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A Dozen Questions about Estonia: Singing Journey

Original title (in Estonian): "Tosin küsimust Eesti kohta: Laulu teekond"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Jürgen Volmer

“A Dozen Questions about Estonia“ introducing Estonia and the nature of Estonians through the 12 short films.

Short film „Singing Journey“ is based on the question „Why are the Estonians called a singing nation?“ and tells a story inspired by this question.
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A Dozen Questions about Estonia: Error

Original title (in Estonian): "Tosin küsimust Eesti kohta: Error"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

“A Dozen Questions about Estonia“ introducing Estonia and the nature of Estonians through the 12 short films.

Short film „Error“ is based on the question „What brings bread to the table in Estonia?“ and tells a story inspired by this question.
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Alone

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Anil Kapur

A girl is watching a scary movie in her home, but slowly she starts to realize that she is not alone.
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Apples of the Eye

Original title in Estonian: Silmaterad

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristina Amor

The film is about a blind man who doesn’t let his disability to restrict him from living a normal family life. His positive attitude has made it possible for him to be a full member of the society.
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Between Two Worlds

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liva Kalnina

This short poetic documentary focuses on the talented Latvian singer Dainis Skutelis, who is literally spending his life between two worlds. He is a singer in the Latvian National Opera, however, he can't stand the city life and feels the most happy in his countryside, which is more than 200 kilometers away from Riga. Therefore almost most of his time Dainis spends on the road between these two cities and even lives.

Even though the initial idea of this film was to show the contrast between those two lifestyles Dainis is living, during the shooting process Dainis suddenly announced that he has quit his job in the Latvian National Opera and from now on he will focus on renewing his country house where his daughter could grow up.
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Child of Nature

Original title: Looduslaps

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

In two years she changed from a Playboy cover model into a child of nature.

Everything she needs for living, Mari gets from nature. Pollen and dew drops are part of her daily menu. From autumn to spring Mari's only food consists only of freshly squeezed juice and water. In summer she also eats a handful of berries straight from the forest or her own garden and sleeps right there - under the open sky. She spends her days picking herbs and making tinctures of wasp's nests and toadstools. Who could have thought that some years ago this girl was a model on a Playboy cover...
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Collector

Original title: Koguja

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

Documentary directed by Mati Põldre tells about Olaf Esna - a bibliophile and antiquary in Pärnu.

Olaf Esna is an ardent book lover and keen on his home town Pärnu. He knows local history and people in detail. During the last decades Esna has been running a second-hand book shop. But he is not a regular salesman. Olaf Esna's passion is to collect and to deliver his valuable stuff to the right people. Many come around just for advice but some find hidden treasures, may it be ghost stories as a word of mouth or old time newspaper serials from the shelf. Even a known world traveler would enter as a pilgrim. In 2011 Olaf Esna was awarded Order of the White Star 5th ...
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Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis

Original title: Dora Gordine: Ars gratia artis

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Annaleena Piel Linna

Estonian-British documentary about Dora Gordine (1895-1991), a jewish young woman who grew up in Tallinn, Estonia, and became an internationally renowned sculptor, designer and artistocrat loved by high society.

In her hayday, Dora Gordine was considered to be one of the most talented sculptors in the world. Gordine was born in Libau, Latvia; grew up and studied sculpture in Tallinn, Estonia. While rising to fame in Paris, France via the Far East, she finally settled in London where her steady rise continued well beyond her contemporaries. Thanks to the marriage with the son of an Earl, Gordine managed to push her way to the top of the British aristocracy as one of her statues was opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself in 1963. The documentary focuses on discovering and ...
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Final Call

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Peteris Masjenčenko

With fluid style and thick atmosphere, "Final Call" aims to suck the viewer into the emotional turmoil of the work and stress before the start of a performance.

Lights fill a theatre stage, only a low hum and the almost inaudible audience is heard. An actress stands in the darkness just off-stage, gathering the strength to jump into the light. "Final Call" shows the work and stress that goes into the final moments of preparation before the start of a theatre play: cast and crew members having their last cigarettes and relaxing before starting an intense warm-up together with their director. The focus lise not in the actual technical challenges of putting together the play, but rather the human emotion that arises from the high-stakes situation where everything must ...
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Flowerman

Original title in Russian: Цветочник

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Jevgeni Bõstrov

While a lazy mamma's boy Semjon loses his job and girlfriend Veronica, his brisk mum decides to take control of the situation.
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