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Fatherfilm Portra 400

Original title in Finnish: Faijafilm Portra 400

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Janne Vasarainen

Photofilm constructed of film photos from different eras, telling a story of three generations: the author, his father and his grandfather. Main topic of the film are emotions, and how we handle them.

The film is made out of scanned photographs and has three layers. One is the recent one, shot mostly by the author. The second consists of father's old photos of the author and nature. And then a more historical layer of photos of the grandfather, who went to war. It can be seen as a roadfilm which takes the viewer suddenly on the ride and let's them to see the conversation unroll slowly to the point of author trying to break the ice. They talk about father's childhood, the trauma of losing his own father as a teenager and how they deal ...
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U.q.

2021 | Feature film, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Murd

A documentary about the life and music of Uku Kuut, from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles and to speakers all around the world.

To understand the international phenomenon of Uku Kuut means to understand the ability of different musical niches, sub-genres and hidden creative explosions to not only exist, butflourish, completely independently of the mainstream. Kuut’s life, mothered by Maryn E.Coote (who you may know as the Estonian Jazz diva Marju Kuut), took him from the Soviet Union to refuge in Sweden, music studios in Los Angeles, back to a re-independent Estonia and later, fighting ALS, to speakers all around the world. A Greek comedy captured on 8mm, VHS and BETA tape.
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A Loss of Something Ever Felt

Original title: Üht kaotust igavesti kandsin

2020 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

Dutiful daughter Eeva embarks on a quest to find and save her brother, deep in the bowels of Bogotás underworld.

Hille has a close relationship with her drug addict son. She sends him money every other week. After a fight they have over the phone, Lauri disappears mysteriously. His last known location is Bogotá, Colombia. At Hille's request, Lauri's sister, Eeva, reluctantly embarks on a journey and soon finds herself in the surreal and merciless underbelly of Bogotá. She contacts her only Colombian acquaintance, Carlos, who also lost his brother in the past, and they film their search for answers for a loss they both share.
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Common Language

Original title in Russian: Агульная мова

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Volia Chajkouskaya

Personal film about family.

My family has always had a lot of unspoken taboo topics. My father used to be an alcoholic, my mother has always been emotionally unavailable, which impacted our family relations. In fact, provoked codependent and toxic dynamic in our family. I was always a black sheep, never being taken seriously, and called ‘a strange one’. I decided to visit my parents in Vitsebsk to talk to them about what I never dared to talk before, and ask tough questions.
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Grandma

Original title in Estonian: Vanama

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Lota Viik

Grandmother of nine and great-grandmother of eleven is preparing for her birthday. Will the 88 th birthday arrive in loneliness?

One special day for a 88 year old birthday girl who has thought eleven grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren about the importance of family and traditions as well as the significance about loving life on daily basis.
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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Roots: Waiting For A Miracle

Original title: Juured: Oodates imet

2018 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.

A woman’s biggest joy is giving the gift of life to a new human being. The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.
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Eino

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Aino M. Salmi

A story about the forefather of the director.

The stories we tell depends on who tells them. In every family, there is a legendary story about a relative, who lived long time ago.
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Lieutenant, von and the Manor

Original title of the film: Veebel, vonn ja Leetse mõis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Margit Kilumets
Keisrilõige

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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