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Soviet Friendsbook

Original title: Ankeet

2020 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

It has been several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to find her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook what was created in their youth with today's reality.

The unifier of the common past of the perestroika generation is the school. Classmates who once lived in very similar conditions, played the same games and shared the most personal thoughts have been able to create very different and varied lives today. It is several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to look for her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook created in their youth with today's reality. The friendsbook is serving a written historical memory function, preserving the beautiful moments and big dreams that were written down during school ...
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Struck By Lightning

Original title in Estonian: Välguga löödud

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Romet Esko

Two brothers try to make a film about their friend, who commited suicide.

Raul and Romet are two film school students who one day wish to become world famous film directors. However this is not the reason they made this film. They had a really cool friend Brandon. He was an upcoming rapper and also their favourite actor. However during a summer holiday in America the brothers get a call, that Brandon has killed himself. It all seemed so sudden and they couldn't even say goodbye. So the brothers attempt to understand the mysterious end of their friend, by making a movie of it.
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Time Capsule

Original title in Estonian: Ajakapsel

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Eric Romero

Desolate and troubled, a young woman confronts the root cause of her issues - her father.

Emeri (26) comes across a map from her childhood - a map that marks the location of a time capsule buried 19 years earlier- and memories come back rushing. Desolate and friendless, she then contacts her estranged father to dig up the time capsule together. Emeri must find a way to put the past finally at rest.
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Cosmonaut

Original title: Kosmonaut

2019 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.

An old Cosmonaut lives the same kind of life now in his flat in a concrete panel apartment building as he did in his youth in a space station. As before, he still carries out heroic missions and misses his close relatives, who he left behind on his home planet. His close relatives see the situation altogether differently. Is this old man capable of coming to grips with the norms that apply in society? A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.
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Inherited Memories

2019 | Documentary | Director: Len Murusalu

Short documentary explores the notion that traumatic experiences can be passed on to future generations.

In 1941, a young Estonian railway worker was nearly executed for attempting to escape conscription by the occupying forces. Seventy-seven years later, his granddaughter revisits the places from his stories to gain deeper insight into the connections between them. The short documentary explores the notion that traumatic experiences can be passed on to future generations.
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Memm Manja

2019 | Students film, Animation | Director: Lisa Scharf
Taagepera

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm
A Well-Kept Secret

Original title in Estonian: "Soonlepa saladus"

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mihkel Oksmann

Mihkel Oksmann’s thesis film tells a a story about the relationships between the people of small village.

Three young souls, the witch, an artist and a philologist are the last three people living in a small village named Soonlepa. Despite their high age, they fulfil their lives with art, witchcraft and memories. One day the village is about to lose it’s third leg when 79-year old Aino, the witch is sent to hospital with two diagnosed cancers, leaving last two men in village alone in their world.
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All About My Father

Original title in Estonian: "Kõik minu isast"

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Reeli Reinaus

First person documentary, directed by Reeli Reinaus, is portrait of her father’s life and death.

Documentary shows author's attempt to find answers to questions about his father's life what she can no longer ask for her father. Portrait of father is formed by the memoirs and old letters. But is it able to change author’s feelings against to the father she only shortly knew?
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Codename: Timeless

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Collin Browne

Codename: Timeless is a story world about what memories can mean for the characters involved; are they good? Are they bad? Do we need them? What would our world look like if we could manipulate our memories?

Our memories are important to us. For many, memories make us who we are. Without them we would be completely different people. They hold precious moments and allow us to revisit those moments whenever we want… beautiful. For some though, it’s not such a bright picture. For some, memories can trap and limit you. Tragic memories can sometimes keep you frozen in time, unable to move on from your past. In these cases maybe we need protection from our own memories. What memories mean to each person and what the effects they have on them are unique for each person, ...
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