From March 15 to 17, film enthusiasts in both cities will have the opportunity to enjoy animation, short, live-action feature, and documentary formats, presented by Estonian Arts Centre, the charity associated with KESKUS.
FILMIST opens in Hamilton on March 15 with a heartwarming documentary of a 14-year old girl who was granted emigration to join her parents in Sweden. How was she left behind? How did she get permission to leave? Hers is just one of the many stories of our Estonian diaspora. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Saturday March 16 in Toronto we’ll screen the whole gamut, from films created during the preceding week at FILMIST Stuudio through to the Oscar nominated “Koerkorter” (which may be an Academy Award winner by March 16!?) animated short, plus the short entitled “What Would You Take” that has screened in New York and London, that looks at the items Ukrainian refugees have taken with them as they have had to flee their war torn homeland.
Sunday March 17th in Toronto we’ll screen the mediaeval thriller “Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner’s Daughter”, the third in the trilogy. Can you solve the who-done-it before Melchior does?
Go to estoniancentre.ca/filmist-festival for tickets, trailers, screening locations.
FILMIST has been programmed with a selection of films that ensures that there is something for every taste. Whether you're a fan of animation, gripping live-action features, thought-provoking documentaries, or the succinct storytelling of shorts, and first timers’ super-short documentaries, FILMIST has it all. Estonian Arts Centre's FILMIST Festival is sponsored by Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Northern Birch Credit Union and Tartu College.
