ERR film Sparkling Rivers, writer Anna Gavronski, director Märten Vaher and cinematographer Meelis Kadastik, was selected to the official programme of Barcelona International
Environmental Film Festival FICMA. It was 24th time the festival took place,
which makes it the oldest environmental film festival in the world.
We arrived in Barcelona on 7th of November. First news we got form the
organisers were a bit concerning- they said that there is a chance that our
film screening might be cancelled due to general strike. Fortunately, just
after they had warned us, they received a phone call, that our film will be
still shown on the big screen. We were very happy and thankful for the
organisers for managing to preserve the screening. Besides that we went to meet
the other filmmakers at the evening in the cinema and watched some short
animation films.
pan> was selected to the official programme of Barcelona International
Environmental Film Festival FICMA. It was 24th time the festival took place,
which makes it the oldest environmental film festival in the world.
The second day of our trip was a big day for us, because it was a day,
when our film was screened. As it was on the same day as the general strike, we
went to watch the protests during lunchtime. Later we heard that other filmmakers
did the same. I think curiosity is embedded to all documentary filmmakers. In
the evening, we watched some other films and then our film Sparkling Rivers was shown. After the screening people asked
questions and it was interesting to see that our film moved people even though
it was filmed in Georgia by Estonian filmmakers.
On our third day, we had filmmakers’ lunch, where we met a lot of
people. It was a good place for changing contacts. To our surprise one of the crewmembers
of Swedish film came to speak with us in fluent Estonian. It turned out that
both of his parents were from Estonia that they thought him the language. After
the lunch we went to watch the Swedish film, which was about soil.
In the evening we went to the festival closing event, which took place
at a very nice natural science museum.
To our big surprise Sparkling
Rivers won the award for the best short documentary, it was a great honour
and made us very happy.
Besides Barcelona our film Sparkling
Rivers was shown in October at the SunChild International Environmental
Festival in Yerevan, Armenia. The festival is the first and only of its kind in
the South Caucasus region. Our film was one of the 83 films chosen for the
official section, it was selected from 1214 submitted films.
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