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Dear passengers

Original title: Kallid reisijad

2022 | Feature film, Short, Other categories, Experimental | Director: Madli Lääne

A restless longing creeps around the city bus.

A lonely traveler embarks on a journey to find relief for a hidden yearning. Her restless longing spreads around and forces fellow passengers to face their own desires and disappointments.
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Dog Apartment

Original title: Koerkorter

2022 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Priit Tender

Absurdist drama about a decayed male ballet dancer and his barking apartment.

Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
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Orchidelirium. Shelter

Original title: Orhideliirium. Varjupaik

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

A zoo employee is suddenly trapped behind bars and challenges visitors who mistake him for an animal.

Combining choreographic performance with documentary footage, the film offers a commentary on colonial legacies. The film is set in a post-Soviet zoo environment and the performer embodies a female zoo worker accidentally locked in a cage and transformed into a wild animal. Paying intense attention to the passing of time, the film follows the stages of her metamorphosis. In this process, the erotic tension becomes a tool of resistance to the visitors’ gaze, challenging the hierarchy of perspectives.
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Orchidelirium. Thirst

Original title: Orhideliirium. Janu

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines.

The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines. The thirst for luxury and abundance is the force that keeps the capitalist machinery running. The dry wells and the thirst for drinking water is what the local communities in Estonia are left with as the fragile wetlands are being drained for peat excavation in their neighbourhoods. Millions of tons of Estonian peat end up in greenhouses in the Netherlands where peat is needed as a component of the soil substrate for phalaenopsis orchids. While the mass-produced orchids may seem like a pathetic mimicry of what once was an ...
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Talvine kiusatus

2022 | Other categories | Director: Marko Lillemägi
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Yoyogi haiku

2022 | Documentary | Director: Max Golomidov

Yoyogi is a place of freedom and going beyond everything human. Like the first flight to the sky.

The film is set in the Yoyogi park in Japan, which was once an airplane ground from where the first Japanese pilot took off. It combines two strange and seemingly overlapping peculiarities. On the one hand, there is a distant, almost scientific in its dryness, observation of ordinary scenes of people's life in the park, on the other hand, a feeling of some kind of magic and the impossibility of what is happening. The gaze in this film is more significant and more important than the object of observation. We don't really know anything about this park. This film gives the ...
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Code

Original title: Kood

2021 | Animation, Other categories, Experimental | Director: Rao Heidmets, Pauline Heidmets

Man is just a tool in the development of the gene chain. To reach the nature of the human gene code must make a huge effort.

The development of nature is controlled by the genetic chain. Life goes on as the information code is stored in the gene chain. every living being tries to indulge and laze. Unfortunately, this is not the case. the gene chain only rusts. Progress will only be made if there is an urgent need for it. The protagonist's rusty gene chain only starts working when the fear of death arises. What code is hidden in the human gene chain becomes clear during development. Mankind has debated the meaning of life for a long time, not knowing that it has long been ...
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Tihumeeter

2021 | Other categories, Experimental | Director:

Over the past years, the forest debate has formed a cubic meter of newspapers. 7 governments have changed - the problem has not been solved. In terms of the country's area and deforestation volume, Estonia is Nr. 1.

Over the past years, the forest debate has formed a cubic meter of newspapers. 7 governments have changed - the problem has not been solved. In terms of the country's area and deforestation volume, Estonia is Nr. 1.
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Till We Meet Again

Original title: Taaskohtumine

2021 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

This is first and foremost a story about humanity, about losing one’s home and then getting it back again. It’s a story about making peace with one’s past.

This is a story about an elderly woman whose destiny has taken her far away from her home island. She is finally able to return, only to find out that strangers have been living in her house. Animation short talks about the tragic history of a small Ruhnu Island. Fearing for their lives, its entire population abandoned their homes while escaping the war in 1944. Decades later they had a chance to finally return, only to find out that the strangers had settled in. In addition to the twists and turns of the history, the film looks deeper into the meaning ...
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To Pet a Hedgehog

Original title: Silitada siili

2021 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ave Taavet

When a thorny Woman meets soft-hearted Hedgehog, love is inevitable.

Woman meets a hedgehog. Hedgehog is the one she has been waiting for. So begins an autumn delirium amidst the solitude of a Soviet microdistrict, where reality merges with dreams and humans discover their animal side.
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