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In Darkness
When the light goes out, the real fight begins.
"In Darkness" is a tense and emotionally charged drama series that delves into the struggle for survival of an Estonian family after a sudden societal and infrastructural collapse. When the city goes dark - literally - newly divorced Andres is faced with painful choices: whether to let his children see their mother, who has built a new life in another city, or to keep them away from a world that is unravelling by the hour. Teenage daughter Adeele longs for contact with her mother, while young son Jako seeks a sense of security. But their father, Andres, deeply depressed by the divorce, does not want to let go of his children. There is no electricity. Food and water are running out. Rumours spread that the Russians have sabotaged the main power lines. People are becoming increasingly dangerous.
Andres decides to take the children to the countryside, away from society's collapse – but also away from the truth. What starts as a desire to protect soon turns into an obsession. And common sense... begins to crumble.
Subjects:
politics
Screenwriter, producer, and director Ove Musting was born on 22 February 1977 in Sõmerpalu. He graduated in 2002 from Tallinn University with a degree in Audiovisual Arts and has furthered his education through various professional training courses. He is the director and format creator of numerous television shows and has worked as a multi-camera director for major broadcasts such as "Eesti Laul," the Song Celebration, and Republic Day performances, among others. He is a founding member of the bands Winny Puhh and Aednikud, as well as a co-founder of the circular economy platform Smartswap.com. Musting received several festival awards for his first student work, "Suicide" (1997). In 2022, he made his feature film debut with "Kalev," for which he received the Cultural Endowment’s Annual Award for Audiovisual Arts Debut, followed in 2023 by six EFTA awards.
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Downtown Pictures Ltd is an audiovisual production service company situated in Tallinn, Estonia. The company was established in 2003 and is one of the oldest and experienced production service providers in the country. Downtown Pictures Ltd is specialized to produce feature and documentary films, TV and radio commercials, corporate brand and product introduction videos, music videos, graphical solutions and providing full staff and production service. Our production team has been working all over Europe as well as Afghanistan and Nicaragua. We have been working together with many well known clients like Harpo Studios (Founder: Oprah Winfrey), Rick Owens and Molycorp/Neo. One founder of Downtown Pictures is Ove Musting who has directed Estonian Eurovision song contest television gala show for over five years. Our work has been nominated and awarded by various festivals. We have received several "best commercial", "best film", "best music video" and "best directing" awards.