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Bad Ass Merike

Original title: Vinge mutt

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Keil

She has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses.

Between the Southern Estonian hills, there is a Tobra stable where trainer Merike Markus has 27 riding horses and 70 children to look after. Merike has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses. On the surface, life in the Tobra stable ticks like a peaceful everyday cycle, but it's not like that. Every day brings something new. Through Merike, who herself lives through the lives of all his students, trainees, every meeting in training begins with what has happened in the ...
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Jumalaga, rock'n'roll!

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hardi Volmer, Kiur Aarma
Organist

2023 | Other categories | Director: Maria Uppin

The sound of the organ brings back a childhood memory experienced decades ago.

The short film tells the story of a musician's childhood memory, which holds significant meaning to him even decades later. Through this poetic documentary, the architecture and details of the historical building come to life, opening the viewers' eyes to the beauty of the church and the power of childhood memories.
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Self-fathered

Original title in Estonian: Isaendale

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Karl-Olaf Olmann

A personal family documentary in which the author has conversations with family, reflects on childhood wounds and tries to communicate with the departed family member by recreating him audiovisually.

Is a childhood without a parent irrecoverably hollow and broken? Film student Karl-Olaf has so spent his life suffering from his incompleteness by himself - now he undertakes a journey to talk about it with his family, investigate himself, and to finally listen to the thoughts of a deceased family member who has been audio-visually restored.
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

A deeply moving, intimate and breathtaking approach to issues of trauma, healing, and community. In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.
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Mare Tralla

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

The film is about a strong Estonian woman who can handle everything and has experienced both traditional family life and much more.

Who's afraid of Mare Tralla? And is it necessary to fear her at all? Our film is about a strong Estonian woman who has always been a mother of two children, a married woman, a lecturer, a professor, and a fighter for minorities, who is also engaged in an artist's career.
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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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The Gardener Of Tension Fields

Original title: Pingeväljade aednik

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Joosep Matjus, Katri Rannastu

Estonian well known writer Mehis Heinsaar has seven encounters during his journey in the wilderness, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of the writer.

The main character of the film is the mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar, a creator who likes to travel in his inner psychogeography. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can speak the language of animals and birds and see the invisible to the naked eye. The writer strives for wide meadows through a wild thicket, and those multi-day hikes he calls the pilgrimages of a poor man. The wanderer has seven encounters along the way, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar.
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The Real Rannap

Original title: Päris Rannap

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aleksander Ots, Kaidi Klein

Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. The authors of the film were above all attracted to the personality of the composer, driven by the desire to pull the mask off the maestro and show the real Rannap to the extent possible.

Composer and pianist Rein Rannap’s contribution to Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. In numerous TV shows, viewers have met exactly the Rannap that he chooses to show them at that very moment. He has a superb ability to put on a mask and present carefully composed text in interviews. When cameras are rolling, Rein slips into his role. He can play the role very colourfully, creating conflicts and throwing juicy comments at singers at rehearsals. The authors of the film were above all attracted to the personality of the composer, driven by the ...
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Till We Meet Again

Original title: Taaskohtumine

2021 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

This is first and foremost a story about humanity, about losing one’s home and then getting it back again. It’s a story about making peace with one’s past.

This is a story about an elderly woman whose destiny has taken her far away from her home island. She is finally able to return, only to find out that strangers have been living in her house. Animation short talks about the tragic history of a small Ruhnu Island. Fearing for their lives, its entire population abandoned their homes while escaping the war in 1944. Decades later they had a chance to finally return, only to find out that the strangers had settled in. In addition to the twists and turns of the history, the film looks deeper into the meaning ...
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