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Let's Play War

Original title: Täna mängime sõda

2016 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of the era.

While there are less and less World War II veterans among the living, the battles of this war keep reoccurring on different battlegrounds in the Eastern territories of contemporary Europe. Young Estonian men Andrey and Reimo have gotten killed several times in these fights. Each time they resurrect, because these are the rules of the game they play along with their comrades from a military club “Frontline”. Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of ...
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Life Before Life

Original title: Elu enne elu

2016 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Rao Heidmets

Truth is a relative concept. Depending on the point of view, everybody can be right.

In a beautiful flowery meadow, the miracle of life is taking place. A new life is born. The newborn butterfly Bruno flies into the wide world to look for something better, not realizing that he was born at the best place ever. Soon he finds himself at a big bush. The leaves of the bush give off a substance narcotic for insects. The busy life going on in the bush impresses Bruno. This is what he’s been looking for. But life and death walk hand in hand here, and just before landing on a leaf, Bruno is eaten up. Only ...
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Mausoleum

Original title: Mausoleum

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Lauri Randla

Tragicomical short film directed by Lauri Randla about pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who embalmed Lenin's body and gained victory over death.

Grotesque and tragicomical story about the Soviet pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who eviscerated Lenin's dead body in 1924 and performed its initial enbalming. Since then, Abrikosov's and his assistant Sasha's lives have been related to taking care of Lenin's body. It is the year 1936, the era of Stalin's night-time repressions. No one can sleep, there are arrestments and executions. No one is protected from the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), especially the élite of USSR. And then, right before the 1st of May, a fly gets into the Lenin's sarcophagus. Before the visit of the great leader Stalin, Abrikosov ...
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Mercato

Original title: Turu majandus

2016 | Documentary, Observation, Making of | Director: Mihkel Ulk

Documentary film “Mercato" takes the viewer into one of the world’s poorest counties, Ethiopia. In the largest open air market in Africa, we follow the most ordinary working day of 10 year old shoe shine boys, wood-carrying ladies, an arrogant messenger and a well educated tourist guide.

Abebe and Ashenafi are ordinary 10-year old boys, whose parents sent them to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to work as shoe shine boys so the family would not starve. Abtu is an orphan teenager and works as a talalaki or a messenger, but work is the least on his mind. Bertukan is a mother of three. In order to survive, she carries heavier loads of wood than she herself weighs. Mulugeta is an educated guide who, thanks to his language skills, has an higher ranking in local society. All these Ethiopians are brought together in the Africa's largest market ...
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My Iranian Grandmother

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariam Afrahi

A journey to the life of Miriam' s 80-year-old Grandmother, who lives alone in a small town in Iran. A woman in a mans’ world.

“My Iranian Grandmother” is a documentary about filmmaker's grandmother who lives alone in a small town in central Iran. At the age of 80, Parvin is not your typical Iranian woman in a country filled with patriarchy.
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National Library of Estonia

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Francesco Crivaro

Erasmus Movie Masters' architecture film about the National Library of Estonia.

“National Library” takes you on a journey through the bloodstream of a library, depicting it as a living and breathing organism responsible for providing us with our “oxygen”.
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On the other side

Original title (in Estonian): "Üle müüri"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Eret Kuusk

The short movie by Eret Kuust tells a story of a couple looking for their lost dog and through that they test their relationship and honesty for each other.

A man and a woman go into the woods to find their missing dog. While looking for him, the woman finds the dog – dead. In their humanly weakness they are both afraid to face the painful truth. Do you tell the truth or stay silent forever?
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Our Home

Original title (in Finnish): "Meite Kodo"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Daniel Picón, Meelika Lehola

The film follows three female characters from the tiny island of Kihnu with only 346 inhabitants, struggling not to lose their faith in their homeland, which is dying out.

Kihnu is a well-known island among Estonians, partly for its odd yet very interesting traditions, the inhabitants’ sense of strong community, their own dialect which is called Kihnu Keel among other things. A problem that many people are probably not aware of is that Kihnu is facing a situation of very fast decreasing population, which can be a factor of many things like lack of job opportunities or centralization to the bigger cities. This story concentrates on the lives of three women of 3 different generations all affected by the present problem but who still dream of staying in Kihnu. ...
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Out of Internal Worlds

Original title: Siseilmadest väljas

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Helen Unt

A woman and a man go about their business in the same room but intervention is necessary in order for them to get together with each other.

A fly rubs its hands. A man and a woman, inside and outside, balance within them and between them. The fly flies. Snails swing. The fly flies.
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Outdoor Games

Title in Estonian: Õuemängud

2016 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Reisberg

Nine mothers establishing the first outdoor community preschool in Tartu, Estonia.

Nine young mothers have made up their minds to found a community daycare in Tartu, Estonia. The mother's wish that their children could run and play as much as possible. The daycare is opened by the River Emajõgi where the children are outdoors during every season and almost in every weather conditions. Filmmakers follow the first year of the daycare when the roles are still shifting from being a mother and a teacher, a visionary and a practicioner. The most difficult issue is coping with the financial situation, freezing weather and public opinion. Through the dreams of young motohers the ...
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