“The Last Ones” is a Nordic Western that takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet.
FRESH BLOOD: Best Intentions is a compilation of five Estonian short films. In each of the films the main characters have nothing but the best intentions for themselves and others. However, as often is the case, life has other plans for them all.
It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return.
The film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war.
A small farm community is on the brink of getting swallowed by raging war. Lives of the frightened locals get shaken by the arrival of two men on the run from the mysterious, apparently vengeful Peedu. Following events delve into the fine ties of human relationships and the meaning of individual existence lurking behind them.
One of the most well-known Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo’s next film “Concrete Night” is a timeless black and white story of two brothers living in the suburbs of Helsinki.
Toomas Hussar’s comedy with a wisp of thriller revolves around a politician and his wife who want to take a short break from the city life, and their unusual travelling companion, a rock-star. They end up in the wild forest, leaving civilization behind and submitting themselves to the unknown. The film screens in Estonian, with Russian subtitles.
The Idiot, directed by Rainer Sarnet, is a story of a naive man, whose direct behaviour stirs in people moral unrest, rage and embarrassment over their own pettiness, making them yearn for goodness. The film is based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Last fall the third-year film students received a task to search for the spirit of an era that dates back at least 100 years. It was searched from Narva and Vilsandi, bogs and swamps, manors and farms. One can meet prophets and madmen, stubborn students, tortured men and longing women, werewolves, spiders and a donkey along the way.
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