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Women on the Frontline

Original title: Naised rindejoonel

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.

Oksana, Anna, Tatjana and Marina are at war, each with their own motive and destiny. They are women whose lives, among many others, were changed by the civil unrest that began in 2014 on Maidan Square in Kiev. The film follows their battles through several years and seasons and covers both everyday activities as well as perilous situations under gunfire. What motivates women to go to war? What do they believe in and hope for? What is the price they pay for withstanding life on the frontline? This is a documentary about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine ...
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Year Of The Pig

Original title: Sea aasta

2021 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

The film gives us a look into a year in our recent history, namely the year 2019, which polarised our people in politics and between generations. Without choosing sides and without unnecessary explanations the events shown in the film create a thought provoking story about a nations arrival to the end of the industrial age.

Monitoring a controversial year in the recent history of our country-the year 2019, an extensive visual essay of imminent serious challenges has been created by the author Raimo Jõerand. From winning the War of Independence to gaining freedom from Russian occupation during the Singing Revolution, we now have to defend our land from the brightest of foes, from ourselves. Will we be able to take on this fight?
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A Most Exquisite Man

Original title: Üks imeline mees

2021 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Jonas Taul

An existential answer to a Big Question about the ego of mankind and necessity of living in unity and harmony with nature.

There exists a most exquisite man, or at least the world that surrounds him, labels and sees him as such. He has fantastic abilities, incomprehensible talent, he could even be called a genius, yet something within him is restless. Big questions utterly absorb him, leading him to a place where all he can do is surrender his life, in order to find that which gives him and the natural world undeniable purpose and concluding peace.
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A Trace of Fire

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Diego Alejandro Barajas

The trace of a fire that burns everything.

Sander, a young man full of rage, burns his father's car without realizing that his father was sleeping drunk inside of it, or at least that's what he thinks until a man destroys his version of the events.
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A Wish Upon A Satellite

Original title: Laika

2021 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leeni Linna

10-year-old Otto, who has lost his parents, receives an unexpected gift at the night of his birthday, when a little dog Laika lands on earth in Sputnik 2.

A short film about a little boy, OTTO, whose parents had promised him a dog for his tenth birthday - before they suddenly passed away. When Otto sees a falling star the evening before his birthday, he wishes upon it one more time, but realises then that the bright object is falling into the forest behind his grandma's house. When the hatch of the vehicle opens, a little dog exits with the name Laika engraved on his collar. But knowing that his grandma is wary of dogs, the worried child stays in the forest with the dog. They are located ...
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Aleks

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Desiree Talv

"Aleks" is a coming of age drama mini series, where we follow a 16 year old boy, who is on his path for finding himself.

This miniseries is the coming-of-an-age story of an 16 year old boy Aleks, who is currently trying to navigate his big dreams and his local small-town reality. He takes interest in dancing and also is heavily influenced by social media. Tiktok stardom is something that seems reachable, even for him. His passion is not supported by his dad Andrei, who thinks that real men play only football. Their dynamics are also very toxic because Andrei’s alcoholism.
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Australian Christmas

Original title in Estonian: Austraalia jõulud

2021 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

Joosep Ehasalu’s observational short documentary shows a slice of idyllic childhood near Elva.

Childhood is a special time, where the moments and feelings are amplified. Be it a small thing like a late christmas present from Australia. For a child it might be a big and memorable thing for life. This is a film about a couple of these small moments.
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Body of Art

2021 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Johanna Alvin

Young multitalented artist talking about her art and tattoos.

Young artist Maria Lota Lumiste talks about her artist life and her hobbies. She is a multitalented girl with many different interests and she will give us a peek to her thoughts and works.
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Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

The events of this parable take place in a city that resembles Leningrad (USSR) in 1938. This is a tense period of political persecutions and mass fear. The Captain of the Department of Internal Affairs Fyodor Volkonogov (32) specializes in obtaining self-incrimination from persons under investigation using special methods of force. But the moment comes for the repressive system to turn the eye on its own soldiers. Volkonogov’s direct supervisor commits suicide. Fyodor foresees his own arrest and flees, thus becoming “the enemy” hunted by the colleagues. Lucky to get regular clothes Captain is looking for the shelter ...
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Code

Original title: Kood

2021 | Animation, Other categories, Experimental | Director: Rao Heidmets, Pauline Heidmets

Man is just a tool in the development of the gene chain. To reach the nature of the human gene code must make a huge effort.

The development of nature is controlled by the genetic chain. Life goes on as the information code is stored in the gene chain. every living being tries to indulge and laze. Unfortunately, this is not the case. the gene chain only rusts. Progress will only be made if there is an urgent need for it. The protagonist's rusty gene chain only starts working when the fear of death arises. What code is hidden in the human gene chain becomes clear during development. Mankind has debated the meaning of life for a long time, not knowing that it has long been ...
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