Vilis Daudziņš, Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is the enemy of the collective farm (and Wiktor Zborowski, Andris Keišs, Liena Šmukste Soviet system). Little Janis betrays his father. The father is taking revenge on his Producer: Laila Pakalnina son. Who, in this old Soviet fairy-tale, is good and who is evil? Co-producers: Kaspar Kallas, Malgorzata Staron, Unfortunately, totalitarian regime and dictatorship intending to transform peo- Lukasz Grudzinski ple into dull screws of unthinkable mechanism is eternal subject disregarding the Produced by: Hargla Company (Latvia), Miracle limits of time and space. Worker (Poland), Staron Film (Poland), Digitaalne Sputnik (Estonia) Premiere: November 2015, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

92 min / DCP 4K / 1:2.35 Cinemascope / 5.1

Contact Hargla Company Director Laila Pakalnina Valtaiku 19 Riga LV1029, Latvia graduated from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography Phone: +371 2923 5618 (VGIK) in 1991. She is the director and scriptwriter of 26 E-mail: [email protected] documentaries, 6 shorts and 5 fiction features. She has 2 chil- facebook.com/filmausma dren, 2 bicycles, 1 husband and 1 dog. Her films have been screened in official programmes of Cannes IFF, Venice IFF, Digitaalne Sputnik Berlin IFF, Locarno IFF, Karlovy Vary IFF, Rome IFF etc. Männimetsa tee 38-8, Laagri 76401, Estonia Her films were awarded in many international festivals. Phone: +372 564 3886 Fiction Features: The Shoe (1998), The Python (2003), E-mail: [email protected] The Hostage (2006), Pizzas (2012), Dawn (2015)

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2016 Mother

his small town crime story in the pastel tones of modern retro offers recog- Original title: Ema nition and bitter humour. Director: Kadri Kõusaar feature feature Mother is a thrilleresque story about rash decisions made in the name Screenwriters: Leana Jalukse, Al Wallcat T Cinematographer: Jean-Noël Mustonen F.S.C of dreams that will have haunting consequences for some time to come. The film focuses on a woman whose adult son has fallen into a coma after Art Director: Minna Hint Editor: Tambet Tasuja being shot. Taking care of him at home, she has to face a whole town trying to Main cast: Tiina Mälberg, Andres Tabun, solve the puzzle of what exactly happened. Andres Noormets, Siim Maaten, Jaan Pehk, But in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everything except Jaak Prints, Rea Lest for what’s right under their nose, the world’s clumsiest crime may go unsolved. Producer: Aet Laigu Produced by: Meteoriit Premiere: January 7, 2016

89 min / DCP / 1:1.78 / Dolby Digital

Contact Meteoriit A. Kapi 5-17, Tallinn 10136, Estonia Phone: +372 5825 8962 E-mail: [email protected] www.meteoriit.ee Director Kadri Kõusaar is an award-winning director, whose work is well known at the international festival circuits. Her debut feature Magnus (2007) premiered at Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard section. Kadri’s second filmThe Arbiter (2013) pre- miered internationally in competition (East of the West) at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Mother is Kadri’s third feature length film.

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2016 Class Reunion

he three buddies Mart, Andres and Toomas are invited to the 25-year an- Original title: Klassikokkutulek niversary of their high school graduation. Actually, Mart and Andres are in- Director: René Vilbre feature feature clined to stay home, but Toomas talks them into going. He has organized Screenwriters: Lars Mering, Claudia Boderke, T Martin Algus a great weekend with drinks, ladies and sauna as a warm-up event to the class reunion. The question is whether they actually survive the Tallinn nightlife... and if Cinematographer: Mihkel Soe E.S.C Art Director: Anni Lindal they ever arrive to meet their old class-mates! Editor: Tambet Tasuja The film takes a close look at the modern man at the very moment when he Music by: Arian Levin discovers that he is no longer 18, but instead has reading glasses and is beaten Main cast: Mait Malmsten, Genka, by love and excessive nose hair. Class Reunion is a comedy about old friends Ago Anderson who realize that at some point they have to grow up... for the most part at least. Producers: Kristian Taska, The film is filled with scenes that are just as goofy, wacky and sometimes directly Evelin Soosaar-Penttilä vulgar, as they are recognizable and human. Executive Producers: Tomas Radoor, Based on the motion picture Klassefesten © 2011 Nordisk Film Production - René Ezra, Ilkka Matila produced by Tomas Radoor and René Ezra, written by Lars Mering and Claudia Produced by: Taska Film Boderke, directed by Niels Nørløv Hansen. To be released: February 17, 2016

90 min / DCP / 5.1 Director René Vilbre has directed different TV shows, commercials, documentaries, short Contact and fiction films. Taska Film Selected filmography: Short filmAnother (for ARTE, Grand Prix at Tartu mnt 18-51 the Cinessone Film Festival, France 2006), more than 10 international 10150 Tallinn, Estonia festivals; feature filmMat The Cat (Children & Youth Film Prize of the Phone: + 372 520 3000 Nordic Film Institutes, 47. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2005), more than E-mail: [email protected] 15 international festivals; feature filmI Was Here, international premiere at www.taska.ee Karlovy Vary IFF 2008 (Moscow International Festival of Detective films, Winner in category “Crime and Punishment”, The Year’s Best Film by The Cultural Endowment of Estonia, more than 15 international festivals all over the world), Kid Detectives & The Secret of the White Lady (2013).

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2016 Family Lies

he film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, man- Original title: Perekonnavaled aged by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald, who has conducted both Directors: Valentin Kuik, Manfred Vainokivi feature feature the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s Screenwriter: Valentin Kuik T Cinematographer: Manfred Vainokivi son-in-law Egon Rei must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon Art Director: Manfred Vainokivi Editor: Kersti Miilen inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New Main cast: Tambet Tuisk, Eva Koldits, lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation Ülle Kaljuste, Roman Baskin of truth might cause a real chaos. Producer: Marju Lepp Family Lies is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skele- Produced by: Filmivabrik tons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and setups that can To be released: March 1, 2016 be found in every family’s secret chronicles. 85 min / DCP / 16:9 / 5.1 Director Valentin Kuik Contact Graduated from film direction department of VGIK on 1975. Writer Filmivabrik and director. His short story Geisha won the Estonian short story Kunderi 9a, 10121 Tallinn, Estonia competition in 1980, his novel The Revolt of the Sons brought Phone: +372 516 3641 him first place in Estonian novel competition in 1996. Has made 8 E-mail: [email protected] feature films and 21 documentaries. Director Manfred Vainokivi is a producer, cinematographer and director. As the owner of the film production company Filmivabrik, he has produced several shorts and two feature Mat the Cat (2005), Bank Robbery (2008). Recent filmography, documentaries:The Bar (2008), Jolly Old Farts (2009), Maestro (2009), Censorship Lefovers (2010), Life is a Flower (2010), Wunderkind (2010), Old clown (2011) Beggar Writers` House (2012), Baskin (2012), Perfecto (2011), Stealing Socialism (2014)

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2016 The Polar Boy

attias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Original title: Polaarpoiss Academy. His dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love Director: Anu Aun feature feature with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Mattias feels the need to prove Han- Screenwriter: Anu Aun M Cinematographer: Heiko Sikka na that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. He risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna’s bold acts are only the symp- Art Director: Jaagup Roomet Editor: Margo Siimon toms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jealousy, Mattias accidentally commits Music by: Sten Šeripov a crime that could put him behind bars for years. The only escape he sees is to get Main cast: Roland Laos, Jaanika Arum, Katariina himself declared irresponsible. In order to achieve that, Mattias decides to start Unt, Jörgen Liik, Kaspar Velberg, faking the illness his girlfriend really has – bipolarity. Producers: Priit Pääsuke, Kaspar Kaljas Produced by: Luxfilm To be released: March 2016

96 min / DCP 2K / 1:2.35 / Dolby 5.1

Contact Luxfilm J.Vilmsi 37-6, Tallinn 10126, Estonia Phone: +372 5559 5847 E-mail: [email protected] www.luxfilm.ee Director Anu Aun is a 35-year old Estonian director-scriptwriter and producer. Anu has graduated with BA from TV Directing and completed postgraduate studies in Film Directing in Baltic Film and Me- dia School. She has produced and directed several short films and documentaries. Anu’s latest short filmShift was selected to more than 70 international film festivals and won 17 prizes from all over the world. Anu‘s debute feature The Polar Boy was developed in Torino Film Lab and Nipkow Program.

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2016 The Days that Confused

he Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life Original title: Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia. The 27-year-old protagonist Director: Triin Ruumet feature feature Allar moves from one provincial party to another, meeting colorful charac- Screenwriters: Triin Ruumet, Greta Varts T Cinematographer: Sten-Johan Lill ters and finding himself in evermore confusing circumstances. The amounting tension and absurdity of surrounding events lead Allar to give serious thought Art Director: Matis Mäesalu Editor: Hendrik Mägar to his life. What follows is a frantic journey through midsummer Estonia to finally Music by: Hendrik Kaljujärv discover meaning in oneself. Main cast: Hendrik Toompere Jr, Juhan Ulfsak, Jaanika Arum Producer: Maie Rosmann-Lill Produced by: Kinosaurus Film To be released: April 2016

110 min / DCP / 1:2.39 / 5.1

Contact Maie Rosmann-Lill Kinosaurus Film Kopli 25, Tallinn 10412, Estonia Phone: +372 5615 6535 E-mail: [email protected] Director Triin Ruumet is representing a new generation of Estonian filmmakers. She graduated from the Baltic Film and Media School with an MA in film directing. She has already made several short films that have seen success at different film festivals. In addition to film, Triin regards painting an important creative outlet. At the moment she is completing her debut feature The Days that Confused and directing adverts, music videos and televi- sion series.

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2016 Magic Kimono

agic Kimono tells a tale about a middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who Original title: Maģiskais kimono is living in a shell for the past years due to a family tragedy. Unwillingly she Director: Maris Martinsons feature feature joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to partic- Screenwriter: Maris Martinsons M Cinematographer: Gints Berzins ipate in kimono show. During her performance in a fairytale-like art nouveau Riga, she is suddenly faced with her Husband, who disappeared twenty years ago and Art Director: Aivars Zukovskis, Hidefumi Hanatani Music by: Osamu Kitajima has now returned to give their relationship a second chance. The encounter is a Main cast: Kaori Momoi, Issey Ogata strange one, as Husband looks mysterious and almost otherworldly. In the middle of Producer: Linda Krukle despair, Keiko strolls the city meeting young chef by accident. Through a joint cook- Co-producers: Sten-Kristian Saluveer, Jason ing show, the two souls develop a connection with food becoming a language be- Gray, Eiko Mizuno Grey tween the different cultures of Japan and Europe. With Husband’s support, Keiko’s Produced by: Krukfilms (Latvia),Oree Films experiences gradually bring her out of her shell and provide her a new lease on life. (Estonia), Loaded Films (Japan) To be released: May 2016

Director Maris Martinsons 100 min / DCP / 1:2.39 / 5.1 is an internationally awarded film director, screenwriter, editor and producer. After graduating from Latvia Conservatoires Contact in 1989 as a drama theatre director he worked together with Orée Films Latvian musicians as an independent director/producer for Vabriku 33-1, Tallinn 10411, Estonia music videos. Martinsons originally worked in the TV field, Phone: +372 516 5242 (EST) creating numerous TV shows, music videos and TV series and +8 180 4434 5242 (JPN) each of these productions brought him a step closer to creat- E-mail: [email protected] ing a feature film. By winning the Best Director in the Shanghai IFF (2008) for his first feature filmLoss , Maris Martinsons opened a new page in his professional career by establishing collaboration with actress Kaori Momoi through the internation- ally recognised Amaya shot on location in . Filmography: Loss (2008), Amaya/Hong Kong Confidential (2010), Christmas. Uncensored (2013), Oki - in the Middle of the Ocean (2014), Romeo n’ Julietta (2015)

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2016 Seneca’s Day

t is 1989, the final year of the Soviet era in Vilnius. Eighteen-year old buddies Original title: Senekos diena / Seneca päev establish the Seneca’s Fellowship. Their motto is: “Live each day as if it was Director: Kristijonas Vildziunas feature feature your last”. A love triangle breaks up the fellowship right at the time the nation Screenwriter: Kristijonas Vildziunas I Cinematographer: Audrius Kemezys experiences an exceptional sense of community via the Baltic Chain. Twenty-five years later, the main character, who appears to be accompanied by good luck at Art Director: Galius Klicius Editor: Danielius Kokanauskis first glance, is disillusioned with himself. He has betrayed the ideals of his youth Main cast: Dainius Gavenonis, and became a cold observer of life. Life forces him to open up his own Pandora’s Elzbieta Latenaite, Marijus Mazunas box. Producer: Uljana Kim Co-producers: Riina Sildos, Roberts Vinovskis Produced by: Studio Uljana Kim (), Amrion (Estonia), Locomotive Productions (Latvia) To be released: August 2016

110 min / DCP / 1:1.85

Contact Amrion Nurme 45, Tallinn, 11616, Estonia Phone: +372 504 8985 E-mail: [email protected] Director Kristijonas Vildžiunas www.amrion.ee was born in 1970 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Prior to becoming a film director, Kristijonas Vildžiunas performed with Siaures Kryptis, a well-known Lithuanian rock band. In 1996 Vildžiunas graduated from Lithuanian Academy of Music, Theatre and Film where he studied film directing. Since 1995, Vildžiūnas has completed three short films and three full length feature films.

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2016 The Poet and The Spy

n intelligence official with a drinking problem named Gustav crosses his Original title: Luuraja ja luuletaja monotonous paths with a beautiful gypsy woman who he falls in love with. Director: Toomas Hussar feature feature Unluckily, she turns out to be a Russian secret agent. The feeble mind Screenwriter: Toomas Hussar A Cinematographer: Rein Kotov E.S.C of a man in love is moreover blurred by poet Miku’s outlook on life that lacks of concepts crippling the free spirit – discipline, order and allegiance. Gustav gets Art Director: Kristiina Ago Editor: Tambet Tasuja his act together and decides to reject the gypsy, whereon the intelligence service Music by: Luka Zima finds it necessary for their flirtation to continue. This leads the ones involved into Main cast: Jan Uuspõld, Rain Tolk, Lana Vatsel a complete dead end, as loyalty demands sacrifice. Producer: Ivo Felt Produced by: Allfilm To be released: September 22, 2016

95 min / DCP / Cinemascope / 5.1

Contact Ivo Felt Allfilm Saue 11, Tallinn 10612, Estonia Phone: +372 672 9070 E-mail: [email protected] Director Toomas Hussar is an award-winning Estonian film director, screenwriter and actor. Toomas writes and directs for both cinema and the stage. His 2012 filmMushrooming was a national box office hit, drawing up 75.000 spectators in a country with 1.3 million inhabitants. The film was a success at international festivals as well – it premiered at Karlovy Vary and at the Toronto IFF. It won the FIPRESCI Jury Prize at Mannheim-Heidelberg, the Best Actress Award at Marrakech, and was recognized as the Best Estonian Film of 2012.

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2016 Ready or Not, Happy You Are

here are two people who wake up in the same bed one morning, and nei- Original title: Armastus tuleb magades ther of them has a clue who the other is. Viivi would like to run away and Director: Mart Kivastik feature feature the man is sleeping like a log. Unlike Viivi and Andu themselves, the viewers Screenwriter: Mart Kivastik T Cinematographer: Elen Lotman E.S.C know both very well. They know that Viivi has the worst day in her life and that Andu is a dweeb, but not completely hopeless; a rather good-hearted man. Production Designer: Toomas Hõrak Editor: Katri Rannastu They are both hopelessly lonely people hoping that maybe there’s someone Main cast: , , Ita Ever, somewhere... So they might as well meet. , Katrin Pärn Producer: Anneli Ahven Co-producers: Hlin Johannesdottir, Birgitta Bjornsdottir Produced by: Kopli Kinokompanii To be released: October 2016

90 min / DCP 2K / 1:1.85 / 5.1

Contact Anneli Ahven Kopli Kinokompanii Gonsiori 27, 10147 Tallinn Phone: +372 5562 2041 Director Mart Kivastik E-mail: [email protected] acknowledged scriptwiter and an author of many theatrical plays, novels, film scripts. Filmography: 1979 (short, scriptwriter and director, 1989), Semm (1990, scriptwriter), E2 E4 (short, scriptwriter, 1992), Firewater (feature, co-scriptwriter, 1994), Mistress (short, scriptwriter, director, 2000), Father (short, scriptwriter, direc- tor, 2001), Taarka (feature, scriptwriter, 2008), Vasha (feature, co-scriptwriter, 2009), A Friend of Mine (2011)

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2016 November

he film is based on the Estonian bestselling novel Rehepapp by Andrus Original title: November (working title Rehepapp) Kivirähk. The story is a mixture of pagan magic, black humor and romantic Based on: Rehepapp by Andrus Kivirähk feature feature love. In a village where werewolves, the plague, and our ancestral spirits Director: Rainer Sarnet T Screenwriter: Rainer Sarnet roam, lives a young farm girl named Liina. She is hopelessly in love with village boy Hans and lives out her desperate longing as a werewolf, running after her Cinematographer: Mart Taniel E.S.C Art Director: Jaagup Roomet, Matis Mäesalu beloved, ready to die in the name of love. For in her village, the real problem is Editor: Jaroslaw Kaminski how to survive the cold, hard winter and neither stealing nor cheating nor losing Music by: Michal Jacaszek one’s soul is taboo. The villagers have become as soulless as the Kratt creatures Sound design: Marco Vermaas they command. Where does love fit into this world of pragmatism where anything Main cast: Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Dieter Laser, goes? Arvo Kukumägi, Katariina Unt, Heino Kalm Producer: Katrin Kissa Co-producers: Ellen Havenith, Lukasz Dzieciol Produced by: Homeless Bob Production (Estonia), PRPL (The Netherlands), Opus Film (Poland) To be released: 2016

120 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / Digital SR

Contact Homeless Bob Production Director Rainer Sarnet Tööstuse 58-17, Tallinn 10416, Estonia In his 42 years of existence, Rainer Sarnet has directed 5 Phone: +372 5667 7855 films, lived with 3 women, accumulated about 10 friends, E-mail: [email protected] passionately loved Fassbinder, directed theatre plays by www.homelessbob.ee Przybyszewski, Gorky, and Jelinek, been deemed a wonder child at film school and had got the opportunity to defend this ambitious title only 15 years later with his film November (working title Rehepapp). The mystery is still out there.

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2016 Bodom

econstructing a legendary campsite murder turns deadly when the girls Original title: Bodom decide to rewrite history. Director: Taneli Mustonen feature feature Every camper’s worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 Screenwriters: Taneli Mustonen, Aleksi Hyvärinen R Cinematographer: Daniel Lindholm when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. As the years passed and the case grew cold, the unsolved mystery turned into an urban Art Director: Anneli Arusaar Editor: Aleksi Raij legend, a creepy campfire story passed from generation to generation. Now, a Music by: Sten Sheripov group of teenagers arrives at the same campsite, hoping to solve the murder Main cast: Nelly Hirst-Gee, Mimosa Willamo, by reconstructing it minute by minute. As night falls, turns out not all of them are Mikael Gabriel, Santeri Mäntylä there to play. Producer: Aleksi Hyvärinen Tonight... it’s girls against boys. Let the killing games begin. Co-producer: Mika Pajunen Produced by: Don Films (Finland), Münchhausen Productions (Estonia) To be released: Autumn 2016

85 min / DCP / Cinemascope / Stereo

Contact Don Films Pursimiehenkatu 4A, top floor Director Taneli Mustonen 00150 Helsinki, Finland is a Finnish director and screenwriter known for, among Phone: +358 50 551 4561 others, his critically acclaimed Finnish box office hitElla and E-mail: [email protected] Friends (2012). He is currently in post-production of his next feature The Reunion, a remake of the Danish smash hit Münchhausen Productions comedy Klassefesten (2011), as well as working on a slate of Niine 11, Tallinn 10414, Estonia genre films and fiction series for Don Films. At the American E-mail: [email protected] Film Market 2014, Variety noted his upcoming horror film Phone: +372 5860 0655 Bodom as “one of Scandinavia’s most anticipated elevated genre imports”.

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2016 Dearest Sister

earest Sister is about a Lao village girl who’s only chance of escap- Original title: Nong Hak ing indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness Director: Mattie Do feature feature into dependence. Poor village girl Nok travels to capital Vientiane to Screenwriter: Christopher Larsen D Cinematographer: Mart Ratassepp care for her rich cousin Anna who has mysteriously lost her sight, and some- how gained the ability to communicate with the dead. Matters are further Art Director: Helen Lõhmus Music by: Sten Šeripov driven downfall by the cousin’s ambivalent marriage with an Estonian expat Main cast: Vilouna Phetmany, Tambet Tuisk, Jakob, who has his own dark secrets to hide. Amphaiphun Phommapanya Producers: Mattie Do, Christopher Larsen, Douangmany Soliphanh Co-producers: Helen Lõhmus, Sten-Kristian Saluveer, Annick Mahnert Produced by: Lao Art Media (Laos), Oree Films (Estonia), Screen Division (France) To be released: Autumn 2016

100 min / DCP / 1:2.35 / Dolby SR

Director Mattha Thi Do (Mattie) Contact was born in Laos, lived in USA for 30 years and Oree Films, Vabriku 33-1, Tallinn 10411, Estonia returned in 2008. As a makeup artist Mattie had Phone: +372 5348 0281 worked for various independent film productions. In E-mail: [email protected] Laos she soon began production on her first feature www.oreefilms.com film,Chantaly (2013) at Lao Art Media. In 2014, Mattie became the first Lao filmmaker to represent Laos film at Sales the Cannes Film Market as part of the Institut Français’ James Fler La Fabrique des Cinemas du Monde. Later that year, Raven Banner Entertainment, 33 Villiers St., Mattie was selected to participate in the Toronto Inter- Suite 201, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 1A9, Canada national Film Festival Talent Lab. Mattie Do is, to date, Phone: +1 (416) 778 9090 the only woman to direct a feature film in Laos. E-mail: [email protected] / www.ravenbanner.ca

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2016 The End of the Chain

secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it’s good to go, Original title: Keti lõpp because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people Director: Priit Pääsuke feature feature show up one after the other — all of them on the verge of a breakdown Screenwriter: Paavo Piik A Cinematographer: Meelis Veeremets E.S.C - or perhaps a breakthrough? The main character, Waitress, sees and absorbs it all. One by one - through their personal drama - the clients push the Waitress Art Director: Eugen Tamberg Main cast: Maiken Schmidt, Hendrik Toompere jr towards her own edge. Producer: Marianne Ostrat Produced by: Alexandra Film, Luxfilm To be released: Autumn 2016

70 min / DCP 2K / 1.2.39 / Dolby Digital 5.1

Contact Alexandra Film Tuvi 16-3, 10119, Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 523 3577 E-mail: [email protected] Director Priit Pääsuke graduated from the Tallinn University with BA in film directing in 2005. From 2012 to 2015 he attended the MA program of theatre and film directing in Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Since 2005 he works as a freelance director and editor and as a producer in his own production company Luxfilm. In 2008 Priit’s short fictionBlack Peter (2008) premiered at the 38th Tampere Film Festival, participated altogether at 22 film festivals and won 11 prizes; in 2015 he premiered a feature length documentary Impromp- tu. Existential comedy The End of the Chain is Priit’s fiction feature debut.

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2016 Pretenders

fter a heavy decision, Anna and Juhan are unable to move on with their Original title: Teesklejad lives. They take time off at their friends’ fancy summer house and once Director: Vallo Toomla feature feature there, are forced to offer shelter to another couple caught in the storm. The Screenwriters: Livia Ulman, Andris Feldmanis A Cinematographer: Erik Põllumaa E.S.C couple assumes that the house belongs to Anna and Juhan and they do nothing to correct the mistake. Instead, they seize their new roles and start taking their Art Director: Eva-Maria Gramakovski Editor: Danielius Kokanauskis mutual bitterness out on the strangers. Main cast: Mirtel Pohla, Meelis Rämmeld, Pretenders is a psychological drama about the truths and illusions of a rela- Mari Abel, Priit Võigemast tionship. Producer: Riina Sildos Co-producers: Uljana Kim, Roberts Vinovskis Produced by: Amrion (Estonia), Studio Uljana Kim (Lithuania), Locomotive Productions (Latvia) To be released: 2016

90 min / DCP / 1:2.39 / Dolby Stereo

Contact Riina Sildos Director Vallo Toomla Amrion is a young promising talent in Estonian cinema. He has Nurme 45, Tallinn, 11616, Estonia studied theology at Tartu University and film directing at Phone: +372 504 8985 Baltic Film and Media School. He has been in versatile roles E-mail: [email protected] in front and behind the camera but is best known as a director. www.amrion.ee Vallo has directed five short films and one puppet animation. His first student workMorbius was selected to international Student Festival Sleepwalkers at PÖFF and got the award of the Best Estonian Short Film. His student-films have all been aired by Estonian Public Broadcasting and his short Devil’s Vaudeville was in domestic cinema distribution.

