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Last Class at Kasari

Original title: Viimane lend

2016 | Documentary | Director: Liis Lepik

A story of a countryside school in Estonia that will be shut down.

Kristo is a first grade student in Kasari School at Estonian countryside. During the school week he lives in the dormitory with his brother and two sisters. Warm relationships have developed between the children and the teachers but by the spring their school will be closed forever.
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Meeskond

2016 | Documentary | Director: Hindrek Maasik
Miriam’s Hen’s Dream

Original title: Miriami kana unistus

2016 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Andres Tenusaar

On a rainy autumn day Father and Little Brother are building a plane, Miriam is watching a picture book about southern countries, Hen is dreaming about flying away to the south – just as the cranes in the autumn sky. When the rain is over everybody goes with Mother to the park, to rake the fallen leaves. Even there Hen is exited about flying to the south, she climbs on top of the birch tree and tries to fly but falls into the pile of leaves... Little Brother proposes his toy plane, Father throws it into the air but even ...
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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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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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Our world is theirs

Title in Estonian: Meie maailm on nende oma

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mati Kark

Journalistic documentary about the conflict between Israel and Palestine from the point of view of local Arabs and Jews.

Residents of Palestine try to preserve normal daily life despite the bloody conflict with Israel. Palestinian children go to school, local farmers grow vegetables, young people dream about the better future – everyone tries to go on living a normal life. Among others, local headmaster and peace activist Jalal Khudairy, taxi driver Taisir Jubeh, agricultural entrepreneur Mohammad Shraim, basketball coach Abedalraziq Ezzat, olive grower Shareef Khaled, Madli Maruste, volunteer from Estonia, share their thoughts about life and solving the conflict. The documentary also shows the life of Palestinians in a refugee camp and in Israeli settlements founded in the middle ...
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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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Reading between the lines

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

2016 | Students film, Short | 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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Short and fiction

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Sintija Andersone

Couple fools younger girls to re-fresh their relationship.

Film about a twisted couple who has created a peculiar way how to keep their relationship new. The husband seduces younger girls and brings them home for a romantic evening that ends with sex. Next morning the wife gets to lecture and humiliate the young girl.
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