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At Home with Refugees

Original title: Pagulasega elutoas

2017 | Documentary | Director: Kristina Norman

Jana is a manager of an asylum centre in a small Estonian village. People from various culture and with different backgrounds are waiting for the verdicts that will change their destinies.

An accommodation center for asylum seekers in a small Estonian village. Being head of the center, a local woman Jana is in a double role. At the same time as she is a host to a multilingual family of the newly arrived, she also is a guest in their temporary home. On the squares of Estonian cities right-wing movements demonstrate against immigration. In the shared living space of the asylum center, it is hard to tell private from public, personal from official, as the common day-to-day life with its joys, miseries, and frictions, blurs the borders between professional duties and ...
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End of Chain

Original title: Keti lõpp

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Priit Pääsuke

The feature film is set in a remote fast food resturant next to an empty parking lot. The place works as a model of the world, or East-Europe.

The feature film is set in a remote fast food resturant next to an empty parking lot. The place works as a model of the world, or East-Europe. The visitors of the restaurant come and go, all of them being on the verge of desperation during the times of everlasting economical crises. The only one witnessing and absorbing all this is the protagonist of the film - the Waitress. Finally Lõpuks liituvad temaga tööd otsiv Noormees (Hendrik Toompere jr), akadeemilise maailma imelaps ja kuulus Helilooja (Tiit Lilleorg), kes mõlemad otsivad sõprust ning lähedust.
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Pyramus ja Thisbe

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Laura Raud

In this modern adaptation of the classic Greek myth, two young lovers bound by a tragic fate plot a plan to escape their homes and start a new life somewhere far away from their destructive families.

Pyramus and Thisbe are young lovers who, despite having grown up in dismal circumstances, have managed to maintain their internal goodness. Because of their domestic situations, the lovers can only communicate through a little ventilation shaft between the toilets of their apartments. On the fateful day when they flee from their respective homes more goes wrong than either of them could have foreseen and thus the meeting of the lovers finally takes place in quite a different way than they had hoped...
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The First Spring

Original title (in Estonian): "Esimene kevad"

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eleen Änilane

A man who has lost his wife due to a serious illness learns to see the world in color again after a difficult experience.

Jaan, 79, buried his wife Antonina in the autumn, with whom he recently celebrated a golden wedding in the backyard. This spring, he will have to face unprecedented difficulties: how to deal with the silence in an empty house; how to keep motivated for daily routine tasks that Jaan has not had to do alone for more than 50 years; and how to find the strength for the roses planted with your husband to bloom this spring as well?
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Counterpoint

Original title (in Estonian): "Kontrapunkt"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Tõnis Pill

BA Film Arts II year student film “Counterpoint” is a story about a former violin player who, due to an accident is now in a wheelchair and unable to play.

“Counterpoint” is a story about a former violin player who, due to an accident is now in a wheelchair and unable to play. In order to help someone much weaker than himself, he has to take a huge step and conquer his inner fears.
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Sirius

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Rebeka Rummel

Filmstudent Rebeka Rummel presents a story of a young girl who is reticent and who gets into fight with her little brother who tries to communicate with her.

Reticent and fighting with ones thoughts Joanna is left with her little brother one night, with whom she is become distant. After another conflict between them brother takes off to unknown place. For the first time in forevever Joanna is feeling something else beside sadness and indifference. Finding her brother makes her feel angry wich is mixed with a concerne. All this makes her recognise that she is not alone.
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Piano

Original title: Piano

2015 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

A film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.

Marta hauls a piano home from a shop that sells used musical instruments. She almost succeeds. Albert tries for the thirtieth year already to tell Paula that he loves her. He almost succeeds. Paula wants to respond to Albert in the same vein. She almost succeeds. Police commissioner Kits has dreamed of parachuting all his life. He almost succeeds. Mirjam wants be become a circus artist. She almost succeeds. A honeybee tries to get out past a closed window. It almost succeeds.
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Simply a man

Original title (in Estonian): "Muidu üks mees"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi

“Simply a man” is a documentary film about Arkaadi Sai who lives in a former kolkhoz village which is now dying out. Arkaadi lives in a complete solitude and nothing is actually happening in his life. One day a filmmaker comes to Arkaadi to make a film about him. But in order to make a film something has to happen. So this film happens.
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To Light

Original title (in Estonian): Valguseks/Valguseni/Valgusena

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Nora Särak

“TO LIGHT” is a short documentary film made as a graduation work by Nora Särak for MA in Directing Documentary department of the Baltic Film and Media School. It was produced in 2015 by the Baltic Film and Media School. Using the poetic, observational and experimental style the film portrays a relationship between the mother Linda Kallas and the son Mart Kallas who live alone without any friends and neighbours, still looking for the light and not giving up in their own strange way.

A poetic film about a mother and son who decided to stay behind when the Estonian town Pechora became the Russian town Pechora. After 70 years there is hardly anything Estonian left in the town. Linda and Mart Kallas try to maintain contact with their homeland but this is no cure for loneliness.
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I Won´t Come Back

Original title: Я не вернусь

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilmar Raag

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse.

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse. A victim of false accusations, she has to flee, disguised as a teenaged homeless girl. While on the run, Anya meets twelve-year-old Christine, an orphan who is as desperate and reckless as Anya herself. This friendship becomes a turning point for Anya – reliving her adolescence for the second time, she now is forced to rewrite her life. In I Won’t Come Back, Ilmar Raag, director of the ...
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