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Mesipuu poole

2015 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
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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Whitsunday At Tammealuse

Original title: Suvisted Tammealusel

2015 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Rein Maran

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer. Whitsunday is known in folk memory as an important holiday for country folk and merry spring holiday that has been celebrated in Estonia through the ages to greet the arriving summer. Whitsunday (or Whitsun, Whit) involved many traditional preparatory activities - tidying the home and its surroundings, decorating with birches, going to the sauna. The celebration itself took place at the nearest sacred Grove, where a swing was set up and a bonfire made. ...
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Child of Nature

Original title: Looduslaps

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

In two years she changed from a Playboy cover model into a child of nature.

Everything she needs for living, Mari gets from nature. Pollen and dew drops are part of her daily menu. From autumn to spring Mari's only food consists only of freshly squeezed juice and water. In summer she also eats a handful of berries straight from the forest or her own garden and sleeps right there - under the open sky. She spends her days picking herbs and making tinctures of wasp's nests and toadstools. Who could have thought that some years ago this girl was a model on a Playboy cover...
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Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif

Original title: Ester Mägi. Kadents ja teema

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

One of the most respectable lady of Estonian music, composer Ester Mägi, has written music about sixty years while having remained characteristically conservative.

Portrait documentary about Ester Mägi, composer and music teacher, tells about memory and music. Born in 1922, Mägi has composed music for nearly sixty years; her professional style has simultaneously been traditional and innovative, yet originally conservative. Ester Mägi recalls her life and contemplates on music. If she feels fine, she goes to the rehearsals and performances of her work and gives interpreters (or "consumers of sound" as she calls them) necessary advice and feedback. When Mägi was a little schoolgirl she told her teacher that she would become Miina Härma when she grows up. Well, instead she became Ester ...
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Inside the Tribal Experience Transmedia Project

BFM Crossmedia Production (MA)

2014 | Students film, Documentary, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Nansy Mass, Kadri-Liis Piirsalu

Inside the Tribal Experience is an immersive online experience that explores the Estonian tradition of singing- and Song Celebrations through the voices and ideas of Estonians. The online experience combines together documentary videos, interviews, photos, user generated content, soundscapes and interactive data on an HTML5 site.

Inside the Tribal Experience project gives an opportunity to explore the true nature of Estonians as a tribe and the singing tradition that they carry. The project will give the user an opportunity to dig deeper and learn about the sacred rituals and traditions of the Estonian tribe while being entertained and educated at the same time. The project is an online experience that explores the different traditions of the singing tribe, by combining together videos, interviews, photos, soundscapes and interactive data on a HTML5 Hub-site, which is a prototype. This prototype is accompanied by an audio-visual trailer that presents ...
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Photocapsule

2014 | Students film, Documentary, TV Show | Director: Annika Meos

Nowadays, even a three year old child can take pictures and photography has become simple and available for everyone. How this has changed the life of professional photographers or has it at all?

Photography has changed rapidly over the years and evolved from privileged science into everyone’s tool of communication. Taking photos has become so easy, so seemingly the lines between professionals and amateurs have blurred so much that we keep wondering whether we need professionals. Never the less there are still things that keep professionals ahead of shutterbugs.
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Songamissioon Mongoolias

2013 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
For Women Only

Original title: Jahis ainult naised

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kullar Viimne

Documentary about Estonian hunters and about a special type of hunting - female hunt.

Hunting guns and hounds, stalking in the forest, dividing the catch - everyone knows that this is a man's world. But women can break even the most ironclad prejudices. Merle, the eldest daughter of the family with hunting traditions, decides to take part in a training in spring of 2011, in order to become a first-class hunter and to participate in the annual great hunt for women only.
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Camino

Original title: Camino

2011 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Andres Sööt sets out to a 800-kilometre-long pilgrimage called Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain; the road will end in Finisterre - "the end of the world" on the coast of Atlantic Ocean.

Estonian filmmaker Andres Sööt walks the legendary pilgrimage road called Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) in Northern Spain amond thousands of other pilgrims from all corners of the world. The most popular route of the pilgrimage - the French Way - runs from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees to Roncesvalles on the Spanish side and then another 780km on to Santiago de Compostela. Like several other pilgrims, Sööt won't finish the 800-kilometre-long road at one stretch. In October 2004 he stops his journey in order to continue next spring and finish in Santiago de Compostela. ...
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