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Dryland

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Maria Reinup

Dryland is a Drama set in the 1930’s Estonia, where two smugglers, Mirtel and Ari meet under strange circumstances with a goal to smuggle alcohol across to Finland.

An older, experienced smuggler, Estonian and female; the other a young Finnish boy doing this for the first time. These characters would not truly know each other, and the conflict would be about whether or not they can trust one another. Set up In the 1930s, while Finland enforced prohibition, Estonian bootleggers made firewater along the coast and smuggled it across the sea.
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Citizen Frank

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ernesto Redondo Vergara

The story and wanderings of a street musician that has found a place in the Olympus of happiness.

Vladimir Frank is a street musician. Every day, he performs for hundreds of tourists in front of the Estonian parliament in the city of Tallinn. By his unique style of singing, he interprets the story of his life: A complete puzzle that has put together during the history of the country in the last decades.
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See You In Chechnya

Original title: Näeme Tšetšeenias

2015 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aleksander Kvatašidze

If you go to war, war will come home with you.

September 1999. For Alex, as for the rest of Georgians, war in Chechnya seemed to be far away, seen only on the screens of Russian media. In fact it was just behind the Caucasus Mountains. He'd never imagine going there, but he did. He followed her, the French photographer he had met just a few days before at the fashion show. Alex discovers the world of War Reporters and wants to become one of them, but he doesn't succeed. He keeps in connected to war through his friend, practising war reporters and observes what war does to them for 15 ...
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Confiscated

Original title: Konfiskeeritud

2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Asko Kase

The chief specialist of Tallinn Customs Board reveals information about the daily life of customs officials among a huge amount of prohibited goods.

Every year, Estonian customs authorities forfeit goods worth of tens millions of Estonian kroons. The documentary explores the ways prohibited goods are detected and what will happen to the contraband items. The protagonist of the film is Tõnu Pärk, the chief specialist at Tallinn Customs Inspectorate, whose daily job is to detect contraband goods and decide on its destiny. Pärk who has graduated from the department of medical science introduces the filmmakers his daily tasks at the customs inspectorate, including seizing, storaging and extinguishing contraband goods.
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White Route

The original title "Valge Tee"

2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mart Taevere

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