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Pressure

2022 | Students film, Music video | Director: Christina Kraft

Story about a marriage relationship and its true colours behind closed doors.

A complicated marriage story where true selves come to light behind closed doors. Where the wife gives her everything, yet the man does barely anything. A story of what happens when you take things for granted and let them slip past your fingers, losing them all forever. A story through wife’s eyes in a man’s dream.
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Moment of Silence

Original title in Estonian: Vaikusehetk

2021 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

Eik Erik Sikk’s documentary “Moment of Silence” gives a closer look at a day in the life of the Estonian Youth Theatre’s art director Mirko Rajas: how to keep the balance between inner peace and creative burning?

“Moment of Silence” follows a usual weekday in the life of the Estonian Youth Theatre’s art director Mirko Rajas in all of its glory. The creative work’s hectic nature and burning routine with meetings, rehearsals, lectures and shows melts into a screaming gust of wind, in the middle of which glances towards peace and quiet are crucial for survival. Moments of silence.
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Chasing Unicorns

Original title: Ükssarvik

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

Young startup entrepreneur Õie and a serial failure Tõnu follow their crazy ride from Estonia all the way to Silicon Valley — and back.

Based on true stories, this is comedy-drama about a female founder trying to make it in a male-dominated tech world. Õie, an accountant from a small town accidentally stumbles into the tech scene of her home-country Estonia — a place where startups are a “national sport” and almost everyone has one. She is joined by a serial failure Tõnu, who is always trying one more time. Fast-paced and fun movie, based on true stories of startup founders, gives an authentic picture of the highs and lows of the crazy tech world, from Estonia to Silicon Valley — and back.
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Over the bay

Original title in Estonian: Üle lahe

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Oliver Remma

The film talks about escalating a small misunderstanding into a conflict where neither party speaks the other language.

Two Finnish IT-technicians work on an important and critical job assignment when a construction worker starts bothering them above, on the roof. Instead of solving the conflict in a diplomatic manner, the technicians worsen their odds after insulting the man from the roof and thus creating a hazardous situation. Impolite communication creates a risk of losing lives.
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Trench

Original title in Estonian: Kaevik

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Tarvi Roos

Cinematography MA student Mattias Veermets tells a story about a young man who tries to escape the mandatory military service but puts himself into even bigger trouble.

Shortfilm “Trench” tells a story about a young man suffering under physical and mental pressure who tries to escape from the military service.
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33

Original title in Estonian: Tuhk ja tolm

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Liis Lindmaa

Short movie directed by Liis Lindmaa discusses the role of a young woman in society and how it is viewed in traditional family values. “33” shows what happens when 33-year-old woman's priorities and values in life don't match the traditional expectations.

How far goes the line between reality and fantasy? Klara is happy with her life and has a great career. She returns home on her 33th birthday, where she is not praised for what she has achieved, but instead blamed for what she does not have – a child. Klara tries to control her emotions brought on by the pressure of family members, but she too has a breaking point.
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Your own eye is a king

Original title: Oma silm on kuningas

2018 | Documentary, Observation, Making of | Director:

Documentary about how to stay alive in conflict zone.

Kenya is mostly a relatively peaceful land in the African context, but when it comes to elections then the hell is out. Thousands of people were killed in the violent events that hit Kenya after elections in 2008. It is the year of 2017 and once again an election year in Kenya. Most security experts of different politicians and public authorities in Kenya are confident that the 2007 bad scenario will recur and even worse than ever before. The director Ken Saan invites longtime war reporter Ivar Heinmaa to join him, to guide in the war situation and share the tricks ...
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Constructing Albert

Title in Estonian: Alberti leiutamine

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Laura Collado, Jim Loomis

Albert Adrià has all the ingredients of a creative genius. Playing a key role in the creation of elBulli, the greatest restaurant in history, wasn't enough. Escaping the shadow of his famous brother Ferran, Albert is seeking his own success.

The most important culinary revolution of modern times took place at elBulli, a restaurant in a remote cove on the Catalan coast. Ferran Adrià is the famous maestro people know, but behind elBulli’s success was also a hidden genius: Albert, Ferran’s younger brother. Four years after closing of elBulli, Albert has decided to become master of his own world, building 5 unique restaurants in the centre of Barcelona. Enigma, the jewel in the crown of this gastronomic empire, will prove to be his greatest hurdle. Will Albert escape the shadow of his famous brother and enter the Pantheon of great ...
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Piano

Original title: Piano

2015 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

A film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.

Marta hauls a piano home from a shop that sells used musical instruments. She almost succeeds. Albert tries for the thirtieth year already to tell Paula that he loves her. He almost succeeds. Paula wants to respond to Albert in the same vein. She almost succeeds. Police commissioner Kits has dreamed of parachuting all his life. He almost succeeds. Mirjam wants be become a circus artist. She almost succeeds. A honeybee tries to get out past a closed window. It almost succeeds.
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Auster

Original title: Auster

2014 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kadri Kõusaar, Maximiliano Schonfeld

Two lonely young people are travelling together in the bleak Patagonian desert, searching for themselves and one another.

Two lonely young people – an ultra-religious exorcist Agustina and a shy sailor Lucas meet in Río Gallegos, Patagonia. Agustina is the first woman in the south to talk to Lucas… Clumsily, he tries to seduce her. She resists. Lucas is insulted and runs towards the immense Patagonian desert. Agustina follows him… ‘Auster’ comes from the Latin, and means the south wind. In the Argentinian context it’s the coldest, harshest wind, which constantly blasts across the desolate plains of Patagonia. This bleak, merciless climate also shapes and moulds the local people. Can these two - Agustina and Lucas - find a ...
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