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Tallinn Industry Film Market Wraps with Migration Dramas ‘The Worker,’ ‘Late Shift’ Among Top Winners: Key Takeaways
Hot pics at the film co-production market included ‘Container’ starring Dar Salim and the Swedish black comedy ‘Push the Button.’
For the first time, films for kids and youth joined the market pitches, an inclusion that benefitted the Ukrainian helmer Sveta Solovyova (“Oxygen Station”) and writer Ivan Tymchenko who scooped the €20,000 Eurimages Special Co-Production Development Award for their heart-warming animation/documentary hybrid “English Lesson.” Another debut filmmaker trained in the U.S. – the Finn Risto Tuominen, a former graduate from L.A.’s American Film Institute – scooped the top award at the popular European Genre Forum for his thriller “The Dark Architect,” about a young student who moves into a decaying apartment building and is given a gruesome task by its residents. Reflecting today’s troubled times, projects at the co-financing markets dealt with harsh human stories about migration, war, bullying, climate crisis and screen addiction but most were told with a playfulness and even humor in order to reach a wide audience.
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