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Poem from the Borders

Original title in Finnish: Runo rajoilta

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Janne Vasarainen

Documentary film about the journey in the refugee aid bus on the Helsinki-Warsaw-Helsinki route, which took place on 11-13 March 2022

Two different times in history, almost 100 years apart, but sharing a lot more in common than we would first realize. As we follow a bus full of Ukrainian refugees seeking for a safer reality from Finland, we are reflecting back to a place of memories located in Karelian peninsula - told by the ones who had to leave it behind.
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Women on the Frontline

Original title: Naised rindejoonel

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.

Oksana, Anna, Tatjana and Marina are at war, each with their own motive and destiny. They are women whose lives, among many others, were changed by the civil unrest that began in 2014 on Maidan Square in Kiev. The film follows their battles through several years and seasons and covers both everyday activities as well as perilous situations under gunfire. What motivates women to go to war? What do they believe in and hope for? What is the price they pay for withstanding life on the frontline? This is a documentary about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine ...
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Celebration

Original title: Prazdnik

2019 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

For nearly twenty years now one small Estonian town has organised a Ukrainian-themed fair, during which a beauty contest is held. This observational film explores whether beauty can be an object of competition, and how we should understand the phenomenon of beauty contests in the modern day.

The town of Maardu in Estonia organises an annual Ukrainian-themed festival, called "Sorochinsky Fair"; after the short story by Nikolai Gogol. More than 15,000 people come every year. This is the largest Ukrainian fair outside of Ukraine, and it has even been entered into the Ukrainian Book of Records. The film is structured like a work of literature, being made up of a number of interconnected stories. The full variety of the fair and beauty contest is presented from different angles and viewpoints: that of the festival organisers; the actor playing Gogol; the instructor from the local beauty school; the ...
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The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

Original title: Protsess

2017 | Documentary | Director: Askold Kurov

Cowardice is the greatest sin on earth.

Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, Euromaidan activist and native of Crimea. After the Russian annexation of Crimea, he became an active opponent of the occupation. In May 2014 he was arrested by the Russian security service, charged with planned terrorist attacks and transported to Moscow. After over a year in custody, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, despite the fact that the testimonies were given under duress and evidence was insufficient. Sentsov never pled guilty. Director Askold Kurov follows the progress of the trial and the attempts of Oleg’s family, friends and lawyers to save him from prison. The notorious case ...
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Close Relations

Original title (in Russian): Rodnye

2016 | Documentary | Director: Vitali Manski

Vitaly Mansky’s documentary journey through Ukraine visits members of his own family to show the reality behind the headlines in this divided country.

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbass, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director’s own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych’s flight to Russia. But below the main narrative ...
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Sanctuarium

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

Vyacheslav Bihun's documentary about a sacred place called Sanctuarium.

There is a sacred place called Sanctuarium. It is not physically fixed. It is a temporal refuge where you can gain immunity from modern world chaos. You can discover it within yourself. But if it's difficult to find it, you might visit such the place and its Founder in Tallinn’s Old Town, known as Ukrainian Cultural Center.
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Together, yet Apart

Title in Estonian: Koos, aga eraldi

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aile Ellmann

Documentary about the humanitarian aid for Ukraine and about the people living in Luhansk Oblast during the war.

Ukraine is at war. Estonia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine since 2014, a year later also development aid was added. How will the aid reach those in need and whose condition will improve due to the aid? How do the local people live in Luhansk Oblast? How do the national refugees live?
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Mother. In the Name of The Millions

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

When a mother hides another mother's son, she faces her destiny, same way the millions of mothers did so in those remarkable days we shall never forget.

A dying son recalls his Mother. She lives during a war in an occupied territory. Out of instinct, she hides in her home an injured soldier. She takes care of him as of her own child who is also at war. One day the occupants come back to the village and discover him. By interrogating the Mother and fellow villagers, they investigate whether the man is her son. And now the Mother faces her destiny, same way millions of mothers faced it in those remarkable days which we should not forget.
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Püha tuli

2010 | Documentary | Director: Erik Norkroos
Crimean teacher

Original title: Krimmi õpetaja

2009 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary directed by Vahur Laiapea about Tiina Rekand, teacher of Estonian language in Crimean Aleksandrovka school and Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, a Crimean-Estonian woman who has provided temporary home for teachers from Estonia.

In August 2008, a 23-year-old reporter Tiina Rekand working for the newspaper "Postimees", went to teach children with Estonian roots Estonian language at Aleksandrovka Secondary School in Crimea, Ukraine. She started to live in the house of Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, the chairwoman of Estonian Society in Krasnodarka village. Rita is a descendant of Estonians who emigrated from Järva county, Estonia to Crimea in 1860s. As she defines herself: "I am a Crimean-Estonian". In the year of 2008, there are still people in Krasnodarka who speak Estonian when they meet. On ka paarkümmend last, kellele meeldib eestikeelseid laule laulda. Neid on lastele ...
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