Best of BFM Film Programme
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Tomorrow Island, director Gwenn Joyaux
Best Film at Best of BFM 2019
Tomorrow Island is a LGBT film that portrays how love challenges all odds. Set in the ultimate frontier, the Bering Strait, our story portrays how borders endanger the people they are meant to protect and how love can empower us to defy this threat.
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Land of Strangers, director Çağlasın Yılmaz
Land of Strangers is an experimental documentary about the limbo between life and death. Focusing on the dying process through the Tallinn city by using the steps of hypothermia as a structure.
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Sherlock and I, director Vivian Melder
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Above, director Vishal Vittal
Winner of the Short Film Competition 2018 at the Estonian Documentary Film Festival in Toronto
Vishal Vittal’s architecture film about Estonian National Museum is discussing freedom of speech and censorship, while reflecting the change in people who transfered from Soviet Union to Independent Estonia. Four people in their everyday lives get interested by a floating bubble that reminds them of freedom.
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Amelia, director Grete Õunap
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Inna, director Denis Emelin
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Matz: Estonian Waterbird, director Eliza Benina
Best documentary at Best of BFM 2019
Matz is a 20 y-o disabled swimmer with a silver medal from 2018 European Championships. Dreaming about Paralympics, he will smile his way through life and redefine what a disability means.
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The Lemniscate, director Teresa Väli
Best Film Editing, Best Director at Best of BFM 2019
On an ordinary Sunday before going to church Lee is announcing that she and Ülar are going to have a visitor that day. Though it’s not an ordinary guest but a very symbolic person, wife’s classmate Kärt whom they call Skater.
From there on he is taken by memories, re-membering times when their connection with Skater was more intense, he on the other hand much younger and more vulnerable.
His memories bring back his confusing feelings towards Skater. There is passion, fascination but also anger. And he is taken by the unknown once again. What is Skater like after all those years and what brings her to visit them once again?