Two Estonian films chosen for the Montreal Film Festival

27.08.2009 - 07.09.2009

Andrus Tuisk's film Bank Robbery and Liina Paakspuu's A Wish Tree were chosen for the Montreal Film Festival's programme Focus on World Cinema. This will be the international premiere for both films.

Bank Robbery is Andrus Tuisk's full-length feature film debut, which will premiere in Estonia in the fall of this year.
Bank Robbery is the story of a man for whom the gates to prison are about to be opened once again when fate offers him another chance-a ride to the woman he has been corresponding with and a life free of troubles is so damn close he can almost taste it, and this time it seems that nothing could possibly go wrong until the moment when he realises he has once again backed himself into a corner, and the only way to make up for what he has done is to grab a gun and go rob a bank

Liina Paakspuu's film A Wish Tree, which premiered in Estonia in December 2008, is also the director's full-length feature film debut. A Wish Tree is a visually stirring black comedy that displays the people that surround us in our everyday lives and everyday situations in a slightly caricature-esque light. The main protagonists are played by Elina Pähklimägi and Marilyn Jurman.

The Montreal World Film Festival is, after the Toronto Film Festival, the most important film festival in Canada

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