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Ferryman of the dead

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jaakko Tervonen

Middle aged painter battling deadly cancer. She puts her thoughts about life and death into her paintings.

Story of Krista Launonen who is an artist in Finland. She is a well known podcast host and a mother. The only thing strange about Krista is the fact that she lives with Myelooma. A cancer that is going to kill her within five years and she is okay with it. In the film we follow her process of preparing to die wile grieving her recently passed sister and wiriting her will.
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Early Bird

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Akseli Leppänen

A bittersweet story of broken dreams and human determination.

A character driven short documentary, focusing on a professional musician Ville Leppänen, who about 5 years ago decided to take up a side job as a night mail deliverer, due to financial instability and unwise use of money. Unfortunately because of the current world situation with the pandemic and the lack of work within the music world, Ville has no other choice than to keep delivering mail at night and keep music more or less a passion hobby on the side. The story presented in “EARLY BIRD” is one of bittersweet about broken dreams and determination for one’s love of ...
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Wanderer

Original title in Estonian: Kondaja

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Rain Järv

A thoughtful journey of a wanderer fulfilling his childhood dream, despite the obstacles on his way.

It*s a journey of a wanderer, searching for his peace and following his dreams. No matter what life brings to his table, he finds his way through it by bearing in mind that the young boy inside him still smiles and seeks the fulfillment of his greatest dreams.
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Life of Ivanna

Original title in Russian: Жизнь Иванны Яптунэ

2021 | Documentary | Director: Renato Borrayo Serrano

From the harsh, nomadic life on the tundra to an uncertain future with five children. Four years in the life of a strong and charismatic woman as vital, physical film art.

Ivanna, a 26-year-old mother of five children, is living in the Arctic region in northwest Siberia. She lives a traditional nomadic life, driving her herd of reindeer at the tundra as her family did for centuries. But due to the environmental side effects of climate change most of her reindeers are dying and she knows that she will soon be ruined and forced to make a dramatic decision. Her husband, Gena, has already left the family. He moved to the city, hoping to find a job as an oil worker in the Russian oil fields but didn’t succeed and ...
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Riksu

2021 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Rain Järv, Janne Vasarainen

A glimpse to the life of a young boy, living with difficulties, but also an immersely creative mind.

We follow Riksu through a period in time. How he visits different therapists, but still feels to be stuck in his own world. We see him in different locations that symbolize his relation to the world, whether it's a cage in a zoo, or the ruins in a church.
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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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War

Original title: Sõda

2017 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

War is a story about a fighter for “peace”, who after having returned from a mission could not come to terms with his life anymore, with the life between the present and the eternity. The documentary was filmed in Afghanistan and Australia.

In a Christian culture, suicide is a taboo, and a soldier’s suicide is a double taboo. Rivo, who has been on a military mission to Afghanistan twice, suffers from a post-traumatic disorder, which ends in suicide. For four years, Rivo’s girlfriend Hanna tries to battle his psychological disorder, but then gives up and moves from Estonia to Australia. Six months later Rivo steps in front of a train. His last message to those who know him is to forgive him. In Dino Buzzati’s novel The Tartar Steppe nameless soldiers, who serve a nameless emperor in a nameless country, are waiting for ...
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Fragile is the Night

Original title: Õrn on öö

2010 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Helpline advisers's job is to keep listening to those in need and try to follow them to the very end of their sufferings while trying to understand, comfort and give advice.

They say that human life hangs by a thread. Every moment, every second, day or night, summer or winter, from the very first breath to the last one, in health and in sickness - the thread may be broken any time. Not much is needed to make it happen. Calling the helpline is the last hope for those in need and the last connection to the outer world. Depression, loneliness, hopelessness, problematic situations - these are main subjects of these calls. The helpline advisers are attentive listeners and know how to dissolve distress and worry. They are just like kind ...
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Iron Rose Blossoms

Original title: Raudroosiõied

2001 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Karol Ansip
The Phenomenon of Eha

Title in Estonian: Eha fenomen

1999 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

A story about a very brave and positive woman fighting cancer.

After being diagnosed with cancer, Eha was operated 15 times during 13 years, she got chemical and radioation treatment. But her optimistic attitude and willpower have always been there. Eha is a unique case in the medical practice of Estonian oncologists. The documentary shows the doctors who treat Eha: Avo Viiard, Jaan Kelk, Aivar Tilk and Ants Vaar who are really glad as Eha has succeeded to survive for such a long time with her disease. Eha's big love Mati is certainly behind the woman's positive state of mind. They met when both of them had gone through difficult times. ...
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