Search and Experimentation Time

Festival
Kinoff 2023
Programme
KinoFF Shorts

Screenings

2nd Hall Apollo Kino Astri
Screening176203 / Otsingute ja eksperimenteerimise aeg
Screening duration

Films

Estonian premiere

En Masse

Local title
Massipsühhoos
Original title
Massipsühhoos
Director
Marko Lillemägi
Country
Estonia
Year
2023
Festival
Kinoff 2023
Programme
KinoFF Shorts

1-minute short "En Masse" is an eerily familiar story set in a dystopian landscape of undefined time and place where a bright sign disrupts the otherwise mundane daily existence of a group of people. It’s a story of mass consciousness and how we are more likely to adhere to what others are doing than to stop and think for ourselves.

Director
Marko Lillemägi
Screenwriter
Ranno Kasemaa, Marko Lillemägi
Cast
Jan Gebruk, Ela Vood, Iiris Õunpuu
Producer
Liina Särkinen
DoP
Ranno Kasemaa
Runtime

World premiere

A story about a monkey, a bear and a caterpillar

Local title
Lugu ahvist, karust ja tõugust
Original title
A story about a monkey, a bear and a caterpillar
Director
Dashka Dementeva
Country
Estonia
Year
2023
Festival
Kinoff 2023
Programme
KinoFF Shorts

Strange Company - a monkey, a bear, and a centipede are intensely engaged in playing a board game. However, there is more at stake than just game pieces.

Director
Dashka Dementeva
Screenwriter
Rebeka Kruus
Producer
Anastasia Evnovits
Production
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
Runtime

World premiere

Face to Face

Local title
Näost näkku
Original title
Näost näkku
Director
Urmas Nimetu
Country
Estonia
Year
2023
Festival
Kinoff 2023
Programme
KinoFF Shorts

A group of people meet in an online conference. But do they actually meet? Something unexpected happens. This is a sixty-second experimental film in which images from a video conference are turned upside down and mixed with a videogame.

Director
Urmas Nimetu
Screenwriter
Urmas Nimetu
Cast
Maria Pšenitšnaja, Jörgen Sinka
Producer
Edina Csüllög
Sound
Ardo Ran Varres
Runtime

Estonian premiere

Wishes from the Well

Local title
Soovid kaevu põhjast
Original title
Soovid kaevu põhjast
Director
Alesja Suzdaltseva
Country
Estonia
Year
2023
Festival
Kinoff 2023
Programme
KinoFF Shorts
Genre
fantasy film

A short film about a down and out man who needs coins for medicine. As begging and lies fail, his last resort becomes the bottom of an old well. There he will try to fulfill a curious boy's wishes and maybe some of his own.

Director
Alesja Suzdaltseva
Screenwriter
Sven-Sander Paas
Cast
Meelis Rämmeld, Kris Kaspar Alamaa, Tiina Tauraite
Producer
Anet Õunpuu
Production
Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School
Runtime
Language
Estonian
Subtitles
English

World premiere

Shtander, shtander, Katya!

Local title
Shtander, shtander, Katja!
Original title
Штандер, штандер, Катя!
Director
Alexandra Shadrina
Country
Estonia
Year
2023
Festival
Kinoff 2023
Programme
KinoFF Shorts
Genre
drama

Беззаботное лето приносят не только дачные игры, прогулки, вечера полные разговоров, но и первую любовь. Но всему этому суждено разрушиться из-за глупой детской игры.

Director
Alexandra Shadrina
Screenwriter
Alexandra Shadrina
Cast
Stella Frishman, David Babayan, Emmelgelina Sudovtseva, Nicole Feldman, Marek Davidovski.
Producer
Ann Miller
DoP
Lev Kovalenko
Editor
Eldar Basmanov
Composer
Jan Helsing, Nuisance
Sound
Venla Rummukainen
Production
Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School
Runtime
Language
Russian
Subtitles
English