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A Dozen Questions about Estonia: Singing Journey

Original title (in Estonian): "Tosin küsimust Eesti kohta: Laulu teekond"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Jürgen Volmer

“A Dozen Questions about Estonia“ introducing Estonia and the nature of Estonians through the 12 short films.

Short film „Singing Journey“ is based on the question „Why are the Estonians called a singing nation?“ and tells a story inspired by this question.
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Ballet Master

Original title: Balletmeister

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ruti Murusalu

"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning. Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable. One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.

"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning. Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable. One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.
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Clock Stopped at 6.30

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Liva Vilnite

Time stops when a young woman Emily contemplates after experiencing a sexual violence act. Will she manage to get over her tragedy and find purpose to live again?

Film is a french-style visual poem about a young woman –Emily, who becomes a victim of a rape. She seeks asylum in her countryside house, where she grew up. Soon Emily discovers the struggle that lays in front of her, as she must once again find reasons to live. 
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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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Frequently Asked Questions_1

Original title (in Estonian): "Korduma kippuvad küsimused_1"

2014 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Enrico Barone

The clip advertises a new Opera libretto, developed at the Estonian Music and Theater Academy, about youngster stuck between freedom and responsibilities.

In an abandoned room of an Soviet-time factory classical instruments are displayed. An Orchestra conductor turns the mixer on, an Opera singer tunes her voice up. The Contemporary Opera is taking shape.
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Interview with Arvo Valton

Original title (in Estonian): "Intervjuu Arvo Valtoniga"

2014 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Andreas Aadel

Interview with Estonian screen-writer and writer Arvo Valton consists of memories and thoughts about Estonian film in Soviet era and later.
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Kihnu lapsed pool sajandit hiljem

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Mark Soosaar

People of Kihnu island fifty years ago and in the year of 2014.

Director Mark Soosaar gets in touch with the people from the Kihnu island who were once filmed as children half a century ago, in 1964. Now that the same people are in their sixties they watch the old documentary about them. The black-and-white film frames recall memories and flashbacks. Reunion with former schoolmates is sincere and heart-warming. Time has changed a lot in Kihnu island. Outer world intrudes into every home, lots of residents of Kihnu island have moved to the mainland or even abroad. Does Kihnu language and spirit have a future?
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Landscape with Many Moons

Original title: Maastik mitme kuuga

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaan Toomik

Landscape with Many Moons is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children.

Landscape with Many Moons is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children. The truth is, however, that their relationship has reached a dead end but they prefer the illusory decorations of living together to the free fall into emptiness. The man gallivants around between his previous and current relationships without knowing exactly what to do with them. Living on the edge starts to overburden his nervous system and as a result, actual reality and dream-like reality blend together and it becomes ever harder to distinguish between what is real and ...
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Lighthouse of Design

Original title in Estonian: Disainimajakas

2014 | Students film, Short, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Janis Rižovs
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Medic

Original title: Meedik

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Janno Jürgens

Game becomes life. Architecture student Roomet is sent to paramedic training while serving compulsory military service. How to act, when suddenly you are now longer studying, but dealing with real life and death?

Roomet is a student of architecture who serves in national defence forces. He is sent to medical training where paramedics are being trained for the reserve service units. The medical training lasts for a few months during which the normal playful military training will be combined with the real work in Tallinn Emergency Medical Care. The training introduces Roomet to situations that the man has never even dreamt about. The audiovisual journey brings the viewers to the period in a young man's lfe that defines the new generation. Routine enchaining a free spirit, lack of space and always the same ...
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