Martti Helde : 2014
Risttuules
On the night of 14 June 1941, over 40,000 inhabitants of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – identified as "anti-Soviet elements" by the USSR, which had annexed the Baltic states the previous year – were forced on to trains and sent to the remotest outposts of Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl, Eliide. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation, Erna never in the next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to her homeland. Drawing from the diary kept by the real-life Erna throughout her displacement, the film meticulously reconstructs one survivor's story to create a delicate, powerfully moving memorial to all the victims of this massive and often-overlooked tragedy. Martti Helde's feature debut received its international premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2014, and was winner of the Ecumenical Jury Award at Warsaw Film Festival 2014.
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