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Lumi ja Leenu

2022 | Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

A documentary by Mirjam Matiisen is about Silvi who is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use

Silvi is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use. Unfortunately Silvi sees no future in keeping the cows, so the time has come to send her two beloved animals away.
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Making

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Hans Kristjan Linnutaja

The success story about a 20-year-old Liis Rehemaa.

Whatever toll the injury took on Liis mentally, she didn’t let that stop her. While at home she had a lot of free me and used it to prac ce make- up. She pulled up pictures from pinterest and would try to replicate these fashionable designs, all by herself, meaning, she is self-taught. A er a lot of prac ce and many clients, Liis has discovered a newfound passion in the world of make- up. She has amassed a large following on Instagram (3100 followers) and TikTok (22,000 followers) with the numbers growing every day. But to Liis, this ...
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Minsk

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Boris Guts

Minsk. August 2020. Pavel and Julia, a young couple, go out at night…During 1,5 hours, their life changes completely.

Pavel and Julia, a young couple living in Minsk suburbs. They recently got married, got a mortgage for an apartment, and now are planning to have a baby. After sex, laying in bed in their cozy apartment, they discuss their coming future, recall how they met each other, joke and have fun. Couple goes out at night, to check Pavel’s ex-wife’s, Tanya’s car. During the walk, they end up in the middle of protests of the civilian population, which came out against the unfair presidential elections. Tanya, participates in these protests. Pavel tries to contact her, but her phone is ...
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Nightwalkers

Original title in Estonian: Ööline

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Pilleriin Raudam

„Nightwalkers“ is an experimental short documentary by film student Pilleriin Raudam, which depicts one night in the city of Tallinn. With neo-noir cityscape and various characters the viewer moves through the night to the next morning.

„Nightwalkers“ depicts Tallinn, which gains a whole new look during the nighttime. While the streets are empty, the movie’s characters activate as each of them has their own connection with nighttime. Along with the sun rise the atmospheric darkness disappears. It is still the same city, but new in the daylight.
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Not too hard and not in the face

Original title in Estonian: Mitte näkku ja mitte väga valusalt

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Iris Peil

An adaptation film by students of the second year of cinematography, the script of which is inspired by P.I. Filimonov's short story “Not too hard and not in the face”.

The 30-year-old protagonist Slava wakes up in a strange place with missing memories from last night. He’s taken to a hospital where Slava learns that in this odd, even dystopian world he has awakened, all the men have gone extinct long ago, leaving him the only man left in the world. Experimental fever-dream-like voyage through the mind and emotional turmoil of a young man trying to make sense of life as well as accepting the end of his relationship.
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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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Orchidelirium. Thirst

Original title: Orhideliirium. Janu

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines.

The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines. The thirst for luxury and abundance is the force that keeps the capitalist machinery running. The dry wells and the thirst for drinking water is what the local communities in Estonia are left with as the fragile wetlands are being drained for peat excavation in their neighbourhoods. Millions of tons of Estonian peat end up in greenhouses in the Netherlands where peat is needed as a component of the soil substrate for phalaenopsis orchids. While the mass-produced orchids may seem like a pathetic mimicry of what once was an ...
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Over the Line

Original title in Estonian: Üle piiri

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

The focus of the short film is on people struggling with their darker side, hiding their lies from others and themselves.

Left alone in a house near Peips due to the death of his brother, Jakop has to decide whether the refugees brought to his yard are a way to atone for his previous sins or to get money for a new engine instead.
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Pilli piinamine

2022 | Other categories | Director: Karin Paumer
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Poop, Spring and the Others: Peter the Beetle

Original title: Sitikas Peeter

2022 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Meelis Arulepp

All is well that ends well.

This is a bittersweet story about a small Beetle called Peter, who has a dream to perform in front of the big crowd at the Zoo. He leaves home to make his dream come true. Unfortunately, he is not noticed by the people due to his small size…… All is well that ends well - back at home he finds his audience on his own size.
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