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Original title in Estonian: Kurgud ülespoole

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Baran Ismail Ulas

The funeral rites of an important folk figure and charismatic singer Virve-Elfriide Köster, also known as Kihnu Virve.

An observational documentary that captures the funeral of Virve-Elfriide Köster, known as Kihnu Virve, an important folk figure and musician from the Estonian Island of Kihnu. Through her funeral rites, the film celebrates Virve's life and legacy as mourners honor her wish to have a joyful farewell instead of a traditional solemn event. The film offers a bipersweet tribute to a beloved figure and the enduring spirit of the island.
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Time Quartet: After Betelgeuse

Original title: Ajakvartett: Peale Betelgeuset

2022 | Other categories, Archive footage, Experimental | Director: Len Murusalu

A journey through the past and future myths of the dormant Livonian language.

Something has changed. At an unknown point in time, the surface of the oceans have risen and the world has been partially submerged. A second source of light glows in the sky next to the sun. Here and there appear figures from old archived photos, petrified in time. An abstract sense of loss lingers in the air, for something or somebody immeasurably far away. After Betelgeuse is a film about a feeling of homesickness caused by the unwanted demise of one’s home environment whilst travelling simultaneously between past, present and future. Narrated in the dormant Livonian language, and inspired by a ...
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Vampire Story

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Daria Litvichenko

The story of a hidden secret.

Nick lives in the night and seals his windows with heavy curtains. A harmless creature, he is still bound to follow the vampiristic lifestyle of his ancestors. As a mysterious gift arrives at his front door, Nick gets a chance to discover the hidden truth of his origin.
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Wanderer

Original title in Estonian: Kondaja

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Rain Järv

A thoughtful journey of a wanderer fulfilling his childhood dream, despite the obstacles on his way.

It*s a journey of a wanderer, searching for his peace and following his dreams. No matter what life brings to his table, he finds his way through it by bearing in mind that the young boy inside him still smiles and seeks the fulfillment of his greatest dreams.
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Yoyogi haiku

2022 | Documentary | Director: Max Golomidov

Yoyogi is a place of freedom and going beyond everything human. Like the first flight to the sky.

The film is set in the Yoyogi park in Japan, which was once an airplane ground from where the first Japanese pilot took off. It combines two strange and seemingly overlapping peculiarities. On the one hand, there is a distant, almost scientific in its dryness, observation of ordinary scenes of people's life in the park, on the other hand, a feeling of some kind of magic and the impossibility of what is happening. The gaze in this film is more significant and more important than the object of observation. We don't really know anything about this park. This film gives the ...
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Adikia – Out Of The Rap Closet

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jaakko Tervonen

Kirsikka Ruohonen was scared to perform her lyrics. Finally, she came out from the rap closet and showed that it is possible to do rap in a different way.

Rap scene all over the world has been very patriarchal and Finland is not an exception. There have not been many female rappers and time to time, they haven’t been taken seriously. Females used to be considered more as a background dancers and girlfriends, than real rap music lovers. Kirsikka Ruohonen also known as a rap artist Adikia, spent many years in a rap closet because of the toxicity in the rap scene. She wanted to be ready when she came out from the closet. Finally, she was ready to show people, what she had been doing behind closed doors.
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"Don't Need You" music video

2022 | Students film, Music video | Director: Kailiin Dubrov

Music video for a song called "Don't Need You".

The "Don't Need You" music video takes viewers on a small roller coaster of a broken-up couple, who push and pull each other at a party in the club. One of them is in the state of trying to recover their ended relationship, but the other is hoping to move on.
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2 Hours to Happiness

Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

2022 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Moonika Siimets

Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

More than 70,000 Estonians live and work in Finland, at the same time as their families, parents, children and homes are in Estonia. The documentary film speaks about adjusting to new conditions, sticking to and loosing one’s roots, the yearning for and the search for happiness. The film is a humorously wistful documentation of families living in the snowy fields of Lapland, apartments in Vantaa, on the staircases of shopping malls, at construction sites, hotel lobbies, and of grandchildren in the living rooms of Estonian grandmothers who are waiting for their children to come home.
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511 Seconds of Cinema

Original title: 511 paremat sekundit kinost

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Janar Aronija

A handful of cinema audience members experiences a silence that wraps them in the darkness of the hall.

A handful of cinema audience members experiences a silence that wraps them in the darkness of the hall.
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A Prayer

Original title in Estonian: Palve

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Elis Rumma

Elis Rumma's short film is about escaping from the present and the past.

Jakop, spending time in his father's old fisherman's shed, finds himself in a dilemma when a local villager brings a mute woman to him. The woman is absolutely certain that she has been brought to the Gulf of Finland. However, it is Lake Peipsi. Jakop cannot explain to the woman that it is not the sea and that on the other side of the water is the same Soviet Union, not Finland. However, her desire to cross the bay is so great that she refuses to believe it. Jakop has to decide - whether to take the young woman across ...
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