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Deep, funny and provocative story of a girl who escaped a hippy eco-commune as a child and became a cosmopolitan citizen. Who will save the planet if not the last generation?
In an intimate, performative documentary, a director escapes into the comforting embrace of daydreaming, only to find herself trapped in a cycle of fantasy that threatens to consume her, until an unexpected upheaval forces her to confront reality.
In an episode of the TV series, a married couple has a heated argument that turns violent. Antoni leaves the room after hitting Larissa. The maid Agnieszka, who overheard the altercation, takes a moment and decides to enter the room.
A blind choreographer returns to the rehearsal room after years away and discovers all her old methods useless.
The team that created the fifth episode of the ELU project Luna TV, Lomely Mäe, Jander Tappo, Jan Joonas Tuuna, Prudence Teder, August Okk, Miia Mikaela Poll, Erki Landberg, Veronika Bauman, Prudence Teder, talk about what is happening at Tallinn University and events outside the school.
The black Estonian contemporary dance arTst takes part in the drag show.
A prophecy begins to take shape in a cryptic club, as Malla leads the audience through a journey of dance and flow.
Choice paradox is a dance film focusing on young creative people who don’t know their path yet.
A short film about the last Estonian family who, despite their hunger, did not want to embrace eating potatoes.
A struggling writer hungers for validation and meaning while battling his inner demons.
A guy wanders in the woods, looking for a connection with Nature and discovering its inner space through psychedelia.
A foreign figure decides over the destiny of one indigenous woman. Her scape is a dance that reveals what means to be displaced.
"Hearth" is a poetic movie that uses natural elements to create a suggestive dance.
Film student Teresa Juksaare’s short film “Duet” tells a story about human envy, which is carried through acrobat Karmen who is incapable of coming to terms with the superiority of her competitor and teammate Veera. This makes her take desperate and life threatening measures outside the practice training, which leads her to the discovery that the rivalry between them is part of the groundsel of competitive sport .
The end of one act is the beginning of another. The documentary about Toomas Edur tells us an intimate story about the most outstanding Estonian ballet artist, his searches, changes in his life and adapting to those changes.
Sometimes you need to be shrinked in order to grow up.
Life finds a way.
Three independent stories collide in a film, exploring different perspectives of what senses mean, if one of them is lost.
A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.
For most people ballet is dancing. For ballet dancers this is life!
A portrait about Estonian burlesque performers, how they organise events in Estonia and prepare for performances.
Emotional excursion to the past of a former cabaret in Tallinn, a place full of intrigues.
Maher, a former political prisoner, an electrical engineer by profession, but an artist at heart, a man who starts a quest against the society, cultural norms and his family in order to stage the first original contemporary dance performance in Palestinian history.
The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.
"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning. Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable. One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.
In this film, two feathers perform a figure skating routine and draw Aleksander Suumann’s poem Tablemat of Baltic Sea on the ice.
An ancient Khanty bear feast ritual, estimated to be about 3000 years old, was filmed in Western Siberia, in Khantia-Mansia, at the Agan River, a tributary of the Ob, in September 1985 and in August 1988. Participants in the ceremony held at a Khanty summer camp included singers of old songs who travelled to the ritual place from several hundred kilometres away.
