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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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Jaan Poska

2016 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp
Kihnu kivilaeva lugu

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Reet Laos
Land of Soul

Original title: Hingemaa

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne, Erik Norkroos

The oldest, almost century-old Estonian church in America is about to fall apart.

In a remote countryside, six hours drive from Chicago, near Gleason village there is an alley called Estonian Church Road. At the end of this alley there stands a little wooden church and an abandoned graveyard that has probably a dozen graves next to it. This building with a broken roof and a leaning tower is the first church in America built by Estonians. It was built a hundred years ago and is desperately in need of repair. In Peedu, Tartumaa County, Tõnis Mägi receives an unexpected phone call. Jaan Karukäpp is calling from Chicago. He with other local Estonians is ...
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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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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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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 Name Boris

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Krish Makhija

"My Name Boris" is an architecture film focusing on the grain elevator building in Tallinn, Estonia.

After years of being a place filled with rough, rugged men spending their time on hard, manual labor, the building has been renovated and is slowly filling up with offices, cafeterias and eco- stores selling gluten-free muffins. For someone who has lived through 2 world wars but always served the same function, this triggers an identity crisis.
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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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Sanctuarium

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

Vyacheslav Bihun's documentary about a sacred place called Sanctuarium.

There is a sacred place called Sanctuarium. It is not physically fixed. It is a temporal refuge where you can gain immunity from modern world chaos. You can discover it within yourself. But if it's difficult to find it, you might visit such the place and its Founder in Tallinn’s Old Town, known as Ukrainian Cultural Center.
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