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. Original title: Director: Screenwriters: Art Director: Cinematographer: Editor: Main cast: Music by: Producer: Produced by: Co-producer: Premiere: 13 min / DCP /16:9Stereo 13 min/DCP Contact Alasti kino Maria Reinup Toom-Kooli 21, Tallinn 10130, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 4054 5595 Jaak Ollino Maria Reinup Maria Kene, The Soft Moon Soft The Kene, Taavi Juhan Eelmaa, Ulfsak Kristjan Pütsep March 6, 2015 6, March

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- - - Original title: Director: Screenwriter: Art Director: Cinematographer: Editor: Main cast: Music by: Producer: Produced by: Co-producer: Premiere: 15 min / DCP / 1:2.39 / Dolby Digital 5.1 /DolbyDigital /1:2.39 15 min/DCP Contact Luise 5-6,Tallinn 10142, Estonia Mr Goo Phone: +372 7248 5558 E-mail: [email protected] Vallo Toomla Vallo Toomla Indrek Soe Indrek Ivo Reinok, Liis Lindmaa, Lindmaa, Liis Reinok, Ivo Elari Lend March 6, 2015 6, March

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52 short 2015 I father insidemehasn’tdissolved? even withoutamicroscope,thequestionarises:amIreadytobefatherifmy parents’ goodattributesdepositedintoourselvesthroughreflectiveneurons. Yet And theycalltheirgoodtraitsown.We needamicroscopetofindour naturally inherentbadcharacter traitsgenespasseddownfromtheirparents. don’tyouhaveamirror athome?Those whohaveafathercalltheir I’ve said, Superbia anyone, either. f you’vebeenhit,onedayyou’llhitback. Ifyouaren’tloved,won’tlove I have friends who have said they’ve never seentheirfather.I havefriendswhosaid Inresponse Superbia Thibault Selected filmography: and Black Nights Film Festival opening trailers. and Theatre. Helde hasdirectedshort films, TV commercials, master level at DramaSchool ofEstonian Academy ofMusic and continues to studyTheatre and Film Directingonthe Filmand Media Schoolgraduated from asfilmdirector Baltic Director (2009, short), (2009, (2015, short) Martti Helde In theCrosswind Burnt Mistakes Burnt (2010, short), (2014, feature),

Original title: Director: Cinematographers: Production Designer: Lill Sten-Johan Editor: Music by: Sound Designer: Main cast: Produced by: Producer: Premiere: Festivals: L’Inconnu FF (France), NexT IFF (Romania) NexT IFF (France), FF L’Inconnu (France), FF Independent European 17 min/HD Contact Contact Allfilm Elina Litvinova Saue 11,10612Saue Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] +372 3377 5691 2233809, 754 Phone: +44 Jaak Ollino Jr. Ollino Jaak Martti Helde Martti Pärt Uusberg Pärt Tõnis Niinemets, Kaido Veermäe Elina Litvinova March 6, 2015 6, March Kino Pavasaris (Lithuania), ECU The The ECU (Lithuania), Pavasaris Kino

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54 short 2015 E love withher, butwillsoonalsofeelherfirstheartbreak. ever a new and kind teacher Helena comes to work there. Elo falls completely in Elo Elo comesupwithaplanhowtoescapethatplaceforgood.Oneday prison, whilethereisaalluringandmysteriouslifewaitingforheroutside. inthis whyshehastostay lo hateskindergarten.Shedoesnotunderstand her first professionalshort film. a commercial director inEstonia and inforeigncountries. FilmandMedia School. studied in Helen works Baltic mainly as Director Helen Takkin - Elo is Original title: Director: Screenwriters: Cinematographer: Story by: Art Director: Music: Sound: Costumes: Main cast: Editor: Kärt Tammjärv, Kaie Mihkelson, Henrik Kalmet, Henrik Mihkelson, Kaie Tammjärv, Kärt Liis Barkala Co-producer: Producer: Produced by: Premiere: 19 min / DCP /1:1.85Dolby5.1 19 min/DCP Contact Nafta Films Nafta Soo 4,Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] Madis Aesma Madis Jaak Ollino jr. Ollino Jaak Indrek Soe Indrek Helen Takkin Indra Feldman Katriin Meribel Kungla, Kungla, Meribel Katriin Esko Rips Esko Liis Plato Liis

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Liis Orav Liis Nafta Films Nafta Heiko Sikka

The Butterfly Man 2015

oruslawsky’s Circus is a parallel universe where the boundaries of human Original title: Liblikmees short capabilities are tested every night. Anselm (30), a barely noticable guy is Director: Edina Csüllög an assistant of Magician Ernesto. His dream is to become a magician by Screenwriter: Urmas Nimetu B Cinematographer: Jarmo Kiuru himself. One night an accident happens - Maestro Ernesto, when transforming himself, disappears in the middle of the show. Now circus director is in a hurry to Art Director: Vassilissa Danavir Sound: Ann Reimann find a replacement and Anselm realizes his chance. Music: Krimminaalne Elevant Costumes: Piret Ühtegi Editor: Laura Saimre Main cast: Nero Urke, Raimo Aas, Toomas Suumann Producers: Peeter Urbla, Kristo Jürmann Produced by: Exitfilm Premiere: October 9, 2015

16 min / DCP / 1:2.39 / Stereo

Contact Exitfilm Madala 1, 10313 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected]

Director Edina Csüllög has studied Estonian and Hungarian languages and literature, pedagogics and psychlogy in different universities in Estonia, Hungary and Finland. She has graduated from Baltic Film and Media School in 2013 and made several award-winning films during her studies.

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Take Off 2015

Romanek, captain of the starfleet geology team, is left behind as his Original title: Äralend short spaceship leaves uninhabited desert planet Ephestos without him. Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopez Romanek’s oxygen levels are running low and hope is slowly Screenwriter: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopez M. Cinematographer: Sten-Johan Lill leaving him. While trying to get in touch with the ship that left him behind he establishes contact, through a wormhole*, with 7-year-old Nele, who was play- Art Director: Tiiu-Ann Pello Sound: Ranno Tislar ing hide and seek on earth. Romanek hopes to get rescued and Nele, unaware Editor: Marta Pulk of it, will help him rediscover the beauty and wonder of being alive in a place as Principal cast: Argo Aadli, Maia Mägi mysterious as the universe. Producer: Kristjan Pütsep Co-producer: Liis Orav *A wormhole or Einstein-Rosen Bridge is a hypothetical topological feature that Produced by: Alasti Kino, Nafta Films would fundamentally be a shortcut connecting two separate points in spacetime. Premiere: October 9, 2015

19 min / DCP 2K / 1:1.85 / Dolby 5.1 Director Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopez is a Colombian film director currently living and working in Contact Estonia. Graduated as a Filmmaker from Universidad Nacional Alasti Kino de Colombia in 2010, after two years working in Diorama post- Tööstuse 58-17, 10416 Tallinn, Estonia production as an Editor and Director Carlos moved to Estonia E-mail: [email protected] to Get his MA degree in Baltic Film and Media School. Carlos is really interested in science fiction, science, comic books and particle physics, but mostly in how all of this can be tied and used to try and tell stories about the human experience, or about the experience of being a human. Besides film, Carlos also writes short stories and long ones, draws and has been flirting with video instalation projects. At the moment he is developing two short films and a feature film. Filmography as a director: La Ciudad de los Atardeceres Ro- jos (2009), Cuarto Creciente (2010), El Juicio de Jude (2010), Kaardimaja (2014), Take Off (2015)

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Grounded 2015

uring a battle in Afghanistan, a helicopter pilot Raul “The Stork” (34) loses Original title: Tiibadeta piloot short the sight from one eye and his best friend, co-pilot Henry “Dove” dies in Director: Leeni Linna deadly wounds. After returning home, depressed Raul who is stripped of Screenwriter: Leeni Linna D Cinematographer: Rein Kotov E.S.C his wings, infuriates his wife and she moves away from him with their child. Raul feels like a useless cripple and decides to end his life. He builds a flying machine Production designer: Kristjan Suits Sound: Ants Andreas, Markus Andreas from helium balloons and decides to take the last flight of his life. But while flying Costumes: Kristiina Ago nothing goes as planned. The wind carries him towards an airport and he is soon Editor: Eik Lattu discovered by the air force who thinks that he is a terrorist. The last flight becomes Main cast: Priit Võigemast, , a fight for his own life. , Hendrik Kalmet, Raimo Pass Producer: Anneli Ahven Produced by: Kopli Kinokompanii Premiere: October 9, 2015

15 min / HD / 16:9 / Dolby SR

Contact Kopli Kinokompanii Gonsiori 27, 10147 Tallinn, Estonia Director Leeni Linna E-mail: [email protected] graduated from the Baltic Film and media School with a MA in film directing in 2014. She has worked as director, produc- er, story editor and scriptwriter with different film and TV projects. Her short films have participated in international film festivals and awarded with several prizes. Filmography: Personal Space (2005, short), Christmas Cafe (2005, short), Hope Des Last (2006, short), Vanapagan (2006,short), Class Reunion (2007, short), The Messenger (2009, doc), Taxi Driver (2013, short), Blood Type (2013, doc), Grounded (2015)

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2016 Mausoleum

auri Randla’s short film tells a tragicomic story of the pathologist Aleksei Original title: Mausoleum short Abrikosov who embalmed Lenin’s body and in theory managed to over- Director: Lauri Randla come death… so his further existence will be permanently attached to care- Screenwriter: Lauri Randla L Cinematographer: Peter Salovaara taking of the Lenin’s corpse. The story follows Abrikosov’s and his apprentice’s critical night, when they have to solve a problem with Lenin’s body, just prior to the Art Director: Juulia Mäkinen Editor: Leo Pauli Liesvirta holy celebration of the First of May. Music by: Lauri Randla Welcome to Moscow of 1936 and into the world of Stalinist terror where a Main cast: Viktor Lanberg, Sergei Furmanjuk, human is less worthy than a fly. Aleksandr Okunev, Matti Onnismaa Producer: Peeter Urbla Co-producers: Osku Pajalahti, Ilkka Mertsola Produced by: Exitfilm (Estonia),Funny Films and Aalto University ELO Film School (Finland) To be released: Winter/Spring 2016

26 min / HD / 1:2.39 / Stereo 5.1

Contact Peeter Urbla Exitfilm Pikk tn. 67-5, Tallinn 10133, Estonia Phone: +372 515 9696 E-mail: [email protected] Director Lauri Randla graduated from ELO Film School, Aalto University of Art and Design (Finland) with M.A. in film directing. Filmography as director/scriptwriter, shorts: The Imprisonment (2008), Until this Day (2009), The Convict (2010), The Zone (2011), Love / Hate (2012), Sillamäe (2013)

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2016 Karv

eo tries to resolve his balding problem with a mysterious hair growth se- Original title: Karv short rum he ordered over the Internet. The liquid starts causing grotesque and Director: Oskar Lehemaa extreme changes in his body and now Leo must stop the metamorphosis Screenwriter: Oskar Lehemaa L Cinematographer: Heikko Sikka before he loses even the last hairs on his head – and much else. Art Director: Piia-Berta Piir Editor: Carlos Lesmens Music by: Kaspar Kadastik Main cast: Tõnis Niinemets Producer: Kaspar Ainelo Co-producer: GASP! Produced by: Kinosaurus Film To be released: December 2016

15 min / DCP / 1:2.35 / 5.1

Contact Kinosaurus Film Kopli 25, Tallinn 10412, Estonia Phone: +372 5691 3055 E-mail: [email protected] Director Oskar Lehemaa has worked as director and assistant director in the Estonian advertisement and film community during the last five years. He has directed several successful Internet advertisement campaigns, like the Haapsalu Horror and Festival and Qsurf viral campaigns, which have both gathered over a million views. Oskar is finishing his studies in the Baltic Film and Media School and is currently developing his short film Karv with the Estonian production house Kinosaurus Film.

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2016 Ice

arri is a lieutenant-colonel in the Estonian army embarking on missions to Original title: Jää short Iraq and Afghanistan. He is divorced and only sees his 10-year old son on Director: Anna Hints holidays from time to time. Struggling with the guilt of not being there for Screenwriters: Greta Varts, Anna hints H Cinematographer: Tõnis Tuuga his estranged son, Harri decides to make up for lost time by going to an adventur- ous father-son winter trip to an island where he used to go with his father as a boy. Art Directors: Matis Mäesalu, Anneli Arusaar Editor: Marion Koppel Harri decides to take the quicker way — a local ice road over the frozen sea. While Main cast: Mait Malmsten, Aksel Ojari arguing with his ex-wife on the phone, Harri loses the tracks and an accident oc- Producer: Eero Talvistu curs. The car falls through the ice into the cold water. The father, who is used to Co-producer: Raoul Nadalet controlling every aspect of his life, is now faced with forces he cannot control. The Produced by: Exitfilm journey becomes a journey of survival on the edge of illusionary realities of life and To be released: Autumn 2016 death. Ice tells the story of the importance of saying, “I love you” while there is still someone there to listen. 12 min / DCP / 1:2.35 / Stereo

Contact Exitfilm Madala 1, 10311 Tallinn, Estonia Director Anna Hints Phone: +372 509 3033 is a promising young director winning Kaljo Kiisa young E-mail: [email protected] filmmaker’s award with her short filmFree World. She has studied literature, folklore and has BA both in photography and film directing. She has a background of active years in Estonian contemporary art scene since 2005. Anna’s person- al and group exhibitions have taken place both in Estonia and abroad. In her art she has explored the thin borderline of public versus private, the backstage of our fears and desires, the concept of memory both personal and cultural. Voice be- comes an important means of expression; she often combines old runic songs with voice improvisation and has composed in all of her films.

