As I wake up for my third day at the PÖFF I feel tired but excited at the same time. There is nothing better than to start the day off with talking about movies, then thinking about movies, and at the end of the day watching some movies.

Since I have seen many movies by now I am almost dreaming about the red seats in one of the cinemas in Tallinn, Solaris. So I was pretty thrilled to go there to see The Idiot (2011), an Estonian film which is based on Dostoyevsky’s novel by the same name. Almost two hours I sit and enjoy the moving images on the screen but two festival days have had an impact on me – after the screening exhaustion hits me. This is not a sign to give up, a new movie awaits and two hours later the same road through Old Town takes me to Solaris.

PÖFF, festival which is happening in a lot of cinemas all over Tallinn’s center (and other bigger cities in Estonia), has so far hosted me mostly in Solaris - thinking that the last movie of my third day will screen there was an automatic reaction, almost like a habit. It was probably The Idiot that brainwashed me: I went to the wrong cinema, missed my last movie and felt like a complete festival idiot.

By Getter Trumsi