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The database provides information about 19 500 films, what are divided into nine main categories and plenty of sub-categories, in addition the feature films are classified also by genres.
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2019
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Students film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Teresa Väli
Film student Teresa Väli's short film about love and friendship and the passage of time.
On an ordinary Sunday before going to church Lee is announcing that she and Ülar are going to gave a visitor that day. Though it’s not an ordinary guest but a very symbolic person, wife’s classmate Kärt whom they call Skater.
From there on he is taken by memories, remembering times when their connection with Skater was more intense, he on the other hand much younger and more vulnerable.
His memories bring back his confusing feelings towards Skater. There is passion, fascination but also anger. And he is taken by the unknown once again. What is Skater like after all those years ...
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2019
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Students film, Short, Horror
| Director:
Johannes Magnus Aule
A mysterious powder ruins a rave experience for three unknowing souls.
A trio of young ravers pay a visit to a night club in the middle of nowhere and find themselves in the midst of entrancing sounds, colours and people. Heads are lost when the friends stumble upon a mysterious powder and risk their lives for chasing a high.
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2019
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Students film, Documentary
| Director:
Dominic Ryland-Jones
Observational documentary about Grand Piano Manufacturing.
An observational close-up look behind the doors of the Estonia Klaverivabriku based in Tallinn, Estonia. One of the last remaining of its kind in the world, the Estonia company maintains their individuality in that virtually every component is manufactured and assembled within the walls of the factory by the workers' hands.
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2019
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Raimo Jõerand
An old filmmaker Peep Puks has directed 61 documentaries and created almost 40 programmes for television. In this film, he looks back on stories of the first post-war generation of Estonia and the birth of the Estonian documentary.
An old filmmaker Peep Puks has directed 61 documentaries and created almost 40 programmes for television. In this film, he looks back on a lost time, the films that have accompanied him, and the colleagues without whom this all wouldn’t have happened. It’s an aspect of stories of the first post-war generation of Estonia and the birth of the Estonian documentary.
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2019
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Documentary
| Director:
Eeva Mägi
As long as there is peace in your heart and old trees to protect you, you’re safe from any demon.
A poetical documentary about men who are so full of beauty, love and vitality but also so lonely. These men lived in Põdra village between sea and forest where the only one to play with is a bottle demon - Vodka Spirit. The only survivor Villi tells us the stories of his four friends and how they ended up being tricked by the Vodka Spirit. Villi takes us on a journey through the village, where the houses of his friends and the protective old trees live on as if nothing had happened. So if everyone else is dead, how is ...
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2019
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Riho Unt
In spite of everything the blue skies have been conquered thanks to such visionaries as Leonardo da Vinci and freak village inventors.
Freak inventor Jaan's far fetched dreams about ascending to the clouds are about to materialize when he's joined by the great Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci's spirit. Instead, Jaan's wife Lisa, neglected by the crazy genius, gets metamorphosed into a winged creature and is "catapulted" into the blue skies, where dreams meet.
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2019
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Students film, Short, Drama, Horror
| Director:
Janeli Pelska
The short film by film student Janeli Pelska is about coping with change and accepting the new self.
Young woman discovers that she’s become a vampire, facing the scary fact that feeding from human blood seems inevitable.
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2019
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Documentary
| Director:
Minna Hint, Meelis Muhu
How to live carefree and without money ?
Mark is a traveller and he believes in life beyond capitalism. He has given up his successful squash coach career in London and now, in Tallinn, he invites people to join a community where nobody uses any money and everyone shares with each other their skills, experiences, food, and love. Tantric energy liberation techniques are his means to release the Estonian people from the chains of ownership instinct. Struggling to reach the goal, Mark is challenged by a force even greater than his own beliefs.
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2019
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Documentary, Anthropological
| Director:
Liivo Niglas
An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.
In the 17th-18th century, the Udmurts, to escape Christianization and social pressure moved massively eastwards from the Kama River. They found refuge among the Bashkirs who were moslem and allowed them to follow the ways of their ancestors. Soviet anti-religious campaigns failed to root out the Udmurts' religious traditions although in some villages public prayers were cancelled for a while. Today amidst the Eastern Udmurts the traditional Udmurt faith is reborn, in almost all villages prayer ceremonies are carried out. The main aim of the ceremonies is to guarantee the favour of the gods, to pray for the health of ...
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2019
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Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary
| Director:
Priit Pääsuke
A film about Tõnis Mägi and his music.
The film is partly based on Tõnis Mägi’s life story but focuses more on his contemporary works and the new songs he’s created. It shows how each new story reflects his unique world through different moments from his own life and Estonian cultural history.
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2019
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Animation, Cartoon
| Director:
Chintis Lundgren
Toomas, an exemplary office worker, has to support his family after losing his job, without telling his wife that he also works as a gigolo.
After losing a well paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it as a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.
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2019
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Students film, TV Show
| Director:
Kristo Veinberg
"Trade School Heroes" is a game show where best Estonian trade school students compete in their field of study.
"Trade School Heroes" is a game show where best Estonian trade school students compete in their field of study.
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2019
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Students film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Tarvi Roos
Cinematography MA student Mattias Veermets tells a story about a young man who tries to escape the mandatory military service but puts himself into even bigger trouble.
Shortfilm “Trench” tells a story about a young man suffering under physical and mental pressure who tries to escape from the military service.
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2019
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Tanel Toom
Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.
Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbour and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.
Young and energetic man Andres together with his wife Krõõt arrives to his new farm bought on a loan to establish their new life. Robber’s Rise must become a place, that’ll take care of the family. Household needs a lot of work and consistency – battle with nature, fate and his spiteful neighbour Pearu ...
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2019
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy
| Director:
Al Wallcat
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2019
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Students film, Short
| Director:
Emeri Abel, Seif El Din Khaled
Architectural film describes the process of exploration, as well as the dents, twists and turns, and triumphs of research.
A groove is a pattern of carved memories, a grooved trace of the maze of time. A script created to hold and protect. A groove echoes the brain structure, symbolising the processes of thinking and remembering. It poses a question, grooves a solution. A groove describes the process of exploration, as well as the dents, twists and turns, and triumphs of research. It creates excitement, enthusiasm and joy. A groove is a game that invites you to explore the archives.
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2019
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Vallo Toomla
This film is about Marju Lepajõe, who was a classical philologist, a religious historian and a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Tartu. With a witty charm, Marju reflects on the modern world, where the need and the ability to deal with a subject matter in depth have become insignificant.
People wander around looking for their lives that will always remain unattainable.
This film is about Marju Lepajõe, who was a classical philologist, a religious historian and a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Tartu. With a witty charm, Marju reflects on the modern world, where the need and the ability to deal with a subject matter in depth have become insignificant. Even universities, temples of erudition and culture, are losing their intellectual aspect. Where can a scholar find their place in these unfavourable circumstances? The viewers get a chance to follow Marju on her path towards ...
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2019
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Students film, Animation, Drama
| Director:
Sofiya Ilieva
Nothing is constant but change. All existence is a perpetual flux of being and becoming (Ernst Haeckel).
Nothing is constant but change. All existence is a perpetual flux of being and becoming (Ernst Haeckel).
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2019
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Feature film, Short, Comedy
| Director:
Kerli Kirch Schneider
In the village of Virago, where no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is about to turn forty.
A man falls off a roof. Another one drowns. Another catches fire. “May God rest their souls,” sigh the widows as they cross themselves somberly. This is the life and the death of the men in Virago — a village where for centuries no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday. Until today.
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2019
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Documentary
| Director:
Aleksandr Heifets
An inventor, a street artist and an entrepreneur are making the world a better place, one wall at a time.
A small Tartu start-up applies technology to win back the urban space polluted by advertising. SprayPrinter is not an ordinary start-up. It’s motley crew resembles a wild rock-n-roll band. They don’t play by the rules and this has been key to their success in Estonia and in Silicon Valley. But splitting their life between two continents isn’t easy, and
their dreams and ambitions soon collide with the reality of everyday life.
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2019
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Students film, Documentary
| Director:
Ahmed Fouad Ragab
A short documentary about the Estonian Defense League and the life of a young woman.
‘Weekend Warriors" is a short documentary following a young woman’s understanding of her own dual identity. There is an excepted fear of invasion from Russia to the border of the EU. Word of mouth scaremongering, the army and the media depict a situation where Estonia needs to protect themselves from Russia. However, What does that mean for the citizens who are both Russian and Estonian? Many young citizens voluntarily train every weekend at The Estonian Defence League on the border in Narva. Their identities can be questioned when they are attempting to protect the country they live in from the ...
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2019
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Students film, Short, Drama
| Director:
German Golub
Estonian western, where the rules are made by the player.
A policeman's sense of justice is put to the test, when he cathes a possible arsonist in his own homestead.
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2019
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
A dance of nature and craft, the magic of stop motion and the tropical rainforest in film about life itself.
Shot in real nature, in the Tropical Rainforests of Mexico and Peru, this films captures the eternal dance of life and death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain - animals, birds, insects and flowers - fragile and resilient at the same time. Time passes here in a strange way, moving in an unexpected pace. The unique combination of natural light, fast flowing time and subtle stop motion animation creates a unique poetic reality that bring us awareness to the magic and materiality of our own living in this world.
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2019
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Students film, Short, Fantasy
| Director:
Samer Nimri
The story about a little girl who encounters an Alien after accidentally taking a mysterious huge egg and trying to incubate it in her room.
Yasmeena is in a graveyard with her father, her cat has passed away. she finds a huge egg, she hides within her backpack and gets it back to her room. Yamseema looks after the egg, keeps it warm using many different childish methods. One night, the egg starts glowing, and while she is sleeping, a huge light strikes in her room and wakes her up, it is a spaceship landed in the backyard, she goes out to encounter an Alien.
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2019
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Students film, TV Show
| Director:
Laura Parm
Dating show based on the social media.
An anonymous dating show in which one contestant blind-dates three matches per episode with text messaging as the only means of communication, their final goal being going on a real life date with one of the matches, without knowing what they look like, what their name is, or even what gender they are.
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2019
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Students film, Animation, Comedy, Science fiction
| Director:
Auden Lincoln-Vogel
An alien travels to earth in hopes of starring in a sci-fi blockbuster.
An alien travels to earth in hopes of starring in a sci-fi blockbuster.
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2019
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Students film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Antonio Tainha
A lonesome man, isolated from society, returns to the city to see how people are living in the modern world.
On the cold white surface of this world, for long afar from civilization lives a man surrounded by nature. He lives in peace within but he misses mankind.
These questions hover his mind: How do they live? Are they good to each other?
This is the story of Zoro.
