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Lynx Man

Original title (on Finnish): Ilveskuiskaaja

2023 | Documentary | Director: Juha Suonpää

After installing many trail cameras to his forest, Finnish pensioner Hannu opens a unforeseen door to the Finnish nature and creates a true connection to lynxes living there.

Following divorce and a serious accident Hannu lives alone on his farm in the West of Finland. An environment home to all kinds of wildlife – including the Eurasian lynx, a wildcat until recently almost extinct. When Hannu finds a dead lynx by the side of the road, it is like meeting an old friend: he realizes that the lynx who lived in the area during his childhood have returned. Filled with renewed vigour and lust for life, Hannu sets up trail cameras all over his land. Soon, 23 cameras are recording everything from moose to mice. Hannu starts to ...
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Eat, Prey, Bird

Original title in Estonian: Terroriseerivad tiivulised

2020 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Matiias Viiking Ojaveski

The feathered have conquered Pae park. Ringvar Heamägi puts his life on the line and covers the story.

Ten children have been adbucted from Pae park and according to eyewitness accounts, the perpretrators are birds. Ringvar Heamägi investigates if the locals are aware of the coming apocalypse. What measures are taken to defend the locals from the birds and does humanity even have hope to prevail?
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Roots: A Poem About Love

Original title: Juured: Poeem armastusest

2018 | Documentary | Director: Nora Särak, Dominik Krutsky

It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love.

It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love. It was my first time truly understanding the pathetic feeling of yearning. This poetic collage is my attempt at sharing my thoughts and the situations that have recently led me to them.
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The Swan

Original title in Icelandic: Svanurinn

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

Meeting a swan may be an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. For a nine-year-old girl Sól all this won't be a free choice since her family sends her away to the wild and lonely nature because of a theft.

There is a beast living on the top of a mountain in Iceland. It appears to human beings as a swan. When looking in the eye of a man, the beast will see the person completely through and foretells all about the life of the person. Meeting the swan is an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. This is often the reason why so many people wish to travel to Iceland and drive around the country despite harsh weather conditions. It is not a free choice for the nine-year-old ...
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Cutting Through

Original title: Läbilõikamine. Meie maailm, 10/12

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ove Musting

The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.

NIcaragua authorities made an agreement with a Hong Kong enterprise HKND to start the greatest navvying work in the world history – to build a 277-metre-long ship canal through the country, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.
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Cherry Tobacco

Original title: Kirsitubakas

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Maimik, Andres Maimik

Love can strike you like a bolt from the blue – when you’re least prepared for it.

Cherry Tobacco is a youthful relationship drama about falling in love for the first time. For psychological reasons and because of societal norms, making decisions becomes much more difficult – especially if the feelings that are awakening are directed towards an older man. Forbidden love is a lot like war – there are no right choices.
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EINASTO 11577

Original title: EINASTO 11577

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Helle Karis

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto.

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto. The minor planet of our galaxy, bearing the number 11 577 and discovered on February 8, 1994 by Eric W. Elst, astronomer of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, was named Einasto by the Minor Planet Centre of the International Astronomical Union. Einasto, together with other minor planets linked with Estonia, orbits around the Sun, taking 3.84 years or 1400 days to complete its path. The main goal of the film is to bring science closer to common people by showing the ...
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Venevere puhkekülas

2011 | Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Imre Annus
The Measure of Man

Original title: Inimese mõõt

2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marianne Kõrver

Is the global environmental crisis concerning just our environment or is it also the crisis of our habits, expectations and values?

The relations between urbanizing people and natural environment become more and more problematic. Maybe the global environmental crisis is the crisis of the increasing process of urbanizing and the crisis of our habits, expectations and values? The documentary reflects the fear that our habitual world is going to end - the ever-pulsating streets of New York City; the ancient Hsasnkeyf in Turkey, with the history reaching back to the beginning of urban culture in old Mesopotamia; the fishermen villages in Tonle Sap Lake in the heart of Cambodia; and in an ultramodern urban district in Freiburg, South-Germany. Four places in ...
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The lake and the city

Original title: Järv ja linn

2010 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Riho Västrik portrays Lake Ülemiste as a source of drinking water and a valuable natural environment.

Lake Ülemiste is located directly by Tallinn airport and is the mostly used natural lake in Estonia. Figuratively speaking, every resident of Tallinn is in direct contact with the lake through their tap - drinking water has been taken from the lake already since 14th century. The prohibited zone around the lake makes the territory a valuable natural environment for birds, animals and fish who have to compete with airplanes.
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