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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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Grounded

Original title: Tiibateta piloot

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leeni Linna

Short film directed by Leeni Linna about the struggles of a pilot who has lost one eye in Afghanistan war.

In the war in Afghanistan, the helicopter pilot Raul (34) loses sight in one eye and is stripped of his wings. The depressed Raul infuriates his wife and she moves away from him with their child. Raul feels like a useless cripple and decides to end his life. He builds a flying machine from helium balloons and decides to take the last flight of his life in it.
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Hunger Week

Original title (in Estonian): "Näljanädal"

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Rein Zobel

Young recruit Vilbe finds himself in a secluded forest with a distinct group of guys with different backgrounds. Their task is seemingly simple - survive!
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Mother. In the Name of The Millions

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

When a mother hides another mother's son, she faces her destiny, same way the millions of mothers did so in those remarkable days we shall never forget.

A dying son recalls his Mother. She lives during a war in an occupied territory. Out of instinct, she hides in her home an injured soldier. She takes care of him as of her own child who is also at war. One day the occupants come back to the village and discover him. By interrogating the Mother and fellow villagers, they investigate whether the man is her son. And now the Mother faces her destiny, same way millions of mothers faced it in those remarkable days which we should not forget.
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Blood Type

Original title (in Estonian): "Veregrupp"

2013 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Leeni Linna
Wire, Chip and Two Smoking Barrels

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Urmas Reisberg

Three men discover that machines are planning to take over the world. The only way to save the lives of their selves and their families, is to load weapons and shoot everything that beeps or blinks.
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Oleg

2010 | Feature film, Short | Director: Jaan Toomik

Short film directed by Jaan Toomik about anxiety and the feeling of guilt that leads back to a suicide committed in the Soviet army 25 years ago.

Soldier discharged from the Soviet army returns home. Twenty five years later, a middle-aged man goes to visit his former fellow soldier Oleg's grave. He embarks on his ritual trip to a distant village cemetery in order to get rid of the anxiety and pressure due to a tragic event that had happened in the army. 25 years ago, Oleg committed suicide in the army. Back then, the man could not prevent it and during the years the feeling of guilt has only grown.
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Root

2009 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Helen Takkin

This is a story of a worker among the millions of workers that populate the Industrialized Kingdom where nature is forbidden. One night she finds a leaf that is growing out from a crevice in the stone in an abandoned building. That is the beginning of her struggle through fear and prejudice towards her true self. When her efforts to nurture the flower with water are discovered, she escapes abandoning the life she had known so far.
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The Revolution that Wasn't

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aljona Polunina
December Heat

Original title: Detsembrikuumus

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asko Kase

The first full-length feature directed by Asko Kase is an enthralling action drama based on true historical events about the Communist rebellion in Estonia held on December 1st, 1924.

It seems that life is peaceful in the Republic of Estonia; however, an old general Põdder has a bad feeling. Tallinn is full of conspiratorial apartments and the rebels are gathering on the border. The film is an action drama depicting the attempted Communist coup d'etat on December 1st, 1924 and the bloody events that took part that night - fateful times for the young republic as well as the young married couple.
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