This year's New Europe Film Festival features Rene Vilbre's I WAS HERE

16.04.2009 - 06.05.2009

This year’s New Europe Film Festival will, for the first time, show a Bulgarian film. René Vilbre’s I WAS HERE (MINA OLIN SIIN) will be screened at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh on the 27th April at 6PM and in the Barbican in London on the 5th May at 8.45PM.

New Europe Film Festival
Edinburgh – 16th – 27th April - Filmhouse Cinema, 88Lothian Road, Edinburgh
London – 4th – 6th May – Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London

New Europe is a term used for the twelve new members of the European Union that joined the Community in May 2004 and January 2007. New Europe Film Festival has been bringing the films from the new EU member states to the Edinburgh Filmhouse cinema since 2007. This year, for the first time, the festival will also show part of the programme in the Barbican in London. The organisers hope that this annual event will help the local UK audience and the immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe to establish a dialogue about their life in the enlarged Europe. This year’s films come from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Romania.

Film reviews are available on the festival website www.neweuropefilm.com. Tickets can be booked online at www.filmhousecinema.com and www.barbican.co.uk/film.

I WAS HERE (MINA OLIN SIIN)
René Vilbre, Estonia 2008, 1h 35min, Estonian with English subtitles, Cast: Rasmus Kaljujärv, Tambet Tuisk, Märt Avandi
Rass lives with his girlfriend in Tallinn and goes to a posh high school. He dreams about becoming a doctor in the future but right now he tries to make money through less legal activities: stealing petrol and dealing drugs. When he gets in with the wrong crowd and messes up with a  Mafia boss his small-time gangster's life gets out of control. He has to choose who to trust and play his cards right to get the money and the girl at the end. Violent, fast and engaging story with quick editing that will leave you breathless.