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Mercato

Original title: Turu majandus

2016 | Observation, Making of, Documentary | 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 | Documentary, Students film | 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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Our Home

Original title (in Finnish): "Meite Kodo"

2016 | Documentary, Students film | 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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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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Patarei ärkab ellu

2016 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Kolberg
Reading between the lines

Original title (in Estonian): "Ridade vahelt lugedes"

2016 | Short, Students film | Director: Nadja Girich

Adaptation of original letters by Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and estonian poetess Maria Karamzina.

An actress, suffering from midlife crisis, gets a role in a theatre performance alongside a famous actor, performing the touching story of friendship between world-known Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and Russian emigrant poet from Estonia Maria Karamsina. While performing the play, the actors’ sympathy surpasses the theatre stage, growing into something bigger in real life.
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Snegurochka (Snow-Maiden)

Original title in Russian: "Снегурочка"

2016 | Short, Students film | Director: Ilina Perianova

Old couple wants child but they can’t have it. All of a sudden they become miraculously parents overnight.
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Summer Night Love

Original title: Suveöö armastus

2016 | Short, Feature film | Director: Jürgen Volmer

Story about learning how to love on a cold summers night, when Kusta came to Maali, but she wouldn’t let him in. Based on a novel by Friedebert Tuglas.

The family is already asleep when Kusta knocks on the door. Behind it, sleeps Maali, crushed from the hard work, dreaming of getting married, raising a family, building a farm. But the knocker is a young servant Kusta, who just wants to spend the night in her warm hands. But Maali knows, why the boy is here and wont let him in. One wants to live, one wants to play, but Maali is already too old to waste her time on ___. But Kusta knows how to play and soon he’s lying in her bed. They both seem to enjoy ...
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Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher
Taotleja

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ken Saan