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Empty Space Empty Life Before Life Overcoat The Amalimbo Fatcula Full House ofOut Internal Worlds Flu Bird Ground Hunting Eternal Miriam’s Stray Dog Piano Rott Life with Herman H. Wedding Game Master The 69 animations 2015-2016 The Master 2015

dog Popi and a monkey Huhuu are waiting for Original title: Isand their Master to come home who is just one day Director and Screenwriter: Riho Unt not coming any more... From this particular day Based on a short story by Friedebert Tuglas animation A Art Director: Riho Unt there starts their mutual life. Popi, being actually smart- er and stronger capitulates in front of monkey’s whims Cinematographers: Ragnar Neljandi Animators: Märt Kivi, Andres Tenusaar symbolizing with it his obedience and subservientness. Technique: puppet animation At the other hand, Huhuu symbolizes licentiousness and Producers: Andrus Raudsalu, Kerdi Oengo silliness. Produced by: Nukufilm This is verity, more phantasmal than a dream and Premiere: February 4, 2015 more dreadful than truth. Festivals and awards: Animated Dreams Festival (Estonia) - Special men- tion by Tsvika Oren, 5th Brasil Stop Motion IFF (Brasil) – Honorable Mention, Animax Skopje Festival (Republic of Macedonia) - Bronze Brick, IAFF CIN- ANIMA (Portugal) – Grand Prix, Stoptrik IFF (Slovenia) - Special Mention of Best Stop Motion from the Left Side of Iron Curtain, Filmets Badalona FF (Barcelona) – Grand Prix, Imaginaria IAFF (Italy) - Jury Honorable Mention, Directors Riho Unt Ottawa IAFF (Canada) - Cartoon Network Prize for Best Narrative Short has graduated from Estonian Animation, 17th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation (Germany) State Institute of Arts in 1982 as - Best of International Animation, Monterrey IFF (Mexico) - Special Mention Interior Designer. Since then he by the Short Film Jury, Annecy IAFF (France) – Jury Award, Animafest has worked in Nukufilm studios (Zagreb) - Jury`s Special Award as a director. His films have won a number of awards at animation 18 min / DCP / 16:9 / 5.1 festivals. Recent filmography: Brothers Contact Bearhearts (2005), Miriam’s Nukufilm Nestbox (2006), Miriam and Niine 11, 10414 Tallinn, Estonia the Flood (2006), North Dragon Phone: +372 641 4307 (2007), Lily (2008), Happy Birth- E-mail: [email protected] day (2012), Miriam’s Kite (2013) www.nukufilm.ee

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Wedding Game 2015

he wedding where the egoes of the young couple try to outmatch each Original title: Pulmamäng other. A dream-like and dynamic story based on an Estonian fairy tale. Directors: Andres Tenusaar, Marili Sokk Screenwriters: Andres Tenusaar, Marili Sokk, animation T Malle Valli, Piret Sigus, Triin Sarapik-Kivi Animator: Marili Sokk Artists: Eva Jakovits, Piret sigus, Triin Paumer, Kaie Kal, Okeiko, Peep Pedmanson, Silja Saarepuu, Ulla Saar, Yyhely Hälvin Director Andres Tenusaar Music: Cleaning Women Tehnique: cut-out, drawing graduated from Tallinn Pedagogical Univesrity in Art and Producer: Malle Valli Drafting. Has been working as an animator and film director Produced by: Animailm, Peate Film since 2000 in puppet film stuudio Nukufilm Studio and Premiere: Spring 2015 NGO Peata Film. From 1999 has taken part in several VJ-projects as a video artist. 8 min / HD / 16:9 / Stereo Filmography: Communicating Vessels (2013), The Triangle Affair (2012), Miriam´s Food Processor Contact (2012), So Long (2009), Physical Education (2008), Animailm Miriam´s Picnic (2007), Nonexistent Status (2006) Raua 32-35, 10152 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 5563 2265 Director Marili Sokk E-mail: [email protected] garduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in Scenogra- phy. Since 2004 she has been working in Nukufilm Studio as a puppet animator. She has also made set designs for theaters and TV series and has participated in several (Esto- nia, Norway, Finland, etc) exhibitions as an installation artist. Which has taken her to Hamburg´s young artist’s biennale “ARTGENDA 2002”. Filmography: The Other Side (2000), One by One! (2011), Pipe Piper (2014)

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Life with Herman H. Rott 2015

erman H. Rott is a punk rat who lives alone in his messy Original title: Elu Herman H. Rott’iga apartment. One day a small cat sees the very drunk Her- Director: Chintis Lundgren man returning from a bar, finds him charming and decides Screenwriters: Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić animation H Animators: Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić to move in. After a small struggle the cat manages to transform the apartment into a monument of petit-bourgeois ideals. Editing: Chintis Lundgren, Ivor Ivezić Sound design/mixing: Henrik Malmgren, Thomas Richard Christensen The rat tries to be accepting but when cat’s parents come Tehnique: hand-drawn animation for an unexpected visit Herman becomes more and more Producer: Chintis Lundgren frustrated. Co-producers: Draško Ivezic, Tim Lebourgne After a lot of effort and a huge fight the cat finally achieves Produced by: Chintis Lundgren Animatsioonistuudio (Estonia), her goal, Herman is becoming an even bigger cleaning maniac Adriatic Animation (Croatia), Open Workshop (Denmark) than her. While observing a drunk wolf, the cat starts to realize Premiere: November 18, 2015 that she doesn’t find the new proper Herman exciting anymore. Festivals: Animafest Zagreb - Best Croatian Animation, TAIS Animation Showcase (Canada) - Audience Award, Motovun Film Festival (Cro- atia) - Best Short Film, Let’s Cee Festival (Austria) - Special Mention, Anim’est (Romania) - Special Mention, Be There! Corfu Animation Festival (Corfu) - Audience Award, Banjaluka (Bosnia) - Special Men- Director Chintis Lundgren tion, Big Cartoon Festival (Russia) - 1st Prize in category “Winners”, studied fine arts at an alternative art Fredrikstadt Animation Festival (Norway) - Best Short - Golden school called Non Grata. She started Gunnar, Best Animation (Meters, Russia), Etiuda & Anima, Poland - her career in animation in 2008 as an Audience Award + Special Mention, Anilogue (Hungary) - Audience independent author and since 2011 Award, Tindirindis (Lithuania) - Special Mention, Piccolo Festival she runs a small studio called Chintis Animazione (Italy) - Audience Award Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio. She is an author of 6 short films and numerous 11 min / HD / 16:9 / Stereo commissioned films, music videos etc. Selected filmography: The Great Grey Contact Shrike (2009), Volli Pall (2010), About Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio the Hard Life of the Barn Swallow (2011), Moora 11, 11625 Tallinn, Estonia Mysterious Swamp (2013) E-mail: [email protected]

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Piano 2015

arta is carrying home a piano from a second-hand musical in- Original title: Piano struments store. She almost succeeds. Albert tries already for Director: Kaspar Jancis thirty years in a row to express his love to Paula. He almost Screenwriter: Kaspar Jancis animation M Animators: Ülle Metsu, Tarmo Vaarmets, Maiken Silla succeeds. Paula wants to do the same. She almost succeeds. Police superintendent Kits has been dreaming of skydiving all his life. He al- Editing: Kaspar Jancis Music: Kaspar Jancis most succeeds. Miriam wants to be a circus artist. She almost suc- Sound design/mixing: Horret Kuus ceeds. Honey bee is trying to get out of the closed window. It almost Tehnique: classical animation succeeds. Producer: Kalev Tamm A film without main characters where the characters’ lives inter- Produced by: Eesti Joonisfilm weave to each other in both dramatic and less dramatic ways, and it Premiere: November 18, 2015 all takes place in a rather usual house. Festival: Countryside Animafest (Cyprus), AFF Fantoche (Switzerland), AF Insomnia (Russia) – Audience Award, Athens IFF (Creece), Ottawa IAF (Canada), European AFF Balkanima (Serbia), AIFF “Tofuzi” (Georgia) - The Best Film For Adult and The Best Script, Fredrikstad AF (Nor- way), AIFF Cinanima (Portugal), AFF Animated Dreams (Estonia), European Film Forum Scanorama (Lithuania), Interfilm 31st International Short Film Festival (Germany), IFF Etiuda&Anima (Poland), Anilogue IAF (Hungary), Director Kaspar Jancis Festival international de Montréal (Canada), Animateka made his first animated film during his school IAFF (Slovenia). years. He has been part of the creative core of several rock groups, written song lyrics and 8 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / 5.1 melodies. With his films, Kaspar has won several awards including Cartoon d’Or in 2010. Contact Recent filmography: Weitzenbergi Street Eesti Joonisfilm (2002), Frank & Wendy (2004, co-directors Roo 9, 10611 Tallinn, Estonia Ülo Pikkov, Priit Tender), The Very Last Cigarette Phone: +372 677 4228 (2007), Crocodile (2010), Villa Antropoff (2012) E-mail: [email protected]

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Miriam’s Stray Dog 2015

iriam and her family are making a snowman. There is a stray dog watching Original title: Mirjami kodutu koer their process and he definitely likes the snowman very much. The dog Director: Andres Tenusaar won’t leave, although it is very cold. The children bring him inside and Screenwriters: Leelo Tungal, Peep Pedamson animation M Animators: Triin Sarapik-Kivi, Olga Bulgakova, construct a nice place from paper-boxes. Hen is the only one who does not share the joy of all others. And the Hen is the one who faces the most anxious moments. Andres Tenusaar Editing: Raivo Möllits The dog’s owner shows up in the morning and we shall find out the reason the dog Music: Tiit Kikas loved the snowman so much. Finally even the Hen relents. Sound design/mixing: Film Audio, Tiina Andreas Tehnique: animation, stop motion, classical puppet Producers: Kerdi Oengo, Andrus Raudsalu Produced by: Nukufilm Premiere: November 19, 2015 Festivals: Animated Dreams (Estonia)

5 min / DCP / 4:3 / 5.1

Contact Nukufilm Niine 11, Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 615 5322 E-mail: [email protected]

Director Andres Tenusaar has studied art. Since 2000 he has been working as an animator and director. He has also made films and music for films as well as video for theatre/dance pieces and made VJ animations.

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2016 Eternal Hunting Grounds

ere, the children bury the animals, decorate the graves, sing songs and Original title: Igavesed jahimaad recite poems. The ritual surrounding the burial involves not just the chil- Director: Elin Grimstad dren. The vegetation, the sea and the birds all take part in the ceremony. Screenwriter: Elin Grimstad animation H Animators: Triin Sarapik-Kivi, Olga Bulgakova, The dead animals come alive again – they rise in the “Eternal hunting grounds.” The children’s imagination stretches as far as the horizon, they visualize how it is Sergei Kibus, Andres Tenusaar Editing: Robert Stengård, Skafti Gundmundsson there. This vision is like a beautiful treasure inside of them. They love this game - it Music: Sam Mcloughlin, Alison Cooper is both important and exciting. Sound design/mixing: Yngve Sætre (Duper The hunter also lives on the island. He has killed the animals that the children Studio) find. The hunter kills because he is hungry, or just because he likes to do it. He Tehnique: flat puppet animation sometimes lets his victims lie to decay in open air. The children collect them and Producer: Ingvil Giske turn the hunter’s cruel actions into something good. One day the hunter shoots Co-producers: Kerdi Oengo, Andrus Raudsalu, a heron. This bird is bigger and more beautiful than any other animal the children Produced by: Medieoperatørene (Norway), have found. This animated short film takes on the topic of child and nature, inno- Nukufilm (Estonia) cence and truth. What lies in between? To be released: March 23, 2016

19 min / HD 2K / 1:1.85 / Dolby SR

Contact Niine 11, Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 641 4307 E-mail: [email protected] www.nukufilm.ee Director Elin Grimstad moved to Oslo in 2004, after graduating from Bath Spa University in animation and creative writing. Sheset up her own animation studio and started making quirky animation films and illustrations. She integrates animation, theatre and music to create a new, unique expression.

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2016 Bird Flu

tory about a man and a snake, an alcoholized penguin and the disap- Original title: Linnugripp pearance of birds. Story about an apple tree and apples, about roots and Director and Screenwriter: Priit Tender rootlessness. Story about a paradise and about the expel from it. Artist: Hefang Wei animation S Composer: Märt-Matis Lill Compositioning: Hefang Wei, Priit Tender Animators: Laura Linna, Ülle Metsur, Maiken Silla, Tarmo Vaarmets, Katrin Vaher Sound Design: Horret Kuus Editor: Priit Tender Technique: drawn animation Producer: Kalev Tamm Produced by: Eesti Joonisfilm To be released: Spring 2016

10 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / 5.1

Contact Eesti Joonisfilm Roo 9, 10611 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 677 4122 E-mail: [email protected] www.joonisfilm.ee

Director Priit Tender is an award-winning Estonian animator. He has made both cel and puppet animation films. His films are driven by black humor, surrealism and odd ethnic tales.

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2016 Out of Internal Worlds

fly rubs its hands together. A man and a woman, inside and out, balanced Original title: Siseilmadest väljas within and between each other. The fly takes flight. The slugs move. The Director: Helen Unt fly buzzes. Screenwriters: Helen Unt, Anti Naulainen animation A Artists: Helen Unt, Mattias Mälk Composer: Liisa Hirsch Compositioning: Helen Unt, Marje-Ly Liiv Animators: Ülle Metsur, Maiken Silla, Tarmo Vaarmets Sound Design: Horret Kuus Editors: Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn, Helen Unt Technique: drawn Animation Producer: Kalev Tamm Produced by: Eesti Joonisfilm To be released: Spring 2016

11 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / 5.1

Contact Eesti Joonisfilm Roo 9, 10611 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 677 4122 E-mail: [email protected] www.joonisfilm.ee

Director Helen Unt graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts in printmaking and animation. Graduation filmChicks on the Highway was shown in several international animation festivals. Currently she is working on her debut film.

