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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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Kurvits Lootuse tänavalt

2014 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
On the Other Side of the Woods

Original title: Teisel pool metsa

2014 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

Fairytale full of light, magic and nostalgia.

Fairytale full of light, magic and nostalgia. A clay doll awakens her surroundings that become a syrreal world in constant flow of change. Shot with natural light the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passing of time in the film.
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See olengi mina

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Flowers from the Mount of Olives

Original title: Õlimäe õied

2013 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heilika Pikkov

Isiklik ja intiimne lugu Jeruusalemmas asuvast Õlimäe kloostrist ja erakordse elusaatusega eestlannast, nunn ema Ksenijast. Heilika Pikkov’s feature length creative documentary „Flowers from the Mount of Olives“ was shot within two years at The Mount of Olives Convent of the Ascension of Our Lord in Jerusalem.

Right alongside Jerusalem, in a Russian Orthodox Convent in Mount of Olives, lives the 82 year-old Estonian nun Mother Ksenya. Although inside the convent’s cement walls the clock is never set and life still follows the Julius calendar, the 20 years that Mother Ksenya has spent there have passed by in a flash. In the hierarchy of the nunnery she has now achieved the second-to-last level. She is heading towards complete silence, the Great Schema. But before that she has been given permission to tell the story of her life for the very last time.
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Võidupäeva ootus Siberi Haida külas

2013 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea
The Winter Ghost

Original title: Vinterspöket

2012 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Jaana Wahlforss

The story is about 9-year old Hendrick and Annie, and about their relationship.

The story is about 9-year old Hendrick and Annie, and about their relationship. They have to find their own ways to overcome social prejudices before they can become true friends. Poverty and social injustice were part of children’s life in Pieter Bruegel’s world, and they still are in our time. Emotionally the story is about, how it feels to be treated unjustly, a feeling that most of the children experience in some stage of their lives. The Winter Ghost” is, however, told as a classical children’s tale and it ends happily. There is humour and fantasy which add more dimensions ...
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Fly Mill

Original title: Kärbeste veski

2011 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

A miller lives in a watermill, baking bread every day and raising ducklings he is hoping to set free one day. But in the field next to his home, hunters come to shoot birds.

Fly Mill is the first film by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg. She made it as a graduation film in animation department at Estonian Academy of Arts. The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds.
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This is the Day

Original title: See on see päev

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kersti Uibo

“THIS IS THE DAY” captures the flow and simple beauty of daily life in a monastery standing on a hill above the Serbian village of Velika Hoca in Kosovo.

“THIS IS THE DAY” captures the flow and simple beauty of daily life in a monastery standing on a hill above the Serbian village of Velika Hoca in Kosovo. The director asks the viewer to set aside any expectations of hearing a “story” and instead to observe quietly as in life. The serenity of the film provides a poetic space in which the imagination may drift freely, meditating and reflecting. The camera is still, landscapes unfold, seasons change and the words give way to silence.
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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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