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The Measure of Man

Original title: Inimese mõõt

2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marianne Kõrver

Is the global environmental crisis concerning just our environment or is it also the crisis of our habits, expectations and values?

The relations between urbanizing people and natural environment become more and more problematic. Maybe the global environmental crisis is the crisis of the increasing process of urbanizing and the crisis of our habits, expectations and values? The documentary reflects the fear that our habitual world is going to end - the ever-pulsating streets of New York City; the ancient Hsasnkeyf in Turkey, with the history reaching back to the beginning of urban culture in old Mesopotamia; the fishermen villages in Tonle Sap Lake in the heart of Cambodia; and in an ultramodern urban district in Freiburg, South-Germany. Four places in ...
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Engagement in Kihnu island

Original title: Kihnu kosjad

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Anthropological | Director: Meelis Muhu

Engagement according to the traditions and customs of Kihnu island, Estonia. The documentary introduces the engagement rites in their most natural environment.

Kihnu is a very small island in the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Meelis and Raili will get married soon. They decide to follow their ancestors' traditions, customs and rites and plan their wedding party accordingly. All traditional wedding-related activities and rites are accompanied by music, dancing and colourful jokes common to the islanders.
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From Side to Side

Original title: Teisel pool teed

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Students film | Director: Jaanis Valk

We do not want to be sick. We do not want to be forgotten. That, however, is what the people in this film are. Seven percent of the population of the Republic of Estonia does not have health insurance. There is only one ward with 25 beds in the entire country for their treatment. And the women who care for the seriously ill.Day after day, they have to manage with difficulties, the existence of which nobody want to hear about and even less to see. Yet this film tries to do all this. To see and hear people's cries for ...
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Final Make-Up

2008 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Gerli Nõmm

„Final Make-up“ is a short documentary that introduces us a character Margo Mitt, who prepares the dead for their funeral and his work, stating simply – one is a simple man and the word is simply a job.
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Jackpot

Original title: Jackpot

2008 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Eva-Katariina Taimre

Cinéma vérité documentary about two lottery winners and their lives before and after the big victory.

Only two people of the 76 lottery winners in Estonia (who are afraid of publicity) agree talking about their life and lottery victory - Urve and Rudolf. Fortunately they have not had to experience envy; instead, they have been congratulated for their luck. Urve is a beginner in lottery playing - she bought her ticket because she trusted her strong gut feeling: as if something told her to buy it. The victory sum of 8,6 million Estonian kroons provided new life for Urve, a production line operator, and her family. Rudolf, however, had played lottery for years and finally the ...
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Urmas ja Ummi

2008 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Helen Takkin, Oskar Lehemaa, Sten-Erik Toos
Your Ticket, Please!

Original title: Teie pilet, palun!

2008 | Documentary | Director: Epp Kubu
In Earnest

Original title: Ihust ja hingest

2007 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Indrek Kangur

The story of the non-profit organization "In Earnest", founded by three young men, is an colourful example to illustrate the hot spots of social enterprise.

Three economy students have put their full effort for marketing the handmade products made by people with special needs. Their vision includes implementing Estonian disabled people's working potential fully and effectively and to become an acknowledged and exemplary socially oriented company. This task is certainly not an easy one – but one has to have high hopes.
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Nikolai Kormashov and Russian Icon

Original title: Nikolai Kormashov ja vene ikoon

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sergei Ledenjov

For artist Nikolai Kormashov restoring icons forms a deep, enriching and happy part of his life.

Nikolai Kormashov makes preparations for restoring the icon of the original altar of St Nicolas Church - an activity that the artist finds indispensable in his life. He describes the icon restoring process; together with his younger son Orest they begin the complicated journey of restoring another icon. Kormashov is by profession a carpenter and a tinsmith; however, he is the founder of the restoration school in Estonia as well as a great artist. He modestly considers painting only as a hobby. Kormashov regards icons and restoration process with respect and awe; he believes that an artist is responsible for ...
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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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