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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. 

Late 2016 Mumbai Shorts awarded “Mausoleum” with “Honorable Jury Mention”

WorldFest-Houston pre-awarded “Mausoleum” with Remi Award for Short Films.

Film continues competing at the festival in the Major Category Winners.

“You have now joined the ranks of Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas, the Cohen Brothers, David Lynch...and others as WorldFest-Houston Remi Award Winners, so this is an exceptional accomplishment”

Kelly Mann - Entry director

Estonia to acknowledge 113 people with decorations of the Republic of Estonia on the eve of Independence Day

Peeter Urbla, the CEO of Exitfilm had the honor. 

President Kersti Kaljulaid will award state decorations to 113 people on the eve of the 99th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia to acknowledge their commitments to professional life or society that have helped to make Estonia better.