The last festival day started with a grey sky and constant rain pouring from above. As the hours passed by few hope was left to host the screenings and all the other open air festival activities planned for the evening. But at last minute it turned out that our lucky star was shining once again for us, as the clouds cleared up just in time and gave birth to a beautiful sunset. Again the results of the 48 hours film contest were quite entertaining, only that this time the participants were only between 15 and 17 summers old and it was their first experience ever handling a video camera. Everybody did a great job and the voting by the applause of the audience gave the judge a hard time. At last nobody went home with empty hands, one of the teams even won a trip to Finland and everybody was in party mood to start the silent disco once again… The cake and champagne served for farewell by our Estonian partner Kinobuss even made people dance on top of the Kinobuss Bus waving their hands in the air.
But all of the sudden the party ended, because there was a special surprise waiting for us: in the tradition of Kinobuss people we were invited to spend the last festival night all together in the Sauna. The place was rented exclusively for us until 5 o’clock in the morning, so it was quite an unusual experience for the German crew. Especially when being handed over a delicious bottle of “Aqua Vitalis” (a traditionally brewn Estonian liquor called Hanja) in the middle of a 90 degree sweating session. To cool down the naked bunch ran exited by the surprised receptionist heading directly to the sea. We can’t remember exactly how many times we repeated this, but for sure until we saw the sun rise announcing a new day at the Baltic Sea.