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Old Clown

Original title: Vana kloun

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Documentary film tells a story of legendary Soviet time clown Sergey Fatkin. Due to popularity he was allowed to pass iron curtain and visit 35 countries in times when many Soviets didn’t see any foreign country ever. At Paris nightclub Olympia Fatkin performed together with Jaques Brel. Later on Sergei Fatkin made a fatal mistake smuggling Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago into the country. Officially banned book was hand copied and passed around. KGB soon traced down Sergei Fatkin and the legendary clown was arrested, liberated from his titles, awards and private possessions. Ironically – the man who had passed around a book about Soviet prisons was imprisoned for years. Nowadays Sergei Fatkin, free again, is still working modestly as a clown, performing at kindergartens mostly.
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Palmse Aadu

2011 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Andri Pääbus
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The Charikar Girls

Original title: Charikari tüdrukud

2011 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary about the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province, Afghanistan and about their students and the students' mothers who tell their good and bad experiences of life.

End of October 2010 in Afghanistan. The children of the poorest families study In the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province. In most families, children are raised by mothers since their father are either killed or crippled during the long period of war. Filmmakers ask the girls to tell about the most beautiful and most difficult stories of their lives in order to reflect them in the film. During two weeks, the girls talk about their lives and invite the filmmakers to their homes to listen to the stories told by their mothers as well. The stories by ...
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Butterflies

Original title in Estonian: Minu Laialdased Teadmised Liblikapüüdmisest

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Kaur Kokk

Retired poet Leszek lives alone in a countryside, and to him life is just a game. In his everyday decision making he consults only his dog Pavlov. And so he lives quite carelessly. But eventually he goes back to the city to meet his family and
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At the End of the Day

Original title: Päeva lõpus

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.

Peter returns to his parents' home in order to ask his brother Jakobi to help him out with his debts. Jakobi says no because he is against selling his grandpa's forest for money. Therefore, two worlds collapse - the village and the city, the vanishing and the blooming. As the story develops, the two brothers will step into each other's shoes, so to say, and re-evaluate their lives. Peter stays in the countryside and Jakobi decides to move to the city. Life in today's Estonia where the villages are about to disappear: small shops, bus routs and village schools are ...
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Maestro

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

A portrait of legendary photographer Kalju Suur. When you are 80 years old and have taken pictures of uncovered ladies for 50 years and try to keep yourself going – what else can you do but continue taking pictures, using old school camera and white gloves. And in your pockets there will always be some candies for the beautiful ladies.
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Morbus

Original title in Estonian: Koolja

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Vallo Toomla

"Morbus“ is a film about death and life together. It shows how different people deal with our own mortality and what it teaches us. Young boy watches old man to say good bye.
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Peter, 68

Original title (in Russian): "Петр, 68"

2009 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Ivan Pavljutškov
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World Champion

Original title: Maailmameister

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Moonika Siimets

Portrait documentary about Herbert Sepp, a senior athlete from Karksi-Nuia, who aims at becoming a world champion.

Herbert Sepp from Karksi-Nuia is 83 years old, but for him this is just a number. He does headstand, runs, practices fitness exercises and is Estonian best pole vault athlete in his age group. He has been awarded with the silver medal in European track and field championships in the veterans' group; however, Herbert is dreaming about the title of World Champion. He is convinced that if he exercises and trains enough, he will be invincible.
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Jonathan from Australia

Original title: Jonathan Austraaliast

2007 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Sulev Keedus

Documentary directed by Sulev Keedus about the harsh daily life of people living in a small place called Mustjala, the island of Saaremaa; about the construction of a deep port at the coast of Saaremaa; and about the arrival of the bright white German cruise ship.

Residents of a bright green house in Mustjala, a small place in Saaremaa, tell about their hard life - most of them are constantly drunk. A few kilometres away, a great deep port is being constructed where a huge German cruise ship Lili Marleen lands, accompanied by fireworks and salute. German tourists can watch the performances of wedding games in Mustjala. However, construction of the port and the arrival of the white cruise ship won't change anything in the lives of local people. The residents of the green house will stay friends with beer and vodka. The documentary reveals a ...
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