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Roof Knocking

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Sina Salimi

Short film about the war in Palestine. Gaza, 2014. Mid-Ramadan. A mother struggles to abandon her home as she receives a phone threat giving her 10 minutes to leave. What is lost when the bomb hits?

In war-stricken Palestine, a woman prepares a meal to break the fast in the month of Ramadan. A phone call by an Israeli soldier alerts her of the bombing of her building in ten minutes. Coming to accept her family’s fate is the only way she can make a stand for her life, with grim consequences.
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Searching for Andrus

Original title in Estonian: "Andruse jälgedes"

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Paula Maria Vahtra

Paula Vahtra’s and Raido Pedak’s half-an-hour documentary „Searching for Andrus“ follows the story of a film student searching for a homeless man.

Paula, a film student in Estonia decides to find a homeless man, Andrus, whom she made a film about, when she comes across a murder of another homeless man. She goes on a long search to find him and on the way meets people who struggle for life in the streets of Tallinn. Through this journey the hard life of homeless people is revealed. But the question remains will Paula find Andrus and what will happen to these characters she meets?
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Tanel Padar "Wish You Well"

Original title (in Estonian): "Tanel Padar "Soovin head"

2017 | Students film, Music video | Director: Laura Lisete Roosaar

Music video for Tanel Padar’s single “Soovin head” (“Wish you well”) from his EP “Parem veelgi” (2017).

The story follows a lover’s quarrel in a back- ward motion, rewinding a violent fight into the point of rupture.
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Tartu Video Kroonikad

2017 | Amateur films, Documentary | Director: Erkki Ergma, Lauri Hermann, Alar Randoja
The Death of a Government Clerk

Original title (in Estonian): "Ametniku surm"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Rebeka Rummel

The film is set in a fictional dictatorship world. Ivan, a poor government clerk is desperately trying to remain invisible at work, but an accidental sneeze on a higher official turns the situation against him. The story shows us what endless paranoia and constant fear can do to a feeble human mind.
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Thousand Villages

Original title in Estonian: "Tuhat küla"

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mihkel Oksmann

Post apocalyptic story about the small towns and villages of Estonia.

“Thousand Villages” is a post-apocalyptic documentary film, that shows the life of a young man who escaped from the capital city and moved to small village to find his inner balance. It captures the phenomenon of shrinking of the small towns and villages.
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Täideviija

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Roald Johannson
U48 2017: Death of the Mother

Original title in Estonian: U48: Ema surm

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Teemu Kettunen

A short film about a dying mother in a disconnected family.

Ema Surm examines a disconnected family through a mother’s eyes in her deathbed, while her husband is trying to capture the last moments of her and their daughter with a smartphone.
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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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Zoopark

2017 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

The discomfort that people feel when looking monkeys in a cage is a warning sign.

Visiting the zoo is a feast day. The zoo is a place where the lion and the hare live happily side by side and the children train makes daring circles. Many don’t know that the zoo is open 365 days a year and just like the animals, does not rest the people who take care of them. Film opens the hidden side of legendary Tallinn Zoo and speaks of the animals and humanity.
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