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2016 Full House

diligent postman performs his work duties in an exemplary manner, and Original title: Täis maja then meets his future wife. Director and Screenwriter: Kristjan Holm Artist: Kristjan Holm animation A Compositioning: Marje-Ly Liiv Animators: Ülle Metsur, Maiken Silla, Tarmo Vaarmets Editor: Kristjan Holm Technique: drawn Animation Producer: Kalev Tamm Produced by: Eesti Joonisfilm To be released: Autumn 2016

13 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / 5.1

Contact Eesti Joonisfilm Roo 9, 10611 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 677 4122 E-mail: [email protected] www.joonisfilm.ee Director Kristjan Holm graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts in 1999 as an in- terior designer. In time the understanding, that room is limited to four walls, started to trouble him though. An unexpected discovery that also film frame has four walls, gave him the final impulse to change the subject and dedicate his life to investi- gating the ties between frames and walls. Filmography: Small House (2008), Escape (2009) Big House (2011), Worst-Case Scenario (2014)

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2016 Fatcula

mystical beauty clinic appears next to a sports club, threatening to ruin the Original title: Fatcula club owner. What is really happening in the clinic? The solution seems to Director and Screenwriter: Martinus Daane be in a bottle labeled “Fat Burner”. Klemet animation A Artists: Martinus Daane Klemet, Mattias Mälk Compositioning: Martinus Daane Klemet, Mattias Mälk Animators: Ülle Metsur, Maiken Silla, Tarmo Vaarmets 3D animaator: Martinus Daane Klemet Editor: Martinus Daane Klemet Technique: drawn Animation Producer: Kalev Tamm Produced by: Eesti Joonisfilm To be released: Autumn 2016

11 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / 5.1

Contact Eesti Joonisfilm Roo 9, 10611 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 677 4122 E-mail: [email protected] Director Martinus Daane Klemet www.joonisfilm.ee Studied in 1998-2002 Personal Computers and Networks in Tallinn Polytechinc School and in 2005-2008 graphics and animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. During his univer- sity studies he made two short 3D animations Light My Fire and Furry Flurry which were screened in many animation film festivals. He has also worked as a freelance 3D animator. Filmography: In the Air (2009), XYZtopia (2013)

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2016 Amalimbo

ipuana, a five-year-old girl, experiences “the limbo” as she tries to pass Original title: Amalimbo to ‘the other side’ in her desperate urge to mourn the recent death of her Director and Screenwriter: Juan Pablo Libossart beloved father. It is a short story that happens in an undefined place in an Director of Animation & Art Director: animation T Roland Seer also undefined near future. The main characters of the film are Tipuana (5) and her grown-up version and alter ego Older Tipuana (27). The genre of the story Cinematographers: Nicklas Karpaty, Pia Lehto Music: Ander Kjellberg, Åsa Carlson is fantasy and the technique is 2D animation; in the end animation fuses with Technique: 2D / rotoscopy / live-action live-action. Producer: Johanna Lind Co-producers: Marianne Ostrat, Ami Ekström Produced by: Fasad (Sweden), Fork Film (Estonia), Film i Väst (Sweden) To be released: Autumn 2016

15 min / 2K DCP / 1:1.85 / Dolby Digital 5.1

Contact Fork Film Animation Studio Tuvi 16-3, 10119, Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 523 3577 Director Juan Libossart E-mail: [email protected] Based in Sweden and born and educated in Argentina, Juan Libossart completed the MEDIA MBS’s European Master of Audiovisual Management (MEGA) in 2010 and the European Producers Workshop (EAVE) in 2013. Among other films, he has produced Erik Gandini’s feature documentary Swedish Theory of Love, Marcus Lindeen’s Dear Director and co-pro- duced Chema Rodriguez’s Nightfall in India. Amalimbo is Juan Libossart’s first film as a director and scriptwriter. Libossart joined Fasad in 2013 and before that worked at ATMO, a production company also based in Stockholm.

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The Overcoat 2015

t´s all about how an overcoat changed the life of a poor office clerk, named Original title: Sinel Akaky Akakievitch, who lived in the city a long time ago. Directors: Hugh O´Conor, Meelis Arulepp Gently mocked by his colleagues at work for his old, threadbare coat, and Screenwriter: Hugh O´Conor animation I Animators: A Film Estonia, Giant Creative after an unfortunate run-in with the scary Commissioner, the head of his whole department, Akaky decides to save up for a brand new overcoat. But not even Music: Vaiko Eplik Tehnique: 2D mixed he could foretell the great and terrible chain of events that would be set off. Producer: Kristel Tõldsepp An animated adaptation of Gogol´s classic ghost story, with thrills, laughter Co-producers: Michael Lennon, Dan Spencer and a wandering cat, The Overcoat is a warm and wonderful Christmas special Produced by: A Film Estonia (Estonia), for the whole family; and reminds us how lucky we are for all we´ve got... Giant Creative (Ireland) To be released: December 2016

26 min / DCP / 1:2.37 / Stereo Director Hugh O`Conor Contact is a young director and an actor of film and TV who has A-Film Estonia appeared in several dark big-screen dramas. Toompuiestee 30, 10149 Tallinn, Estonia Filmography: Corduroy (director, writer, 2009), Spacemen Phone: +372 516 0399 Three (director, co-writer, 2008). E-mail: [email protected] As actor: The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015), The Bache- lor Weekend (2013) Director Meelis Arulepp has worked in A film since 1990. Meelis has co-directed 8 short films and worked as a supervising animator and character animator on more than 20 animated films, eg. Smurfs – The Legend of Smurfy Hollow, Asterix and the Vikings, Titeuf - the Movie etc. Filmography: The Little Short-sighted Snake (short, 2005), Things You Think (TV series, 2011), The Great Painter (2013)

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2016 Life before Life

ruth and justice are relative terms. Depending on the point of view, every- Original title: Elu enne Elu body might be right. Director and Screenwriter: Rao Heidmets Animators: Leo Lätti, Urmas Jõemees, animation T Pauline Heidmets, Rao Heidmets Music: Sven Grünberg Sound design: Horret Kuus Editing: Urmas Jõemees Rao Heidmets Producer: Rao Heidmets Produced by: Rao Heidmets Filmstudio To be released: 2016

5 min / DCP / 16:9 / Stereo

Contact Rao Heidmets Filmistuudio Müürivahe 31-16, Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 502 4906 E-mail: [email protected]

Director Rao Heidmets was born in 1956 in Pärnu, Estonia. 1975–1981 he studied in the Tallinn Technical University, faculty of electro-ener- getics. After graduating in 1982 he started working in the Tallinnfilm Studios - at first as an animator and from 1983 as a film director. Filmography: The Theatre Papa Carlo (1988), Noblesse Oblige (1989), Livingroom (1994), Instinct (2003), Pearlman (2006), Inherent Obligations (2008)

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2016 Empty Space

10-year old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her dissap- Original title: Tühi ruum pointment was very big when instead puppy she got father she had no Director and Screenwriter: Ülo Pikkov idea he was still alive. This documentary based film tells a story about a Animator: Marili Sokk animation A Editing: Ülo Pikkov, Raivo Möllits very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and actually will come true only now, through this film. Tehnique: HD 2 K Producer: Kerdi Kuusik - Oengo Produced by: Nukufilm To be released: 2016

10 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / 5.1

Contact Nukufilm Niine 11, Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 615 5322 E-mail: [email protected]

Director Ülo Pikkov studied animation at Turku Arts Academy in Finland and since 1996 has directed several award-winning short animation films in Eesti Joonisfilm and Nukufilm studios. Also as a manager and a producer for documentary and animation films in company Silmviburlane. In parallel with producer’s work Ülo has continued directing his own animation films and support- ing new talents in the Estonian animation scene.

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Woman in Glaciers the PlayLet’s War Paradise Behind Fence the Positivus Relations Close YouSee in Chechnya Cabaret Red Hunter Moon The Rough Stage Fashion of Out –Even Pärt Arvo ILose if Everything Hey, Rasma! Fast Eddy’s News Old Anthill Tashi Delek! Impromptu Siberia in Lives Christ 99 documentaries 2015-2016 Christ Lives in Siberia 2015

anial, Mariam and Zaur lived in St Petersburg with their mother Sveta and Original title: Kristus elab Siberis father Magomed. One day, the mother took her three children and moved Directors and Sceenwriters: Jaak Kilmi, Arbo to the Vissarionites community far in Siberia. This is the world’s largest Tammiksaar D Cinematographers: Arbo Tammiksaar, Jaak Kilmi sect, detached from civilization, gathered around their Teacher Vissarion, the re- Editor: Mirjam Jegorov documentary born Jesus Christ. After a year the mother married a vissarionite bell ringer Dmitri, Producer: Margus Õunapuu who became the children’s stepfather. Danial’s, Mariam’s and Zaur’s real father Co-producer: Kaarle Aho has struggled for years to get his children back. Produced by: Film Tower (Estonia), Making Film director Arbo Tammiksaar moved with his family to Siberia for about a Movies (Finland) year, to live in the Vissarionites village. Premiere: January 28, 2015 The style of the film is observing documentary in it’s purest form. Without any Festivals: Jihlava International Film Festival comments from the author. We follow the characters lives and their relations with (Czech Republic), ArtDocFest (Moscow) their parents and the Teacher, their friends and playmates in this isolated place in the middle of Siberian taiga. 73, 85 min / HD / 16:9 / Stereo

Theme: human interest, social Directors Jaak Kilmi Contact graduated from the Department of Audiovisual Arts of Tallinn Film Tower Pedagogical University with a Bachelor of Arts in directing. Gonsiori 27, 10147 Tallinn, Estonia His credits as director include several award-winning doc- Phone: +372 565 1654 umentaries like Disco & Atomic War (2009), Tallinn Spicy E-mail: [email protected] Sprats: the Canned Tales (2011), etc. Sales Directors Arbo Tammiksaar Reflexion Films graduated from the Department of Audiovisual Arts of Tallinn Olga Kolegaeva Pedagogical University in 2001. He has also attended the Nort E-mail: [email protected] h by Northwest screenwriting courses. His credits as director www.reflexionfilms.com include several documentaries and shorts: Elusive Miracle (2006), Nazis & Blondes (2008), etc.

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Impromptu 2015

hy do we have to renounce music? Why would a talented and skilled Original title: Impromptu musician want to back away from the system, that helped him to reach Directors: Priit Pääsuke, Mart Taniel and understand music in the first place? Why would he want to re- Screenwriters: Priit Pääsuke, Mart Taniel W Cinematographers: Mart Taniel E.S.C, shape a working absolute into something that is based on personal preference? Erik Põllumaa E.S.C documentary Impromptu is an experimental concert film about people, who have dived Sound: Rainer Jancis deep into improvisational music and explore its vast possibilities by breaking Editor: Priit Pääsuke notes in tiny splinters. They believe that their music can be the acoustic reincar- Producer: Priit Pääsuke nation of a soul. Produced by: Luxfilm Forgetting the seams holding trichords together, you’ll find yourself in the fifth Premiere: January 30,2015 or sixth harmonic parallel. Most likely alone but content. Thoroughly independ- ent. These choices require abandoning any evaluation and also evaluators. The 60min / 8mm, HD / 4:3, 16:9 / Dolby Digital only thing that exists is total subjectivity, simultaneously right and wrong. Moving further means moving closer. Theme: music

Contact Director Priit Pääsuke Luxfilm J. Vilmsi 37-6, 10126 Tallinn, Estonia graduated from Tallinn University with BA in film directing in 2005. Phone: +372 5559 5847 He is one of the founders of Luxfilm and has been working there E-mail: [email protected] since it was established in 2005. He is presently developing feature End of the Chain and documentary Tõnis Mägi with Hermann as a director and The Polar Boy as a producer. Director Mart Taniel graduated from Tallinn University and FAMU Film School in Prague as a director of photography. He is an independent cinematographer, who works with several film production companies in Estonia, Finland and Austria, on features, documentaries, short films and commercials.

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Tashi Delek! 2015

ashi Delek! is a coming of age story of Tashi. Original title: Tashi Delek! On a wider scale, it is a story about a small nation struggling to keep its Director: Peeter Rebane identity since opening of borders 22 years ago. It is a universal story about Screenwriter: Peeter Rebane T Cinematographer: Mait Mäekivi E.S.C the conflict between spiritualism and materialism. Sound: Eduardo Agni, Horret Kuus documentary Tashi is a normal 17 year old teenager who loves to play football and bas- Editor: Tambet Tasuja ketball, have fun with his friends and listen to pop music. He is also a monk Producers: Priit Rebane, Patrick Holzen studying at Pema Tsal Sakya Buddhist Monastery, sent here by his parents at the Produced by: Factory age of 6. Premiere: April 24, 2015 Soon, Tashi faces the most important decision in his life — whether to devote his life to serving as a monk, or to leave the monastery and return to everyday 60 min / Full HD / 16:9 / 5.1 surround life, to try his luck at college and in business. We follow Tashi on his long journey home through the Himalayas to visit his father, witnessing the present day life and Theme: religion, coming of age, society customs of one of the best preserved traditional Tibetan communities in the world. Contact Factory Estonia pst.9, 10143 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 615 5100 Director Peeter Rebane E-mail: [email protected] after graduation from Harvard University, 20 years ago, www.thefactory.us Peter founded together with his brother Priidu region’s most successful entertainment company BDG. Years later, he continued his studies in the field of film, by taking courses in the USC film school in Los Angeles and experimenting with various film projects. Peter’s last successful documentary Robbie Williams: Fans Journey to Tallinn and concert filmRobbie Williams Live in Tallinn spread all over the world via the BBC. After the docu- mentary, Tashi Delek!, Peter’s next work would be full-length feature filmRoman .

