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Easter! at Billnäs Chocolate Factory

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jay Ngo

Billnäs Chocolate Factory is an independent business headed by French entrepreneur Gerald Coniel. As the name implies, it specializes in artisan chocolate products and is located in the idyllic village of Billnäs, Finland. In April 2023, Gerald Coniel is tasked with organizing the first ever Easter Egg Hunt for the area’s 200+ resident families. With the help of his small team, he must produce and hide over 900+ chocolate eggs for the event. Will this Easter at Billnäs Chocolate Factory be a success?

French Chocolatier Gerald Coniel takes on his first community challenge after 1.5 years of running his independent chocolate factory in the remote Finnish village of Billnäs: preparing and organizing the first ever Chocolate Easter Egg Hunt for the area’s 200+ resident families.
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Lumi ja Leenu

2022 | Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

A documentary by Mirjam Matiisen is about Silvi who is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use

Silvi is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use. Unfortunately Silvi sees no future in keeping the cows, so the time has come to send her two beloved animals away.
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Bird's Nest

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Juss Saska

Short documentary about Longchang apartment in Shanghai

This is beautiful group portrait of historical Longchang apartments in Shanghai. It depicts how people’s everyday life moves along inside apartment day by day. It focuses on showing various perspectives of different generations who live there.
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Hearth

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Rabbe Sandström

"Hearth" is a poetic movie that uses natural elements to create a suggestive dance.

"Hearth" is a poetic documentary on the elements and movements of nature and an ode to the haiku poets of old. The word hearth refers for the central fireplace that heats a house, that for centuries has been the heart of a home around which people have gathered for warmth, safety and food. Hearth is a reminder and a meditation on the primordial conditions that surround us and on the hearth that protects us.
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New Neighbours

Original title: Uued naabrid

2018 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Two political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa.

In this new short documentary of Riho Västrik the political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa. Tapa is a railway junction 90 km from Tallinn. During the Soviet occupation it housed a Red Army training centre and airport. The population then was 12000 people, now it is half the size and half are Russian-speaking people. The neglected Soviet training centre is a stone’s throw from the NATO base where in spring 2017 allied forces moved in.
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14 Cases

Original title: 14 käänet

2017 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Film follows different age present-day Estonian Russians who are facing difficulties with their identities.

The film is based on several parallel personal stories of Russian families. During almost four years, the filmmakers observed Ksenija and Emilia who went to an Estonian kindergarten at the age of 5; 7th-grade pupil Mark who preferred Estonian school; and high-school student Vitali who went to study to St. Petersburg from Estonia. The film attempts to understand the problems that the children and their parents whose native language is Russian are dealing with - fears and hesitations, hopes and frustation, successes and failures, integration and isolation, language and identity. Regardless of being afraid of losing their identity, the protagonists ...
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Come Back Free

Original title: Tule tagasi vabana

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison.

A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison. The Chechen gravediggers are always busy. Death is an everyday visitor. It does not even matter that yet another war has ended. The people live stuck in a circle of vengeance. They also gather into circles to chant prayers to God. Only the cows are grazing calmly next to the cemetery and the children are happily going about their business. The Chechens’ parting words to one another are, “May you come back free!”
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Three Jewels

Original title in Estonian: Kolm juveeli

2016 | Documentary, Anthropological, Students film, TV Show | Director: Gerli Nõmm

Documentary tells the story of three women from different generations who all have dedicated their lives to the most ancient and endangered Cambodian art forms – Smot chanting.

Documentary film „Three Jewels“ tells the story about hopes and dreams of three Cambodian women of different generations. They are all connected by the same passion – the passion for traditional Khmer dharma chanting/Smot chanting. Our main character Srey Oun is a 35-year-old woman who has stayed single, and given up her dream of studying traditional music in Phnom Penh, to stay with her old parents and help them with backbreaking household works. 25 year-old Srey Pov, on the other hand, has it all – she is a famous Smot chanter and owns a business that enables her to support ...
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Palju õnne!

2004 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv
During the Ebb

Original title: Mõõna aegu

1974 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Arnold Altmäe

Poetical documentary by Arnold Altmäe about the idle winter period in fishermen's lives and the human yearning for a real profession.

The documentary was completed as a graduation work at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. It tells about the fishermen in a collective farm in Nasva, Saaremaa island. We can see the fishermen preparing for winter as they take their boats out of water. They have nothing much to do except ice fishing. When spring arrives, the long-awaited trawl ship returns from ocean fishing and finally a motorboat together with nets and fishermen goes off to sea again.
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