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Sander's Documentary

Original title: Sanderidokumentaalfilm

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.
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Feathers or Glamour

Original title: Suled või glamuur

2023 | Documentary | Director: Eva Kübar

How did an egg-centric rural bird, the chicken, become a trendy urban pet and what does she think about living in the city?

The apocalyptic tendencies of the first COVID wave in 2020 led hundreds of people living in urban settlements to start keeping chickens in their backyard. Following three different families in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, the documentary investigates how a chicken turned from egg-centric rural bird into a trendy urban pet. How does she feel in the City? Is chicken the new dog? Living beak to beak with humans has made chickens more self-aware, more individualistic and more human-like in every way. Weird accessories, bizarre glamorous events and uncommonly good living conditions now form a part of the urban chicken's everyday ...
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Hell's Stoker

Original title: Põrgu katlakütja

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

It is impossible for a man who has been in the war to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in his dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.

A portrait film about Seaküla Simson, one of the sculptors with the best sense of form in Estonia. It is impossible for a man who went through the war in Afghanistan to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them. The documentary captures the essence of the artist, the creative process and methods, and its fusion into a single whole. The film opens the soul, inner honesty and sincerity of the creator and shows the sculptures and objects through an ...
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Hendrik

2023 | Other categories | Director: Eva Kübar
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Madleen

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Kasesalu

Film student Maria Kasesalu's short documentary follows acting student Madleen Maria Kirja's preparation for the course production "Sinilind" where she plays the role of Fairy.

Madleen Maria Kirja is a 2nd-year acting student of the Viljandi Academy of Culture, who is facing difficulties in cooperation with the director and preparing for her own role in the course production "Sinilind".
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Yasmin. Clarity for a Day or Two

Original title: Yasmin. Selgus päevaks või kaheks

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anastasia Zazhitskaya, Georgius Misjura, Nikita Kurashov

Yasmyn (Sinencia Jasmine Kass) is a dreamy yet enterprising artist with Dominican and Estonian roots. She was born and raised in a country where diversity is still a novelty. Her music is experimental, courageous, and adventurous. She fights with her own perfectionism and perceptions of society. In her everyday life, Sinencia is a focused and active entrepreneur and artist, going through her early twenties and the challenges that this age usually brings - how to build a career in the music industry, earn money, and build relationships with people at work and at home. Yasmyn’s story brings up universal, age-old questions ...
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Disconnected

Original title in Estonian: Kokkupuutepunkt

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Emily Bruus

A fragment of a lonely man’s life, who discovers a secret message in a webcam dancer’s performance.

She makers because you’re looking. “disconnected” follows a lonely man, who discovers a message in a webcam dancer’s performance and figures out, who she is. He visits her and they try to create a connecXon, but the message that brought them together might just carry two different meanings.
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Estonian Rhapsody

Original title: Kukerpillide rapsoodia

2022 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid and its spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to the roots of Estonian folkmusic.

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid, which after half a century of activity undertakes to update its repertoire with pieces by contemporary composers. Maybe this will bring into being new folk songs, which years later everyone will know by heart again. The band's spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to its roots, would allow us to expect this.
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Finding the sizzle

Original title in Estonian: Sära otsides

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liis Slugen

Liis Slugens documentary talks about a young burlesque dancer Miss Chrissy Kiss and how burlesque has changed her life radically.

This documentary shows a little glimpse into an Estonian burlesque dancers every day life, which culminates with a burlesque show.
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Heldeke, Dan

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Filip Martinovič

Dan Renwick eventually settled in Estonia after a life as a travelling street performer. This film is a reflection on the life he’s lived and envisages for his future in Estonia and beyond.

Dan Renwick owns his own vaudeville style theatre, Heldeke! We join Dan in his bar to discuss his life as a travelling performer and what fringe theatre means to him. He discusses his rejections from universities and how he made his own degree (to travel around the world without flying and perform on the street) which is yet to finish.
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