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Mother

Original title: Ema

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

Mother is a thrilleresque story about the consequences of years of self-deception, unfulfilled dreams and lack of love.

This small town crime story in the pastel tones of modern retro offers recognition and bitter humour. “Mother” is a thrilleresque story about rash decisions made in the name of dreams that will have haunting consequences for some time to come. The film focuses on a woman whose adult son has fallen into a coma after being shot. Taking care of him at home, she has to face a whole town trying to solve the puzzle of what exactly happened. But in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everything except for what’s right under their nose, the world’s ...
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National Library of Estonia

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Francesco Crivaro

Erasmus Movie Masters' architecture film about the National Library of Estonia.

“National Library” takes you on a journey through the bloodstream of a library, depicting it as a living and breathing organism responsible for providing us with our “oxygen”.
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Sacrifice

Original title (in Estonian): "Ohverdus"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Oksana Nakorchevska

A fairytal about father and daughter, who moved to the countryside.

A fairytale, where Father and Daughter, who moved to countryside are visited by a forest god who wants the Daughter to be his wife.
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Sitting Tenant

Original title (in Estonian): "Sundüürnik"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

Short documentary, directed by Maria Aua, is about her childhood home memories when her family were sitting tenants.

Maria lost her home because of the new property reform at the beginning of 90s. Her home had all of the sudden new owners and Maria ́s family had become sitting tenants. The new house owner wanted to get rid of the tenants, he started to take steps to make it happen by taking away basic living conditions. The way Maria had to leave her home still haunts her, there are unlikable memories connected to the owner. She returns to her childhood home to find a reconciliation with the owner who terrorized her family.
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Sneakerheads

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristi Prik

The short TV documentary ‘Sneakerheads’ by Kristi Prik gives to sneakerheads the chance to talk about their unusual hobby.

A sneakerhead is a person who collects, trades or admires sneakers as a hobby. The birth of the sneakerhead culture in the United States came in the beginning of 1980’s mostly thanks to basketball, especially Michael Jordan and hip-hop music. Sneakerheading in Estonia is a far more recent event – it has only been around for a decade the most. This journalistic TV documentary will give the viewer an insight to the world of sneakerhead.
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The Birth of Bears. An Udmurt Story

Original title: Karude tekkimine

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mattias Mälk

In olden times, there were no bears. An Udmurt man turned into a bear. The man would transform into a bear at night. One night his wife hid his clothes, and the man could not turn back into a human.

In olden times, there were no bears. An Udmurt man turned into a bear. The man would transform into a bear at night. One night his wife hid his clothes, and the man could not turn back into a human.
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The Man From Samaria

Original title (in Estonian): "Samaaria mees"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

Short documentary, by Maria Aua, is a story about a pastor who takes fatherly care of man crushed by life at Christian centre called Samaria.

Labyrinths, corridors, rooms, and men - they're stuck in there. How to find a way out?
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They Say Tomatoes Love Rock Music

Original title: Räägitakse, et tomatid armastavad rokkmuusikat

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Janno Jürgens

Aleksander, an old gentleman, maintains a blooming garden surrounding his old house in a sleepy resort town. Karl, his grandson, spends the summer with him and learns about the ways of the nature.

Aleksander, an old gentleman, maintains a blooming garden surrounding his old house in a sleepy resort town. Karl, his grandson, spends the summer with him and learns about the ways of the nature. Together with autumn rains arrives Aleksander’s daughter Marju, who hopes to inherit the old man’s house, tear it down and put up a guesthouse on the lot instead.
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Together, yet Apart

Title in Estonian: Koos, aga eraldi

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aile Ellmann

Documentary about the humanitarian aid for Ukraine and about the people living in Luhansk Oblast during the war.

Ukraine is at war. Estonia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine since 2014, a year later also development aid was added. How will the aid reach those in need and whose condition will improve due to the aid? How do the local people live in Luhansk Oblast? How do the national refugees live?
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A Husband and a Wife. A Voitan Story

Original title: Mees ja naine

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mait Laas

A wife went out to cut the rye, while the husband was at home sick. The man asked if the work would soon be finished and the wife replied that it would. The husband went out to check and saw that his wife was asleep and the work had just begun. The husband cut his sleeping wife’s hair off and smeared her head with tar. The wife came home and asked the husband through the window, „Is your wife at home?“ The husband replied that she was. The wife cried, „The devil has exchanged me and I will always roam about as the devil’s wife!“

A wife went out to cut the rye, while the husband was at home sick. The man asked if the work would soon be finished and the wife replied that it would. The husband went out to check and saw that his wife was asleep and the work had just begun. The husband cut his sleeping wife’s hair off and smeared her head with tar. The wife came home and asked the husband through the window, „Is your wife at home?“ The husband replied that she was. The wife cried, „The devil has exchanged me and I will always roam ...
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