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Discover The Rich Space Around The Corner

Original title: Avasta rikas nurgatagune kosmoses

2005 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen

Mooste Artists's Guest Studio in Põlva county provides free accommodation for artists around the world - the only requirement for staying artists is to leave behind an artist's trace.

Artists around the world can stay for free in Mooste International Guest Studio in Põlva county, Estonia, on condition that the artist staying in the old manor will leave a creative trace in the local village life. Two different worlds meet in a small rural area: there are decayed buildings that once belonged to a collective farm next to the ensemble of manor buildings that have been preserved well and houses the well-equipped artist studio. The idealistic, bizarre world of artists is opposed by the rigidly conventional world view of the local people who prefer folk culture. Yet, the essence ...
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Dreamland Queens

2005 | Documentary | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

Around ten women get together in a tight dressing room three times a week - meet the ice-hockey team Dreamland Queens. The team includes young girls, housewives, a kindergarten teacher, a teacher, a student and a businesswoman.

It's a total makeover for these women - everything feminine gets removed - skirts, stockings, underwear and make-up. Instead, they get dressed into clothes that serve to protect not to make pretty - warm long underwear, protections for knees, torso and groin. Finally they put on their helmets in front of mirrors. The ice-hockey team Dreamland Queens starts with the training. At late nights, these ten women jump into the thoroughly masculine world.
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Is Best Enough

Original title: Kas parimast piisab?

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marek Miil

The documentary takes the viewer into the back stage of professional sports world including its hidden aspects while following judo athlete Alexei Budolin.

Judo athlete Alexei Budolin represented Estonian in the olympic games in Athens in 2004. Everyone expected him to bring home the best results; what happened is that Budolin was a total failure. The sportsman himself and all the people surrounding him - his coach, co-athlete, wife, doctor-chiropractor, mentor and witch - try to find the reason why Budolin burned out despite the fact that everyone gave their best. All the helpers are so different that they won't form an unanimous team for the sportsman. He loses his focus and ground below his feet. Yet, Alexei, who is an optimistic person, ...
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The Border of Human

Original title: Inemiste piir

2005 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aivo Spitsonok, Vahur Laiapea

How people live in the intersection of the borders of Estonia, Latvia and Russia?

There is one point where the borders of the Republic of Estonia, Republic of Latvia and Russian Federation meet. This is where the filmmakers start their journey. The residents of the villages by the state border get along well, on both sides of the border people have only kind words for their neighbours. Estonians, Latvians, Russians talk about their lives: Estonians living in Estonia, those living in Latvia, those living in the intersection of the state borders, Russians who can speak both Latvian and Estonian, residents of Mehka area, Estonians living in Korneti village in Latvia and Estonians living in ...
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The Call of the Heart

2005 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jaanis Valk
Wounds of Afghanistan

Original title: Afganistani armid

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

Two veterans of Afghanistan War return to the military territories where they once fought. When they were twenty years old, they were sent to fight abroad where it was impossible to exit as a winner.

„Wounds of Afghanistan“ is a film about Estonian men currently in their forties whose lives were changed forever during the period of 1979-1989 when Estonians were forced to fight with the Soviet army in Afghanistan. When twenty-year old, they were sent by the Soviet authorities to the Afghan War where no-one had ever left as a winner. This was a a war for foreign country and unknown purposes. Every man tried to escape – few succeeded. The heroes of the film are the artist Aivar Simson – Simson from Seaküla - and Leino Juhkam. The first one lost his nerves in ...
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A Family

Original title: Perekond

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sulev Keedus

Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.

The Tallinn-Moscow-Tallinn night express leaves Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia at 5 p.m. and arrives in the Russian capital Moscow next morning at 9. For many decades, the train had forty-four sleeping compartments and was hugely popular. Today only five sleepers remain and even those are half empty. Politics and economics changed tremendously in these two countries, but Ida, a Russian living in Estonia, still works for this formerly exclusive train. The director of the film met Ida, the train team leader, while travelling and they spent half an hour talking. The bond was made. The next ...
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Adventure High

2004 | Documentary | Director: Liivo Niglas

Five young men - including the filmmaker - take a four-month break from their responsible adult lives to travel by bicycle from Mongolia to Nepal hoping to experience old-fashioned travel adventures. Their journey leads them through diverse landscapes and harsh conditions (the Gobi Desert where water and roads are equally difficult to find; the flooded dirt roads and landslides caused by heavy rain in the Himalayan mountains). They are exposed to diverse cultures and meet fascinating people (Mongolian nomads, Buddhist pilgrims, yak herders in the Himalayas). As relationship dynamics develop and change within the group, the five travelers very different ...
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Bewitchers

Original title: Kaetajad

2004 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Priit Valkna

In South-Estonia, being cast the evil eye, or the malocchio, remains a daily threat for those admired or envied by others.

In South-Estonia, being cast the evil eye, or the malocchio, remains a daily threat for those admired or envied by others. The film crew travels to Võrumaa, to dig deeper into the story of how and why bewitchers cast the evil eye on the children or livestock of the object of their envy, how to break the spell and why this belief continues to this day.
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Man is Not a Fish

Original title: Inimene pole kala

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Simm

22-year-old Raini suffers from inborn skin disorder called ichthyosis. He tries to cope with the disease and also help people with similar skin condition.

22-year-old Raini suffers from inborn skin disorder called ichthyosis. Scales cover his whole body, yet his spirit seems to be free from scales. He socializes well and there is no bitterness in his attitude. He has studied computer administration, however his efforts to find professional work have been in vain. He is an employee in a company making wooden products. He and his girlfriend Ereli live on the fourth floor of an apartment building in a small town. Filmmakers follow their life in the winter and spring of 2004. Both dream about having a baby and owning a house. Will ...
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