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Unseen heros

Original title in Estonian: Nähtamatud kangelased

2024 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Eva Matilda Utsal

The TV show tells about veterinary education and its dark side. Carina, a 5th-year veterinary student, tells her story, and brings to the viewers the negative sides of veterinary, which are not talked about enough. Kai Laars, chief physician of the Tallinn Veterinary Clinic, adds her side of view.

The risk of suicide among veterinarians is high, but it is not talked about enough. The story brings viewers the harsh reality of vets' hardships and its impact on mental health, which begins as early as studies. Carina, a 5th-year veterinary student, brings you the real side of the seemingly “dream job”.
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Dark Paradise

Original title: Tume paradiis

2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Triin Ruumet

After her daddy’s death, Karmen commits an atrocious act against her half-brother and must now face the dark void of the universe, which can only be filled with love

A “poignant tale about Millennials” that follows a 27-year-old woman called Karmen. She discovers that her recently buried father was actually wallowing in debt and her whole life has been one big lie. When Karmen’s life free of responsibility starts to collapse, she takes out her feelings on her brother Viktor by disfiguring his face. At the center of the film is a hedonistic lifestyle and the nihilistic search for love and intimacy.
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Insomniac

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vuk Cug

During a period of several months a student tried several different methods to relive their occurring sleep problems.

A student tackles his problem with long running sleep issues.
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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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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

A deeply moving, intimate and breathtaking approach to issues of trauma, healing, and community. In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.
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The Night Shift

Original title: Öine vahetus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Mikker

Film observes the first night shift of a young guy, answering calls on the suicide helpline.

Erik is a young guy, successful in his profession. Yet he has decided to start one more journey. He will be a volunteer on suicide helpline, answering calls in the middle of the night from people who feel that they have nowhere else to turn and no one who would listen to them. What will his first shift look like? What kind of tension lies on a person who can change people's future with just one word?
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Boy in Clouds

Original title in Estonian: Poiss pilvedes

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Betra Käsper

The film talks about mental health and the loneliness that comes with it.

A cloud boy sits on the cloud. Alone, clinking his feet. There's a cloud traffic underneath him. Nobody notices him in the loneliness. Until a cloud girl feels a need to help him.
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Circus

Original title in Estonian: Tsirkus

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

Joosep Ehasalu’s third semester student short documentary ponders on what it means to be an artist, through a painting by his grandfather.

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose ponderings about the plight of being an artist and touches upon the filmmaker’s personal demons. Can he see the painting in a new light?
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Days Without

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Ivar Erik Yeoman

Nikolai must take care of their one-year-old daughter while he waits for his wives’ return, whenever that may be.

After a chaotic incident with his wife, Nikolai is left with their one year old daughter, Sophia. As time goes by, he doubts his abilities as a father and if he will ever see his wife again.
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Quicksand

Original title in Dutch: Drijfzand

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margot Schaap

The story of an intriguing mother-daughter relationship and its repercussions for three generations of women.

Suze and her husband moved from Amsterdam to a small island in the Netherlands. They now live a warm-hearted, slow-paced life with their bubbly six-year-old daughter. Until the day, Suze’s colourful, extravagant mother Helena pays them a visit after a long radio silence. When Helena informs Suze about the tumour in her head Suze decides to start travel back and forth to the city to help her. Being a theatre actress all her life, Helena knows how to sweetly manipulate her daughter into her reliance. Suze seems powerless to this force and slowly relapses into compulsive behaviour. Torn between her ...
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