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Ambassador of Setomaa

2012 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

On either side of a disputed and un-ratified border between Estonia and Russia lies the land of the Seto people, Setomaa (meaning "Land of Wars" in the Seto language). Nowadays there are approximately 10 000 Setos left in the World. Valli who has grown up in a proper Seto family in Pechorsky District has been living in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for the last 40 years. According to her bloodline she is the fifth generation Seto folk singer. Besides her day-to-day work at Äripäev Publishing Valli continues to keep the traditions of singing and playing the garmon alive. However, ...
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Baskin

Original title: Baskin

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Portrait documentary about actor and theatre director Eino Baskin.

A portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audiences (especially women) for years. His private life has been tragicomic, full of laughter and tears. Baskin has been admired by some and cursed by others, and imprisoned after a fabricated porn court case. He has outlived his wife and kid daughter. Baskin has built two theatres from the scratch. After the second stroke he was in a coma for 47 days but returned. A rollercoaster is a cheap thrill compared to Baskin’s life.
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Beggar Writer's House

Original title: Vaeste kirjanike maja

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Why do we care for writers who don't care for anything or anybody, even not for themselves? Still we need them and feed them, we love them and give shelter. Can it be that at certain moments we would like to be writers and also have this love-hate relationship with the world that writers expose. So when we keep our poets in a special house and observe them like we watch animals in the zoo, listen how they shout and howl their poetry, we are partly freed from our everyday identity and become romantic poetry desperadoes too. Take a closer look ...
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Class of 1943

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Helga Merits
Corporate Video for TLU

2012 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Sigrid Reede

It is a story about a boy who wants to study in Tallinn University but his father thinks that education in TLU is not very strong.

Father and son are having a Skype conversation with their relative from USA.Son says he wants to study in TLU but the father is against it and suggests to study in USA because the relative is apparently doing very well. In the end we can see that success of the relative was a lie.
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Demons

Original title: Deemonid

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ain Mäeots

Tragicomedy directed by Ain Mäeots tells about the world of gambling. It is based on real events and real experiences, contemplating the game from the point of view of an addict.

Joko is a copywriter in his thirties, Reeda is a lifelong math teacher, and Ants manages a sanitary warehouse. All of them are gamblers. The three "totally normal" people cause a spiritual hell for themselves and their loved ones, building up a snowball of lies that will cover all good intentions.
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Edulugu

2012 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk, Ivar Põllu
Maadlusklubi

2012 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk, Ivar Põllu
Maxim

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Rainer Helin

Maxim is a hedonistic, sexual libertine and immoral man who engages in sinful pleasures as a source of happiness. Maxim is the host of the town’s most infamous lavish orgies where many young maidens are seduced and plucked from their innocence. To many Maxim is considered the devil in disguise. It is not until Phillip, the father of one of these young maidens decides to confront Maxim that his life of sin is disrupted. Maxim is called to a duel by Phillip to defend his daughter’s honor. Maxim is a social allegory to the dangers of primitive social behavior and ...
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Memory of Love

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Jackel Chow

Student Jackel Chow’s short film is a musical film assigned at 2nd semester project in MA level, which describes a chinese man’s fantasy with a mysterious regular customer in a cafe.

A story about a Chinese man suffering from being dumped off by his ex, until he meets a mysterious girl who comes to his cafe everyday, which put him into a unforgettable memory and fantasy.
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