Estonian Films 2014-2015 Eesti filmid 2014-2015 Estonian Films 2014-2015 Eesti filmid 2014-2015 Features Shorts Animation Documentaries In the Crosswind I Won’t Come Back Landscape With Many Moons 2014-2015 The Man in the Orange Jacket Cherry Tobacco features Zero Point 1944 The Fencer Secret Society of Souptown Editorial staff: Eda Koppel, Birgit Pajust, Kaarel Kuurmaa Design and layout: Marek Piliste @ Profimeedia Ghost Mountaineer All photos courtesy of production companies Roukli Estonian Film Institute Tallinn 2015 ISSN 1406-8505 Printed in Estonia by Uniprint 5 2014 In the Crosswind une 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lith- Original title: Risttuules uania are deported by Soviets to Siberia, among them philosophy student Director: Martti Helde feature feature Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Her husband is sent to prison Scriptwriter: Martti Helde J Cinematographer: Erik Põllumaa camp, while Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories for fifteen years. Despite hunger, fear Composer: Pärt Uusberg Editor: Liis Nimik and humiliation, Erna never loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to Principal cast: Laura Peterson, Tarmo Song, homeland. Ingrid Isotamm, Einar Hillep, Mirt Peegel Based on true events and told through unconventional film language. Producers: Pille Rünk, Piret Tibbo-Hudgins Produced by: Allfilm Domestic premiere: March 26, 2014 International premiere: September 9, 2014, Toronto IFF, Canada 87 min / HD / 1:1.85 / Dolby Stereo 5.1 Contact Allfilm Saue 11, 10612 Tallinn, Estonia Phone: +372 672 9070 E-mail: [email protected] Director Martti Helde [email protected] graduated from Baltic Film and Media School as film director www.allfilm.ee and continues to study Theatre and Film Directing on the mas- ter level at Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Sales Theatre. Helde has directed short films, TV commercials, and Pluto Film Black Nights Film Festival opening trailers. In the Crosswind is Pohlstraße 44, D-10785 Berlin, Germany Helde’s first full-length feature film. Phone: +49 30 8430 6166 Selected filmography: Burnt Mistakes (2010, short), Mobile: +49 157 8227 4916 Thibault (2009, short), Superbia ( 2013, short ) E-mail: [email protected] 6 2014 I Won’t Come Back nya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lec- Original title: Я не вернусь / Ma ei tule tagasi tures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day Director: Ilmar Raag feature feature her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse. A victim of false accusa- Scriptwriters: Jaroslava Pulinovich revisions by A Oleg Gaze tions, she has to flee, disguised as a teenaged homeless girl. While on the run, Anya meets twelve-year-old Christine, an orphan who is as desperate and reck- Cinematographer: Tuomo Hutri Art Director: Anastasja Karimulina less as Anya herself. This friendship becomes a turning point for Anya – reliving Editor: Tambet Tasuja her adolescence for the second time, she now is forced to rewrite her life. Music by: Panu Aaltio In I Won’t Come Back, Ilmar Raag, director of the critically acclaimed The Principal cast: Polina Pushkaruk, Class, dramatizes the odyssey of two children who have to grow up too quickly. Viktoria Lobatsheva Producers: Natalia Drozd, Sergey Selyanov Co-producers: Riina Sildos, Aleksi Bardy, Oleg Director Ilmar Raag Silvanovich is the writer and director of the most successful film ever made Produced by Amrion (Estonia), CTB Film Com- in Estonia – The Class, which was sold to 91 countries, won pany (Russia), Helsinki Filmi (Finland), Belarus- 25 awards from 70 festivals, and developed into a successful film (Belarussia), Kazakhfilm (Kazakhstan) multi-awarded TV-series. Ilmar’s last features are Une Estoni- World premiere: April 2014, Tribeca FF, USA enne à Paris with the legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau in main role (premiered at Locarno FF in August 2012), Kertu. Love 109 min / DCP / 1:2.35 / Dolby Digital is Blind (premiered at Warsaw FF in October 2013) and I Won’t Come Back (premiere April 2014, Tribeca IFF. Awards: Tribeca Contact IFF – Nora Ephron Jury Special Mention prize; Zerkalo - Interna- Amrion tional A. Tarkovsky FF - Professional Achievement Award). Ilmar Phone: +372 677 6363 has an MA in screenwriting from Ohio University. He has acted E-mail: [email protected] / www.amrion.ee as Head of Acquisitions and Chairman of the Board for Estonian National Television, has been a national representative at Eurim- Sales ages, member of the Audiovisual Council of Cultural Endowment Visit Films of Estonia, and Member of the Board of Estonian Film Foundation. E-mail: [email protected] Ilmar is also an acclaimed columnist in the biggest dailies, lecturer, and requested media consultant. 