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A Dozen Questions about Estonia: Dawn

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

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Giampietro Balia

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

Short film „The Dawn“ 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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A moment with Ulka

Original title (in Estonian): "Hetk Ulkaga"

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kaisa Sammelselg, Gerli Nõmm

Ulka is a temperamental Russian girl. Although born and raised in Estonia, she learned Estonian through working in bars. Today she herself is a manager of a bar and has only Estonian colleagues. Film explores what does it mean for a young Russian woman to live nowadays in Estonia and which thoughts she has about opening a new bar.
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Cherry Tobacco

Original title: Kirsitubakas

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Maimik, Andres Maimik

Love can strike you like a bolt from the blue – when you’re least prepared for it.

Cherry Tobacco is a youthful relationship drama about falling in love for the first time. For psychological reasons and because of societal norms, making decisions becomes much more difficult – especially if the feelings that are awakening are directed towards an older man. Forbidden love is a lot like war – there are no right choices.
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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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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-Governance Academy Commercial

Original title (in Estonian): "E-Riigi Akadeemia reklaam"

2014 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Kristjan Neufeld

This piece is a work commissioned by the E-Governance Academy. It revolves around a family who want to go and vote at a voting booth.

A family goes to vote at a booth while unbeknownst to them, grandma has already voted 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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For whom the pulse monitor watch tolls

Original title: Kellele lüüakse pulsikella

2014 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Andres Keil

For men in their golden mid-age years recreational sport has become an obsession - instead of fleeing from death their madness might bring them directly to the deathtrap.

Recently, the number of those involved in recreational sport has dramatically grown. The love for sports among the middle-aged men has gone beyond healthy limits. A hobby has become an achievement-based sports for them that is a risk for their health. These man aim at excelling together with the professional sportsmen. Priit Pullerits, the protagonist of the film, offers the viewer a possibility to follow his training and daily life since he is an achievement-based hobby sportsman. The filmmakers look for the answer to the question why middle-aged men get so inspired by the sports? Is it because the are ...
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Frequency

2014 | Students film, Short, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Liva Vilnite

Every place records the soul of moment and emotion enjoyed there. Laululava is a place that holds a strong, powerful and deeply beautiful tradition of the singing nation. Its walls, ground, every stair step - everything holds its memory. You just have to believe it and help to reveal. You just have to listen…
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Happy Ending(s)

2014 | Students film, Short, Music video | Director: Wang Him Yip

A mid-age lonely single man who wants to get mobile erotic massage and “happy after” service, wrongly calls a female mobile hairdresser , who is an young apprentice, and it leads to a hilarious ending.
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