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The Good Shepherd

Original title: Hea Karjane; from the short film collection: Värske veri

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Evar Anvelt

Ibrahim is a shepherd whose job is to look after his herd as best as he can. One day he receives a phone call from his brother with a plan he wants to hear nothing about.

Ibrahim is a simple, kind-hearted man whose main source of income is raising sheep. He lives with his family in the Middle Eastern mountains. The last few years have been particularly wretched and illnesses have struck his flock causing many animals to perish. There seems to be no end in sight to these calamities. One day, Ibrahim’s younger brother Omar calls him and in a carefree tone asks to use a building on the edge of their father’s farm for something that Ibrahim does not want to hear anything about...
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The Knot

Original title in Estonian: Sõlm

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Andres Losada

Anton is a fragile 12-year-old who is afraid of the shed in his backyard. He decides to follow his brother Markus and some bully friends in exploring an abandoned building. When the bullies turn on the brothers and Markus is humiliated, Anton is forced to face his fear, which turns out to be related to a family trauma that he can’t escape.
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The Last Prince

Original title: Viimane vürst

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy.

A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy. Prince Volkonski with his respectable pedigree is an Estonian singer, actor, producer and translator. What is the price of public admiration and is there enough room for compromises when dedicating your life on creation? How to enjoy the flight of a free spirit when the problems of everyday life can strike at any moment? Besides the creational activity the documentary explores the role of the hero's always supporting wife Maria ...
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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Young Peeter At Laanetaguse

Original title: Peetrike Laanetagusel

2018 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

This family film from Estonian Grand Old Man of nature film Rein Maran, is a story of a child’s explorations of nature and first notices of the surrounding biodiversity. The viewer will find themselves discovering, through his eyes, all possible kinds of miraculous creatures in the grass, on plants, in shrubs and in sky-reaching trees, sharing his astonishment and joy of first discovery.

This family film is a story of a child’s explorations of nature and first notices of the surrounding biodiversity. Young Peeter is like a guide taking the viewer to the environment teeming with life – from the broadest and most general view to the finest details, from the largest creatures to the smallest ones. The viewer will find themselves discovering, through his eyes, all possible kinds of miraculous creatures in the grass, on plants, in shrubs and in sky-reaching trees, sharing his astonishment and joy of first discovery. The film is not a fruit of the filmmakers’ fantasy. It is ...
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19 Floors

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maris Kerge

The film brings the viewer into contact with peole from different backgrounds and professions. It becomes apparent, that spacial hierarchies in the city do not correlate with its mental hierarchies.

The Writer, The Chef and The Carwasher are guides, who lead us to contrasted environments. First to a working space up in a high office tower, second to the cafe on the first floor of the wooden house, third to the underground garage. Behind the physical spaces are opening thought-spaces. Their floor numbers will be decided by the viewer.
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A Short Story from the Big City of Sharjah

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Lotta Raunio

Bangladeshi taxi driver lives in the UAE supporting his family while sacrificing his own life.

Sohel is a Bangladeshi who has lived in the UAE for the last 10 years supporting his family back home in Dhaka. He seen them every three years and does nothing else but work while in the UAE. Living in his car, driving 24/7, he questions the crazy world he lives in. He tells his stories, but behind those there is a longing to go back home.
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Awakening

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Ramin Pourmand

When you are dreaming you never know you are dreaming.

When you are dreaming it seems real. You interact with the dream’s world, you talk, you create, you do sexual intercourse, you become scared you become happy, it does not seem like a dream or an illusion. You only know/realize that it was a dream when you wake up.
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Baby On The Backseat

Original title (in Estonian): "Laps tagaistmel"

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Epp Kubu

Film student Epp Kubu Master's thesis - a story about relationships, adolescence and integration.

A stranger might sometimes be your saviour and best friend. A young Estonian woman with an infant and a seasoned Russian driver meet in a taxi cab on a sunny summer’s day. On the winding road along the clint coast the young mother suddenly asks for a quick pee break. But the wait drags on longer than expected, testing the human bonds between two travellers who couldn’t be more different.
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Cante

2018 | Students film, Animation | Director: Teresa Baroet

A modern man coming to grips with his own existence through the medium of tradition.

An anonymous man, alone in a sterile environment of an office, comes to grips with his own existence through the medium of tradition. He hears Cante Alentejano, a traditional singing that guides him through the monotonous meaningless gestures of modern daily work and society.
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