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Behind the Lightbox

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sissel-Maria Mägi, Margot Privoi

The short documentary made by second year media student follows and speaks with the second year animator student who is currently working on his first animation film.

A creative observational documentary following a young artist in the beginning of this journey as an animator. His ways of trying to find balance between the real and fantasy world.
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Burlesquers

Original title: Burleskitarid

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kristjan Ojang

A portrait about Estonian burlesque performers, how they organise events in Estonia and prepare for performances.

Walking around the streets you cannot see what´s going on in other peoples souls. How tdo hey entertain themselves at weekends, or what does really excite them? Documentary „Burlesquers” is about ordinary people who are ready and willing to go on the stage and take their clothes off.
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Family Lies

Original title: Perekonnavaled

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik, Manfred Vainokivi

“Family Lies” by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald (Roman Baskin), who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei (Tambet Tuisk) must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. “Family ...
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Gorilla Tourism

Title in Estonian: Gorillamajandus

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher

Documentary about the daily life of mountain gorillas and the local forest guides who mediate the gorillas to tourists. There are both battles with poaching as well as extreme poverty common to Africa.

Rwanda in Eastern Africa is a place that already for the past twenty years, after the last civil war and genocide where almost a million people were killed, has been successful in avoiding ethnic conflicts and in constructing a new society of conciliation. The main source of income for the people in this country of the Hutu and the Tutsi is mainly agriculture; however, the strict rulers of the state want to turn this mountaneous country into one of the most modern and technologically developed small states of Africa. But the main source of financing this grand plan is mountain ...
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Homecoming

Original title (in Estonian): "Kodu"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Loore-Emilie Raav

A documentary by the student Loore Emilie Raav is about the animal protector Kadri Taperson living in Hiiumaa and her everyday work and life on the island regarding the animal protection. At the same time the leading character Kadri has an animal shelter in her personal home.

Kadri Taperson who is living in Hiiumaa is involved in animal protection on the island, at the same time keeping an animal shelter in her personal home. Kadri’s days are tight because there’s incredibly much work on a little island of Hiiumaa – she needs to rush from one case to another. Each moment the phone may ring because something has happened again.
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House of a Dream

Original title: Ühe unistuse maja

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

For most people ballet is dancing. For ballet dancers this is life!

Tallinn Ballet School has been the starting point of the dancers' careers since 1946. This film puts together a joint portrait describing a dancer's life in the eyes of different generations. The young students who have only just begun their studies and the graduates preparing for their final exams are all observed by former ballet stars who today determine the fates of people in the house where they also once started their journey. Whose dream will prevail and whose will die?
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Joke of the Day

Original title (in Estonian): "Päeva parim nali"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Ulrike Brett Uukkivi

Film is about the relationship between father and son who are both stand up comedians.

"Joke of the day" is a comical story about Rein and Ants Päev's relationship. They also happen to be doing the same profession, atleast that's what the father thinks. What happens if father Rein goes to ask his son Ants for a favor to perform on his show? Film shows comical people not so comical life.
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Kellapid

2016 | TV Serial, TV3 Serial | Director: Indrek Simm
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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Morning

2016 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Anett Naruskberg

Alvery is falling into a depression. Every morning is a struggle for her, because when she wakes up she recalls the bad events that happened to her in the last months.
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