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I Let Her Out

2018 | Students film | Director: Ruta Pakalne

Ruta Pakalne's documentary film about the drag performer.

I Let Her Out is a documentary film centered around the drag performer Joosep Jürgenson and his stage persona Ursula. It explores the relationship of these two characters who share the same body but live quite different lives. Who is Ursula? Is she an extravagant character, a fruit of someone’s vivid and scandalous imagination or is she an integral part of Joosep that allows him to speak his nonconformist mind. Is she a fiction that was created together with several collaborators or has she always been there, dormant, waiting to be unleashed? By seeing the intimate process of creating Ursula ...
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Interview with Valeria Anderson-Käsper

Original title in Estonian: "Intervjuu Valeria Anderson-Käsperiga"

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Teresa Juksaar

20th century filmmaker Valeria Anderson-Käsper talks about documentary filmmaking.

Valeria Anderson-Käsper tells us about her life and job as a documentary filmmaker. There are three main topics in the interview: Moskva Film Institute, Tallinnfilm and new techniques in documentary filmmaking. Filmmaker shares some of her personal details with us, that haven’t been known before.
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Mihkel

Original title (in Icelandic): Undir Halastjörnu

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ari Alexander Magnusson

In the film, Mihkel and Veera dream of moving from their home in Estonia to Iceland. Events take an unexpected turn and Mihkel dies a painful death in Iceland, betrayed by his oldest friend, Igor.

Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an  Estonian priest, who is a business partner of Igor’s in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into ...
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Miks mitte

2018 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Ergo Kuld
Muse

Original title (in Estonian): "Muusa"

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Rauno Polman

“Muse” is a film by II year film students, based on the Dogma 95 concept. Film discovers the subject of how young people perceive the world around them. No feeling, emotion or thought is hidden. But still, while creating their own unique understanding of reality, real life is slowly starting to slip away.

Kristjan is a shy young man, trying to get to know a beautiful girl he once spotted in a cafe. One day, in their usual cafe, he finally decides to make his move towards her. Only to discover that someone is already there to ruin his plans. Piece by piece his illusions are starting to shatter and Kristjan has to decide whether to stick to his dreams or let life take its natural course.
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New Neighbours

Original title: Uued naabrid

2018 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Two political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa.

In this new short documentary of Riho Västrik the political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa. Tapa is a railway junction 90 km from Tallinn. During the Soviet occupation it housed a Red Army training centre and airport. The population then was 12000 people, now it is half the size and half are Russian-speaking people. The neglected Soviet training centre is a stone’s throw from the NATO base where in spring 2017 allied forces moved in.
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New Rise, Old Ebb

Original title: Uus Tõus, Vana Mõõn

2018 | Documentary | Director: Enrico Barone, Carlo Cubero, Kristiina Pilvet

In 2016 several fires destroyed several buildings on the island of Piirissaare, among the also the Old Believers prayer house. Praskovja, the 84-year- old choir singer and important member of the community, lost her childhood´s house in one the fires and she is trying to get on her feet down again and continue living.

From May to September 2016, several fires took place on the island of Piirissaare, destroying many houses and the most important building of the community: the Old Believers' prayer house. These events caused insecurity and disagreement among the members within the community. 84-year-old Praskovja is the key figure of the community and used to sing in the prayer house´s choir. Her childhood house burnt down in one of the fires, and now she has been forced to move to her old summer cottage and strives to rise again on her feet. The documentary shows through Praskovja's eyes how the community of ...
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On The Way

Original title in Russian: "В пути"

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Svetlana Novoseltseva

A story of how to not lose our childhood dreams as we grow up and face adult life.

The film talks about reaching for our dreams, and how sometimes we lose them when we grow up and meet the reality. With a help of four characters - Elena Parfenova (psychologist, teacher, kindergarten headmistress), Artjom Sazonov (16, student), Lida Kõlvart (6) and Denis Alekseev (6), we follow the road from childhood to adulthood and try to investigate, at which point do we forget our dreams, and how to find and follow them again.
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Phantom Owl Forest

Original title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.

The new Estonian family adventure film “Phantom Owl Forest” talks about 10-year old girl Eia whose Christmas plans take an unexpected turn, when the city girl is brought to a mysterious Southern Estonian farm for the winter holiday. At first the girl does not even realize she will soon save a doomed prival forest, bring together two people in love and untangle a secret held closely in the family.
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Prospekt Mira

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Lidiia Nye

Lidiia Nye's short film about post-soviet block family problems. It is harder every day for elderly people who have lived through soviet times and its collapse to find understanding with the young generation. What used to be their life purpose is now a sad industrial zone with many years to build up.

Collective memory of post-soviet block generation with the eyes of millenial. Ukraine that is going through rapid change still inhabited with people born and lived during ussr, country collapsed 30 years ago. Marina is visiting her grandmother with the goal to do home improvement and support her with money. But for the lonely school teacher not many things are as important as her heritage.
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