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Fallen Avenger

2019 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Olli Niemi

Fallen Avenger is a pilot for a 3-part miniseries about the conflict between Heaven and Hell, and one fallen angel in the middle of it all.

Fallen Avenger follows a fallen angel Vapula, as he is cast out from Heaven by it’s corrupt government. On earth, he finds a satanistic cult who is trying to bring the Antichrist to life. With the help of his dying Father, Vapula must stop the cult before they start the end of the world.
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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Hold Onto Me

Original title: Ära mind lahti lase

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ingrid Hübscher, Sigrid Reede

Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. As she prepares to take the European Choir of Estonians to the Estonian national Song Celebration, her German husband Hartmut also needs to learn the songs.

The film follows the journey of the European Choir of Estonians to the 150th Song and Dance Celebration in Estonia through the eyes of two main characters. Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. At the annual choir camp in Bonn, she is faced with a real professional challenge - the choir which only meets twice a year needs to learn the Song Festival repertoire in two days. Her German husband Hartmut also sings in the choir. It is because of love that he has learned Estonian, but now he has to work hard to learn the songs in ...
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Ian

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eliis Paas

Short documentary shows us a man living a “double-life” being a 2nd grade teacher and metal band vocalist at the same time.

Ian is a 34 year old man from the US who has lived in Estonia for over 10 years and made his home here. What makes him special is his “double-life” being a 2nd grade teacher and metal band vocalist at the same time. How do those two lives fit together?
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Immortal

Original title in Estonian: Surematu

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions?
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Monument vanaemale

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ave Taavet
Mothers' Day

Title in Estonian: Emade päev

2019 | Problem oriented, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kristiina Davidjants

Film about prison and imprisoned mothers, asking the question whether it is possible for these mothers to maintain connection with their children or not.

There is mothers' day in the department of women at Tallinn Prison. Six imprisoned mothers gather by the table in order to record a fairy tale for sending it to their children. The documentary ponders on the themes of crime and punishment and whether it is possible to maintain connection between a mother and her child in this situation.
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Mör Vös: Joint Prayer Ceremony

Original title: Mör vös: ühispalvus

2019 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.

An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level. In the 17th-18th century, the Udmurts, to escape Christianization and social pressure moved massively eastwards from the Kama River. They found refuge among the Bashkirs who were moslem and allowed them to follow the ways of their ancestors. Soviet anti-religious campaigns failed to root out the Udmurts' religious traditions although in some villages public prayers were cancelled for a while. Today amidst the Eastern Udmurts the traditional Udmurt faith is reborn, in almost all villages prayer ceremonies are carried out. The main aim of ...
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Narva hing: Tuumalinn Narva

2019 | Documentary | Director: Maarja Lõhmus
Silk Gloves

Original title in Finnish: "Silkkihansikkaat"

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Veera Tapper

Veera Tapper's thesis short film combining elements from different fields of art such as ballet, modern dance and theater. 12-years old Aino finds a way to be seen in the competitive world of ballet through stolen silk gloves.

Silk Gloves is a magical realism short fiction film that tells a story of 12-year old Aino in a competitive world of ballet in early 2000's Finland. The story revolves around a Nutcracker- ballet performance, but instead of telling the classic story of little Clara experiencing her first love, Silk Gloves takes the point of view of a mouse, the antagonist.
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