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Sült neljale

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kertu Köösel, Marko Mänd
TLU 6 Persona Stories - Rene Haljasmäe

Original title in Estonian: "TLÜ 6 persoonilugu - Rene Haljasmäe"

2013 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Aili Alber

A study exercise for the course Current Affairs. The task was to develop a format suitable to introduce 6 persons either working or somehow tied to Tallinn University.

This documentary is about the Head of Conservation in the Tallinn University Academic Library Rene Haljasmäe. He tells a story of how he begun his work in Tallinn University and where it has taken him so far. He motivates and gives advice to current and future students not only in TLU but all over Estonia.
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Transgression

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Oscar Henri Wollsten

Writer/Director Oscar Wollsten's Bachelor's Thesis is a thrilling and complex story about redemption.

”Transgression” is a character study about a man, whose self-destructive mission leads him into a purgatory-like state, where he must face his past and redeem himself, before the final judgment.
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Verised majad

2013 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp
Volunteering hot women

Original title: Kuumad naised vabast tahtest

2013 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aivo Spitsonok

The daily life of female volunteer rescuers in Aegviidu is characterized by frequent readiness to defend their families, children and community.

There are many men in Aegviidu, however they all work in Tallinn, Finland, Norway ... Reet's husband takes the first train to work in the morning and never knows when he will get back home. Lilja's husband, father and brother work in Finland. This had led to the situation that there is more women than men in the home village in working days. The housewives of Aegviidu must take the responsibility for coping with life both at home and in public sphere. Reet and Lilja have become volunteer rescuers and consider their duty to fill the void left by their ...
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A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness

2013 | Documentary | Director: Ben Russell, Ben Rivers

A Spell is a non-fiction feature film in three parts that refers directly to the cinema of Jean Rouch (Chronicle of a Summer), Lisandro Alonso (La Libertad), and Jean-Luc Godard (Sympathy for the Devil), among others.

A Spell is a non-fiction feature film in three parts that refers directly to the cinema of Jean Rouch (Chronicle of a Summer), Lisandro Alonso (La Libertad), and Jean-Luc Godard (Sympathy for the Devil), among others. Shot on colour Super 16 mm film stock in the farther reaches of Finland, Estonia and Norway by artist/filmmakers Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (USA), A Spell depicts a single character at three disparate moments in his late 20s – as a hermit in the solitude of the Arctic Circle, as an uncertain participant in a contemporary “commune” in Estonia, and as the ...
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Awesome

Original title in Estonian: Äge

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Rein Zobel

11-year old Murat becomes deaf after a sudden accident. Even after losing his hearing the optimistic and adventurous boy starts to discover a new world without sound. He takes a great interest in the world of vibrations after he notices that the hospital where he is treated is surrounded by a weird vibration. Murat uses his new sense of the world to discover the source of the vibration. 
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Charm of Sacred Groves

Original title: Hiite lummus

2013 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Documentary by Rein Maran about oak groves in Estonia - local holy places of nature and cultural heritage.

There are more than 800 known grove sites in Estonia, the ancient holy places of nature. Groves were protected by the religious customs of rural people and its natural environment stayed intact. This way, every grove formed into an original ecosystem due to local conditions of climate, water and soil. Many groves are well-preserved today, some of them, however, are completely gone except a few landscape marks left behind of its existence. The main value of Estonian nature gradually opens up - the variety of the nature surrounding us. Unfortunately, we are not always able to understand the value as ...
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Children of Tunkashila

Original title in Estonian: "Tunkashila lapsed"

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kairi Kivirähk

Children of Tunkashila is a documentaru film, where Reti Üpraus, also know as Dancing Fox explains the relationship of estonians and Native Americans. She also tells how to life Native American lifestyle in Estonia.
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Flowers from the Mount of Olives

Original title: Õlimäe õied

2013 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heilika Pikkov

Isiklik ja intiimne lugu Jeruusalemmas asuvast Õlimäe kloostrist ja erakordse elusaatusega eestlannast, nunn ema Ksenijast. Heilika Pikkov’s feature length creative documentary „Flowers from the Mount of Olives“ was shot within two years at The Mount of Olives Convent of the Ascension of Our Lord in Jerusalem.

Right alongside Jerusalem, in a Russian Orthodox Convent in Mount of Olives, lives the 82 year-old Estonian nun Mother Ksenya. Although inside the convent’s cement walls the clock is never set and life still follows the Julius calendar, the 20 years that Mother Ksenya has spent there have passed by in a flash. In the hierarchy of the nunnery she has now achieved the second-to-last level. She is heading towards complete silence, the Great Schema. But before that she has been given permission to tell the story of her life for the very last time.
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