Autumn Ball

Section: Focus Estonia
Title: Sügisball
Director: Veiko Õunpuu
Cast: Taavi Eelmaa, Sulevi Peltola, Tiina Tauraite, Rain Tolk
Duration: 2h 3m
Country: Estonia
Language: et
Year: 2007

It’s autumn. We see a huge sprawling conurbation of tower blocks built in the Soviet era – the neighbourhood called Lasnamäe. Mati is a young writer who lives alone in a two-bedroom apartment after his wife left him for his friend. Mati drinks, as every sane man would do in this situation, and spies jealously on his wife. He is only one character in a film which goes deep in its exploration of loneliness, a feeling that is even more haunting in the immediate proximity of other people.