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10-02-2011

Estonian films at the EFM 2011

    Dear all,

    Estonia is proud to announce a busy start of the year as we are presenting four full-length films with market premieres at EFM.

    Enclosed you will find all the basic information about the films with the screening times.

    Additional info can always be found from our stand G2 in Martin-Gropius-Bau.

    Estonian Film Foundation will be represented by:

    Tristan Priimägi / Head of International Relations / +372 53 402010 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    Eda Koppel / Information Manager / +372 52 03306 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    Marge Liiske / Managing Director / +372 51 48134 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    Karlo Funk / Head of Production and Development / +372 56 485966 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    Hope to see you in Berlin!

    Estonian Film Foundation

    LETTERS TO ANGEL

    “Letters to Angel” is a film about Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja, a man who was sent to fight in Afghanistan years ago, where he converted to Islam. He now returns home only to find himself facing another kind of war.

    The front line in the decrepit Estonian town runs between Eastern and Western culture, men and women, common sense and madness. Somewhere amidst these battles is his daughter, Angel, who Kirotaja has decided to find after all the years of absence. His only leads are the sound of his daughter crying, heard once on the telephone, and a dog-eared notebook full of letters addressed to her. But the town has other plans for him and the women running it seem to take him for their savior from the nagging feeling of emptiness that has enveloped them.

    GRAVEYARD KEEPER'S DAUGHTER

    Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly provide for the family, her mother Maria is a drunk.Then the family receives an unexpected invitation to spend a week in Finland, in the house of the female pastor Sirpa.

    This week will change everybody’s life in unexpected ways…

    THE MAN WHO LIVED IN 3-D TIME

    This is the story of the president of Estonia. He was a writer, a filmmaker, a traveler and a diplomat, who took revenge for his father's lost generation.

    RAT-TRAP

    Rat-trap movie is society critical action drama, based on real life events, where seemingly successful and self-confident politician begins to execute his own blind justice. Lives of four modern people a cross and everybody will be chocked about the events following, the end is a new beginning for all of them. Rat-trap is a thrilling story about betrayal & retribution. Director Andres Puustusmaa describes it as follows: “The catharsis for the viewer is similar to the experience of a Native American Peyote ceremony – the inner disgust is only visible to one’s self.”

    A FRIEND OF MINE

    Mati is a passionate bibliophile who works for his hobby - he´s got a job at the library. The little rest of his time he shares with his sweet wife. Then one sudden day brings the death to his spouse. A whole life of stability crashes. Nor his adolescent daughter or dear books are of any help. Loneliness and indifference overrun his life and Mati plots a suicide.

    A strange wayfarer Sass, who travels with a backpack of books and frequents public libraries to read the newspapers, brings forth a change. Bit by bit he starts to provide Mati with the interest for life again.