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On 4th of July Exitfilm OÜ and AB Bufo OY started the shoot of the "Goodbye Soviet Union” in Stalinistic surroundings of the Sillamäe - a previous military town, where uranium was mined. 

The crew was well prepared and succeeded nicely despite of the not very friendly weather. Actors were in good mood and enjoyed the majestic exteriors. Around 100 enthusiastic local extras helped to create a real 1980/90-ies atmosphere.

The production is planned as follows - the shoot and the shooting crew from Estonia, shooting equipment and postproduction from Finland.

Exitfilm has signed the Agreement with Finnish company OY BUFO AB to co-produce and distribute the production. Companies have been successful applying the production support from local financiers Estonian Film Institute and Finnish Film Foundation. Also Public broadcasters ERR and YLE are participating in the project.

The casting involves well-known Estonian and Finnish actors – Ülle Kaljuste, Tõnu Oja, Nika Savolainen, Pääru Oja, Jekaterina Novosjolova. The main children characters are Finnish schoolboy Niklas Kousmitchev and Estonian schoolgirl Elina Baratashvili.

The film follows a critical day of the young boy in the lonely farm between the forests, which puts an end to his childhood – his father commands him to kill a lamb...

The film will be premiered in the cassette of the young authors „Fresh Blood: Us and Others“ in autumn 2018 together with Anna Hints' "Ice".

„Ice“ won EFTA 2018 (Estonian Film and Television Awards) in the short films' category. The event took place in Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn and was broadcasted by three major Estonian television stations.

„Ice“ has been in more that 40 festivals in competition and has won 8 awards so far.

Young director/writer Urmas Reisberg won the Baltic Pitching Forum in Vilnius in October with his short futuristic thriller project “Dark Side Of The Earth” of the two pilots fathal trip to the “Dark East” – the territory, which has become unliveable because of the climat catastrophe – thousands of kilometres of abandoned cities, roads, bridges...

“Dark Side Of The Earth” was selected to be presented at the EURO CONNECTION, a part of the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, to help finding European co-production partners.

On July 21-st, multitalent Nicola Piovesan premiered his neopunk short film “Attack of Cyber Octopuses” in Tallinn arthouse theatre “Sõprus”. Nicola introduced the project, his experience in using Kickstarter and thanked his multinational crew.

The 30 min. behind the scenes documentary was also shown to the audience.

The film is shot in Tallinn and Tokyo and will be distributed widely to the Kickstarter backers, short and sci-fi film festivals, VOD platform and sci-fi/fantasy orientated satellite and TV channels.

This is a humorous coming of age story about Johannes, whose destiny is to be always separated from his loved ones by an “iron curtain”. It is a story about being different, having hair when everyone else is bald and being bald when everyone else has hair… escaping with a toy car from a place that officially does not exist, brawling at school, 10–year old Johannes finally finds acceptance through love.  

The film will be shot in 2018 in co-production with Finnish company Bufo AB.