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Dead dreaming

2024 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kateryna Hantseva

In an intimate, performative documentary, a director escapes into the comforting embrace of daydreaming, only to find herself trapped in a cycle of fantasy that threatens to consume her, until an unexpected upheaval forces her to confront reality.

The documentary delves into the director’s relationship with daydreaming, which serves as both a comforting escape and a troublesome obsession. Through intimate narration and dance performances, the director reveals her daily ritual of losing herself in fantasies to evade life's challenges and self-doubt. While initially providing solace and a sense of security, her daydreams gradually blur the lines between fantasy and reality, hindering her acceptance of her true self. Despite efforts to break free from this cycle, it persists until an unexpected upheaval, brought by war, forces her to confront the harsh realities of existence.
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Disconnected

Original title in Estonian: Kokkupuutepunkt

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Emily Bruus

A fragment of a lonely man’s life, who discovers a secret message in a webcam dancer’s performance.

She makers because you’re looking. “disconnected” follows a lonely man, who discovers a message in a webcam dancer’s performance and figures out, who she is. He visits her and they try to create a connecXon, but the message that brought them together might just carry two different meanings.
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Athlete

Original title in Estonian: Atleet

2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

The short film “Athlete” was made by first-year films students of Baltic Film, Media and Arts School. The film shows how one man’s obsession can lead to harm for others. At the same time, the film also shows a father’s unwavering belief that his son is capable of more than it seems.

An authoritarian father is determened to make an athlete out of his weakling son. Unfortunately one man`s obsession might lead to dire consequences for another.
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Room With A Sea View

2020 | Students film, Animation | Director: Leonid Šmelkov

Herbert dreamed to see a sea in his window, but…

Herbert arrives in the seaside city on a long working trip. Accidentally he falls in love with a very strange beautiful saleswoman in a flower shop. He suffers from insomnia, which he treats by watching billiards on TV. But now it doesn’t help anymore. His obsessive passion keeps him awake…
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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Purge

Original title: Puhastus

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti J. Jokinen

The feature film directed by Antti J. Jokinen is based on the novel "Purge" (by Sofi Oksanen) that has been translated into more than 20 languages and that has received numerous literary awards, telling about political terror against a small nation and about mental as well as physical violence towards an individual.

Zara is a young prostitute who manages to escape from the Russian mafia that has enslaved her. She hides herself in a lonely forest farm where her only Estonian relative Aliide lives. The story of these two women takes us back in time for several decades, telling about fatal love and jealousy, hatred and violence, war and deportation, betrayal and death. Inhuman conditions magnify inhuman behaviour, fixed ideas and hate. Even if the times have changed, violence is still there, in disguise.
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The Hair Collector

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Sigrid Reede

A scary story of a guy who collects hair.

“The Hair Collector” is a story of a guy who collects hair. First he finds somebody appealing and after some closer observation he secretly collects hair from that person. In the end it appears that his intentions are quite different from what it seemed from the beginning.
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Bank Robbery

Original title: Pangarööv

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andrus Tuisk

The debut feature film directed by Andrus Tuisk is a road movie about a former prisoner who wants to start a new life. However, his fate offers him different options when he meets a teenage bank robber.

When a former fistfighter Madis leaves the prison, he feels he will get another chance in life. He has corresponded with a female friend who is waiting for him, and a peaceful life in countryside is at hand. Nothing can go wrong this time. Madis will be accompanied by his nephew who has something completely opposite in his mind. A game begins where both the weak and the strong get more and more opportunities; however, it is not known until the end who is going to be the winner.
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Breed Scientist

Original title in Estonian: Tõuteadur

2009 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kaidi Kaasik

“The Breed Scientist“ is a documentary about old bachelor who has dedicated his life to preserving the purity of estonians breed. He has developed a science of breed, for defining the right human types and companions and It all should be guided by a national Contact Board. Lonely Ilmar steps into fight and visits tenaciously different ministries and introduces his idea to many important civil servants.
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Father, Son and Holy Theatre

Original title: Isa, Poeg ja Teatri Vaim

2009 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marko Raat

Alar Sudak alias Elaan is an actor who takes the whole stage and who won't leave the place - theatrality and the spirit of theatre complete the dramatic world of the life's artist.

Alar Sudak alias Elaan is the don Quijote of Estonian theatre - predestined to eternal loneliness. Sudak's dream to become an officially acknowledged actor has never come true. He has failed the entrace exams to the Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and other schools. The documentary tells a story related to the Old Testament - including good-hearted Satan, water fight, unrequited love of theatre, jurisprudence, community's revenge that lasts several generations and polities. Elaan's life and destiny includes so much drama that he is unable to let go of it - as his actor's spirit cannot ...
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