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From House to Home

Original title in Estonian: Majast koiduni

2022 | Students film, Documentary, TV Show | Director: Andrus Tuisk

The first episode of a documentary TV series: one family's story of building their first home, a private house.

The young family Hiios are building their first detached house and home in the Kristiine district of Tallinn. The show accompanies them throughout the year, from the demolition of their great-grandfather's house on the lot to the completion of the building and moving in nearly a year later.
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Heldeke, Dan

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Filip Martinovič

Dan Renwick eventually settled in Estonia after a life as a travelling street performer. This film is a reflection on the life he’s lived and envisages for his future in Estonia and beyond.

Dan Renwick owns his own vaudeville style theatre, Heldeke! We join Dan in his bar to discuss his life as a travelling performer and what fringe theatre means to him. He discusses his rejections from universities and how he made his own degree (to travel around the world without flying and perform on the street) which is yet to finish.
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Hero of the Future

Original title: Tuleviku kangelane

2022 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

Match fixing and corruption are dragging down Rwandan football club – will young Estonian coach save them?

A young Estonian football coach takes a dive into the unknown. Up until that day Jaanus Reitel had been coaching children, but now takes up an unexpected offer and travels to Rwanda, Africa. His task is to save a first division team from falling out of competition. Completely unfamiliar culture, regular match fixings and raging corona virus make a though goal even harder to reach. Is it possible to stay afloat in these circumstances? Turns out it's not as corruption becomes the last drop in his glass. Jaanus returns to homeland after years abroad and starts working for a top ...
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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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Horsepower

Original title: Hobujõud

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

Risto Kappet is a professional e-athlete who spends his work days in the corner of his room, turning the steering wheel of car simulator.

Horsepower is a unit that has dropped behind in time. Also dropping in time are the machines using fossil fuels, and even human relations, at least in the way that the older generations see them. In the 1920s, vehicles with combustible engines began to take over the work done by the horses. Just a hundred years later, virtual reality is in the beginning of its triumph, as is physical solitude that comes with it. Risto Kappet is a professional e-athlete who spends his work days in the corner of his room, turning the steering wheel of car simulator. Turning the wheel ...
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Jaan

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ann Marii Moorus

A 12 year old simple school boy travels the world and grows up through eye-opening experiences, meanwhile facing the struggle of homesickness and missing out part of the “normal” childhood.

Jaan is a 12 year old schoolboy, who travels to places, what only few people get to visit during their lifetime. He tells us a story about his latest trip to North-Pole. Spending four months in a polar day, living on a boat, facing dangerous animals like polar bears or polar-foxes and learning every day something new about the Mother-Earth. But what does it actually mean to be a child sailing the Arctic sea and discovering the world, while other kids are enjoying their summer vacation? Or how does a teenager actually understand the size of the opportunities he has ...
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Me and Her

Original title in Russian: Я и Она

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eldar Basmanov, Ahmed Fouad Ragab

A personal account of identity and intergenerational conflict in the post- Soviet world.

Eldar, a film student and transgender man, prepares to visit his conservative Russian grandmother, who has no idea that she no longer has a granddaughter, but a grandson. In this autobiographical film, he chronicles his transformation into his former female identity for the purpose of this visit, while preparing his film. In it, a fictional encounter takes place in which he comes out to his grandmother – just not the real one.
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New Life

Original title: Uus elu

2022 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

A film about an embassy of bygone times - a clothes menders in Nõmme which remains in business despite an onslaught of fast fashion.

A film about an embassy of bygone times - a clothes menders in Nõmme which remains in business despite an onslaught of fast fashion. It offers an atmospheric gallery of a valuable way of life. Mrs Külli, Mrs Ulve, Mr Arnold, and their clients all play an important role in this cycle of life. Recycling, upcycling, sustainable fashion – these are the magic words of our modern times which slow down mass consumption and value repurposing. At the same time, repairing clothes has been commonplace in this meager land for hundreds of years.
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Nostos Algos

2022 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

Film student Greta Liht`s short movie is about childhood and how to let those memories and places go. Therefore the main topic is letting go.

Luna goes back to her childhood home to retrieve childhood recordings hidden in a closet. Meeting the new owner and listening to old tapes made her realize that it is time to let those old memories go and she must move on with life.
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One in a million

Original title in Estonian: Üks miljonist

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Betra Käsper

A documentary about a girl with an incurable gene disease that affects only one in a million people.

“One in a million” talks about Janeliis, who has a really rare disease which has no cure. She is studying law and hasn't given up the hope of finding a doctor with answers. The story is from Janeliis’s perspecSve in hope to inspire people to never give up.
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