Ticket: 2,5€. Tickets can be bought from Piletilevi and before the screening from BFM, where you can pay only in cash.

“Welcome to the Punch”

USA, UK/ 100 min/ 2013

Director: Eran Creevy

Ex-criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives his nemesis, detective Max Lewinsky, one last chance to catch the man he’s always been after.

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This year the event will take place on May 23 at Von Krahl bar in the Old Town. The doors will open at 19.00.

Additional info can be found here.

One of the films is called „Return of the Book“ that tells a story about a fifteen year old boy who borrows a book from a library in 1944 and 69 years later the book finds its way back home (director: Muhan Liu ; scriptwriter: Peter Murdmaa,  Muhan Liu; operator: Ott Tiigirand ; editor: Sander Somma ; producer: Peter Murdmaa)

The other one is named “Recalling“. The film tells a story about Julia who is a documentary director and approaching her 70th birthday. Over a year ago her husband for 40 years unexpectedly passed away. Days pass in their apartment where Julia is accompanied only by her cat Richard as she tries to make her last work – a documentary about her lost husband (director-cinematographer: Cai Jie; editor: Jette-Krõõt Keedus; sound designer: Valter Jakovlev; producer Marta Pulk).

Also in May the school’s vice president and deans visited BFM.

Cooperation between BFM and CUC began in 2007 when the agreement was made and first students were exchanged. Since then 2-3 students from China come and visit Estonia to get an idea of our culture and country, plus they make here few films and our students visit China with the same purpose. Plus, our professors have visited China and vice versa.

Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School’s (Narva Rd. 27) Film Department organizes an event Püha Jüri Day, which is dedicated to a filmmaker and professor Jüri Sillart on 29th of May. Also, an international digital cinematography conference “INSPIRATION” will be held.

In the program:

10:00 Visit to Metsakalmistu.

10.00- 17.00 BFM’s Film Studio- a possibility to see new film equipment and innovative digital opportunities.

Participants:  Fookus-Pookus: MKV Alien Revolution & Segway combit; Canon Overall: Canon HDSLR Cameras EOS D100, EOS D700, EOS 6D, EOS 5DMIII, EOS 1Dx and Canon Cinema EOS Cameras EOS 1DC, C100, C300, C500 kit with a 4K recorder. A selection of Canon EF lenses and two Canon Cinema Lenses, one Prime and one Compact Zoom. In addition a simple selection of tripods, monopods and LED lighting; Arkogints Camera Rental:  ARRI Alexa EV-1, sup.7, HS 120fps & Vision Research Phantom Miro LC320S; FrostFX; Vid-Doc/Sony; North Star Rental; Cineunit; BBrental: Sony F55 with Arri/Fujinon Alura Zoom Lens 45-250/T2.6; TipTheAuthors; BFM & Estonian Film Institute.

11.00 – 13.00 BFM’s Cinema Hall- conference on a topic “Digital Cinematography – Beauty or the Beast?” (in English).

Richard Andry, AFC –  cinematographer and professor, France;
Gints Berzhins, LGC – cinematographer and photographer, Latvia;
Laurens Orij – post production specialist, the Netherlands;
Tom Crocker – Sony Europe, Norway;
Märt Haamer – Canon Overall, Estonia;
Heiki Luts – FrostFX visual effects specialist specialist, Estonia;
Margus Pala – TipTheAuthors digital distribution specialist, Estonia;
Semjon Shkolnikov – cinematographer, Estonia.

14.00 – 18.00 BFM’s Cinema Hall- presentations on a topic “Digital Film- a Beauty or a Beast?”(in English).

Richard Andry, AFC – cinematographer and professor, France (20 min);
Märt Haamer – Canon Overall, Estonia (20 min);
Tom Crocker – Sony Europe, Norway(20 min);
ESC presents: Laurens Orij – post production specialist, the Netherlands (1h 20 min);
Heiki Luts – FrostFX visual effects specialist specialist , Estonia (20 min);
Margus Pala – TipTheAuthors digital distribution specialist  / IT Garage, Estonia (20 min);
Piret Tibbo-Hudgins- Estonian Film Institute, Estonia (30 min).

18. 10- 18.30 Naming classroom N207 as JÜRI SILLART’s film class.

18.30 – 19.00 BFM’s Cinema Hall- short film”Inspiration” (1971; director: V.Himbek, cinematographer: J.Sillart, composer: A.Pärt).

