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Afghanistan Project

Original title: Afganistani projekt

2015 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Vahur Laiapea has recorded Estonians' projects in Afghan and the local life.

The project of Afghan war has ended for Estonia; however, several civil missions in the field of education and training are still going on. The documentary follows the last days of three Estonian servicemen left in Afghan in Camp Bastion; the efforts of the people from Tallinn University to train the master's and doctoral students of information technology at Kabul University; the meeting between Pille Alaver, the Human Rights Adviser, and mistreated Afghan women in Kabul police station; and training midwives in the village of Dare Souf. The film forms a mosaic out of various fragments of the life in ...
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In Between

Original title: Kahe maailma vahel

2014 | Documentary, Portrait, Students film | Director: Liis Lepik

Estonian Muslim Kristi with Arab roots is an aid worker in a big Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

What does a human being really need? Over the few years more than three million Syrians have fled across the border to escape the bloody civil war. Kristi is an Estonian Muslim with Arab roots. She is a humanitarian worker at one of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan with a task to map the conditions of the camp’s teachers. People there have lost their homes, loved ones and are living in tents, but despite all that they seem surprisingly positive. On the other hand, healing the world is not an easy task and challenges Kristi’s own emotions and surviving ...
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Corporate Video for TLU

2012 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Sigrid Reede

It is a story about a boy who wants to study in Tallinn University but his father thinks that education in TLU is not very strong.

Father and son are having a Skype conversation with their relative from USA.Son says he wants to study in TLU but the father is against it and suggests to study in USA because the relative is apparently doing very well. In the end we can see that success of the relative was a lie.
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Finland - Tallinn University (corporate video)

2012 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Marleen Roosna

The son in the family has decided to start his studies in Estonia at Tallinn University. His father doubts his decision as he would like his son to say in Finland and gives the boy’s uncle as a great example of how one can be succesful and not study abroad. The uncle fails to impress the boy.
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Farewell Turku

2011 | Short, Students film | Director: Sami Taavetti Hyvönen

Mika is in his early twenties and plans taking the evening ferry to leave his hometown Turku behind. He is bothered by a difficult relationship with his sister who he hasn't seen after the death of his father. He is not sure whether he should forget his ex-girlfriend or to ask her back. On the supposed last day in his hometown he meets his sister, best friend and an attractive blonde before planned meeting with his ex. The day is full of surprises as Mika ponders on the edge of a decision: to stay or to go? The film's genre ...
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A Letter from Ruhnu

Original title: Kiri Ruhnust

2009 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

A young woman becomes a school teacher and discovers life in a small island of Ruhnu.

Young woman Kadri becomes s a teacher in an island of Ruhnu that is a small, isolated community. Her main duty is to teach the youngest children in the first and second grade - there are only two schoolchildren in these classes. At the same time, Kadri tries to get used to the island's life and to understand the strange traditions and odd behaviour of the local people living in isolated community.
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Student Musical

Original title: Tudengimuusikal

2009 | Short, Musical film, Dance, Students film | Director: Richard Meitern, Martin Liira

Elen, girl from Tallinn, moves from father's home in Tallinn to dorm in Tartu to study economy in the university. From day one she will start to learn real student life from her girlfriend Liis and roommate Kati: how to party, study for the exams, shop in second-hand stores and handle one's love-life.

Elen (Adeele Sepp), girl from Tallinn, starts a new life in September. She moves from father's home in Tallinn to dorm in Tartu to study economy in the university. From day one she will start to learn real student life from her girlfriend Liis (Merli Plink) and roommate Kati (Katre Luik): how to party, study for the exams, shop in second-hand stores and handle one's love-life. She will have to deal with two very different guys: Dima (Dimitri Kurilov) and Kaarel (Kaarel Targo). "Student musical" is the biggest Estonian student film, filled with singing, dancing, love and young energy.
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Flying Free

Original title: Elluastujad

2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

An intimate and fast-paced documentary-journal of two 18-year old girls.

Nele and Anneli are inseparable friends. One of them is a bit radical punk-girl, another above the average looking heart-breaker. Their different social backgrounds don’t interfere with their relationship. These girls feel the forming stratification and upheavals of Estonia’s changing society. They are smart, but they do not obey the rules. They are energetic, open-minded and eager to express their thoughts loudly. They take life at its fullest, living for the present day, not for one to come. The film follows their last spring in high school together combining girls’ intimate and immediate video journal with precise, stylistically professional camerawork.
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Mister Wall and the Wind

Original title: Jüri - see mulk, ehk mis tuul müürile...

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Enn Säde

Documentary by Enn Säde portrays Jüri Müür - an important filmmaker in Estonian culture whose films are among the best ones in Estonian national filmography.

Enn Säde's documentary about Jüri Müür who was his colleague and friend, an Estonian filmmaker (1929-1984). When Jüri was fifteen he joined the support service of German air force; during the last days of war he travelled to Germany, France and Africa. In 1946 he returned home and soon escaped to Karjala, Finland from KGB. He got acquainted with film during his studies in the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. In a way, Jüri Müür became the icebreaker of the birth of Estonian national film in 1960s. He made five full-length feature films, a couple of dozens documentaries, wrote ...
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Independence Day

Original title: Eesti lood. Iseseisvuspäev

2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented, Students film | Director: Hanna Šein

Life of four young persons with different social background in today's Estonia, right before the local independence day, February 24, 2003.

The documentary observes the lives of four young Estonians in their twenties who have different backgrounds and living conditions. The film opposes the new generation of urban youth in Tallinn and the young people of the same age living in smaller towns in Estonia. What do the following people think, feel and want - Rauno who works as a supplier in a small town; Rainer who works as a head of department at a supermarket in Tallinn; Brett, a student at the University of Tartu; and young farmer Andres. How different are their attitudes towards their lives, Estonia and the ...
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