Sõprus-Druzhba

Sõprus-Druzhba
Sõprus-Дружба (Russian)
Directed byAnu Pennanen
Written byAnu Pennanen
Starring
  • Ilya Alpatov
  • Erich Hartvich
  • Madis Mäeorg
  • Sille Paas
  • Ronald Pelin
  • Häli Ann Reintam
  • Olena Romanjuk
  • Mari Tammesalu
  • Steven Vihalemm
Music byStefan Németh
Production
companies
  • F-Seitse
  • Virta Productions
Distributed byPalo Art Productions
Release date
  • 2006 (2006)
Running time
31 minutes
CountriesEstonia, Finland
LanguagesEstonian, Russian

Sõprus-Druzhba or Sõprus-Дружба (English: Friendship) is an Estonian-Finnish short film by Finnish director Anu Pennanen.[1] The film serves as the culmination of the Tallinn Project, an initiative undertaken by the filmmaker and nine teenagers from Tallinn, Estonia in 2004–2007, which explored the attitudes of Estonia's youth towards public spaces and the continuing urbanisation of their capital.[2][3] Primarily, the film depicts how the teenagers have found their own ways to interact with the city, using public locations such as the Maarjamäe Memorial and Viru Keskus shopping centre, among other spaces, for recreation.[4] Furthermore, by overseeing the actions and, later, confluence of two sets of teenagers – one with Estonian and the other with Russian as their mother tongue – which resuts in a "tentative camaraderie"[2], the film also addresses the development of ethnic relations in Estonia following the fall of the Soviet Union.[5]

The film was selected for addition to both the Estonian Film Archives and the Finnish Central Archives of Visual Art.[5][6][3]

References

  1. ↑ Pennanen, Anu. "Sõprus – Дружба (Friendship) – Anu Pennanen". Retrieved 2026-05-21.
  2. 1 2 Wilson, Paul (2015-07-03). "Monumental Indifference in Tallinn" (PDF). Public Art Dialogue. 5 (2): 170–190. doi:10.1080/21502552.2015.1066581. ISSN 2150-2552.
  3. 1 2 "Sõprus – Druzhba – AV-arkki". www.av-arkki.fi. Retrieved 2026-05-21.
  4. ↑ Jablonskienė, Lolita (1 July 2008). "Political Refractions: Cities, Societies, and Spectacles in the Work of Anu Pennanen" (PDF). Framework: The Finnish Art Review. 8: 90–97.
  5. 1 2 Pennanen, Anu (2016). "Running Back the Rails – 10 Years After "Friendship"". In Tali, M; Rander, T (eds.). Archives and Disobedience: Changing Tactics of Visual Culture in Eastern Europe. Estonian Academy of Arts Press. pp. 193–208.
  6. ↑ Rahvusarhiiv. "Sõprus - Druzhba". meediateek.ee. Retrieved 2026-05-22.