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Mirtha: Chapter 14

2021 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kätlin Palmsalu, Jorge Eduardo de la Brena Rodríguez

Kätlin Palmsalu's and Jorge De la Brena's short documentary observes female teenager through out her life after school with freinds.

Grass will always be greener in the past but do things really change that much? As we join Mirtha on her daily doings we get to see how she is just like everyone who has ever been a teenager with few exeptions. Cucimtances have changed but overall teenagers are still teenagers.
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A Year Full of Drama

Original title: Aasta täis draamat

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.

Estonia is crazy about theatre. In October 2017 there's an announcement for a paid position to find someone who has never been to theatre before. The task – to watch and review every Estonian theatre production of 2018. From 450 job applicants 21-year-old small town girl Alissija is hired. Coming from the periphery and a Russian-speaking family, she knows nothing about performing arts, actors, nor has ever been to any of the theatre houses. To make the job logistically possible, she has to move to the capital of Tallinn. Months pass and there are shows that inspire and many more ...
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Inga Can Hear

Original title in Latvian: Inga dzird

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaspars Goba

A girl trapped between two worlds.

Inga can hear is a coming-of-age story of a young girl trapped between two worlds. 16-year old Inga is the only hearing member of a deaf family living in the remote Latvian countryside. Since the age of 7, Inga has been the family's interpreter in the hearing world. Her role in the family has forced her to grow up very quickly and her personality fluctuates between a very responsible young woman and a moody teenager. Inga dreams about escaping her role as the family’s interpreter and, after completing elementary school, decides to leave home. But her classmates at the high ...
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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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Tramtown

Original title (in Estonian): "Trammlinn"

2010 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Ivan Panasjuk
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Kalev's Boots

Original title (in Estonian): "Kalevi saapad"

2008 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Piret Jürman

The course work of media students Suive Pahrt, Hanna Kannelmäe and Piret Jürman in the subject "Introduction to Television". The documentary tells about the alternative clothing culture through the eyes of a young girl and the role of bootmaker Kalev Eisel in it.

Eili is a young girl who believes that clothing style is a very important element in determining a person's personality. Differentiation from the gray mass is very important to him. The documentary explores how the boots designed by Kalev Eisel contribute to this goal.
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I Am Just a Woman

Original title: Ma olen ju naine

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Kert Grünberg

Airika is a self-confident young woman who sees her future as a single mom and decides to stay out of long-term relationships with men.

More than half Estonian marriages and partnerships end with separation. Fatherless girls raised by their mothers learn that one cannot count on men - you have to survive on your own. Protagonist Airika comes from the family of single mothers - her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother have been raising their children on their own. Great-grandmother and grandmother were deported to Siberia in 1949 - they had to raise their daughters without men. Airika's mother has divorced twice and raising Airika's 16-year-old sister alone. The documentary observes 25-year-old Airika's daily life and investigates the reasons why the young woman has decided ...
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Punk and the Family

Title in Estonian: Punk ja perekond

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaspar Kaljas

Daughter of the pioneers of Estonian punk rock Anu and Tõnu, 15-year-old Reginleif tells about her parents and punk.

Reginleif is an intelligent teenager girl whose parents have been separated for years. Her parents are not the most common people: both of them are the pioneers of Estonian punk rock - Anu and Tõnu Trubetsky. While moving between two homes and being often alone, Reginleif has become a young woman with strong and healthy self-consciousness.
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Maimu

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Igor Ruus

16-year-old Maimu lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and in Puka, Estonia; speaks several languages and prepares for Norwegian studies in Saint Petersburg University.

Maimu Berezkina (16) has had two homes and two home towns - Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Puka (Estonia). Maimu has already passed the secondary school programme both in St. Petersburg and in Puka; she is dreaming about learning Norwegian in Saint Petersburg University. Maimu's father has Russian and mother Estonian nationality. Maimu considers herself as an Estonian - she speaks and thinks in several languages and for her there are no borders between nations.
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