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Recover connection

Original title (in Estonian): "Taasta side"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Tõnis Pill

This short movie by Tõnis Pill tells a story of a father and a son and of their complex relationship.

A young cop named Siim inflitrates into the criminal world to catch the main bad guy. During the operation Siim discovers that his own father is one of the bad guys. The operation takes a turn as father and son reconnect and old wounds are torn open.
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Sidekick

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Harri Turunen

Human story in a superhero setting.

The mistreated sidekick of a superhero decides to become a villain, but ends up questioning his identity.
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Strawberry

Original title (in Estonian): "Armuavaldus"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Tormi Torop

Short film abot a woman who has to face a big challenge.

Do you believe that someone who you don't know, who you've never met, can turn your life upside down? Katrin is walking home from the night club when she is kidnapped by three men. Her kidnappers present her with an ultimatum: help them or die. Sitting in the backseat, surrounded by a dark night and her kidnappers, Katrin must convince her coworker to help her over the phone. But he's growing weary of her. There's no time and only everything to lose.
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The Battles with the Words

Original title in Estonian: "Sõnalahingud"

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Reeli Reinaus

The film observes a daily life of speech therapist Kadi in Adeli Rehabilitation Center and efforts which three kids make to get along with words.

The film observes the daily life of the speech therapist Kadi in Adeli Rehabilitation Center. Emil, Lilit and Remi are the kids who try to get along with words better. Kadi tries to make their battle with words easier by engaging different games into this process. We see how Kadi manages her task, but also learn which is her own personal relationship to letters and words.
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The Man Who Looks Like Me

Original title: Minu näoga onu

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Maimik, Katrin Maimik

A music critic Hugo, suffering from post-divorce depression, is just about to rebuild his life when his jazz musician father Raivo arrives at his door unexpectedly. When an attractive psychotherapist enters the men’s lives, the father and son duo begin to compete for her attention.

A music critic Hugo, suffering from post-divorce depression, is just about to rebuild his life when his jazz musician father Raivo arrives at his door unexpectedly. When an attractive psychotherapist enters the men’s lives, the father and son duo begin to compete for her attention.
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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Tiiu Aru näitus Viljandi raamatukogus

2017 | Amateur films, Documentary | Director:
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War

Original title: Sõda

2017 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

War is a story about a fighter for “peace”, who after having returned from a mission could not come to terms with his life anymore, with the life between the present and the eternity. The documentary was filmed in Afghanistan and Australia.

In a Christian culture, suicide is a taboo, and a soldier’s suicide is a double taboo. Rivo, who has been on a military mission to Afghanistan twice, suffers from a post-traumatic disorder, which ends in suicide. For four years, Rivo’s girlfriend Hanna tries to battle his psychological disorder, but then gives up and moves from Estonia to Australia. Six months later Rivo steps in front of a train. His last message to those who know him is to forgive him. In Dino Buzzati’s novel The Tartar Steppe nameless soldiers, who serve a nameless emperor in a nameless country, are waiting for ...
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Wheel of Life

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maris Kerge

The story about change, in a persons life. Hitting rock-bottom due to alcohol abuse. Finding an escape through religion.

Raivo is a simple man from Hiiumaa, whos life weered of a stable path, due to alcohol abuse. Film tells his story, about how with the help of religion he found his way back. Metaphorically he goes through the psychology pratice „wheel of life“ and it turns out that to this day he has achieved personal balance – the wheel turns without obstacles.
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