Festivals:

• Beast International Film Festival (Porto, Portugal), 2024 Retrospective programme
• USSR Film Festival (USSR), 1986
• Estonian SSR Film Festival (USSR), 1986 Award: Best Director – to Mark Soosaar for “Lasnamäe” and “Aeg”
• Tallinnfilm Documentary Film Festival (USSR), 1986 Award: 1st Prize
• USSR Architecture and Building Film Festival (Moscow, USSR), 1986 Award: 2nd Prize
• Tallinn Polytechnic Institute Film Festival (Tallinn, USSR), 1986 Award: 2nd Prize
• Award of the Ministry of Culture of ESSR (USSR), 1986, For dealing with the problems of cultural environment of contemporary people on a high artistic level
• Annual Award of Tallinnfilm (Estonia), 1985

Accompanied by the phone conversation between Mark Soosaar and architect Malle Meelak there are views of the new district Lasnamäe, Tallinn. Chief architect of the new residential building district, Malle Meelak, tells Mark Soosaar openly about the difficulties and problems related to the construction of the district, about the pros and cons of the dormitory district of a city. Meelak believes that in some fifteen years, Lasnamäe could already be quite a friendly area.