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Anthill 2015

nthill is a compilation of short novels about people who live in a giant ga- Original title: Sipelgapesa rage complex in Lasnamäe (Estonia). During its long life the building has Director: Vladimir Loginov changed from a simple garage to a utopian facility and become a key cen- Screenwriters: Vladimir Loginov, Max Golomidov A Cinematographer: Max Golomidov tre in Lasnamäe residential. The building that was meant to be a place for keeping Sound Recorder: Juri Vagner documentary cars has developed into a different kind of establishments and services – many Sound Designer: Evgeni Berezovski of these far from car-related. First there were car services and stores, then diners, Editor: Rufat Hasanov cafes, and restaurants. The highlight of the complex is now a sauna. That is why Producer: Elina Litvinova the bastion full of cars is even more expressive, weird, and unusual – a garage, Produced by: Allfilm which reminds a time machine. International Premiere: Visions du Reel IDFF, April 16, 2015, Switzerland

83 min / DCP / 1:2.35 / Stereo

Theme: society

Contact Allfilm Saue 11, 10612 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 672 9070, +372 5691 3377 E-mail: [email protected] Director Vladimir Loginov www.allfilm.ee Graduated from the sociology department of the International University of Social Sciences. He gained additional experience in TV productions, news, and advertising design at BBC’s Mos- cow Congress. Loginov’s filmography consists of both short and feature length films Remembering( Tomorrow, Identity, Wedding for Dummies, Krim, Window, Air, Silence). His films have been awarded with the best short film awards at Kinoshok in Russia and Armenia, and been picked for East Silver Market.

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Fast Eddy ‘s Old News 2015

d Vaar (1929 Kuressaare, Estonia – 2014 Toronto, Canada), a freelance Original title: Fast Eddy vanad uudised cameraman who earned his nickname Fast Eddy by often arriving at the Director: Marko Raat scene of accident before the police and CBC’s crime reporters. A lot of his Screenwriter: Marko Raat E Cinematographer: Marko Raat material was used on the TV by CBC. The rest – hundreds of hours’ worth of tape Sound: Ranno Tislar, Ivo Felt documentary that he didn’t manage to sell – is piled up in the rooms and the cellar at Eddy’s Editor: Jaak Ollino Jr penthouse in central Toronto. Producer: Ivo Felt Can you sell old news? What does Ed remember and what do his old film Produced by: Allfilm reels say about his interests? When do one’s own preparations for death come Premiere: April 21,2015 to an end and when do you change into a ward, a potted plant, a piece of furni- ture? 90 min / DCP / 16:9 / 5.1 How does the end come for a person who has recorded the deaths and de- struction of so many others for the infotainment industry? Theme: society, social issues

Contact Allfilm Saue 11, Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 672 9070 Director Marko Raat E-mail: [email protected] graduated film school in Tallinn. He has made as author www.allfilm.ee documentaries, full lenght features, video art works, shorts, TV productions, directed in theatre and has been involved in several art projects. Selected filmography: Premiere of Illegal Databanks (1998), For Aesthetic Reasons (1999), Agent Wild Duck (2002), Fun For Five Female (2005), Don’t Shoot the Piano Player (2005), Knife ( 2007), Toomik´s Film (2008), Father, Son and Holy Theatre (2009), Black Box (2011), Fast Eddy’s Old News (2015), Chairman.The Opera (2015), Diary of the City Priest (doc in production)

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Hey, Rasma! 2015

ust like ordinary people, whole nations often wonder why their Original title: Hei, Rasma! neighbors are living better than they. If not other nations, then Director and Screenwriter: Laila Pakalnina at least Latvians often ponder why their neighbors Estonians Cinematographer: Arko Okk, E.S.C J Underwater cinematography: Rauno Volmar live as well as they do. So why is that? Could the answer have Editing: Kaspar Kallas documentary some connection with Latvian cargo ship Rasma, that sank near Producer: Arko Okk Mohni Island 75 years ago? Latvian ship Rasma is a reason to pro- Co-producers: Laila Pakalnina, Kinokompanija Hargala (Latvia), voke the harmonious life of Northern Estonians living on the harshly Ketvirta Versija (Lithuania) beautiful coast by questioning whether at least some basis of their Executive Producer: Marie Adler wellbeing might have come from the Latvian ship. Produced by: Acuba Film International Premiere: April 23, 2015 Visions du Réel, 2015 Festivals: Visions du Réel (Switzerland), Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival (Estonia), Vilnius Documentary Film Festival (Lithuania), Riga International Film Festival (Latvia), Lübeck Nordic Film Days (Germany)

38 min / DCP / 16:9 / Stereo Director Laila Pakalnina Graduated from the Moscow Film Institute Theme: history, human interests (VGIK), Department of Film Directing (1991), graduated from the Moscow Contact Sales University, Department of TV Journalism Acuba Film Adler & Associates (1986). More than 50 awards from interna- Tartu mnt 80, 10112 Tallinn Entertainment, Inc. tional film festivals. Author of more than Phone: +372 5664 6725 USA, 8721 Santa Monica 30 documentaries, 10 feature film scripts, E-mail: [email protected] Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 5 short feature films and 5 full length feature 90069, films. FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Interna- Phone: + 1 31 0684 3535 tional Film Festival, France for the The Ferry E-mail: distribution@adleran- and The Mail (1996). Order of Al Merito della dassociatesentertainment.com Republica Italiana, Milan, Italy (2004).

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Arvo Pärt – Even if I Lose Everything... 2015

ven if I lose everything…,“ Arvo Pärt has written in his workbook. For- Original title: Arvo Pärt – isegi kui ma kõik kaotan tunately for us, for a lot of years, Arvo Pärt has kept a diary. He calls Director and Screenwriter: Dorian Supin the diary his workbooks. In the course of decades, along with work at Cinematographer: Dorian Supin “E Sound: Mart Kesse-Otsa musical texts, he has filled those work-books with his contemplations, with his Editor: Kadri Kanter documentary moments of grief and joy, with his finds, dis-coveries, worries and experience – Producer: Reet Sokmann with everything that might be called the inner life of an artist. Through the years, Produced by: Minor Film hundreds of such workbooks have accumulated. They are ordinary music books, Premiere: August 24, 2015 with the lines of life and death, the lines of love, crea-tivity, reason, imprinted on Festivals: Nordic Film Days In Lübeck (Germany) the staves like the lines in his palm – altogether, a long path of life. As soon as he was born, Pärt was capable of “swimming“ in the sea of music. And very early, the 90 min / DCP /16:9 / Stereo music book for sounds and words appeared, like a cloth for wiping the tears of joy and of sorrow. For a search for something that is nameless and has no end. Theme: portrait

Contact Minor Film Director Dorian Supin Trummi 34B. 12617 Tallinn, Estonia was born on 25 September in 1948 in Leningrad (now St Pe- Phone: +372 5305 9905 tersburg). In 1975 he started work at the Estonian Television E-mail: [email protected] – first as an assistant cameraman and later as cameraman and director at Eesti Telefilm, additionally writing some scripts as well. Since 1997 Dorian Supin is a freelance cameraman and film director. Together with six Estonian filmmakers, he founded the film and television production company F-Seitse in 1998, where he works to this day. Filmography documentaries: And Then Come the Evening and the Morning (1989), Arvo Pärt. 24 Preludes for a Fugue (2002), Cecilia, Orient Occident and Your name (2002, short docs), Dialogs. Composer Valentin Silvestrov (2008), Heino Eller. Quinta Essentia (2013)

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Out of Fashion 2015

e live in an era of global consumption where the rate of consumption is Original title: Moest väljas increasing exponentially. It’s no secret that the fashion industry is at the Directors: Jaak Kilmi & Lennart Laberenz forefront of this consumption rally. Thousands of factories in the third Cinematographers: Lennart Laberenz, W Mart Taniel world produce not only clothing for big corporations, but also tons and tons of Consultant: Reet Aus documentary toxic waste. Fashion designer Ret Aus has an ambitious plan to change the world. Editor: Liis Nimik Aus has realized that the only way to fight against the fashion industry is from the Composer: Jarek Kasar inside. The documentary Out of Fashion follows Reet Aus’s journey from Tallinn, Sound Designer: Matis Rei through the fashion stages of Europe and the cotton plantations of South America, Producers: Katrin Kissa, Jaak Kilmi and right into the epicenter of mass produc-tion in Bangladesh. Produced by: Homeless Bob Production The documentary was filmed from 2009-2014. Premiere: September 16, 2015

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Director Jaak Kilmi Theme: human interest, environment graduated from the newly formed film school of Tallinn Contact Pedagogical University. He has directed numerous short films, Homeless Bob Production award-winning documentaries (The Art of Selling, Disco and Telliskivi 57-68, Tallinn 10412, Estonia Atomic War, etc.) and two feature films Meeting( with the Unknown Phone: +372 5332 4618 and Revolution of Pigs). He has been a member of FIPRESCI E-mail: [email protected] since 1995. www.homelessbob.ee Director Lennart Laberenz has MAs in history, philosophy and political science. From 2005, he has worked as a freelance filmmakers, author and journalist. His doc- umentary films and television reportages have screened in German and European television stations and international documentary film festivals. From 2008, he has also been working with theatre produc- tions in Europe and South America.

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Rough Stage 2015

aher, a former political prisoner, an electrical engineer by profession, but Original title: Karmil pinnal an artist at heart, is a man who starts a quest against the society in order Director and Screenwriter: Toomas Järvet to stage a contem-porary dance performance in Palestine. But to do so Cinematographers: Max Golomidov, M Toomas Järvet he must overcome several ob-sticles – time, money, insured dancer, his disap- Sound: Patrick McGinely documentary proving family and friends, and cul-tural norms. Set in today’s most contested Editor: Qutaiba Barhamji location, Maher’s story is at once a para-ble about a society in conflict, and a mod- Producer: Eero Talvistu ern take on — and inversion of — The Jazz Singer, where the real war is between Produced by: Exitfilm,Kinoport Film, Kinotehnik dreams and tradition. Premiere: October 2015 Festivals: IDFA - First Appearance competition (The Netherlands)

74 min / HD / 16:9 / Stereo

Theme: social issues, culture

Contact Exitfilm Madala 1, 10313 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 509 3033 E-mail: [email protected]

Sales Visible Film Iva Tkalec Director Toomas Järvet E-mail:[email protected] has a BA from Tallinn University and an MA in visual anthropol- Phone: +32 2256 9601 ogy from Barcelona University. His first filmOver and Out par- ticipated in 10 international documentary film festivals including Visions du Reel.

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The Moon Hunter 2015

e was the last expressionist of the cinema in USSR. A portrait film about Original title: Jüri a man who served and developed the art of cinematography. The man for Director and Screenwriter: Julia Sillart whom the cinema was not only a profession but the meaning of his life. Cinematographers: Markus Orav, H Max Golomidov, Ants Tammik The film is about Jüri Sillart (1943-2011). Editor: Martin Männik documentary Sound: Jüri Wagner, Romet Pott Producer: Arko Okk Executive Producer: Marie Adler Produced by: Acuba Film Premiere: October 29, 2015

52 min / DCP / 16:9 / Stereo

Theme: portrait, culture

Contact Acuba Film Tartu mnt 80, 10112 Tallinn Phone: +372 5664 6725 Director Julia Sillart E-mail: [email protected] Was born in 1947 in Varna, Bulgaria. 1961-1965 University of Economic (In Bulgar-ia), 1965-1966 working as a teacher Sales of some economic subjects, 1967-1972 studied at the Adler & Associates Entertainment, Inc., Moscow Film Institute (VGIK); 1973 made a graduate work USA, 8721 Santa Monica Boulevard, West as a director of documentary film namedKadriorg ; Between Hollywood, CA 90069, 1974-1990 more than 20 newsreels and dozen documenta- Phone: +1 31 0684 3545 ries, as The Guilt of the Wine (1976), Man’s footprint (1983), E-mail: distribution@adlerandassociatesen- I Would Like to Live at Home (1977), The Story about the tertainment.com Soviet School (1980), Igor Severjanin (1990), Monumentum kikilipsuga (2011).

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2016 Red Cabaret

abaret has always been place for courageous and passionate people. Original title: Punane varietee Passion on stage will take audience along. Some will get turned on, some Director: Manfred Vainokivi will despise. Cabaret in Soviet times was against all rules. But it hap- Screenwriter: Manfred Vainokivi C Cinematographer: Manfred Vainokivi pened. And cabaret was hugely successful. Today only legends have remained. In Sound: Horret Kuus documentary documentary filmRed Cabaret one time professionals will tell you those legends Editor: Kersti Miilen and intrigues. Take a trip to Soviet Cabaret! Producer: Marju Lepp Produced by: Filmivabrik Premiere: January 27, 2016

60 min / DCP / 16:9 / 5.1

Theme: culture

Contact Filmivabrik Kunderi 8a, Tallinn 10121, Estonia Phone: +372 516 3641 E-mail: [email protected] Director Manfred Vainokivi Is a producer, cinematographer and director. As the owner of the film production company Filmivabrik, he has produced several shorts and two features Mat the Cat (2005), Bank Robbery (2008). Filmography, documentaries: The Bar (2008), Jolly Old Farts (2009), Maestro (2009), Censorship Lefovers (2010), Life is a Flower (2010), Wunderkind (2010), Old Clown (2011), Perfecto (2011), Beggar Writers’ House (2012), Baskin (2012), Stealing Socialism (2014). Feature: Family Lies (2016)

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2016 See You in Chechnya

eptember 1999. For Alex, as for the rest of Georgians, war in Chechnya Original title: Tšetšeenias näeme seemed to be far away, seen only on the screens of Russian media. In fact Director: Alexander Kvatashidze it was just behind the Caucasus Mountains. He’d never imagine going Screenwriter: Alexander Kvatashidze S Cinematographers: Alexander Kvatashidze, there, but he did. He followed her, the French photographer he had met just a few Niko Tarielashvili documentary days before at the fashion show. Alex discovers the world of War Reporters and Sound: Amélie Canini wants to become one of them, but he doesn’t succeed. He keeps in connected Editors: Amrita David, Sophie Reiter, to war through his friend, practising war reporters and observes what war does Alexander Kvatashidze to them for 15 years. Producers: Alexander Kavatashidze, Juliette Cazanave, Rebecca Houzel Co-producers: Eero Talvistu, Melanie Andernach Produced by: Lokokina Studio (Georgia), Kepler 22 Production (France), Petit a Petit Production (France), Kinoport Film (Estonia), Made In Germany (Germany) To be released: April 2016

68 min / HD / 16:9 / Stereo

Theme: portrait, social issues, politics Director Alexander Kvatashidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1977. After graduation from Art Contact College in 1996 he continued study in Tbilisi State University, Kinoport Film perusing his career in Painting. Since 2001 Alexander started Eero Talvistu working in Television as a cameraman and video editor. In Sadama 18, 90502 Haapsalu, Estonia 2005-2006 he studied film directing in California State Uni- Phone: +372 509 3033 versity in San Jose. Since 2007 Alexander is an independent E-mail: [email protected] filmmaker. By 2015 he has directed 2 shorts and 1 documen- tary; and has been a DOP and/or editor for over ten films.

