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The Eleventh Letter by Henrik Visnapuu

Original title: Henrik Visnapuu üheteistkümnes kiri

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp

Documentary of cultural history by Vallo Kepp about the last decade (1941-1951) in the life of Henrik Visnapuu, the Estonian writer of patriotic and romantic poetry.

In 1940s there were dramatic events going on both in Henrik Visnapuu's (1890-1951) life, in Estonia and in the whole world. His beloved wife Ing died at that time; the poet fleed from his homeland and suffered from being in exile in Austra, Germany and the United States of America. People who met and remember him share their memories about Visnapuu. Next to the romantic stories as the leitmotif of the film there are also several issues discussed such as relationship with the authorities, being a poet and staying true to oneself during politically complicated situations.
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Lotman's World

Original title: Lotmani maailm

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Agne Nelk

Portrait documentary with humorous touch tells about Juri Lotman, a world famous semiotician. The film is based on archival materials.

How to portrait a man whose world is as big as a galaxy? A man whose head houses a whole semiosphere? The fragments of Lotman's heritage have been documented in photographs, books, video recordings. One possibility in order to reflect all this would gather different lives, to visualise them and to weave them into a whole. In the film, Juri Lotman as an insect, a communicator, a man with a mustache, a jew, a cosmopolitan, a semiotician, a thinker, a father, a lecturer and a cosmonaut meets Einstein, Stalin, Gagarin, Belka and Strelka, Pushkin and Knights of the Round Table. ...
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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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Masing`s Landscape. Part IV

Original title: Masingu maastikud: Tõuseb tume puu täis kollaseid tiibu

2008 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Kepp

Film director Vallo Kepp has gathered original materials of his film trilogy "Masing's Landscapes".

The compilation introduces interviews, letters, texsts, videos and audio recordings before the editing process of the film trilogy "Masing's Landscape". This audiovisual collection created by the filmmakers made it possible to create the trilogy.
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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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Professional amateur

Title in Estonian: Professionaalne amatöör

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Indrek Kangro

Documentary portrait about filmmaker Jaan-Jürgen Klaus who cannot be classified under the definition of filmmaker but he is definitely much more than just an amateur.

Life is too decent in Tartu in the year of 2008. There is no longer the bohemian crowd and there are less and less meeting spots for them. Tartu is becoming an overcivilized Scandinavian small town. Jaan-Jürgen Klaus, a young resident of Tartu, passionate film amateur and chronicler of his time feels sorry about the situation. Despite everything Jaan-Jürgen attempts to record the disappearing world, bearers of the spirit of Tartu who have not eluded the filmmaker.
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The Day I Grew Up

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Martti Helde
The Radical

Title in Estonian: Radikaal

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk

Portrait documentary directed by Andres Maimik and Rain Tolk about Margus Lepa – the charismatic programme manager of Nõmme Radio, humorist, and the audience's favorite actor in the film trilogy "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn".

Legendary entertainer Margus Lepa who also played the role of Jorh Adniel Kiir entered the rows of left-wing politicians, then left these with a scandal and made a radical change – now being a right-wing radio programme leader. Margus Lepa is a one-man band – he interviews, provokes, argues and reveals both real and imagniary conspiracy theories in his radio programmes. Filmmakers attempt to find out what is behind this total transformation and who are the people finding solace from Margus Lepa's bitter rhetorics.
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Dragging to Dance

Original title: Ursula kisub tantsule

2007 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Mattias Naan
Eesti Politsei

2007 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary), Advertising/Promotion | Director: Sami Hyvönen