Tere kõigile, Lachlan here! Thank you to all who could make it to our Kino screening on Sunday, 7th July for Emadepäev (Mother’s Day) and Kannikas kannika vastu (Bread vs. Bread), we had a fantastic turnout and even got some of the original 1978 cast together. It was a very special night allowing for the film to be appreciated by all with new subtitles, intro and rolling credits added as well.


As part of our dedication to making kino more accessible to our community both interstate and overseas, Olev Muska and I have decided to make the film freely viewable online via Dropbox with the link below. This link will remain accessible and we just ask that it is only distributed for non-commercial purposes.
You can view the film here by clicking the link below:
https://www.dropbox.com
Included are some film notes with reviews and a post-mortem compiled by Olev
Without the attempts at digitising and salvaging the film by Olev Muska, this would not be possible to share online and perhaps be lost to time, so again thank you for your efforts and dedication to preserving a snapshot in time. You can see the large amount of work that went into this film, from it’s cast, costumes, set design, visual effects and more. I hope this inspires more young people to pick up the camera and start creating, our community has so many stories and tall tales that deserve to be on the screen.

Perhaps one day a short film competition could be arranged coinciding with a Sydney Eesti Päevad perhaps? I would love to see the Estonian Film Festival (EFFA) from December 2012 brought back as an ongoing event! We need more ambitious planning and programming across our communities and new stories that speak to who we are here in the Australian diaspora.
I want to personally thank minu ema, Mai Bell, who has tirelessly turned up and helped support me run the nights both with bump in, cooking and bump out/cleanup. Thank you for always being there! Also big ups to all the Kino fans who turned up regardless of the weather and those that would stick around to move chairs and pack up tables. Your help did not go unnoticed and made running the nights all the worthwhile. I also want to thank Leen and Siimon who started the nights back in October 2010 – which previously ran it on the last Friday of every month. Siimon generously passed on the collection of DVDs they had amassed to assist with screenings!

If you are interested in helping run movie nights at Sydney Eesti Maja, please contact me via kino.sydney@eesti.org.au or lachlan.bell@eesti.org.au and get in touch! We have a few interested parties and a committee may be the most logical step in making the nights easier to run.
Head isu eesti rahvas ja jätku leiba, Lachlan
Kino! was kindly supported by Sydney Eesti Selts and a grant from the Estonian Cultural Foundation in Estonia (ECFA).