HÕFF - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (Estonia)

    Matches: 24
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      A bird expert investigates whether gulls are capable of more than we think.

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      A stranger carrying the face of the past steps into the innkeeper's world, and his presence threatens to lift the curtain between reality and nightmare.

      • Festival Year: 2025
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Student film, Short, Horror
      • Rauno Laikjõe
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      Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer.

      • Festival Year: 2024
      • Participation/Award: Award
      • Description: Audience Award; Best Estonian Genre Film Award
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy, Thriller, Romance, Road movie, Horror, Fantasy
      • Sander Maran
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      • Festival Year: 2024
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Estonian Competition
      • Experimental
      • Ivar Murd
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      9-year old girl, vacationing with her parents in a remote bog, gets trapped in a secret bunker where an AI-startup is nearing the completion of super-intelligent AI. Both the girl and the AI want to escape.

      • Festival Year: 2023
      • Participation/Award: Prize
      • Description: The best Estonian genre film
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Youth, Science fiction, Adventure, Family
      • Rain Rannu
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      Short film about an old lady living alone who has a feeling that someone is watching her.

      • Festival Year: 2022
      • Participation/Award: Award
      • Student film, Short, Horror
      • Raoul Kirsima
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      When truth goes missing, lies start to grow, leaving no room for miracles to be born. An ode to the post-truth world. A short film directed by Kaspar Ainelo about a lost dog, a crime and victims.

      • Festival Year: 2021
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Méliès D'Argent Short Film Competition
      • Feature film, Short, Comedy, Drama, Horror
      • Kaspar Ainelo
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      • Festival Year: 2021
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Animated film, Cartoon
      • Avo Paistik
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      • Festival Year: 2020
      • Participation/Award: Award
      • Description: Best Estonian Genre Film
      • Feature film, Drama
      • Mart Sander
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      Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

      • Festival Year: 2019
      • Participation/Award: Award
      • Description: Euroopa lühikeste fantaasiafilmide võistlusprogramm: Hõbedase Mélièsi auhind
      • Feature film, Short, Horror
      • Oskar Lehemaa
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      A young man named Sherman survives the apocalypse in a Soviet-style alternate reality and when trying to find his place outside an isolated city, gets stuck in an underground bunker.

      • Festival Year: 2015
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Feature film, Short, Science fiction, Adventure
      • Einar Kuusk
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      • Festival Year: 2013
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Short Film Competition: Cosmos
      • Student film, Short, Drama
      • Moonika Siimets
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      The fantasy thriller directed by Polish filmmaker Marek Piestrak is the second Estonian-Polish co-production after the blockbuster "Tales the Pirx of Pilot" that was filmed in Vietnam, Ukraine, Poland and Estonia and has been called the Eastern European version of Indiana Jones.

      • Festival Year: 2012
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Adventure
      • Marek Piestrak
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      • Festival Year: 2012
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Student film, Short, Science fiction, Supernatural
      • Reino Aedmäe
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      • Festival Year: 2012
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Student film, Short, Comedy, Science fiction, Adventure
      • Andrew Bond
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      • Festival Year: 2012
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Student film, Short, Thriller, Supernatural
      • Sander Maran
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      The short film by film student Hardi Keerutaja is a horror story about a young man who has forgotten why he is doing something.

      • Festival Year: 2011
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Ametliku avafilmi ees demonstreeritud film
      • Student film, Short, Thriller, Drama
      • Hardi Keerutaja
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      • Festival Year: 2010
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Opening film
      • Student film, Short, Thriller, Supernatural
      • Robi Uppin
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      Father of a family went to carry out his refuse bin and found himself in some strange world,where striking things happened to him.

      • Festival Year: 2009
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Eesti õudusanima
      • Animated film, Other types of animation
      • Hardi Volmer
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      Vivat, crescat, floreat vagina!

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      The layer of culture in humans is thin as a wallpaper separating us from the decaying civilization.

      • Festival Year: 2009
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Animated film, Puppet
      • Rao Heidmets
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      With the help of Põrguneitsi, the mythological virgin of hell, a young man saves the world.

      • Festival Year: 2009
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Animated film, Puppet
      • Riho Unt
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      The last work by film director Anri Rulkov, a short film with the elements of horror. The psychological drama studies the deepest subliminal layers of the human past.

      • Festival Year: 2006
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Feature film, Short, Thriller, Supernatural
      • Anri Rulkov
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      Dark comedy directed by Annaleena Piel Linna about a man who hopes to make a fortune with a suicide bureau in a small town somewhere on the outskirts of the world.

      • Festival Year: 2006
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Feature film, Short, Comedy
      • Annaleena Piel Linna

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