The Youth Film Festival Frame is now over.
I’m sure that’s what everyone who attended Kaadr thinks, but that’s not really the case.
The standard of this year’s festival was exceptionally high.
One might even say too high for a youth film festival.
Judging by the feedback from the audience and the participants, the decision of the jury (Mart Sander, Valter Uusberg and Lisette Pomerants) was tough.
This is already evident from the fact that instead of the twelve films that had been planned in advance, nine films made it to the premiere.
But isn’t it time for Kaadr to find his place in the film world?
On the one hand, this is sad, as most of the films from primary school were left out.
Having been at the festival for those 24 hours and seeing how it’s actually the young people who come to Kaadr for the first time and put all their heart and soul into making sure the film is ready on time, it’s very hard to look them in the eye and say your film won’t make it to the screen.
After all, the event took place in a primary school, and if the young people’s films didn’t make it to the screen this year, will you see them at Kaadri next year?
On the other hand, again, the jury explained its decision in a perfectly acceptable way.
The decision was mainly based on one keyword, which was “film”.
The film made at the festival had to be cinematographic, and had to meet the criteria of a film.
Thanks to this, the audience enjoyed watching the short films, both visually and in terms of content.
The Grand Prix or Frame 2018 went to the short film “Big Dogs: a chapel cat and two metres under the ground” by Antony Loodus.
The story tells the story of how a group of losers Mafia game a leader is killed and his subordinates arrange a funeral for him, but it later turns out they were trying to bury a live man.
The prize is a forged camera and a straw from sponsors, which this year was exceptionally plentiful.
The best primary school film was “One Strange Story” by Gregor Siimar.
The best secondary school short film was “Betra”, about Betra Käsper, who is lactose intolerant.
The film also won the Audience Favourite title.
Sten Leinasaare’s film “Empirical”, which was only made by Leinasaare, was chosen as the best short film by the alumni.
The man himself came to Kaadr directly from military service.
The best visual short film was “Simulation 2K18”, co-written by Vesiroos alum Martin Lapin.
To the surprise of both the audience and the participants, the best male and female actor were cast in the second season of the series “Lits”.
The winners were Markus-Aleks Trofimov, actor of “Big Dogs” and Merit Sillaots, actress of “Simulation 2K18”.
So stay tuned for the second season of “Litsid”.
All of the above categories received 3D laser cubes as prizes.
The final event was hosted by Kaadr patriots Juhan Taalik and Kevin Rull.
It is hard to summarise whether they managed it.
The audience can be split in half.
There are those who argue that the men weren’t the best choice, but there are also those who understood Juhan and Kevin’s jokes.
Both of them are also Vesiroos alumni, and I can’t remember a time when they didn’t attend the festival.
In the previous five frames, they have made short films with their film club “The Archaic”.
And so it was this year.
The hosts also had the honour of presenting a special prize in their own name.
Sander Saard and Ergo Pajuväli were chosen by the men.
They made the final intro which was a follow-up to the short film “Angelina” made by the men in 2013.
The event was very well received.
Of course, there were moments when the main organisers of the Frame felt that now everything was going wrong and the festival was going to fail, but when the participants say that the whole organisation was superb and that it was the best Frame ever, that’s what makes the organisers feel good and gets them going again.
But what about the other films?
Sure, all the finished films will be uploaded to Kaadri’s Youtube, but is that all?
We have good news for all participants.
The Kaadri team will organise a follow-up event to show all the films made at this year’s festival.
There will be small prizes for everyone and some surprises.
More information will be shared via Kaadr’s Facebook page.
The main sponsor of the event is Balsnack.
