Estonia's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).
At the beginning of the film, one of the students wears a shirt of Traianos Dellas of Greece's national soccer team; as part of the team he became the champion of Europe in 2004.
The actors ad-libbed many lines (including slang).
Joosep's father and mother share their first names with the actors who played them, Margus Prangel and Tiina Rebane.