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Under The Shade Of A Tree

Original title: Ühe puu varjus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

This film is an exploration of the challenges that Sabina and Jaco, a pluricultural couple, encounter in their search for happiness. It is a story of a faithful belief in love when bringing a baby into the world.

The film follows Estonian Jaco and Columbian Sabina as they prepare for the birth of their baby and adjust to their new life as parents. They met in the summer of 2020 and have not been apart ever since. In little over a year, they moved in together, visited Colombia, got pregnant and became parents. Sabina works in a tech start-up and wants to keep doing experimental film and photography. Jaco works as a grave digger and wants to study landscaping. Their biggest dream is to live in a small cottage in the countryside, growing their garden and be close ...
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Ferryman of the dead

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jaakko Tervonen

Middle aged painter battling deadly cancer. She puts her thoughts about life and death into her paintings.

Story of Krista Launonen who is an artist in Finland. She is a well known podcast host and a mother. The only thing strange about Krista is the fact that she lives with Myelooma. A cancer that is going to kill her within five years and she is okay with it. In the film we follow her process of preparing to die wile grieving her recently passed sister and wiriting her will.
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2 Hours to Happiness

Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

2022 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Moonika Siimets

Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

More than 70,000 Estonians live and work in Finland, at the same time as their families, parents, children and homes are in Estonia. The documentary film speaks about adjusting to new conditions, sticking to and loosing one’s roots, the yearning for and the search for happiness. The film is a humorously wistful documentation of families living in the snowy fields of Lapland, apartments in Vantaa, on the staircases of shopping malls, at construction sites, hotel lobbies, and of grandchildren in the living rooms of Estonian grandmothers who are waiting for their children to come home.
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A Letter From Helga

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

In a remote fjord in 1940's Iceland, young farmer Bjarni begins a passionate, forbidden affair with his neighbour Helga, emotions running as wild as the ocean waves that surround them.

The story takes place in the 1940's in the west fjords of Iceland, a strange paradise hidden at the edge of Europe. In this small but thriving community we meet Bjarni, a young, idealistic farmer. Bjarni has a place in this world; his house has been in his family for 9 generations, he has status, respect and his wife Unnur is capable and hard-working. It appears that the sun is shining on them, but underneath the surface, a silent anguish is growing between husband and wife, too painful to talk about. Unnur clings to the farm work, as does Bjarni ...
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Circus

Original title in Estonian: Tsirkus

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

Joosep Ehasalu’s third semester student short documentary ponders on what it means to be an artist, through a painting by his grandfather.

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose ponderings about the plight of being an artist and touches upon the filmmaker’s personal demons. Can he see the painting in a new light?
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Companions

Original title in Estonian: Seltsilised

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristiina Iilane

A short film about loneliness and human need for connection in this life.

When it becomes impossible to share the motherly care with her own family members, Liivia finds her way back to the manor from her past.
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Days Without

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Ivar Erik Yeoman

Nikolai must take care of their one-year-old daughter while he waits for his wives’ return, whenever that may be.

After a chaotic incident with his wife, Nikolai is left with their one year old daughter, Sophia. As time goes by, he doubts his abilities as a father and if he will ever see his wife again.
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Dukes of Gutter

Original title in Estonian: Rentsli krahvid

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Raoul Kirsima

A story of lifelong garbage sorters Hilse and Tang whose livelihood is threatened by a nationwide waste sorting campaign.

One day mother-son garbage sorting duo Hilse and Tang learn of a new nationwide waste sorting campaign. A sense of injustice and a fear of losing their livelihood drives them to extremes. Citizens with 3 garbage bags or more best beware cause Hilse and Tang are on the hunt to sort them out.
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Homing Beyond

Original title: Põlvkond piiri taga

2022 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Young Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world share honestly and openly their personal stories and feelings about migration, belonging and roots.

At the heart of the film is a generation born after Estonia joined the European Union and who decided to go abroad to work, study or explore the world. But years later, returning to Estonia is often not as easy. The new place of residence often offers attractive career prospects and better living conditions, and important close relationships have developed. People fall in love and get married, find new comfort zones and ways to step out of them again. Terje Toomistu's documentary brings to the viewer a story about Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world, who ...
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Lovable

Original title (in Latvian): Milulis

2022 | Feature film, Short | Director: Stanislavs Tokalovs

Matiss is way too young to be suddenly left to care for his partner’s nine-year-old daughter. A responsibility like this reveals Matiss’ true nature, inner demons and a lack of relationships based on pure love.

Career, loyalty, power, wealth or love? A promising future, accidental opportunities, contrasting values and radical priorities for individualistic kids from a generation of independence and freedom. Cynical troublemaker Matiss does not stop at anything to gain personal advantages and to benefit from legal loopholes to cheat, manipulate and blackmail.
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