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Orchidelirium. Rip-Off

Original title: Orhideliirium. Rip-Off

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

The maid embarks on a journey that requires cunning and magic to become an artist and gain the privileges of a lady of the manor.

In the film the intimate tension between a lady of the manor and her servant keen to mimic her mistress is embodied by a pair of Doppelgängers. The performance of the two women becomes increasingly intimate, embodying and eroticising the tension between the colonizer and the colonized and the entanglement of their fantasies and desires. The film is set in various manor houses in Estonia, the architectural legacy of foreign colonial power. Prior to the collapse of the Russian empire the manors used to belong to the German-speaking nobility that had dominated the Baltics for centuries. In the film, the ...
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Orchidelirium. Shelter

Original title: Orhideliirium. Varjupaik

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

A zoo employee is suddenly trapped behind bars and challenges visitors who mistake him for an animal.

Combining choreographic performance with documentary footage, the film offers a commentary on colonial legacies. The film is set in a post-Soviet zoo environment and the performer embodies a female zoo worker accidentally locked in a cage and transformed into a wild animal. Paying intense attention to the passing of time, the film follows the stages of her metamorphosis. In this process, the erotic tension becomes a tool of resistance to the visitors’ gaze, challenging the hierarchy of perspectives.
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Poem from the Borders

Original title in Finnish: Runo rajoilta

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Janne Vasarainen

Documentary film about the journey in the refugee aid bus on the Helsinki-Warsaw-Helsinki route, which took place on 11-13 March 2022

Two different times in history, almost 100 years apart, but sharing a lot more in common than we would first realize. As we follow a bus full of Ukrainian refugees seeking for a safer reality from Finland, we are reflecting back to a place of memories located in Karelian peninsula - told by the ones who had to leave it behind.
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Pornography and a Bottle of Booze

Original title: Pornofilm ja pudel viina

2022 | Amateur films, Movie | Director: Grete Kaio, Markus Gregori Kullamaa

The plot involves nothing else but drinking a bottle of vodka and watching a porn movie.

Jürgen is an educated businessman, in whose seemingly harmonious everyday life, a shadow of emptiness casts a dark veil over his soul. On one ordinary day, where nothing special happens, Jürgen must finally confront himself and understand what is truly important in life. He must decide whether to swim or sink.
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Prelude to Emptiness

Original title in Estonian: Prelüüd tühjusele

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Vivian Ruumet

The film is about a dysfunctional couple Rain and Deelia whose life goals and choices are moving towards different directions.

The story takes place during a 24-hour time frame marking Deelia’s 30th birthday where Rain reveals to her friends that they are expecting a baby. Rain plans to surprise Deelia with a birthday picnic in a newly bought house but things don’t go accordingly. Rain spends his night alone in an empty suburban house while Deelia is escaping reality, partying with her lover and friends. In the morning when the sense of responsibility hits, Deelia is taken to the house in the suburbs, where she is forced to face her problems.
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Retrospect

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Katariina Rahumägi

An insomniac who has been seeing the same dream for 259 nights, meets the leading figure of the dream in real life - together they try to solve the dream's mystery, in return hoping to earn the insomniac one good night's sleep.

Aksel is an insomniac who has been seeing the same dream for 259 nights. He meets the protagonist of the dream who turns out to be a 40- year-old mother, Marie. She is introduced to Aksel's theory: the dream is a portrayal of his past-life. Together they try to prove their reincarnation and resist the impulses of their nascent romance, meanwhile Marie's husband Kaarel keeps a close eye on the two. Together they unravel the mystery of the dream which leads back hundreds of years, however the two are interrupted by Kaarel who has been part of the narrative all ...
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S77

2022 | Feature film, Short | Director: Natalja Matšenene
Sierra

2022 | Animation, Puppet | Director:

A boy accidentally turns himself into a car tire.

Father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, a boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
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Stronger by Stress

2022 | Documentary | Director: Andžei Matsukevits

World’s top experts talk about leveraging the science of stress adaptation and biohacking to become more resilient in our everyday lives.

Unexpected events and chaotic situations are bound to happen. No matter how advanced we think we are as a species, there is always something unpredictable that could cripple us as not only individuals but as an entire society. It's not a matter of if but when. We can’t do much about preventing these events from happening - we can only prepare for them in advance. Humans and other life forms have developed complex systems for dealing with environmental stressors. In fact, these pathways actually make us more resilient against the same kind of stress in the future. Thus, we become ...
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Summertime

Original title: Veel üks peatus

2022 | Documentary | Director: Marje Tõemäe

This is a film about opportunities and choices, about fears and loneliness, about freedom and love. This is a story of one generation; a film about growing up. It is a sequel to a documentary "The Time Is Now" made 12 years ago, when we watched Karit, Doris, Fred and Joonas during their first year in school.

Karit, Doris, Joonas and Fred are graduating from high school and making their first steps towards independent life. There are so many opportunities and sometimes making choices can be difficult. The situation in the world is setting various challenges. There are many ongoing conflicts and the Covid situation is only magnifying them. But even in this situation one should stay young and enjoy being alive. This is a film about opportunities and choices, about fears and loneliness, about freedom and love. This is a story of one generation; a film about growing up. The film is a sequel to a documentary ...
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