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The Tour of Dreams

Original title: Unistus Ameerika tuurist

2021 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Madis Ligema, Taavi Arus

When no public recognition at home, a gospel band Robirohi plans the tour to the source of gospel music, to perform at the halls of fame in Kentucky, USA.

This documentary is a film about bluegrass, gospel and god, in one of the most secular countries in the world. "Robirohi" is not a very well known band in Estonia. Most of their concerts are held in churches and congregations, their soulful music gets little plays on non-christian radio stations. Nearly all band members have felt enlightenment: "It is as if a warm wave of light passes through all your body". All members but one. The band would love to be famous one day – but is gospel the right path to take? They book their dream tour to America, ...
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Hi, Rasma!

Original title: Hei, Rasma!

2015 | Documentary | Director: Laila Pakalniņa

Estonian-Latvian-Lithuanian co-production documentary about the residents of the coastal villages of Northern Estonia, the ancient coastal law and folklore related to the Latvian steamboat Rasma. The documentary has optimistic and funny undertone while introducing specific episodes from cultural history.

Documentary portrays Estonians through one of the most ancient traditions of coastal villages – the coastal law. According to the legend, a Latvian steamboat Rasma collided with an underwater mine on the coast of Northern Estonia on July 5, 1941. The captain decided to direct the shop to the banks of Mohn island in order to save the passengers and a child, as well as the equipment of sewing factory evacuated from Riga, Husqvarna bicycles, grain and flour. Estonian-Latvian-Lithuanian co-produced documentary is searching for the bikes and sewing machines that have come from the board of Rasma, but also the ...
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Homecoming

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Akio Yuguchi

"Homecoming" portrays various topics in life, such as the life and death, fatalism and father and son.

"Homecoming" is a two-track visual poem following Akio Yuguchi’s journey back into his childhood and his quest for coming to terms with living abroad far from his former home. Facing up to past and future challenges, the protagonist decides to send a letter of condolence to his father, who lives in Japan in a high-risk area for earthquakes and tsunamis. Through the rhythm of his reflective soliloquy, the desire for homecoming sounds a bell for the departed while heralding the dawn of a new life.
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Illegal Beauty

Original title (in Estonian): "Illegaalne ilu"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liis Mehine
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A moment with Ulka

Original title (in Estonian): "Hetk Ulkaga"

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kaisa Sammelselg, Gerli Nõmm

Ulka is a temperamental Russian girl. Although born and raised in Estonia, she learned Estonian through working in bars. Today she herself is a manager of a bar and has only Estonian colleagues. Film explores what does it mean for a young Russian woman to live nowadays in Estonia and which thoughts she has about opening a new bar.
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Clock Stopped at 6.30

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Liva Vilnite

Time stops when a young woman Emily contemplates after experiencing a sexual violence act. Will she manage to get over her tragedy and find purpose to live again?

Film is a french-style visual poem about a young woman –Emily, who becomes a victim of a rape. She seeks asylum in her countryside house, where she grew up. Soon Emily discovers the struggle that lays in front of her, as she must once again find reasons to live. 
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Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif

Original title: Ester Mägi. Kadents ja teema

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

One of the most respectable lady of Estonian music, composer Ester Mägi, has written music about sixty years while having remained characteristically conservative.

Portrait documentary about Ester Mägi, composer and music teacher, tells about memory and music. Born in 1922, Mägi has composed music for nearly sixty years; her professional style has simultaneously been traditional and innovative, yet originally conservative. Ester Mägi recalls her life and contemplates on music. If she feels fine, she goes to the rehearsals and performances of her work and gives interpreters (or "consumers of sound" as she calls them) necessary advice and feedback. When Mägi was a little schoolgirl she told her teacher that she would become Miina Härma when she grows up. Well, instead she became Ester ...
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Final Call

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Peteris Masjenčenko

With fluid style and thick atmosphere, "Final Call" aims to suck the viewer into the emotional turmoil of the work and stress before the start of a performance.

Lights fill a theatre stage, only a low hum and the almost inaudible audience is heard. An actress stands in the darkness just off-stage, gathering the strength to jump into the light. "Final Call" shows the work and stress that goes into the final moments of preparation before the start of a theatre play: cast and crew members having their last cigarettes and relaxing before starting an intense warm-up together with their director. The focus lise not in the actual technical challenges of putting together the play, but rather the human emotion that arises from the high-stakes situation where everything must ...
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Lasnamäe Fox

Original title (in Estonian): "Lasnamäe Rebane"

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Monika Põldma

The film is about one of Estona’s best women’s basketball players Viive-Kai Rebane who wants to be part of a big European basketball club. Viive is on of the best women’s basketball players in Estonia, who dream big and works hard for her dreams. Different setbacks have slowed down her career, but the desire to play basketball has grown through the times. Money is a factor that counts a lot in sports, but if you have a big passion for something, it is not always important. For Viive, it is important to do what she really loves, and even if ...
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Last Flight of the Seagulls

Original title (in Estonian): "Kajakate viimane lend"

2014 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Ann Kaer

A visual farewell as 91 flocks of 'seagulls' (the symbol of/for graduates and teachers of Haapsalu Gümnaasium) gather on a dark December day to say goodbye to the school that once was.
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