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Woman and the Glacier

Original title in Lithuanian: Moteris ir ledinas

2016 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Audrius Stonys

A story of the fragile Woman and the eternal Glacier.

The Lithuanian scientist Aušra Revutaite has spent 30 years in the Tien Shan mountain range in Central Asia, straddling the borders between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Some 3,500 meters above sea level with only her faithful dog and grey cat for company, she studies climate change on the Tuyuksu Glacier at an old Soviet-era research station. She loves the solitude and silence that her painstaking work brings her. Magnificent shots of her surroundings and everyday work are interspersed with archive footage of the people who preceded her by a century. Not much seems to have ...
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A Fragile World

Original title: Habras maailm

2016 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Ants Tammik

The film depicts two different worlds - man made and natural - opposites both in terms of content and form.

The film depicts two different worlds - man made and natural - opposites both in terms of content and form. One of the most striking features of Estonian nature are its bog landscapes. Bogs act as a kind of filter by absorbing exhaust gas and cleaning the air for people to breathe. Bogs are also good at safeguarding groundwater. Still, it is not all blue skies ahead for these natural landscapes. The film depicts two different worlds, opposites both in terms of content and form. Products of evolution, the irregular natural landscapes together with their inhabitants stand in opposition to manmade regularity, ...
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A Husband and a Wife. A Voitan Story

Original title: Mees ja naine

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mait Laas

A wife went out to cut the rye, while the husband was at home sick. The man asked if the work would soon be finished and the wife replied that it would. The husband went out to check and saw that his wife was asleep and the work had just begun. The husband cut his sleeping wife’s hair off and smeared her head with tar. The wife came home and asked the husband through the window, „Is your wife at home?“ The husband replied that she was. The wife cried, „The devil has exchanged me and I will always roam about as the devil’s wife!“

A wife went out to cut the rye, while the husband was at home sick. The man asked if the work would soon be finished and the wife replied that it would. The husband went out to check and saw that his wife was asleep and the work had just begun. The husband cut his sleeping wife’s hair off and smeared her head with tar. The wife came home and asked the husband through the window, „Is your wife at home?“ The husband replied that she was. The wife cried, „The devil has exchanged me and I will always roam ...
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Astrid

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Sander Koit

Unlikely friendship between an old woman and a thief.

Astrid is a 82 year old woman, living alone in an old house, near town borders. She lives a life she can no longer sustain: the house is in great need of repair and she is often needy for her family’s assistance, who live in the town and are bothered by constant requests. Her everyday life takes a sharp turn when she gets caught up in a conflict with two thieves.
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Bird Flu

Original title: Linnugripp

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Tender

A love affair between Birdman and Snakewoman.

Story about a man and a snake, an alcoholized penguin and the disappearance of birds. Story about an apple tree and apples, about roots and rootlessness. Story about a paradise and about the expel from it.
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Carmina Burana

2016 | Students film, Music video | Director: Kristen Kivistik

Live recording of Carmina Burana performed by TLÜ Symphonic orchestra.

On Walpurgis Night, 30 th of April, there was a live broadcast of the traditional spring concert by Tallinn University’s symphonic orchestra, who this year performed Carl Orff’s epic cantata “Carmina Burana”. Conductor Martin Sildos lead, in addition to the orchestra, where over 50 students, teachers and workers of TLÜ play, also a choir with 110 singers and soloists Maria Listra, Valter Soosalu and Atlan Karp.
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Chase

2016 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Dagmara Kucinska

Two guys are running through the corridors of Tallinn University. In the end the assassin kills the thief.
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Eat me!

2016 | Students film, Music video | Director: Ilina Perianova

Human’s relationship to food, its contents and food waste.

Glittering socialite Laura starts slipping from the daily reality of a weight obsessed rich man's mistress. While on a fancy dinner with her gluttonous lover she enters a strange world where food dances and sings. The whirlwind of dance blows the air out of Laura's head and she becomes a different type of girl... How people treat each other is mirrored in the way we treat our environment and our food. That's why “Eat me” focuses on our attitude to food, its dubious contents and food waste through the prism of a skewed relationship.
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Ghost

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Worapoj In-lao

Based on personal journey, conjunction of superstitious belief and Ecocriticism.

Ghost is the personal documentary film about the journey of film student who travel to the northern Thailand regularly for touristic sake, every time he will be warned by the locals to not come over in the summer by threatfully claiming that guardian spirit will not welcome non-local. He finds that caution suspicious but appealing to prove. Hence he makes the returned journey which leads him to face unrecognized place.
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Holy Motors - Sleeprydr

2016 | Students film, Music video | Director: Sameli Muurimäki

Music video directed by media student Sameli Muurimägi talks about reality and memories that are combined in a dreamlike car ride.

Dreamlike journey where young woman’s past starts to follow her.The protagonist is chased by pale faced hitchhiker men, played by other band member, who impersonate death and woman conscious, until they reach her and disappear to darkness.
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