8 2014 Landscape with Many Moons andscape with Many Moons is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives Original title: Maastik mitme kuuga a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children. The truth is, however, that Director: Jaan Toomik feature feature their relationship has reached a dead end but they prefer the illusory deco- Scriptwriter: Jaan Toomik L Cinematographer: Mart Taniel E.S.C rations of living together to the free fall into emptiness. The man gallivants around between his previous and current relationships without knowing exactly what to Art Director: Pille Jänes Principal cast: Hendrik Toompere, Jaanika do with them. Living on the edge starts to overburden his nervous system and as Juhanson, Maria Avdjushko, Garmen Tabor a result, actual reality and dream-like reality blend together and it becomes ever Producer: Ivo Felt harder to distinguish between what is real and what is not. Co-Producer: Kaarle Aho Landscape with Many Moons portrays the explosive state right before going Produced by: Allfilm (Estonia), mad when the person cannot get into contact with life anymore. The film, howev- Making Movies (Finland) er, is in no way depressing and the absurd situations, deviations from reality and Domestic premiere: October 2, 2014 surprising transitions offer comic recognition. International premiere: Rotterdam IFF 2015 80 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / Dolby Digital Contact Allfilm Saue 11 Tallinn 10612, Estonia Phone: +372 672 9070 E-mail: [email protected] www.allfilm.ee Director Jaan Toomik is an Estonian video artist, painter and award-winning filmmaker, often described as the most widely acknowledged Estonian contemporary artist on the international scene. He has director two short features - Communion (2007) and Oleg (2011). Landscape with Many Moons is his first full- length feature. 10 2014 The Man in the Orange Jacket young man gets fired and begins to stalk his boss and his young wife. Af- Original title: M.O.Zh. ter blood chilling turn of events he tries to escape his past and move into Director: Aik Karapetian feature feature their luxurious mansion. Nothing can prepare him for an unsettling visit by a Scriptwriter: Aik Karapetian A Cinematographers: Janis Eglitis, Jurgis Kmins vaguely familiar guest. The house will not be a safe haven anymore, but becomes a twisted and dangerous trap. Editor: Andris Grants Principal cast: Maxim Lazarev, Anta Aizupe, Aris Rozentals Producer: Roberts Vinovskis Co-producer: Maria Reinup Produced by: Locomotive Productions (Latvia), Jarve Studio (Estonia) Premiere: July 2014 Festivals: Fantasia IFF (Canada), Fantastic Fest (USA), BFI London FF (UK), Torino FF (Italy), XXV Semana de Cine Fantastico i de Terror San Sebastian (Spain), Tallinn Black Nights FF (Estonia) 71 min / DCP / 1:1.85 / Dolby Stereo Director Aik Karapetian Born in Armenia, he was raised and studied in Latvia. After Contact having received his MA degree in film directing from the Locomotive Productions Latvian Academy of Culture, Aik Karapetian went on to study Bruninieku iela 28 - 57 at the Académie Internationale des Arts ESEC in Paris where Riga, LV-1011 he graduated in 2008. People Out There was Aik’s debut as E-mail: [email protected] director of a full-length feature film, premiered in the Karlovy [email protected] Vary International Film Festival. The horror film titledThe Man in the Orange Jacket is Aik’s second feature film. Sales Selected filmography: People Out There (2012, feature), Wide Managment The Man in the Orange Jacket (2014, feature) E-mail: [email protected] 12 2014 Cherry Tobacco herry Tobacco is film about a small town girl Laura who is always bored. Original title: Kirsitubakas Her mother gets on her nerves, boys her age are stupid and every activity Directors: Andres Maimik, Katrin Maimik feature feature seems childish. One day Laura’s energetic friend Merit asks her to join her Scriptwriters: Andres Maimik, Katrin Maimik C Cinematographer: Mihkel Soe on a hike to a bog led by a middle-aged nature-lover Joosep. The beginning of the trip is anything but promising: the relationship between the reserved girl and the Art Director: Kristiina Ago Editors: Andres Maimik, Marta Pulk outgoing Joosep, who tries to impress the hiking party with his hillbilly style and Sound: Olger Bernadt bizarre rituals, becomes tense. Much to her own surprise, Laura discovers that Music by: Sten Sheripov as time goes past, she becomes enchanted by the rugged charm of Joosep. The Principal cast: Maris Nõlvak, Gert Raudsep, quest is nearing its irrefutable end and Laura has to decide whether the relation- Getter Meresmaa, Anne Reemann, ship with an older man is a mere stop in the winding road of becoming a woman Maarja Jakobson or is this her very first love. Producer: Anneli Lepp Produced by: Kuukulgur Film Director Katrin Maimik World premiere: July 2014, Karlovy Vary graduated from the University of Tartu in 2005 with a BA in 93 min / DCP / 1:2.35 / Dolby Digital theatre theory and acquired her MA in screenwriting from Tallinn University’s Baltic Film and Media School.