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A Dozen Questions about Estonia: Inevitable

Original title (in Estonian): "Vältimatu"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristiina Tang

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

Short film „Inevitable“ is based on the question „What does an Estonian do at weekends?“ and tells a story inspired by this question.
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A Dozen Questions about Estonia: Midsummer night

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

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Janis Rižovs

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

Short film „Midsummer night“ is based on the question „Where do Estonians vanish on Midsummer`s Eve ?“ and tells a story inspired by this question.
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Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ

Original title: Allan

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arko Okk

If the world is blind, Allan isn’t. Allan is a man in at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports.

Allan is a man at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports. He is keen of Kung Fu. He likes funny as well as dark side of the life. His life is colorful also because he lives with his mother, a former opera singer, and his stepfather, a psychiatrist and a former parliament member. He has a work, he has dreams. But the real colors are missing from his life. In his dreams there are no colors either, because he is blind and he has never seen the colors. In this story we concentrate ...
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As I became a forest fairy

Original title (in Estonian): "Kuis metshaldjaks läksin"

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mihkel Nõmmik

The documentary talks about Ave Alavainu.

The documentary is about the poetess Ave Alavainu, who is considered to be "an alien" in the small islands culture.
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Badass Yuki - "America"

2014 | Students film, Music video | Director: Aigar Vals, Mart Avi

Here comes the American man – living the dream in Soviet era flavoured bedroom community of Tallinn, Estonia. Hyperrealistic Tivoli dystopia in the land of opportunity.
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Child of Nature

Original title: Looduslaps

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

In two years she changed from a Playboy cover model into a child of nature.

Everything she needs for living, Mari gets from nature. Pollen and dew drops are part of her daily menu. From autumn to spring Mari's only food consists only of freshly squeezed juice and water. In summer she also eats a handful of berries straight from the forest or her own garden and sleeps right there - under the open sky. She spends her days picking herbs and making tinctures of wasp's nests and toadstools. Who could have thought that some years ago this girl was a model on a Playboy cover...
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Dad of the Year

Original title (in Estonian): "Aasta isa"

2014 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Eeva Mägi

"Dad of the Year" is an experimental shortfilm made as a documentary. It’s about an housewife who wants to nominate her husband to a Dad of the Year comeptition and for that she wants to make a short videoclip about her family. When the crew comes to make the video everything goes in wrong direction.
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Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis

Original title: Dora Gordine: Ars gratia artis

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Annaleena Piel Linna

Estonian-British documentary about Dora Gordine (1895-1991), a jewish young woman who grew up in Tallinn, Estonia, and became an internationally renowned sculptor, designer and artistocrat loved by high society.

In her hayday, Dora Gordine was considered to be one of the most talented sculptors in the world. Gordine was born in Libau, Latvia; grew up and studied sculpture in Tallinn, Estonia. While rising to fame in Paris, France via the Far East, she finally settled in London where her steady rise continued well beyond her contemporaries. Thanks to the marriage with the son of an Earl, Gordine managed to push her way to the top of the British aristocracy as one of her statues was opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself in 1963. The documentary focuses on discovering and ...
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E-voting Advertisement

2014 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Peteris Masjenčenko

A humorous advertisement encouraging Estonian youths to e-vote.

Playing with the idea of how computer-obsessed and lazy today's young people seem to their elders, the ad shows in a brief and comedic manner how youths can effectively contribute to society while seeming to do nothing but sit at their computer - by voting online.
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EINASTO 11577

Original title: EINASTO 11577

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Helle Karis

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto.

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto. The minor planet of our galaxy, bearing the number 11 577 and discovered on February 8, 1994 by Eric W. Elst, astronomer of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, was named Einasto by the Minor Planet Centre of the International Astronomical Union. Einasto, together with other minor planets linked with Estonia, orbits around the Sun, taking 3.84 years or 1400 days to complete its path. The main goal of the film is to bring science closer to common people by showing the ...
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