19.30 BFM’s Film Studio- announcment of Püha Jüri scholar and celebration of Jüri Sillart’s 70^th jubilee.

The event is free of charge!

Please register:  http://goo.gl/j5c3y

Additional info: pyhajyri.blogspot.com and 58226500 (Heli Luik)

The event is financed by TU Baltic Film and Media School, Estonian Film Industry Cluster, European Regional Development Fund , Estonian Film Institute, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia,  Estonian Filmmakers’ Union and Estonian Society of Cinematographers.

From May 22.-23. it’s possible to return overdue library materials without paying fines.

Those days are fine free in BFM library too. From May 22. to 23. it’s possible to delete your fines and return overdue borrowed materials.
Requests for fine deleting can be submitted in library, by e-mail or phone.

Library will not erase fees for any lost or damaged items. Damaged or lost materials have to be replaced by the same publication or compensated in the amount stipulated by the library.

“95″ is a story about a lazy boy tries to win back his mother’s trust. “Is it you?” is a spooky story about the man, who did not finish the phone call at the right time.

The festival started on 14th of May and lasts until the 18th. The festival is organized by an university ESAP (Escola Superior Artística do Porto) in Porto.

Here you can read an interview with the director of the film, Ivar Murd, get more info about the film and the festival.

Congrats!

Additional information from here.

Program:

On the Way to the Sea
Tao Gu
Canada, Quebec, China
2010 | 0:20:00

Fictional elements, fragments of documentaries and visual abstraction are seen in the film as a reflection about the fragility of the human living conditions.

Miss Candace Hilligoss’ Flickering Halo
Fabios Scacchioli, Vincenzo Core
Italy
2011 | 0:13:45

The beginning is another film: an American early- 60′s, dissected and demolished, whose tortured and “subverted” images are organized in precarious, fragile and ever-changing structures, in multiple plotlines criss-crossing in a state of constant collapse. Provoke the deflagration of a closed system through a mechanism of chain implosions. Forget what you see while you’re still observing it, and immerse yourself in an ancestral optical vibration. A howl without a reason.

Inquire Within
Jay Rosenblatt
Etats-Unis
2012 | 0:04:00

Inquire Within is a hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.

We Will Become Oil
Mihai Grecu
Romania
2011 | 0:08:00

Apocalyptic and grotesque vision about the end of human history.

Fancies (Quimeras)
Ragnar Chacin
France, Mexico
2011 | 0:08:00

A surreal muse is walking in a city. She wonders in streets, gardens and other environments.

Flimmer
Line Klungseth Johansen
Norway
2011 | 0:05:00

All noise contains colored particles of different substance and meaning. Fragile and sensitive, the fragments glide into abstract lines, colors and composition, creating Flimmer.

The Cloud of Unknowing
Tzu Nyen Ho
Singapore
2011 | 0:28:00

The title refers to the mystery of life.  The cloud refers to the exclusion and reconciliation with the unknown, in other words, with divine experience.

Tomo, a Territory Desert by War
Bakary Diallo
France
2011 | 0:07:00

Tomo is a fairy tail about the story of a psychologically unstable character. He is going to a village which was abandoned because of a war. He has to face the spirits of those who lived there before.

The Salt of the Sea (O Sal da lua)
Christina Miranda
Brazil
2010 | 0:05:00

O Sal da Lua is a short move about the cost of the colonial presence in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. The film mixes images of Rio and Paris, how to draw a disturbance among the two cities, through a night journey made by a female character who walks through the city to the sea.

Through the Moss Stuff Chinks Heard Voices
Cherie Samson
Finland
2011 | 0:05:00

This video-performance portrays an abstraction of the body as it is multiplied and shifts orientation at the crossing of two large decaying spruce trees, merging into and from the simultaneous life and entropy embodied in the seasonal and biological cycles of the forest. The appearance of humanness fails in and out og focus, reminding of the vulnerability of all forms and stages of life.

Seeing Sorror
Martin Winther
Finland
2011 | 0:14:00

Can we see the pain of others? After her abortion, a young woman sees the perception of life changing.

Sirocco (Shluq)
Hisham Bizri
Egypt, USA
2012 | 0:15:00

Shluq or Sirocco (easterly desert wind) is the fable of a man who faces potential doom. Life for him is a mystery and it is impossible to understand, leading him into melancholic paralysis. The embitterment, callousness, grossness, brutality of his paralysis is imposed on his pure and noble soul, turning his life into a profound tragedy.

Katrin also showed our house to the guests and they had the possibility to see Best of BFM 2013 films.