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Kalevipoeg

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Jürgen Moor

Three musicians accompany the Estonian folk hero Kalevipoeg on his legendary journeys. Paul and his fellow musicians need to get to the stone haul competition so Kalevipoeg could become king. But the journey is full of obstacles the four of them must face in order to move forward.
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Letters From Iceland

Original title: Kirjad Islandilt

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat, Ruti Murusalu

In 2006, Annika Tõnuri, a former soloist of the Estonian National Opera, one of the most talented artists of her generation, moved to Iceland and her previous life in Estonia remained unknown. Who was she, how and why did she get there?

Off the south coast of Iceland lie the Westman Islands. In 2006, Annika Tõnuri, a former soloist of the Estonian National Opera, one of the most talented artists of her generation, moved there to work as a piano and singing teacher. For the Estonian audience, Tõnuri disappeared quietly like a shadow. For the Icelanders her previous life in Estonia remained unknown and fairly incomprehensible. Who was she, how and why did she get there?
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16 Stairsteps

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Adele Thele Kuusk

“16 stairsteps” is a short movie, based on real life. The story is about courage and honesty. It tells about a young man, who's vitality has gone. He lives his everyday life, which has become into total routine. The neighbor he has, always finds a reason to knock on his door again and yell at him. Suddenly he starts to hear some music coming downstairs from the same neighbor. The neighbor is playing the guitar and practising day-by-day, getting better every time. The man is confused and finally pulls himself together to go downstairs and now be the one who ...
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A Waltz for the Heiress

2014 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary), Music video | Director: Lidiia Biriukova, Peteris Masjenčenko

A mother-daughter relationship revealed through the process of a music video shoot.

Young Nicole wants to grow up to be an actress and singer, so her wealthy parents arrange for her to participate in a music video filming. Her protective, energetic mother at her side, the audience is shown the relationship of these two people that seem so easy to mock at first glance.
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Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif

Original title: Ester Mägi. Kadents ja teema

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

One of the most respectable lady of Estonian music, composer Ester Mägi, has written music about sixty years while having remained characteristically conservative.

Portrait documentary about Ester Mägi, composer and music teacher, tells about memory and music. Born in 1922, Mägi has composed music for nearly sixty years; her professional style has simultaneously been traditional and innovative, yet originally conservative. Ester Mägi recalls her life and contemplates on music. If she feels fine, she goes to the rehearsals and performances of her work and gives interpreters (or "consumers of sound" as she calls them) necessary advice and feedback. When Mägi was a little schoolgirl she told her teacher that she would become Miina Härma when she grows up. Well, instead she became Ester ...
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Happy People Don't Need Art

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Aino M. Salmi

A poetic and a bit melancholy journey into the thoughts of an artist.

Markus is singer-song-writer, who has recently moved to Tallinn. He has a dilemma whether to get a decent job with a monthly pay - like all the ordinary people tend to do - or concentrate on his art of making music.  
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Inner voice

Original title: Sisekõla

2014 | Documentary, Portrait, Students film | Director: Madis Reimund

What is happening to a composer when his creation is leaving his private space to our common space.

2014 has been a special year to young composer Pärt Uusberg - the last rehearsals and concert for his Master's Thesis at Estonian Music Academy – composer’s programme “Beauty of a Night” and presentation of his choral piece “Muusika” at Estonian Song Celebration. The film is observing what is happening with the composer at times when his inner tunes are leaving his private space to our common space. It is an inwards-looking musical journey, portraying everyday beauty and anguish of a composer’s profession.
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Mouth

2014 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Marleen Moss

Advertising video about the party and music.

A party is going on in the mouth of an opera singer.
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The Sacred In The Secular

2014 | Students film, Produced in foreign university | Director: Karin Leivategija

Toomas is an Estonian Orthodox clergyman who is deeply commited to music. He expresses that commitment through his job as an ethno and reggae music DJ in clubs and radio.

Toomas is an Estonian Orthodox clergyman who is deeply commited to music. He expresses that commitment through his job as an ethno and reggae music DJ in clubs and radio. A clergyman and a DJ – it is a combination that comes across as surprising and raises questions even in a largely secular country like Estonia. But is the gap between religious and secular life really as wide as it is typically assumed to be?
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The Voice of Sokurov

Original title (in Finnish): Sokurovin ääni

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Leena Kilpeläinen