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MC Battle - disputes

Original title: MC Battle - sõnasõjad

2008 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Mihkel Ulk

MC Battle is the annual big event among Estonian hip-hop community - young rap artists enter a competition in order to find out who is the best one in the field.

MC Battle, the event of the year in Estonian hip-hop scene, can be compared to martial arts, to verbal cannon shooting. It is probably quite an extraordinary phenomenon, a folklore event where the word is a weapon and where the best versifiers try to outperform each other. The rhymes are often very offensive yet very witty. The possibility to become a famous rap artist attracts many odd personalities.
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Our Estonian House

Original title: Meie Eesti Maja

2008 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Andrus Mets

Young men dream about Estonian House in Ireland and try to get local Estonians involved in their plans.

Estonian House has always been a perfect place for getting together and for preserving Estonian nationality for those who have migrated abroad from Estonia. How is the situation today when Estonians are in "exhile" from capitalism? Young enterprising Estonian men Andrus Mets and Sven Puks work in Ireland, yet they have not forgot about their homeland, mother tongue and national culture. They attempt to unite the local Estonian people in Ireland and their common aim is to found an Estonian House in Ireland.
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Estonia constructs

Original title: Eesti ehitab

2006 | Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A glimpse into the carousel at Estonian real estate market in 2006 when it was easy to get housing loans and the prices of apartments kept going up.

Real estate madness in the year of 2006. The protagonist is an average Estonian man, Artur, who desires to find a proper housing for himself for as little money as possible. Artur consults real estate agents who assist him with the housing loan and finding possible apartments that might interest him. Artur's searches at the real estate market reflects the current situation in the business that sells dingy apartments in the "built-up area of cultural and environmental value" for millions or sometimes people buy literally air (read: designed projects) where the houses have not even been built yet. The ...
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Lost the Limit, Hugo?

2005 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristin Kalamees

Road-draama vägivallast, sellest pääsemise võimalustest ja meheks saamisest. Isa macholiku türannia all kasvatatud vennad otsustavad isikliku vabaduse nimel põgeneda.Teel satuvad nad aga olukordadesse, kus tuleb enda ja venna eest välja astuda.
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Adventure High

2004 | Documentary | Director: Liivo Niglas

Five young men - including the filmmaker - take a four-month break from their responsible adult lives to travel by bicycle from Mongolia to Nepal hoping to experience old-fashioned travel adventures. Their journey leads them through diverse landscapes and harsh conditions (the Gobi Desert where water and roads are equally difficult to find; the flooded dirt roads and landslides caused by heavy rain in the Himalayan mountains). They are exposed to diverse cultures and meet fascinating people (Mongolian nomads, Buddhist pilgrims, yak herders in the Himalayas). As relationship dynamics develop and change within the group, the five travelers very different ...
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Chief Architects

Original title: Peaarhitektid

1999 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about Soviet architecture and buildings in Tallinn, equipped with the commentaries by former top architects.

The era under discussion tends to be forgotten. We are witnessing how Tallinn is losing its appearance of Soviet era. We can be grateful to the fact that the worst architectural projects were never completed. Three former decision makers in architecture - Mart Port, Dmitri Bruns and Voldemar Herkel - discuss the construction in Tallinn according to their personal experience of that time. The talk is led by architect Ike Volkov. The gaze of director Andres Sööt focuses on the aesthetics of Soviet ugliness, concrete grey new apartment building blocks, deserted constructional gaps in urban environment and on the capacity ...
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Ball Against the Wall

Original title: Pall vastu seina

1998 | Feature film, Short | Director: Ilmar Raag

Young woman recalls of her childhood trauma with the psychoanalyst.

Lonely girl loves her older brother more than anyone. But the 15-year-old Tom prefers to spend time with an older guy, a factory worker Einar. There is budding homosexuality in their friendship. One day, Einar gets into a lethal accident in the factory and dies. The 12-year-old girl is ready for anything in order to console her brother.
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I love you

Original title: Ma armastan sind

1996 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peter Herzog

Short film directed by Peter Herzog about the encounters between a man and a woman in dreams. When they wake up from the dreams, they don't know each other.

The Woman is looking for the Man to whom she says the phrase "the eyes of a blue dog" in a dream. In the dreams, the Man and the Woman know each others. The Woman is searching for the Man also outside the dream world, but the Man won't remember anything that has been said in the dream nor he won't understand the Woman who constantly tries to recall the Man of these words everywhere. "The eyes of a blue dog" would help them to recognize each other when awake. The film is based on the novel "The Eyes of ...
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I am not a Tourist, I Live Here

Part 1 and 2

1988 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

The events of the film directed by Peeter Urbla take place in precapitalist Tallinn, among people who try to find their hearth and home.

This film is about one of the greatest social hotspots in Estonia during the Soviet times when apartments were given for free by the state, telling the story of a real estate agent and a homeless man. Mass immigration in 1944-1988 led to demographic conflict. Free apartments were mainly given to immigrants despite the fact that local people badly needed places of residence as well. They are not tourists, they live here, but they haven't got home.
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Ringhoov

1987 | Students film, Short | Director: Tõnu Virve