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Estonian Film Foundation
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I WAS HERE
Feb 6 13:30 CinemaxX Studio 14
Feb 10 11:00 CinemaxX Studio 11
Drama
94 min
Colour
Dir: Rene Vilbre
#8 highest grossing film in Estonia in 2008 (46 561 viewers)
Producers:
Riina Sildos, Amrion, Estonia
Aleksi Bardy, Helsinki-Filmi OY, Finland
Nobody is born to be a drug dealer.
Rass, 17, elite school student, though living alone and poorly in an Estonian slum, has dreams about family and love. One night he gets a phone call from his friend who invites him to a party held in honour of Olari, 26, who has just got out of prison. That very same day Rass has sold his cell phone and his jacket in order to buy some food.
Olar offers Rass an opportunity to earn some money. He has to sell drugs. Rass agrees. This is the start for a turbulence of uncontrollable events where he is drawn in. Getting arrested may be his only chance to start that other life he is dreaming about.
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VASHA
Feb 8 16:00 CinemaxX Studio 11
Feb 9 13:00 CinemaxX Studio 11
Drama
100 min
Colour
Dir: Hannu Salonen
National premiere: January 22 2009
Producers:
Piret Tibbo-Hudgins, Allfilm, Estonia
Jarkko Hentula, Juonifilmi, Finland
Philipp Homberg, Homberg Filmproduktion, Germany Wide Eyed Films, Ireland
Tom, an easygoing young boy, ends up in a hospital with a Chechen man Artur, after having saved his life in a bomb explosion. Tom attaches quickly to this mysterious man, helping him to escape from the hospital.
A kind of friendship evolves between them, Artur trying to keep Tom away from his personal war. Tom is thrown into dramatic events that abruptly open his eyes. The chain of death and vengeance seems unstoppable and the question arises if Tom will become a part of it.
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DECEMBER HEAT
Feb 7 09:00 CinemaxX Studio 11
Feb 10 16:30 CinemaxX Studio 11
Action drama
92 min
Colour
Dir. Asko Kase
#7 highest grossing film in Estonia in 2008 (50 369 viewers)
Producer: Artur Talvik, Eetriüksus, Estonia
Newly-weds Tanel and Anna Rõuk decide to leave Estonia to look for luck and better life in Paris. They pack their belongings and go to the Baltic Railway Station on the dark early morning of December 1, 1924. In the previous hours, however, communist revolutionists have launched an attack in Tallinn that changes their plans drastically.
Anna is taken hostage by the communist leader. Tanel manages to escape and must, in the following cliff-hanging events, rescue both his wife and in the end also the young Estonian Republic.
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TAARKA
Feb 8 12:15 CinemaxX Studio 11
Drama
99 min
Colour
Dir: Ain Mäeots
The first film in the world made in Seto language
Producer: Anneli Ahven, Exitfilm, Estonia
Taarka is a life story of a woman with a very special destiny, about the Seto people, their life in Russia, the way they ended up in the Republic of Estonia in 1930s, and how they were Estonianized.
A country girl who in spite of fate or maybe due to her misfortune stayed true to her nature, her talent and her calling.
A woman who danced where she could have walked and sang where others might have spoken.
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A WISH TREE
Feb 11 09:00 MGB Kinosaal
Black Comedy
85 min
Colour
Dir. Liina Paakspuu
Producer: Karin Reinberg, Revolver Film
Liina, a young girl from the village, decides to begin an independent life in the city. In the new environment she discovers various microcosms, comprising of the strange and the strangers around us.
Each of them has a personal dream, each is heading somewhere.
Struggling with unimaginable obstacles, Liina finally finds something, which allows her to go on; something she had actually come looking for – herself.
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Tristan Priimägi
International Relations
Estonian Film Foundation
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