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2016 Close Relations

he Maidan uprising of 2013/2014 marked the onset of dramatic change in Original title: Radinieki Ukraine, which of course has affected directors’ family as well because he Estonian title: Suguvõsa was born in Ukraine and has a lot of relatives scattered all across the coun- Director: Vitaly Mansky T Screentwriter: Vitaly Mansky try. Filmmaker is travelling to Lvov, to the Crimean peninsula, to Odessa and the Cinematographer: Alexandra Ivanova documentary Donbas area to tell their story and provide a multifaceted image of Ukraine today. Sound: Harmo Kallaste This is a story of ordinary people in the pursuit of happiness. They are telling about Editor: Peteris Kimelis their lives in a country with a complicated history which is now trying to move clos- Producer: Guntis Trekteris er to Europe. This move was the decision of a large majority of Ukrainians – but Co-producers: Marianna Kaat, has plunged the country into a bloody war. Simone Baumann, Natalya Manskaya Produced by: Ego Media (Latvia), Baltic Film Production (Estonia), Saxonia Entertainment (Germany), Studio Vertov (Russia) To be released: May 2016

Director Vitaly Mansky 90 min / HD / 16:9 / Stereo Vitaly Mansky was born in Lviv (former USSR) in 1963. He studied at VGIK - All-Russian State Institute of Cine- Theme: politics matography and had his debut as a director in 1989. He has directed 30+ films since then, shown at over 400 Contact international film festivals, including Cannes, San Sebastian, Marianna Kaat Rotterdam, Berlin, Amsterdam, Moscow, Oberhausen, San Baltic Film Production Francisco, Locarno, Toronto, Montreal, Yamagata, London P.O. Box 4752, Tallinn 13515, Estonia and even Pyongyang. He received more than 50 Russian and Phone: +372 502 7509 international awards, among others Chrystal Globe in Karlovy E-mail: [email protected] Vary, Silver Dove in Leipzig, Best director (Locarno, Kinotavr), Prix Court Métrage Vision du Reel Nyon, Golden Spire in San Sales Francisco, Laurel Awards. Deckert Distribution GmbH Selected filmography: Virginity (2008), Motherland or Death Gottsched str.18, 04109 Leipzig, Germany (2011), Pipeline (2013), Under The Sun (2015) Phone: +49 (0)341 215 6638 E-mail: [email protected] 124

2016 Positivus

stonian pop music enjoys good times at the moment. Here and there inter- Original title: Positivus esting acts pop up almost daily and global scope of our artists is growing Director and Screenwriter: Jüti Muttika exponentially. Over three years the filmmakers ofPositivus (working title) Cinematographers: Taavi Arus, Jaako Krull, E Rasmus Puksmann have followed stage ca-reers of musicians of different styles and as a result they Sound: Ann Reimann documentary have captured somewhat family portrait of current era. On one side the film gives Editor: Asko Kase an almost encyclopaedic overview of who’s who in Estonian pop music of 2000s. Producer: Ivo Felt Yet on the other hand the acts and choices of film characters reveal the general Produced by: Allfilm feeling of our times - cult of success, opportunism and vanity. The genre of the film To be released: Spring 2016 isn’t pretentious critical real-ism, but rather a musical comedy. 70 min / DCP / 16:9 / 5.1

Theme: music

Contact Allfilm Saue 11, 10612 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 672 9070 E-mail: [email protected] www.allfilm.ee Director Jüri Muttika Director, screenwriter, editor, producer Jüri Muttika was born on 18 October 1977 in Rakvere. Graduated Tallinn Pedagogi- cal University in 2000 followed by postgraduate studies at the , Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Journalism and Communication, which formally remained un- finished. 2006-2010 studied film directing at Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School . He has worked as an TV host and as a reporter.

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2016 Paradise Behind the Fence

ussian biggest summer resort Sotchi has been chosen the venue of the Original title: Lumi punasel lagedal (working title) Winter Olympic Games of 2014. President Putin has promised enough Director: Aljona Surzhikova snow for the Games, no traffic jams and big investments in building the Screenwriter: Aljona Surzhikova R Cinematographers: Ivar Heinmaa, Olympic facilities. Kristjan-Jaak Nuudi documentary How it will effect the neighbouring small villages and if they succeed to sur- Sound: Sergei Trofimov, Atanas Tšolakov vive and keep the living pace they are used to? Editors: Aljona Surzhikova, Julia Ishakova Producer: Riina Sildos Co-producer: Ralph Wieser Produced by: Amrion (Estonia), Mischief Film (Austria) To be released: Spring 2016

60 min / HD, DCP / 5.1

Theme: social issues, politics

Contact Director Aljona Surzhikova Amrion is director of documentaries and TV broadcasts. Educa- Nurme 45, Tallinn 11616, Estonia tion - Tallinn University, television direction, BA in film and Phone: +372 677 6363 video, Saint Petersburg State University for Film Industry and E-mail: [email protected] Television, director of documentaries, MA. Has made broad- casts and documentaries for the following channels: ETV & ETV2 (Estonia), Kanal2 (Estonia), Kanal Kultura (Russia), TV5 (Russia). Filmography: Semjon Shkolnikov’s War and Peace (2008), Generation 0 (2008), Miss Robinson (2009), Singing Nadezhda (2011), Not My Land (2013), Bachelor and Volga (2014)

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2016 Let’s Play War

hile there are less and less World War II veterans among the living, Original title: Täna mängime sõda the battles of this war keep reoccurring on different battlegrounds in Director: Meelis Muhu the Eastern territories of con-temporary Europe. Young Estonian men Screenwriter: Meelis Muhu W Cinematographers: Max Golomidov, Andrey and Reimo have gotten killed sever-al times in these fights. Each time they Erik Norkroos, Meelis Muhu documentary resurrect, because these are the rules of the game they play along with their com- Sound: Mart Otsa, Jaanis Valk, Hendrik Vahter rades from a military club Frontline. Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such Editor: Meelis Muhu clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love Producer: Meelis Muhu of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers’ life-style of the era. SS-Unter- Produced by: In-Ruum sturmführer Reimo leads the 20th division of Waffen-SS, Sergeant Andrey march- To be released: Spring 2016 es in advance of the Red Army’s 11th Rifle Division. The fight for history goes on. 79 min / HD / 16:9 / Stereo

Theme: social issues, history

Contact In-Ruum Gonsiori 27-3516, 10147 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 507 8163 E-mail: [email protected]

Director Meelis Muhu has directed and produced many documentary films. Born in 1972 in Paide, Estonia. Lives and works in Tallinn. 1996 graduated from Tallinn Pedagogical University, holds a BA in directing. Filmography, documentaries: The Opinionator (2003), Alyosha (2008), Counted Noses (2012), PMR – In The State of Limbo (2014)

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2016 Woman in the Glaciers

n the Tian Shan above the city of Almaty, four thousand meters high, there lies Original title: Moteris ir ledynas the enormous Tuiksu glacier. Like a huge beast it breathes, approaches and Estonian title: Naine ja liustik retreats again. Director: Audrius Stonys I Screenwriter: Audrius Stonys Global warming is ruthlessly melting the glacial ice, exposing prehistoric rock Cinematographer: Audrius Kemežis documentary layers, while another hard winter of the mountains covers them with ice and Sound: Riho Västrik snow again. Editor: Mirjam Jegorov Every motion, crack, change in ice temperature, chemical composition and Producers: Radvile Sumile, Riho Västrik colour of the glacier is closely monitored. Throughout the days and seasons, the Produced by: Uku Films (Lithuania), only woman who has been living next to the huge frozen glacier for many years, in Vesilind (Estonia) a wooden cabin high in the mountains, performs these measurements and sends To be released: Autumn 2016 them to the monitoring center in Almaty. This woman is Aušra Revutaitė. 52 min / HD / 16:9 / 5.1

Theme: eternity, life, poetry

Contact Vesilind Director Audrius Stonys Vilmsi 53G, 10147 Tallinn, Estonia is a member of European Documentary Network and Euro- Phone: +372 507 8067 pean Film Academy. Made 20 films as an independent film- E-mail: [email protected] maker and producer. Films have got many international film awards. Among them Audience award in Nyon, Grand Prix in Split, prizes in Bornholm, Florence, Gyor, Neu Brandenburg, Oberhausen, Bilbao and San Francisco. 1992 the film Earth of the Blind received European Film Academy Award as the Best European Documentary film of the Year. Filmography: Countdown (2004), Uku ukai (2006), The Bell (2007), Four Steps (2008), I Walked Through Fire, You Were with Me (2010), Ramin (2011)

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English Titles

index 1944 4 Let’s Play War 130 Tashi Delek! 104 Amalimbo 90 Life before Life 94 Wedding Game 72 Angry Painter 14 Life with Herman H. Rott 74 Woman in the Glaciers 132 Anthill 106 Magic Kimono 28 Arvo Pärt – Even if I Lose Everything... 112 Master, The 70 Bird Flu 82 Mausoleum 62 Bodom 38 Metanoia 50 Butterfly Man, The 56 Miriam’s Stray Dog 78 Christ Lives in Siberia 100 Moon Hunter, The 118 Class Reunion 20 Mother 18 Close Relations 124 November 36 Dawn 16 Out of Fashion 114 Days that Confused, The 26 Out of Internal Worlds 84 Dearest Sister 40 Overcoat, The 92 Elo 54 Paradise Behind the Fence 128 Empty Space 96 Piano 76 End of the Chain, The 42 Poet and The Spy, The 32 Eternal Hunting Grounds 80 Polar Boy, The 24 Family Lies 22 Positivus 126 Fast Eddy ‘s Old News 108 Pretenders 44 Fatcula 88 Ready or Not, Happy You Are 34 Fencer, The 6 Red Cabaret 120 Full House 86 Rough Stage 116 Ghost Mountaineer 12 Roukli 10 Grounded 60 Secret Society of Souptown, The 8 Hey, Rasma! 110 See You in Chechnya 122 Ice 66 Seneca’s Day 30 Impromptu 102 Superbia 52 Karv 64 Take Off 58

134 Mann Tanzt kimono Maģiskais Luuraja jaluuletaja Linnugripp Liblikmees Kristus elabSiberis Klassikokkutulek Keti lõpp Karv Karmil pinnal Jüri Jää Isand Impromptu Igavesed jahimaad Hei, Rasma! Fatcula Fast Eddyvanaduudised Ema Elu HermanH.Rott’iga Elu enne Elo Bodom Ausma 112 Arvo Pärt–isegikuimakõikkaotan Armastus tulebmagades Äralend Amalimbo 1944 Original Titles 116 118 108 100 102 110 48 56 64 66 80 88 94 54 38 34 58 90 28 32 82 20 42 18 16 70 74 4 Teesklejad Tashi Delek! Täna mängimesõda Täis maja Supilinna salaselts Superbia Sungnan Hwaga Siseilmadest väljas Sipelgapesa Sinel Senekos diena/Senecapäev Roukli Radinieki Punane varietee Pulmamäng Positivus Polaarpoiss Piano Perekonnavaled Päevad, misajasidsegadusse November Nong Hak Must alpinist Moteris irledynas Moest väljas Mirjami kodutukoer /VehklejaMiekkailia Metanoia Mausoleum 130 124 120 126 132 114 104 106 44 86 84 30 36 40 50 52 14 92 24 22 26 12 62 72 76 78 10 8 6 Tühi ruum Tšetšeenias näeme piloot Tiibadeta 122 96 60 135 index Directors

index Arulepp, Meelis 92 Mansky, Vitaly 124 Unt, Helen 84 Aun, Anu 24 Martinsons, Maris 28 Unt, Riho 70 Csüllög, Edina 56 Muhu, Meelis 130 Vainokivi, Manfred 22, 120 Do, Mattie 40 Mustonen, Taneli 38 Vilbre, René 20 Grimstad, Elin 80 Muttika, Jüri 126 Vildžiunas, Kristijonas 30 Härö, Klaus 6 Nüganen, Elmo 4 Heidmets, Rao 94 O`Conor, Hugh 92 Helde, Martti 52 Õunpuu, Veiko 10 Hints, Anna 66 Pääsuke, Priit 42, 102 Holm, Kristjan 86 Paju, Margus 8 Hussar, Toomas 32 Pakalnina, Laila 16 Jancis, Kaspar 76 Pikkov, Ülo 96 Järvet, Toomas 116 Raat, Marko 108 Kilmi, Jaak 100, 114 Randla, Lauri 62 Kivastik, Mart 34 Rebane, Peeter 104 Klemet, Martinus Daane 88 Reinup, Maria 48 Kõusaar, Kadri 18 Ruumet, Triin 26 Kuik, Valentin 22 Sarnet, Rainer 36 Kvatashidze, Alexander 122 Sillart, Julia 118 Kyu-hwan, Jeon 14 Sokk, Marili 72 Laberenz, Lennart 114 Stonys, Audrius 132 Laila Pakalnina 110 Supin, Dorian 112 Lehemaa, Oskar 64 Surzhikova, Aljona 128 Libossart, Juan 90 Takkin, Helen 54 Liiv, Urmas Eero 12 Tammiksaar, Arbo 100 Linna, Leeni 60 Taniel, Mart 102 Loginov, Vladimir 106 Tender, Priit 82 Lopez, Carlos Eduardo Lesmes 58 Tenusaar, Andres 72, 78 Lundgren, Chintis 74 Toomla, Vallo 44, 50

