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Left Unsaid

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Iari Varriale

The filmmaker seeks to discover the relationship with his emotionally distant father.

Iari - the filmmaker - feels sorrow because he never got close with his emotionally distant father. To try and get over this feeling, he decides to turn the camera towards his parents, and in particular toward the father, to whom will be asked questions about his childhood. In this film, we see the filmmakers deep desire to understand the troubled childhood of his parents, through which he also hopes to get a better understanding of himself.
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I Thought I Was a Superman

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Nele Aunap, Rabbe Sandström

Nele Aunap’s and Rabbe Sandström’s documentary short film is about a young man whose self-centred life is challenged when he adopts three brothers from a children's home together with his wife.

Evgeny is a Ukrainian born family man and taxi driver in Tallinn. He drives around the city sharing about his relationship with his wife and children - three brothers, whom, together with his wife Tanya, he adopted from a children's home. For Jevgeni, driving is not only an escape from the demanding commitments of family life, but also a chance to step back and reflect upon his life.
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The Circle

Original title: Südamering

2019 | Documentary | Director: Margit Lillak

To change the world, one needs to start within.

The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014, decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first eco-conscious community in Estonia. Combining their savings, they buy an old manor, 3750 square meters of half-decayed buildings along with 33 hectares of agricultural land. Before them, the manor accommodated a nursing home. Five families move in – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment was inspired by spreading movement of eco-communities, in order to try out in a smaller constellation a new life arrangement that concentrates on non-violent harmonic relationships, co-operation, nature ...
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The Slow Path Home

Original title (in Estonian): "Penikoorma kaugusel"

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Hõbe Ilus

28-year-old young woman returns to the place she was born, but hasn't been for seven years.

This film is a filmmaker's wish to make peace with the place she was born. On a rainy autumn day she takes a long familiar walk back to her home Penikoorma. Upon her arrival the childhood memories blend into the present day and the answer to the question - Can one lose a home? - finds its answer.
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My Iranian Grandmother

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariam Afrahi

A journey to the life of Miriam' s 80-year-old Grandmother, who lives alone in a small town in Iran. A woman in a mans’ world.

“My Iranian Grandmother” is a documentary about filmmaker's grandmother who lives alone in a small town in central Iran. At the age of 80, Parvin is not your typical Iranian woman in a country filled with patriarchy.
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Elizabeth`s Playground

Original title: Elizabethi mänguväljak

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maris Kerge, Erik Norkroos

Little Elizabeth is traveling around in a miraculous world of ballet.

Four-year-old Elizabeth was born into the family of ballet dancers, so she has spent majority of her life with her parents at the ballet theatre. She knows every member of the ballet company at the Estonian National Ballet and has seen every ballet performance for numerous times. Elizabeth loves, even adores ballet. Would she be different if she were raised in a different environment? The documentary shows little Elizabeth's journey through the fairy-tale like world of theatre where the real world meets the illusory one and fairy-tales come true.
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Avec

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Akio Yuguchi

Akio Yuguchi’s film about his sister and family.

Avec is Akio Yuguchi's self-reflective film about personal grief and feelings of guilt after the death of a sibling. The pensive filmmaker aims at visualizing the long process of coming to terms with his inner conflict. The film creates a sense of ephemerality, crystallizing the spacious and temporal moments into a visual expression.
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Afanassi

2005 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

Documentary about Afanassi Triškin's and his granddaughter Liina Triškina's journey to Afanassi's first home in Central Russia.

Afanassi who has lived in Estonia for 50 years takes the train to Moscow with her granddaughter Liina. From there, they go on to Tambov Oblast in Russia where Afanassi was once born. WIll this journey from one homeland to another form also a bridge between two alienated relatives?
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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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Palju õnne!

2004 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv