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Unseen heros

Original title in Estonian: Nähtamatud kangelased

2024 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Eva Matilda Utsal

The TV show tells about veterinary education and its dark side. Carina, a 5th-year veterinary student, tells her story, and brings to the viewers the negative sides of veterinary, which are not talked about enough. Kai Laars, chief physician of the Tallinn Veterinary Clinic, adds her side of view.

The risk of suicide among veterinarians is high, but it is not talked about enough. The story brings viewers the harsh reality of vets' hardships and its impact on mental health, which begins as early as studies. Carina, a 5th-year veterinary student, brings you the real side of the seemingly “dream job”.
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Don’t Let Your Dreams Be Just Dreams!

2022 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Yu Liang

A short advertisement for studying in BFM.

A boy is considering applying to BFM. He falls asleep and dreams about being a student there and directing films. He wakes up and finds out that he missed the application deadline.
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Kids of the Night

Original title: Öölapsed

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Priit Pääsuke

Three sisters – Liis, Karin and Jane – have all reached a different breaking point in their lives. One fateful summer night reveals all secrets and feelings these three have never dared to admit.

Three sisters – Liis, Karin and Jane – have all reached a different breaking point in their lives. Liis has just graduated from high school and finds out that her planned future with her boyfriend may not be as certain as she thought. Older sister Karin, the first victim of their parents’ expectations, is trying to survive in modern sexist business environment. The youngest of the sisters, teenager Jane, is trying to stand up to her party-loving friend’s pressure to be someone she is not. One fateful night reveals all secrets and feelings these three have never dared to admit.
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Happy Birthday to me

Original title in Estonian: "Õnne soovime mul"

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Dora Lall

Dora Lall's short fiction film about a brother and sister, who are trying to get used to a new city and the start of grown-up life.

Short film about growing up.
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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The Polar Boy

Original title: Polaarpoiss

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

A boy with two faces meets a girl with two souls.

Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna’s bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jealousy, Mattias accidentally commits a crime ...
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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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Space of Pure Thought

Original title: Puhta mõtte ruum

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Puu Estonia (pseudonüüm)

Documentary about the modern humanitarian who according to himself has no choices.

Philosopher Jan Jõemets embodies all Estonian humanitarians of 1990s. While flying too high and being too free he burned his fingers and now the viewers can decide themselves whether Jan has enouth will and power to rise from the ashes. Only Jan's friend Margus Ott has survived in today's desinfected and chlorinated pool of education among the former philosophy students of the School of Humanities. The documentary points out the commercialization of today's higher education and suffocation of free thinking. The protagonists' journey reveals how educational system attempts to cast creative thinkers into similar moulds.
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The Story of the Baltic University

Title in Estonian: Balti Ülikooli lugu

2015 | Documentary | Director: Helga Merits

Documentary about the activities of the Baltic University in post-war Hamburg.

The lecturers of Baltic origin founded the Baltic University in the post-war desolated Hamburg in 1946. The idea to establish a university for refugees was proposed by professor Fricis Gulbis, a former vice-rector of the University of Riga. In Hamburg he met with representatives from other Baltic states and together they tried to get the approval for starting with the academic courses. The university had a successful beginning, yet soon various issues emerged. One could not use the word "Baltic" any more. Lecturers were fired, the number of students was decreased and there was a strong suggestion to emigrate. It ...
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TLU 6 Persona Stories - Mari-Liis Jakobson

Original title in Estonian: "TLÜ 6 persoonilugu - Mari-Liis Jakobson"

2013 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Aili Alber

A study exercise for the course Current Affairs. The task was to develop a format suitable to introduce 6 persons either working or somehow tied to Tallinn University.

This documentary is about a Political Science lecturer Mari-Liis Jakobson, who tells a story of how she begun her career in Tallinn University and where it has taken her so far. She gives an insight of the past 10 years, of her 27 year life, that she has spent in the university, both as a student and as a lecturer. She also motivates and gives advice to current and future students not only in TLU but all over Estonia.
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