BLACK NIGHTS 2019 Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event
Des perspectives prometteuses à Baltic Event Works in Progress
par Tristan Priimägi
- Dix nouveaux films en production ont été présentés dans le volet Works in Progress du Baltic Event pendant le Festival Black Nights de Tallinn
![Des perspectives prometteuses à Baltic Event Works in Progress](imgCache/2019/12/03/1575382991215_0620x0413_0x18x1000x666_1679302485993.jpg)
Cet article est disponible en anglais.
The Baltic Event of this year’s Black Nights Film Festival brought a line-up of ten new projects to the industry audience. Although the projects selected in that strand have traditionally hailed from the Baltic Sea region, this year’s selection was even more concentrated, with all ten hailing from the Baltic countries or from Finland. Last year’s laureate of the Baltic Event Works in Progress Award, J-P Valkeapää’s Dogs Don’t Wear Pants [+lire aussi :
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interview : J.-P. Valkeapää
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Estonia put forward three new projects this year. After The End of the Chain [+lire aussi :
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interview : Priit Pääsuke
fiche film], which was shown in Karlovy Vary’s East of the West competition in 2017, the director Priit Pääsuke returns with low-budget youth comedy Kids of the Night, which will be about relationships and extensive partying (read article). Meanwhile, Peeter Simm’s (Good Hands, Georg [+lire aussi :
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interview : Peeter Simm
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Two of the three Latvian projects were by first time filmmakers: the Eastern Western Wild East is set to be directed by Swedish-born Matiss Kaza, while family drama The Pit [+lire aussi :
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interview : Laila Pakalniņa
fiche film], apparently constructed in its entirety from selfie shots (read article).
Lithuanian project People We Know are Confused [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], by Tomas Smulkis, will be a drama revolving around three people trying to find themselves in interconnected stories. Andrius Blazevicius, whose feature debut The Saint [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrius Blazevicius
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interview : Andrius Blaževičius
fiche film], which will look into psychic problems via a young female protagonist.
Finally, Finland introduced Ulla Heikkilä's Eden [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ulla Heikkilä
fiche film], a coming-of-age drama comedy taking place in a Protestant Confirmation camp, and Pamela Tola's Ladies of Steel [+lire aussi :
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interview : Pamela Tola
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Some of these projects were among the winning titles of the edition (read news).
Here is the full list of Baltic Event Works in Progress projects:
Kids of the Night - Priit Pääsuke
Production company: Alexandra Film (Estonia)
O2 - Margus Paju
Production company: Nafta Films (Estonia), Taska Film (Estonia), Solar Films (Finland), Film Angels (Latvia), In Script (Lithuania).
On the Water [+lire aussi :
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interview : Peeter Simm
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Production company: Filmivabrik (Estonia)
In the Mirror [+lire aussi :
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interview : Laila Pakalniņa
fiche film] - Laila Pakalniņa
Production company: Hargla Company (Latvia), Just a Moment (Lithuania)
The Pit [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Dace Pūce
Production company: Marana Productions (Latvia)
Wild East - Matiss Kaza
Production company: Fenixfilm (Latvia), Deep Sea Studios (Latvia), AVB Production (Sweden)
People We Know are Confused [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Tomas Smulkis
Production company: Just a Moment (Lithuania)
Runner [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrius Blaževičius
fiche film] - Andrius Blazevicius
Production company: M-Films (Lithuania), Bionaut Films (Czech Republic).
Eden [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ulla Heikkilä
fiche film] - Ulla Heikkilä
Production company: Tekele Productions (Finland)
Ladies of Steel [+lire aussi :
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interview : Pamela Tola
fiche film] - Pamela Tola
Production company: Helsinki-Filmi (Finland)
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