Pretenders
Teesklejad
Vallo Toomla
Intent on repairing a rift in their relationship, Anna and Juhan retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends. After witnessing an accident on rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband – a couple they find they have a lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels their relationship to the brink of destruction
With : Mirtel Pohla, Priit Võigemast, Mari Abel, Meelis Rämmeld
Screenplay : Livia Ulman, Andris Feldmanis
Image : Erik Põllumaa
Sound : Vladimir Golovnitski
Editing : Danielius Kokanauskis
Music : Kārlis Auzāns
Screenplay : Livia Ulman, Andris Feldmanis
Image : Erik Põllumaa
Sound : Vladimir Golovnitski
Editing : Danielius Kokanauskis
Music : Kārlis Auzāns
Production : Amrion (Estonie), Studio Uljana Kim (Lituanie),
Locomotive Production (Lettonie)
International sales: Wide Management
Locomotive Production (Lettonie)
International sales: Wide Management
Vallo Toomla (1983) is a promising young talent in Estonian cinema. He has studied theology in Tartu University and film directing at the Baltic Film and Media School. Vallo has directed five short films and a puppet animated film. Pretenders is his debut feature film.
“In contemporary Western society we are living in a culture that has developed towards materialism not the human soul and spirituality. It is out of balance. This situation causes questions between social practice and individuation [...] I see around myself a lot of young adults grappling with the challenge of how to lead their lives so that they won't miss out on life, and at the same time, try to find out who they truly are. This is a situation where our main characters, Anna and Juhan, come from. Pretenders is a story of the Y-Generation, young people born between 1980 and 2000, who value above all personal experience, development and self-expression – my generation.
“In contemporary Western society we are living in a culture that has developed towards materialism not the human soul and spirituality. It is out of balance. This situation causes questions between social practice and individuation [...] I see around myself a lot of young adults grappling with the challenge of how to lead their lives so that they won't miss out on life, and at the same time, try to find out who they truly are. This is a situation where our main characters, Anna and Juhan, come from. Pretenders is a story of the Y-Generation, young people born between 1980 and 2000, who value above all personal experience, development and self-expression – my generation.