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Myanmar - tarkuse tuulajad

2016 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder
Sun is a Good Child

Original title: Päike on hea laps

2014 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Filmmaker Manfred Vainokivi portrays physics teacher Mart Kuurme teaches physics and astronomy to children in Africa.

Mart Kuurme is a lifetime physics teacher. He arrives to Kongo village in Northern Ghana on October 21st, 2013 in order to start working as a volunteer teacher of physics and astronomy to local children. Solar eclipse is expected in Ghana on November 3rd. Mart carefully prepares for the event: observations of the starry sky at late night, physics lessons in a local secondary school. The film also reflects the life of local people, often accompanied by dancing - they dance everywhere and all the time, either in football competitions, funerals or harvesting parties, even in churches. Mart goes to ...
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Road to School

Original title (in Estonian): "Koolitee"

2012 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Madis Veltman

A 14-student historic Metsküla Primary School, located in a tiny village at the Matsalu National Park is facing what might be the most tragic event for the local community – closure. Not merely a question of convenience but rather survival, the locals have made it their priority to save the village school hook or by crook. With over 400 grade schools in Estonia it remains a question whether the cries of a small community are heard or they are already battling for a lost cause
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Three springs of Total Immersion Method

Original title: Keelekümblejate kolm kevadet

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Russian children study Estonian language with the Total Immersion Method in a Tallinn school in 2001-2012.

In 2001, the first language class using the Total Immersion Method started in Tallinn Läänemere Grammar School where Russian children were specialised in Estonian language. The documentary series "Total Immersion Method users" was filmed in the spring of 2003 that introduced the life of those graduating from the third grade. In 2007 the filmmakers returned to the students. The documentary "Two springs of the Total Immersion Method" was born. In the spring of 2012, the filmmakers are back again - they follow the activities of the same youngsters who are graduating from the grammar school. Kokku saab film ühe põlvkonna ...
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The Charikar Girls

Original title: Charikari tüdrukud

2011 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary about the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province, Afghanistan and about their students and the students' mothers who tell their good and bad experiences of life.

End of October 2010 in Afghanistan. The children of the poorest families study In the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province. In most families, children are raised by mothers since their father are either killed or crippled during the long period of war. Filmmakers ask the girls to tell about the most beautiful and most difficult stories of their lives in order to reflect them in the film. During two weeks, the girls talk about their lives and invite the filmmakers to their homes to listen to the stories told by their mothers as well. The stories by ...
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Time is here

Original title: Aeg algab siin

2010 | Documentary | Director: Marje Jurtšenko

The film follows four children throughout their schoolyear as well as documents time and Estonia.

Joonas, Karit, Doris and Fred are seven years old and will start going to school. They live in different spots in Estonia - Tallinn, Tiduvere, Tudulinn and Võru. They are all different children with different schools and teachers. Yet, time is the same for all of them, passing by the same way. Where will they be at the end of their first schoolyear?
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A Letter from Ruhnu

Original title: Kiri Ruhnust

2009 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

A young woman becomes a school teacher and discovers life in a small island of Ruhnu.

Young woman Kadri becomes s a teacher in an island of Ruhnu that is a small, isolated community. Her main duty is to teach the youngest children in the first and second grade - there are only two schoolchildren in these classes. At the same time, Kadri tries to get used to the island's life and to understand the strange traditions and odd behaviour of the local people living in isolated community.
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Crimean teacher

Original title: Krimmi õpetaja

2009 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary directed by Vahur Laiapea about Tiina Rekand, teacher of Estonian language in Crimean Aleksandrovka school and Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, a Crimean-Estonian woman who has provided temporary home for teachers from Estonia.

In August 2008, a 23-year-old reporter Tiina Rekand working for the newspaper "Postimees", went to teach children with Estonian roots Estonian language at Aleksandrovka Secondary School in Crimea, Ukraine. She started to live in the house of Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, the chairwoman of Estonian Society in Krasnodarka village. Rita is a descendant of Estonians who emigrated from Järva county, Estonia to Crimea in 1860s. As she defines herself: "I am a Crimean-Estonian". In the year of 2008, there are still people in Krasnodarka who speak Estonian when they meet. On ka paarkümmend last, kellele meeldib eestikeelseid laule laulda. Neid on lastele ...
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In Good Care

2008 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Antti Häkli

The short documentary „In good care“ shows the everydaylife of one day in Finnish elementary school, for the class 1T.

The short documentary „In good care“ shows the everydaylife of one day in Finnish elementary school, for the class 1T. In one way it shows us the difference of teaching and jet also how regular and normal are the kids.
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Elf Disco

Original title: Päkapikudisko

2001 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik

Expedition by filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi to the hidden world of violence where the victims are children.

The children's world includes as much brutality as the world of adults. This is invisible violence since it often takes place as an intramural activity. Filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi study the cases of the following kids: Kätlin, Märt, Marek and Indrek. All of them have experienced more violence in their own way than most of the kids of their age. The film brings the viewer to a sad journey to the hidden and traumatic zone in society. The filmmakers try to talk to the children, parents and teachers about the subjects that are often referred to only in ...
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