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My Drug of Choice

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Karmen Hännile

Media student Karmen Hännile's short film is about the problem of self-confidence.

A young man wakes up in the morning and starts making coffee. The preparation of his favorite drink lasts all day until he realizes that he is ready to win the next day's championship. But coffee plays a wicked trick on him.
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Professional amateur

Title in Estonian: Professionaalne amatöör

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Indrek Kangro

Documentary portrait about filmmaker Jaan-Jürgen Klaus who cannot be classified under the definition of filmmaker but he is definitely much more than just an amateur.

Life is too decent in Tartu in the year of 2008. There is no longer the bohemian crowd and there are less and less meeting spots for them. Tartu is becoming an overcivilized Scandinavian small town. Jaan-Jürgen Klaus, a young resident of Tartu, passionate film amateur and chronicler of his time feels sorry about the situation. Despite everything Jaan-Jürgen attempts to record the disappearing world, bearers of the spirit of Tartu who have not eluded the filmmaker.
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Rampcramp

Original title: Rambikramp

2008 | Feature film, Short | Director: Katrin Sipelgas, Elen Lotman

A young man, trick bicyclist, loses his self-confidence when he has to create a terrorist persona for a computer game.

One day when riding his BMX bike, Jan has a mental breakdown. It is not that he is having a competition fever – but for some reason, some kind of fear takes away his self-confidence. During the day the pressure grows even stronger, things pile up. Among other things, Jan has to meet a deadline for designing visuals for a new computer game. It's just a gig, but quite an odd one: the player can act the role of Mohanned Attaks who was the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attack. No wonder Jan gets stuck.
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2008 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Eva Ligi
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Silent film

2008 | Students film, Music video | Director: Ove Musting
Sophie

2008 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Helen Vinogradov

"Life is a flower!" Is often heard from 20-year-old Sophie. She is a girl who, after high school, decided to explore the wide world, participating in shamanic rites and traveling around with "hippies."
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Surmaretk

2008 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Tõnis Lepik, Riina Valmsen
The Man with green backpack

Original title in Estonian: Rohelise seljakotiga mees

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Raigo Saariste

An allegorical story about the conflict between power and spirit, completed as a group work of film students.

An allegorical story about the conflict between power and spirit. Power rules through fear, spirit threatens power by striving for freedom. A man with a backpack arrives in the waiting room of the railway station and starts reading poems in a loud voice, but the officials of the station cannot allow such disorder.
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The Player

Original title: Mängija

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

Documentary about Jaan Ehlvest, legendary Estonian chess player, international grandmaster. The film investigates his self-searching and relationship with professional sports and his family.

The documentary about professional chess player Jaan Ehlvest and his daily life in a harsh world of professional sports where every result influences one's income and subsistence. The protagonist questions whether it is worth living a life where between championships he keeps running through different American cities and staying in hotels that look exactly the same. So it is not that much a sports documentary but rather a view into a development story of a talented and selfish man.
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The Radical

Title in Estonian: Radikaal

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk

Portrait documentary directed by Andres Maimik and Rain Tolk about Margus Lepa – the charismatic programme manager of Nõmme Radio, humorist, and the audience's favorite actor in the film trilogy "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn".

Legendary entertainer Margus Lepa who also played the role of Jorh Adniel Kiir entered the rows of left-wing politicians, then left these with a scandal and made a radical change – now being a right-wing radio programme leader. Margus Lepa is a one-man band – he interviews, provokes, argues and reveals both real and imagniary conspiracy theories in his radio programmes. Filmmakers attempt to find out what is behind this total transformation and who are the people finding solace from Margus Lepa's bitter rhetorics.
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