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Neverland

Original title: Eikunagimaa

2024 | Amateur films, Movie, Feature film, Short | Director: Ingrid Ulst

The focus of the short film is on traumatic experiences which separate people but can also unite them.

Emily lives in her own world. Her days are occupied with her daughter Stella and the book “Peter Pan”. Emily`s relations to her husband Allan are fragile because both are haunted by past. Only a dramatic accident brings about change. Against the backdrop of inevitability of life, the film addresses the question of whether trauma can heal.
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Sander's Documentary

Original title: Sanderidokumentaalfilm

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.
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To Get Up Again

2024 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ralf Tafenau

From barely escaping death as a teenager to becoming a Special Olympian, Raivo is now facing a life full of hardship and full of hurdles in his way, but he hasn’t given up on his future.

A former Special Olympian for whom life hasn’t been easy, Raivo has had to face a life full of hardship. Raivo’s younger years were not easy for him, with both of his parents struggling with alcohol, he spent a lot of time roaming the streets by himself. One night he decided to take refuge in a lobby around town, where he was suddenly attacked, being stabbed a total of 21 times, which resulted in him losing vision in one of his eyes and leaving him with brain damage. Despite that, he took up running after the accident and just 4 ...
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Trauma in these Walls

2024 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maros Pulscak

A filmmaker comes back to a house where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a closure within the space that already feels too foreign.

Short documentary reflects on the perception of space, and the connotations that spaces carry. It tells a personal story of a filmmaker who comes back to revisit a house he used to live in while being a student in The Netherlands. The film deals with his personal experience of a life in a foreign country, in upsetting living conditions, where one’s safety is constantly jeopardized. The film leads to a truly tragic event that showcases how fragile is one’s safety, and expands on the ever-present trauma and the horrors that are crawling in- between the walls of the house, he ...
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Scarlet

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ralf Tafenau

Becoming a parent is for most people the happiest day in their lives, but not for Gerhard and Keity as labour leaves both the newborn and mother in critical condition. Gerhard is left to face this situation on his own, unable to be at Keity’s side at the hospital. The film sets up to follow him over the upcoming days, with the first 72 hours being the most critical time for the newborn child.
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Circus

Original title in Estonian: Tsirkus

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

Joosep Ehasalu’s third semester student short documentary ponders on what it means to be an artist, through a painting by his grandfather.

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose ponderings about the plight of being an artist and touches upon the filmmaker’s personal demons. Can he see the painting in a new light?
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Mare Tralla

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

The film is about a strong Estonian woman who can handle everything and has experienced both traditional family life and much more.

Who's afraid of Mare Tralla? And is it necessary to fear her at all? Our film is about a strong Estonian woman who has always been a mother of two children, a married woman, a lecturer, a professor, and a fighter for minorities, who is also engaged in an artist's career.
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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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A Trace of Fire

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Diego Alejandro Barajas

The trace of a fire that burns everything.

Sander, a young man full of rage, burns his father's car without realizing that his father was sleeping drunk inside of it, or at least that's what he thinks until a man destroys his version of the events.
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Athlete

Original title in Estonian: Atleet

2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

The short film “Athlete” was made by first-year films students of Baltic Film, Media and Arts School. The film shows how one man’s obsession can lead to harm for others. At the same time, the film also shows a father’s unwavering belief that his son is capable of more than it seems.

An authoritarian father is determened to make an athlete out of his weakling son. Unfortunately one man`s obsession might lead to dire consequences for another.
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