Sleepwalkers festival includes Oscar winner and big festival winner line-ups
Sleepwalkers festival includes Oscar winner and winners from Venice, Toronto, Edinburgh and Encounters in line-upThe Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival, due to be held between 18th and 23rd November at the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn is free of charge this year. Festival will showcase over 200 films from across the world that will provide a glimpse of the rich and diverse nature of current short filmmaking.
The Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival, due to be held between 18th and 23rd November at the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn is free of charge this year. Festival will showcase over 200 films from across the world that will provide a glimpse of the rich and diverse nature of current short filmmaking.
The Sleepwalkers International Competition selection will include Maryam which won Best Short at the 2014 Venice Film Festival. There’ll also be an opportunity to see A Single Body the award winner of Best International Short at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
The Sleepwalkers Student Competition will shake off the stigma often associated with student works and prove that they are much more than ‘…practice before a real film.’ In a packed selection - with Mexico, Germany and the USA amongst the film schools represented – there will be the chance to see such shorts as the comedic Border Patrol, a Bronze Medallist at the 2014 Student Oscars and the powerful drama Slap winners of the Best Short at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.
We’ll have the premiere of the latest short for Martti Heide the director of recent Estonian hit feature film In The Crosswind. Superbia is a clever and absorbing slice of philosophy that marks out Heide as one of the most talented filmmakers in Estonia today. The film (and Maria Reinup’s Mann Tanzt, screening in International Competition) will give also give a sneak peak to Contact, a production of Von Krahl Theatre the most feared and loved independent theatre in Estonia. Five up-and-coming Estonian filmmakers collaborated with Von Krahl to create a collection of short films. The full selection of films will premiere in March 2015.
The Sleepwalkers National Competition will include the European Premiere of the latest film from renowned Estonian director Kadri Kõusaar. The Sleepwalkers Baltic Sea Competition showcases Helium, the winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. You can also see an Oscar nominee in Finnish comedy Do I Have To Take Care of Everything while moving documentary Our Curse has been shortlisted for an Oscar in the Best Short Documentary section for 2015.
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