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Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

Original title: Surnuaiavahi tütar

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Laur

The feature film directed by Katrin Laur tells the story of a girl who grows up in a periphery of Estonia, in the middle of unemployment and alcoholism. Her parents are unable to lead a good life and without love, hope and grace their family would be broken.

Lucia leads a carefree life in a small town of Estonia but her grades at school are not that good so the teachers are worried. Lucia's father Kaido is a graveyard keeper and repairs cars in the meantime; her mother Maria has lost her job and since then been drinking with her unemployed friends. Neither of them has time to help Lucia with her school. The child protection inspector is about to check their case when the family is unexpectedly invited to visit a Finnish family. They spend a week with priest Sirpa's family after which Lucia will have a ...
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Original title (in Estonian): "Peidetud sellesse filmi"

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaan Penjam
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Home or Away

Original title (in Estonian): "Kodus või võõrsil"

2011 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Piibe Pai

“Home or Away“ is a television programme (target group: 18-25) that introduces the life in Australia with Working Holiday Visa, through the thoughts and stories of three young Estonian.

A young girl is confused about her future. School practically behind her, she finds it hard to confront the beginning of her working life in Estonia. She is not attracted by the situation in her home country: high percentage of people her age are unemployed (39%) and it is a difficult time to apply for a job. In order to continue her studies in MA degree, she would need financial support from her family. This is not a solution for her! She has always wanted to go to Australia because to her it sounds like a perfect place to work ...
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Life Worth Living

Original title (in Estonian): "Elu elamist väärt"

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Suive Pahrt

The sitcom "Elu Elamist Väärt" pilot is about a small Estonian family of a conservative alpha male father Urmas, a wise tactful mother Mare and their seven-year-old son Juhan, whose thoughts and world vision is way ahead his age. The wife wants her husband to take her out on a date without their son and thinks the latter needs a babysitter. The male nanny they find, Margus goes through difficulties including the homophobic father suspecting him being gay, not being able to handle the babysitting situation and eventually making Urmas kick him out of the house.
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Night, Street, Latern

Original title in Russian: Hoчь, Улица, Фонарь

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Polina Udre

Way home is dangerous and full of surprises.

It is late winter evening. A young intelligent teacher or professor returns back home through an urban outskirts. He is very sensitive and is afraid of his own shadow. Suddenly he hears a loud voice which commands him to stop, sit, lay down and bark. The teacher is very confused but obeys. Eventually after the common "Bark" (or voice) he hears a barking of small dog and realizes in which stupid situation he is.
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Old Clown

Original title: Vana kloun

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Documentary film tells a story of legendary Soviet time clown Sergey Fatkin. Due to popularity he was allowed to pass iron curtain and visit 35 countries in times when many Soviets didn’t see any foreign country ever. At Paris nightclub Olympia Fatkin performed together with Jaques Brel. Later on Sergei Fatkin made a fatal mistake smuggling Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago into the country. Officially banned book was hand copied and passed around. KGB soon traced down Sergei Fatkin and the legendary clown was arrested, liberated from his titles, awards and private possessions. Ironically – the man who had passed around a book about Soviet prisons was imprisoned for years. Nowadays Sergei Fatkin, free again, is still working modestly as a clown, performing at kindergartens mostly.
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Playing Pirates

Original title in Estonian: Mereröövlimäng

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Tõnn Sikk

Film student Tõnn Sikk's short film is about children and their friendship, but maybe he even talks more about the friendship of children's parents.

A boy moves with his family to a wooden house which they inherited and meets a girl who has to move. To save their new friendship children now have to go on a dangerous journey.
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Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea

Original title: Regilaul - laulud õhust

2011 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Ulrike Koch

This richly shot film explores an ancient singing tradition in modern Estonia, weaving together people and nature through song.

On the shores of the Gulf of Finland, the ancient Finno-Ugric peoples originated a singing tradition of mysterious power called the Regilaul. These songs are the roots of Estonia’s renowned singing culture. Based on the continuous repetition of eight-syllable verses, they produce a haunting sound able to connect the fleeting present with the eternal circle of life. Against the stunning setting of modern Estonia, this film explores how Regi songs still fire the imagination today, weaving together people and nature through song.
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Roots: One Hundred Years of War and Music

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Katrin Laur, Gabriel Castro Rouillé
Tallinn Spiced Sprats. The Canned Tales

Original title: Tallinna kilud

2011 | Feature film, Short, Other categories | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma made the residents of Tallinn to perform the opposition between the manor owner Johann von Uexküll in Riisipere and the Hochedle Rath der Stadt Reval or the higher consilium governing the city of Tallinn back in 16th century.

Playful tale of fantasy about the city of Tallinn told by the stories of local people. The stories of the living and the dead, memories and urban legends, children and skeletons meet here. The almost one-thousand-year-old legend of Tallinn brings all these seemingly different tales together. Manor owner Johann von Üxküll was executed in Tallinn in 1535 for killing peasant Mattis. 12 present day residents of Tallinn reconstruct this old tale in front of cameras – the story about justice and equality.
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