136 Production companies

Acuba Film 110 In-Ruum 130 Orbital Vox Studios 14 index Adriatic Animation (Croatia) 74 Kepler 22 Production (France) 122 Oree Films 28, 40 A Film Estonia 92 Kick Film (Germany) 6 Peate Film 72 Alasti Kino 48, 58 Kinoport Film 116, 122 Petit a Petit Production (France) 122 Alexandra Film 42 Kinosaurus Film 26, 64 PRPL (The Netherlands) 36 Allfilm 6, 32, 52, 106, 108, 126 Kinotehnik 116 Rao Heidmets Filmstudio 94 Amrion 30, 44, 128 Kopli Kinokompanii 12, 34, 60 Saxonia Entertainment (Germany) 124 Animailm 72 Krukfilms (Latvia) 28 Screen Division (France) 40 Baltic Film Production 124 Lao Art Media (Laos) 40 Solar Films Inc.(Finland) 8 Chintis Lundgren Lendfilm 50 Staron Film (Poland) 16 Animatsioonistuudio 74 Loaded Films (Japan) 28 Studio Uljana Kim (Lithuania) 30, 44 Decima Rosa (Italy) 12 Locomotive Productions (Latvia) 30, 44 Studio Vertov (Russia) 124 Digitaalne Sputnik 16 Lokokina Studio (Georgia) 122 Taska Film 4, 20 Don Films (Finland) 38 Luxfilm 24, 42, 102 TreeFilm Ltd (South Korea) 14 Eesti Joonisfilm 76, 82, 84, 86, 88 Made In Germany (Germany) 122 Uku Films (Lithuania) 132 Ego Media (Latvia) 124 Making Movies (Finland) 6, 100 Vesilind 132 Exitfilm 56, 62, 66, 116 Medieoperatørene (Norway) 80 Von Krahl Theatre 48, 50, 52 Factory 104 Meteoriit 18 Fasad (Sweden) 90 Minor Film 112 Filmiühistu Roukli 10 Miracle Worker (Poland) 16 Filmivabrik 22, 120 Mischief Film (Austria) 128 Film i Väst (Sweden) 90 MRP Matila Röhr Film Tower 100 Productions (Finland) 4 Fork Film 90 Münchhausen Productions 38 Funny Films and Aalto University Nafta Films 8, 54, 58 ELO Film School (Finland) 62 Niijanaa Films 14 Giant Creative (Ireland) 92 Nukufilm 70, 78, 80, 96 Hargla Company (Latvia) 16 Open Workshop (Denmark) 74 Homeless Bob Production 36, 114 Opus Film (Poland) 36

137 Production companies Acuba Film Amrion Eesti Joonisfilm Tartu mnt 80 Nurme 45 Roo 9 10112 Tallinn,Estonia 11616 Tallinn, Estonia 10611 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 5664 6725 Phone: +372 504 8985 Phone: +372 677 4228 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

useful addresses www.amrion.ee A-Film Estonia Exitfilm Toompuiestee 30 Animailm Madala 1, 10149 Tallinn, Estonia Raua 32-35 10311 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 516 0399 Tallinn 10152, Estonia Phone: +372 509 3033 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 55 632 265 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Alasti Kino Factory Tööstuse 58-17 Baltic Film Production Estonia pst.9 10416 Tallinn, Estonia P.O. Box 4752 10143 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] 13515 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 615 5100 Phone: +372 502 7509 E-mail: [email protected] Alexandra Film E-mail: [email protected] www.thefactory.us Tuvi 16-3 10119 Tallinn, Estonia Chintis Lundgreni Filmivabrik Phone: +372 523 3577 Animatsioonistuudio Kunderi 8a E-mail: [email protected] Moora 11 10121 Tallinn, Estonia 11625 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 516 3641 Allfilm E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Saue 11 10612 Tallinn, Estonia Digitaalne Sputnik Filmiühistu Roukli Phone: +372 672 9070 Männimetsa tee 38-8 Phone: +372 5399 3411 E-mail: [email protected] 76401 Laagri, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] www.allfilm.ee Phone: +3725643886 E-mail: [email protected] 138 Film Tower Kinosaurus Film Minor Film Gonsiori 27 Kopli 25 Trummi 34B, 10147 Tallinn, Estonia 10412 Tallinn, Estonia 10147 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 565 1654 Phone: +372 5691 3055 Phone: +372 5305 9905 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] useful addresses Fork Film Animation Studio Kopli Kinokompanii Mr Goo Goo Tuvi 16-3, Gonsiori 27, Luise-5-6 10119 Tallinn, Estonia 10147, Tallinn, Estonia 10142 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 523 3577 Phone: +372 5562 2041 Phone: +372 5558 7248 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Homeless Bob Production Luxfilm Münchhausen Productions Tööstuse 58-17 J. Vilmsi 37-6 Niine 11 10416 Tallinn, Estonia 10126 Tallinn, Estonia 10414 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 5667 7855 Phone: +372 5559 5847 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 5860 0655 www.homelessbob.ee www.luxfilm.ee Nafta Films In-Ruum Meteoriit Soo 4, Gonsiori 27-3516 A. Kapi 5-17 10414 Tallinn, Estonia 10147 Tallinn, Estonia 10136 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 525 6323 Phone: +372 507 8163 Phone: +372 5825 8962 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.nafta.ee www.meteoriit.ee Kinoport Film Sadama 18 90502 Haapsalu, Estonia Phone: +372 509 3033 E-mail: [email protected] 139 Distributors Nukufilm Acme Film Estinfilm Niine 11, Estonia pst 1/3 - 304 Gonsiori 27 10414 Tallinn, Estonia 10143 Tallinn, Estonia 10147 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 641 4307 E-mail: [email protected] Phone/fax: +372 5558 3279 E-mail: [email protected] www.acmefilm.ee E-mail: [email protected]

useful addresses www.nukufilm.ee www.estinfilm.ee BestFilm Oree Films Paavli 6A Must Käsi 2 Vabriku 33-1 10412 Tallinn, Estonia Vana-Posti 8 10411 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 680 1280 10146 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 53480281 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 646 6332 E-mail: [email protected] www.BestFilm.eu E-mail: [email protected] www.oreefilms.com www.kinosoprus.ee Taska Film Estonian Theatrical Distribution Tartu mnt 18-51 Hea Film Tespi 10150 Tallinn, Estonia Põikmäe 4 Tähesaju 23 Phone: + 372 520 3000 76406 Tänassilma, Estonia 19917 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 633 6166 Phone: +372 509 7374 www.taska.ee E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.heafilm.ee Vesilind Vilmsi 53G Forum Distribution / VaataFilmi 10147 Tallinn, Estonia Hobujaama 5 Phone: +372 507 8067 10151 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] Phone:+372 680 0716 E-mail: [email protected] www.forumdistribution.eu

140 International film festivals Animation Film Children and Youth Pärnu International Documentary Festival Animated Dreams Film Festival Just Film and Anthropology Film Festival Telliskivi 60A Telliskivi 60A Esplanaadi 10 10412 Tallinn, Estonia 10412 Tallinn, Estonia 80010 Pärnu, Estonia Phone: +372 631 4640 Phone: +372 631 4640 Phone: +372 443 0772

E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] useful addresses www.poff.ee/anima www.justfilm.ee www.chaplin.ee

Baltic Event Haapsalu Horror and Sleepwalkers International Nurme 45 Fantasy Film Festival Short Film Festival 11616 Tallinn, Estonia Telliskivi 60A Telliskivi 60A Phone: +372 514 8134 10412 Tallinn, Estonia 10412 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 631 4640 Phone: +372 631 4640 be.poff.ee E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.hoff.ee swff.ee Docpoint Tallinn E-mail: [email protected] Matsalu International Worldfilm. Tartu Festival www.docpoint.ee Nature Film Festival of Visual Culture Tallinna mnt 1 Veski 32 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 90302 Lihula, Läänemaa, Estonia 51014 Tartu, Estonia Telliskivi 60A Phone: +372 551 0910 Phone: +372 742 2266 10412 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected], Phone: +372 631 4640 www.matsalufilm.ee [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.worldfilm.ee www.poff.ee

141 Financing and Archives Organisations Estonian Ministry of Culture Estonian National Archive’s Estonian Filmmakers Union Suur-Karja 23 Film Archive Uus 3 15076 Tallinn, Estonia Ristiku 84 10111 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 628 2222 10318 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 646 4068 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +372 693 8613 [email protected]

useful addresses www.kul.ee E-mail: [email protected] www.kinoliit.ee www.filmi.arhiiv.ee Estonian Film Institute Estonian Film Producers Association Uus 3 E-mail: [email protected] 10111 Tallinn, Estonia TV Stations Phone: +372 5562 2041 Phone: +372 627 6060 E-mail: [email protected] Estonian Public Broadcaster Estonian National filmi.ee Estonian Television Filmproducers Union Faehlmanni 12, 15029 Tallinn, Estonia E-mail: [email protected] Creative Europe MEDIA Estonia Phone: +372 628 4100 Phone: +372 5825 8962 Estonian Film Institute E-mail: [email protected] Phone +372 627 6065 err.ee The Estonian Association Uus 3, Tallinn 10111, Estonia of Film Journalists E-mail: [email protected] Kanal 2 Narva mnt 11e www.looveuroopa.ee Maakri 23A, 10145 Tallinn, Estonia 10151 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 666 2450 E-mail: [email protected] Estonian Cultural Endowment E-mail: [email protected] Suur-Karja 23 www.kanal2.ee 10148 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 699 9150 TV 3 E-mail: [email protected] Peterburi tee 81, 11415 Tallinn, Estonia www.kulka.ee Phone: +372 622 0200 E-mail: [email protected] www.tv3.ee

142 Average ticket pricein2015: Share ofdomesticfilmsin2015: in2015:Admissions percapita Cinema admissionsin2015: Capital: Population: on Estonia facts Basic Star WarsStar 7 Jurassic World Hotel Transylvania Inside Out Fifty ShadesofGrey Supilinna salaselts Spectre Fast andFurious7 1944 Minions Original title Cinema Top 2015 Tallinn 1,3mln 3,01 mln 5 € 2,36 11,33% 60 386 63 745 69 866 76 218 85 037 90 746 96 686 552 99 115 599 104156 admissions No of US US US US US EE/FI GB/US US/JP EE/ FI US of Origin Country Letters to Angel/Graveyard 2011: Poll Diaries Phobos /RedMercury 2010: Robbery Bank The Temptations ofSt.Tony / Son ofPinocchio / 2009: A Wish Tree December Heat/Visitor / 2008: Go /Kinnunen /GeorgWheresander Souls /Whatever,Autumn Ball Alek Class /DetourMagnus 2007: Warrior /MindlessJade The Hostage Lotte fromGadgetville/ The Visit oftheOldLady/ 2006: The CurseofaPlay/Fed Up! Dreams /MenatArms 2005: Domestic feature films2005-2015 AFriendofMine / The SnowQueen/ Knife / 186 Kilometres/ Knife /186 Vasha /Buratino:the Taarka /IWas Here/ Ruudi/GoldenBeach, MattheCat/Shopof - taineer /Angry Painter /Dawn taineer town /RoukliGhost Moun The SecretSociety ofSoup 2015: / ZeroPoint Many Moons/CherryTobacco /Landscapewith Come Back in theOrangeJacket /IWon’t 2014: the White Lady Kid Detectives&The Secretof Tangerines /Black Diamonds/ World /Kertu. LoveisBlind/ onApprovingofthe Ballad The Arbiter/FreeRange: 2013: Demons /Pizzas / / AllMusiciansAreBastards Mushrooming /ALadyinParis W /LonelyIslandPurge HairFriday/Hella King /Bad 2012: That’s IT! Moonstone Secret/The Idiot/ / FartsofFuryLotteandthe Keeper’s Daughter/Rat-trap Douchebags /Rat LivingImages/ 1944 /The Fencer, 1944 IntheCrosswind/Man

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