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Rainer Sarnet’s Invisible Fight

Original title in Estonian: Rainer Sarneti nähtamatu võitlus

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Gert Põrk

The documentary follows Rainer Sarnet during the production of his new feature film "The Invisible Fight".

As a portrayal of artistic process, the film examines the inner workings of a film director’s mind with the aim to understand Sarnet’s own invisible fight. We follow the journey of an endangered species called Estonian film director.
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Karl Robert Looks at the Ships, the Sea and Shows Estonia

Original title in Estonian: Karl Robert vaatab laevu ja merd ja näitab Estoniat

2021 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

Film student Joosep Ehasalu’s short documentary glimpses in a small boy`s secret world, filled with ships and the sea and some trouble concentrating.

The film deals with hardships of working with someone suffering from ADHD. In spite of that its intent is to lift spirits, provide hope and perhaps set a new parameter of normality. If not for the whole universe then at least for Karl himself.
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The Persistence of Memory

Original title in Estonian: Mälu püsivus

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

This is a film about telling stories. How we approach them, feel them and where they intersect. It is a drama about creating a drama. A matrioshka of stories.

A guy walks into a bar, he wants to fix his relationship with the waitress and doesn't know how to. But the narrator remembers a different version of the story, so they try to interfere in the events and change the outcome. At the next table, a previous version of the couple is reliving the argument over a story he wrote that broke them up, all while a film crew is trying to bring this story to life, changing and questioning the events. Every possibility of a story is happening at the same place, at the same time, in a ...
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Art of Righteous

Original title: Õiglased

2020 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus

A movie about “extras” or actors in minor background roles in movies/series/ads. The protagonists are all locally recognised hobby actors, who have accumulated loads experience from shoots - now it’s time to make their own movie.

The protagonists of the film are “extras”, or the actors in minor background roles in film, TV and advertising. Folks who are always present if there’s yet another casting for a background part or mass scene. Work obligations or personal life are not to become obstacles to participating at a shoot! It is a sacred obligation of being there and being chosen. They make up a distinct “brotherhood”, having known each other and filmmakers for a while, almost being a part of this mysterious “movie crowd”. The central characters - Toomas, Andres, Jürjo, Taavo and Maarja - are all locally ...
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Butterfly Hunters

2020 | Documentary, Making of | Director: Urmas Reisberg

An autobiographic documentary about young filmmakers' trip through Europe in search of a producer for short film Butterfly Man.

A 17-minute documentary about filmmaking. Two Estonian talents, Edina and Kristo, travel through Europe in search of a producer for their short film Butterfly Man. The roadtrip ends with a 10-minute pitching session in front of an international audience. Accompanied by hypnotic guitar landscapes and remarkably bad camerawork, boundaries between dreams and real, past and future, screenplay and actual events dissappear.
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Border Youth

Original title: Noored piiril

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
Bridges Of Time

Original title: Ajasillad

2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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Maran

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ants Tammik

Documentary about nature photographer Rein Maran who shares his thoughts about his experiences in nature and philosophy of life.

The life's work of the grand old man of Estonian film Rein Maran lies in a unique collection of numerous nature documentaries. With the sensitive filmmaker´s eye, he has directed for more than fifty films and has captured invaluable visual material. Also by teaching young filmmakers, his contribution to Estonian culture is greater than anyone could understand. In this documentary, we will learn about Rein Maran´s philosophy of life and follow him along his memorable shooting locations.
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Your own eye is a king

Original title: Oma silm on kuningas

2018 | Making of, Documentary, Observation | 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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Journey to the Maggot Feeder

Original title: Teekond Ussinuumajani

2015 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Priit Tender