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Dumpster Divers

Original title in Estonian: "Linnakorilased"

2018 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Kamilla Selina Lepik

Kamilla Selina Lepik's short documentary film is telling about a young woman's odd lifestyle diving in supermarkets' dumpsters for food.

Marie is living commonly normal everyday life in a fair apartment with her housemates being cats and a turtle in Tartu, but her daily menu comes from the dumpsters behind supermarkets. Often it can be challenging because of the dirty clothes and curious glimpses. Despite the fact she dives in containers couple times a week either alone or with a friend Maris.
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Eudaimonia

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Juri Krutii

Ancient philosophy meets futuristic religion in a story of womanhood, happiness and independent thinking.

In a world without happiness Sister Grace battles The Order in a fight for self realisation that begins and ends with hope. Become fully immersed in a dark future when freedom of any kind has been abandoned and witness an epiphany that completely reshapes the world. Silence of voice and mind are battled both through instinct and courage as Grace discovers the truth about the convent in which she lives. Embracing her own mental powers and emotional needs is an act of complete rebellion that allows Grace to come one step closer to finding eudaimonia.
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Everyday Mysticism

Original title: Vello Salo. Igapäevaelu müstika

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaan Tootsen

A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.

This documentary film is about the beauty of growing old. It is a story about an old and wise man who is preparing to leave this world and, thus, faces many personal and delicate questions. How not to loose faith in these final hours? Why are the greatest among us put through the hardest trials in the spiritual realm? Vello Salo is a Catholic cleric in his 90s, but first and foremost, a human being: a free spirit, a man with his own quirks and tricks, not to mention a lifetime of experience and wisdom which has been well-preserved to ...
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Fish

Original title: Kala

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Jaan Toomik

Life passed on from generation to generation can often turn out to be a cruel paradox.

An average morning. A father and a son go fishing. The father isn’t feeling too well but doesn’t show it. He teaches his son everything – how to drive the car, dig out the worms – how to do everything by himself. Everything changes when the boy catches his first fish.
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I Let Her Out

2018 | Students film | Director: Ruta Pakalne

Ruta Pakalne's documentary film about the drag performer.

I Let Her Out is a documentary film centered around the drag performer Joosep Jürgenson and his stage persona Ursula. It explores the relationship of these two characters who share the same body but live quite different lives. Who is Ursula? Is she an extravagant character, a fruit of someone’s vivid and scandalous imagination or is she an integral part of Joosep that allows him to speak his nonconformist mind. Is she a fiction that was created together with several collaborators or has she always been there, dormant, waiting to be unleashed? By seeing the intimate process of creating Ursula ...
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Interview with a sound director

Original title in Estonian: "Intervjuu helirežissööriga"

2018 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Tristan Rebane

Interview with sound director Mart Kessel-Otsa.

The aim of the film is to get to know Mart Kessel-Otsa as a person and to study his views on sound and other important things in the film.
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Isa Guy

2018 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Andri Luup
Kitchen Triptych

Original title: Köögis

2018 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Marko Raat

‘A day in the life’ of the kitchens of some of Estonia’s top restaurants.

‘A day in the life’ of the kitchens of some of Estonia’s top restaurants. What happens in the engine room of a restaurant once you’ve placed your order? This film shows us the ‘hidden places’ where diners rarely go, with all the stress and passion that goes into making great food. Who does what and where and how in an often cramped room at 35°C. When and what do chefs eat, what are their thoughts about restaurants, food, food fads and fashions, money – and life. Why do they do the job they do? Toomas Lääts, Rene Uusmees, Dimitri Demjanov, ...
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Knot

Original title (in Estonian): "Sõlm"

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Teresa Väli

A story about a moment that completely changes 19 years old Saara’s life.

Saara adores her father despite their distance. On the day of his birthday she visits him at his seaside country house. But the house is empty and her father’ s boat has been taken out to sea. Eagerly, she prepares to surprise him upon his return. But the man she meets on the pier is not who she expected him to be.
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Koma

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško, Peeter Simm

Documentary about well known Estonian theatre director Kalju Komissarov.

Kalju Komissarov (08.03.1946-06.03.2017) was one of the greatest and most influential theatre and film director and theatrical pedagogue in Estonia. To this day most of the big names who work in Estonian theatre stages have been his students. He was in charge of Estonian Youth Theatre 1974 - 1986, Ugala Theater 1989 - 1991 and 1986 - 1995 Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Till his death in 2017 he was the professor of University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy. You can see his students remembering him and his last interviews in documentary “Koma”.
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