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Happy Things

Original title in Estonian: Mis teeb rõõmsaks

2024 | Students film, Short | Director: Alexandra Pärn

The short film takes us on an emotional journey through the eyes of ten year old Lily, pointing to the importance of the simple things that tend to be forgotten in today's world.

How to make someone smile? Ten year old Lily has to play multiple roles at once, facing the questions of the adult world. It is often the children who know how to live life without making it overly complicated and see that the key to happiness lies in simplicity – whether it's the first rays of sunshine, a hug from a loved one, or a snowball fight.
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YO Teacher

2024 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Adell Vachugova

The short film by film student Adell Vachugova tells the story of the double life of teachers.

Yo Teacher is the project about “boring”, “strict”, “living 24/7 at school” teachers who erase stereotypes about their profession with a wet rag and boldly show themselves, sharing their hobbies and passions outside the school, which society often does not associate with the established image of a teacher.
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Vyazhet Yazik

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ilja Vassin

This documentary follows the journey of a dedicated teacher who stands up for the rights of the Russian-speaking population in Estonia.

The story of a teacher repressed and harassed by the government, who tries to get her way and decides to run for the state parliament to defend Russian-speaking children.
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Who am I Smiling For?

Original title: Kellele ma naeratan?

2023 | Documentary, | Director: Eeva Mägi

Sometimes you need to be reborn to understand that death is not the end of life. A film about the love of a mother and her children - nothing can separate them, not even death.

Oliver is a 12-year-old boy whose mother, Mari has stage IV cancer, and together they are preparing for her death. Mari tries to show Oliver how to fly around as a spirit, how to talk to her when she’s an angel in the sky or how they will play football together even after she has passed away. At the same time, Mari must fight for her daughter’s custody, to have a chance to see her before she dies. In the midst of it stands Oliver, whose main wish is that he could simply live happily forever together with his mother ...
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2 Hours to Happiness

Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

2022 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Moonika Siimets

Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

More than 70,000 Estonians live and work in Finland, at the same time as their families, parents, children and homes are in Estonia. The documentary film speaks about adjusting to new conditions, sticking to and loosing one’s roots, the yearning for and the search for happiness. The film is a humorously wistful documentation of families living in the snowy fields of Lapland, apartments in Vantaa, on the staircases of shopping malls, at construction sites, hotel lobbies, and of grandchildren in the living rooms of Estonian grandmothers who are waiting for their children to come home.
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Onu Arvo

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The story of Estonia’s oldest youtuber, influencer and star-chef, Uncle Arvo. The story of food and hunger for life.
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Paradise

Original title: Paradiis

2021 | Documentary | Director: Andres Keil

Syrian girl tries to adapt in an Estonian suburb.

Shahad is a 5th grader of Tartu Descartes School. She is 12. Film looks into her everyday life that is not a regular everyday. Her family escaped six years ago from Syrian war. Four years ago they managed to arrive here, their new home. How are they today?
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The Seven O´Clock News: Bullied

Original title in Estonian: Seitsmeste Uudiste Erisaade: Koolikiusatud

2021 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Annaliise Kalamees

The journalistic TV show is about bullying and burnout of teachers in Estonian schools.

The Seven O´Clock News: Bullied is a journalistic TV show about teachers in Estonian schools. The reality show focuses on teachers and their burnout and stress in the schoolroom. The TV show reveals what a teacher´s everyday life looks like and what is happening between the school walls in reality.
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All Clean

Original title in Latvian: Viss Tīrs

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Eliza Benina

Fearing about the safety of teenagers, an old and emasculated school janitor targets the new and prestigious swimming coach.

Ivars, an old and introverted school janitor, follows the steps of Toms, a young and attractive swimming coach, in a suspicion of a possible sexual harassment towards his pupils. While silently collecting the proof, Ivars becomes the creep in the eyes of others. And when someone sneaks into the girls' changing room, people's biases stand in the way of the truth.
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Christmas In The Jungle

Original title in Latvian: Ziemassvētki Džungļos

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.

Paula has to leave behind the world she knows when her family moves to a new exotic place. While her new life is exciting, she feels the place and her whole family is missing Christmas spirit. Together with her friend Akhim they decide to go to the jungle to find Christmas shaman. Yet neither of them realise how dangerous this adventure will be.
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