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  • Bright Eyes of the Complex Mind
    Bright Eyes of the Complex Mind

    Original title in Russian: Яркие Глаза Ненасытного Разума

    2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mark Pervakov

    Artyom is a 25 year old architect who started sewing. Whether this will be another fleeting idea in his head or whether it will become something more serious, even Artyom himself does not yet know, but he is deeply immersed in a new hobby.

  • Local Urbanites
    Local Urbanites

    Original title: Lokaalsed linlased

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Maria Uppin

    In the documentary film we try to explore how difficult it is to carry out a bigger vision that would update Estonian urban space.

  • Symmetrical Face
    Symmetrical Face

    Original title in Estonian: Sümmeetriline nägu

    2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Johan Huimerind

    The author of the film researches the symmetry of his own face through his parents.

  • From wave and stone
    From wave and stone

    Original title in Russian: Из волны и камня

    2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Margarita Levina

    The film tells the autobiographical story of an author who wanted to change her place of residence in the hope of changing herself and her life. But it turned out that the country does not change anything if the soul remains the same.

  • Leonhard Lapin. Process
    Leonhard Lapin. Process

    Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

    2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

    This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

  • Mouthful Of Water
    Mouthful Of Water

    2020 | Students film, Animation | Director: Siim Raud

    Regular morning ritual gets interrupted by a stampede.

  • Rauaniit
    Rauaniit

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

    To create a new, you have to give up the old. As a result of the dust, physical and dirty work of construction workers the building of the former textile factory Rauaniit gives birth to a modern Art Academy.

  • Touché
    Touché

    2020 | Students film, Animation | Director: Sofja Gorelova

    "You" are trying to get in touch with "your inner self", but it turns out you speak different languages and turns on the mode of self-destruction.

  • A Song Of Nature
    A Song Of Nature

    2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Julien Kai

    A celebration of the elements of nature at the pilgrimage house of Vastseliina and the unique influence of these elements as a part of human interactions in the house.

  • Stagehands
    Stagehands

    2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Rudolfs Anže

    A documentary about stage worker team in Latvian National theatre.

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