17- th international short film festival  “ The Unprecedented Cinema ” is held on the 31.05. - 4.06. 2017, in Tallinn, Estonia

• Organizers: Studio Meksvideo
• The noncommercial films of all genres may take place, if they didn’t take place in the previous festivals “The Unprecedented Cinema”

We have received 663 entries from 64 countries:Australia, Austria ,Argentina, Belgium ,Bosnia and Herzegovina ,Brazil , Belarus, Bulgaria, Denmark, Venezuela, Spain, Singapore, Slovakia, Serbia, Switzerland, South Korea, Scotland, Sweden, Slovenia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Finland, Russia, Republic of Korea, Norway, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Germany, Mexico, Morocco, Hungary, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, China, Cyprus, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Oman, Peru, Poland, Pakistan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Iran, Italy, Ireland, Israel, India, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Turkey, Thailand, Japan

We have selected 57 films to be screened at the festival in Maardu Leisure Centre.

On June 2^nd we have screened a book trailer competition programme as well as 5 different children and amateur competition programmes.

There were 8 awards in total.

Festival Jury, Maardu:

Mait Laas – director

Maria Kalinko – presenter, journalist, director (Russia)

Ivan Pavlyuchkov – director, screenwriter

Maria Naaber-Glazistova – producer, film and media teacher

We have selected 51 films for the Tallinn competition.

There were 12 videos in the Music Video category.

We screened 6 different competition programmes on June 3-4^th in the Russian Cultural Centre.

12 films have received awards.

Festival Jury, Tallinn:

Peeter Simm – director, screenwriter

Janno Põldmaa – director, writer, producer

Andrei Bond – director, screenwriter

Nikita Rozhdenstvenski – director of phototgraphy (Russia)

Anatoly Belov – music producer

On June 5^th we screened 8 more films that were not included in the festival competition.

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