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Sun is a Good Child

Original title: Päike on hea laps

2014 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Filmmaker Manfred Vainokivi portrays physics teacher Mart Kuurme teaches physics and astronomy to children in Africa.

Mart Kuurme is a lifetime physics teacher. He arrives to Kongo village in Northern Ghana on October 21st, 2013 in order to start working as a volunteer teacher of physics and astronomy to local children. Solar eclipse is expected in Ghana on November 3rd. Mart carefully prepares for the event: observations of the starry sky at late night, physics lessons in a local secondary school. The film also reflects the life of local people, often accompanied by dancing - they dance everywhere and all the time, either in football competitions, funerals or harvesting parties, even in churches. Mart goes to ...
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Home

2013 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Gabriel Motta-Ferreira

Gabriel Motta Ferreira's ''HOME'' is a bachelor thesis short film about life as an alien in another country. The film follow three different perspectives from three foreigners living in Tallinn, Estonia.

Alonso, Katya and Marco are foreigners in Estonia. They talk about the local language, people, weather and where is home.
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Viru. Embassy of Freedom

Original title: Viru. Vabaduse saatkond

2013 | Documentary | Director: Margit Kilumets, Andres Lepasar
Livonians of Professor Viitso

Title in Estonian: Professor Viitso liivlased

2011 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso and the last Livonians.

Every person and every language have their own lifespan - birth, life, possible vanishing. Livonian language, one of the closest relatives to Estonian language, is about to disappear as a living language of communication. In 2009-2019, the Professor Emeritus of the University of Tartu, linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso met factually the last people for whom Livonian language has been their mother tongue: Viktor Berthold from Liepājast, Erna Vanaga from Ventspils and Grizelda Kristiņ from Toronto area in Canada. In Helsinki, professor Viitso also met Seppo Suhonen, a meritorious researcher of Livonian language. This documentary in Livonian language became a farewell ...
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Roots: One Hundred Years of War and Music

2011 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Katrin Laur, Gabriel Castro Rouillé
Karu 17

2009 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Jotham Van Ermen, Sören Vandeweyer

Unfortunately, all good things run out one day. The young men who enjoyed their studies and life in the dormitory of Karu 17 in Estonia to the fullest now have to start packing. There is only one last night left in this house full of memories. Recalling the past together, nostalgic sadness is replaced by a happier mood.
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Summer of a Newspaper Kid

Original title: Lehelapse suvi

2008 | Documentary | Director: Katri Rannastu

A nine-year-old schoolboy sells newspapers in the streets of Tallinn. The sales of the active and sincere young man are crowned with success.

Märten is a nine-year-old schoolboy who has made up his mind to sell newspapers in summer. This seems to be a boring and routine work in the streets of Tallinn that throws the child into the world of adults. Märten is an optimistic and active boy whose sales go well, despite the fact that selling fifteen newspapers requires stamina and optimistic attitude. He won't lose his nerve when people won't buy, and when he meets competitors and even phonies. Märten charms people with his sincerity and earns even tips. The boy has a heart even to give money to beggars.
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Stags

Original title: Täkutallinn

2006 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Marianne Ostrat
6 Hours

Original title: 6 tundi

2005 | Overviews, Documentary | Director: Rein Kotov

During six hours thousands of tourists from the American cruise ship are being introduced to the city of Tallinn - they are provided with a short city tour enriched by subjective commentaries of local guides and some souvenirs.

Huge cruise ships come to Tallinn in summer, each one carrying thousands of tourists, mostly from the United States. They stay in Tallinn just for 6 hours. Endless lines of bus-drivers, tour-guides and tour-managers await them in the harbour. The cruisers rush through the main sightseeing locations, eat out in town and board on the ship again. Tallinn was just another pit-stop on their long route. The pier is filled with waving customer servants exhausted from the day’s tense work. “6 Hours” tells a humorous story about one summer day in one of the Eastern European town called Tallinn.
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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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