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Winny Puhh: maailma veidraim bänd

2013 | Director: Jaan Laugamõts
Man with the Top Hat

Original title: Mees torukübaraga

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Riho Västrik

Portrait documentary by Riho Västrik about Valeri Kirss, organizer of Estonian beauty contests, at the height of his glory days.

Portrait documentary about Valeri Kirss - the organizer of beauty contests, a stubborn man who restored the tradition of beauty contests and who managed to hold around ten annual beauty contests in Estonia since 1992. Filmmakers follow the enthusiastic and hyperactive man during the times he was at the peak of his glory when Estonians knew exactly who the last Miss Estonia was. The recorded materials that have been unused for more than a decade have acquired extra value for making the colourful personal story as well as a funny retrospective describing the social life in Estonia during the turn ...
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Three springs of Total Immersion Method

Original title: Keelekümblejate kolm kevadet

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Russian children study Estonian language with the Total Immersion Method in a Tallinn school in 2001-2012.

In 2001, the first language class using the Total Immersion Method started in Tallinn Läänemere Grammar School where Russian children were specialised in Estonian language. The documentary series "Total Immersion Method users" was filmed in the spring of 2003 that introduced the life of those graduating from the third grade. In 2007 the filmmakers returned to the students. The documentary "Two springs of the Total Immersion Method" was born. In the spring of 2012, the filmmakers are back again - they follow the activities of the same youngsters who are graduating from the grammar school. Kokku saab film ühe põlvkonna ...
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Andy stands up

Original title: Andy astub üles

2011 | Documentary | Director: Elen Lotman

Stand-up comedian Andrus Valvur, an Estonian expatriate born in New York, comes to visit his fatherland in order to meet his relatives and hold a performance in Estonian for local audience for the first time.

Andrus Valvur is both an Estonian and American, a comedian and a citizen of the world born in the USA. He visits his homeland in order to fulfill his secret dream - to perform in Estonian language in front of fellow Estonians. Andy makes thorough preparations for his performance, gets acquainted to Estonia and its people, their way of thinking and sense of humour. Despite his 25-year-long experience as a comedian, Andy is still nervous whether Estonians will enjoy the performance.
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Circulation of the Blood

Original title: Vereringe

2011 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

Short film directed by Peeter Simm about lonely people in the blood circulation of society.

Actress Ruth has been abroad for a long time and gained fame. When arriving at her homeland, she is broken and devastated. Local producer invites her to present at the TV broadcast on an international donors' day. Ruth is on drugs and her condition won't let her to be filmed. The angry producer sends his assistant to look for Ruth. When unexpectedly meeting Sven, a former co-student, Ruth will regain her energy and starts to shine. Sven's mother tells Ruth about his son's real life. It hurts to hear the truth.
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Just the Three of Us

Original title in Estonian: Ainult meie kolm

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Giampietro Balia

Liisu and Andres try to reunite with their biological mother – each on his own way.

Following the death of their father, Liisu and Andres find out they've been abandoned in early age by their biological mother. After meeting her for the first time since they can remember, they try to get to know her.
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Singing Nadezhda

Original title: Laulev Nadežda

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Portrait about Nadezhda, a street musician and a mother of nine, whose songs are full of love.

The documentary tells the story about Nadezhda who has moved to Estonia from Russia; for her, the most important people are her loving husband and nine children. Both Nadezhda and Rustam, the father of her children, are deeply religious and think God is present in everything and everybody. Her songs are extremely heartfelt and full of love towards God; she sings about her children and Estonia, love and God in the tunnel of Viru Centre and earns extra money.
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Tallinn Spiced Sprats. The Canned Tales

Original title: Tallinna kilud

2011 | Feature film, Short, Other categories | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma made the residents of Tallinn to perform the opposition between the manor owner Johann von Uexküll in Riisipere and the Hochedle Rath der Stadt Reval or the higher consilium governing the city of Tallinn back in 16th century.

Playful tale of fantasy about the city of Tallinn told by the stories of local people. The stories of the living and the dead, memories and urban legends, children and skeletons meet here. The almost one-thousand-year-old legend of Tallinn brings all these seemingly different tales together. Manor owner Johann von Üxküll was executed in Tallinn in 1535 for killing peasant Mattis. 12 present day residents of Tallinn reconstruct this old tale in front of cameras – the story about justice and equality.
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Life is a Flower

Original title: Elu on lill

2010 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Two grand old masters, artists Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, are recording the beauty of a naked woman.

Documentary about the meeting between two grand masters, artist Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, during which they portrait a young model and have a discussion about life and art. 94-year-old Okas and 82-year old Suur are full of life and creative artists who get still inspired from the beauty of a woman. The two old artists run around the young naked woman as representing a philosophical vignette about the flourishing and withering of life, an existential etude with erotic attachments.
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Unable to Make a Movie

Original title in Estonian: Ei oska filmi teha

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Hardi Keerutaja

A film about a young man, Kristjan, who has got a privilege to direct a movie. He has an idea and together with the team they prepare for shooting, but suddenly (as life throws itself obstacles before your feet) he isn't certain anymore, is this, what he is doing it, that he wants to do. How on earth he is supposed to know, what he wants to do at all?
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