XXXVIII Pärnu Film Festival Youth Evening: The Dreamers

WE WANT TO LIVE HERE by Alexandrina Turcan (Ukraine) 25' (ie Estonian) Alexandrina Turcan's camera accompanies Ukrainian children in the devastated city of Borodjanka. Focusing on teenage boys, we learn how ready they are to defend their homeland after only a few years. WE CRASH TO LIVE by Julien Henry (Belgium) 65' (ie Estonian) Julien Henry's dock revives the autodrome closed 40 years ago on the Belgian-French border, where young boys defied death and raced scrap cars until they fell apart or exploded. Now a new generation of boys and girls wants to revive the blood curdling race. The leaders are 21-year-old Alizée and her boyfriend. THIS IS LIFE by Alfonso O'Donnell (Spain) 28' (ie Estonian) Alfonso O'Donnell's poetic documentary about the relationship between man and horse. The horse has helped man for millennia, but how has man helped the horse?