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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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Mother

Original title: Ema

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

Mother is a thrilleresque story about the consequences of years of self-deception, unfulfilled dreams and lack of love.

This small town crime story in the pastel tones of modern retro offers recognition and bitter humour. “Mother” is a thrilleresque story about rash decisions made in the name of dreams that will have haunting consequences for some time to come. The film focuses on a woman whose adult son has fallen into a coma after being shot. Taking care of him at home, she has to face a whole town trying to solve the puzzle of what exactly happened. But in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everything except for what’s right under their nose, the world’s ...
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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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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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Seneca's Day

Original title: Seneca päev

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kristijonas Vildžiūnas

It is 1989, the final year of the Soviet era in Vilnius. Eighteen-year old buddies establish the Seneca’s Fellowship. Its motto is, “Live each day as if it was your last.”

It is 1989, the final year of the Soviet era in Vilnius. Eighteen-year old buddies establish the Seneca’s Fellowship. Its motto is, “Live each day as if it was your last.” A love triangle breaks up the fellowship right at the time the nation experiences an exceptional sense of community via the Baltic Chain. Twenty-five years later, the main character, who appears to be accompanied by good luck at first glance, is disillusioned with himself. He has betrayed the ideals of his youth and become a cold observer of life. Life forces him to open up his own Pandora’s box.
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Sirius

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Rebeka Rummel

Filmstudent Rebeka Rummel presents a story of a young girl who is reticent and who gets into fight with her little brother who tries to communicate with her.

Reticent and fighting with ones thoughts Joanna is left with her little brother one night, with whom she is become distant. After another conflict between them brother takes off to unknown place. For the first time in forevever Joanna is feeling something else beside sadness and indifference. Finding her brother makes her feel angry wich is mixed with a concerne. All this makes her recognise that she is not alone.
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Sitting Tenant

Original title (in Estonian): "Sundüürnik"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

Short documentary, directed by Maria Aua, is about her childhood home memories when her family were sitting tenants.

Maria lost her home because of the new property reform at the beginning of 90s. Her home had all of the sudden new owners and Maria ́s family had become sitting tenants. The new house owner wanted to get rid of the tenants, he started to take steps to make it happen by taking away basic living conditions. The way Maria had to leave her home still haunts her, there are unlikable memories connected to the owner. She returns to her childhood home to find a reconciliation with the owner who terrorized her family.
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Snegurochka (Snow-Maiden)

Original title in Russian: "Снегурочка"

2016 | Students film, Short | 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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Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher